How to fix U.S. manufacturing ? Big Picture

I read a blog entry by Paul J.Heney with interest ....
http://www.pneumatictips.com/2769/2013/02/featured/looking-down-the-road-at-manufacturing/

Paul is a smart good looking guy and has lots of influence.... so I was worried when he said that we should look to the government for solutions.



#1 Government programs have a high failure rate... often the only winners are the friends of the politicians...     The record of the government is pretty mediocre and most of the folks who take government jobs are at the low end of the bell curve.


#2 Academics are a major source for great ideas.  They often suffer from the myopia of having a safe job..... no *skin in the game* so to speak....  Check out what  Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( author of *The Black Swan* )  has to say...

#3 Why focus on U.S. manufacturing ?  We are now a world economy and should look at what is best for all of humanity... the greatest good for the greatest number.  This is not at odds with making people in the U.S. successful. Not in the long term anyway.  It is time for sophonts to escape tribalism and thinking controlled by the amygdala.   Free individuals........  free information ....... allow the flow of ideas, money , creativity unimpeded by nation states and grasping politicians.

#4 Please consider directing your readers to look at privately funded efforts such as Singularity University or Khan Academy. or similar.  This is the age of the internet, the cloud.....

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