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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1115090" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Notice that your stat starts in 1945. We were the only industrial power standing at the end of WWII. Everything that was great about America was due to having a decades long advantage over others while they rebuilt. Because they have caught up, resulting in a race to the bottom with manufacturing shifting to offshore sites, we simply have too much capacity to produce and not enough markets to consume. The real action today is in developing nations. The single best thing we can do in the U.S. today to become competitive and bring back much needed manufacturing is to become energy independent. Otherwise unionization is just fighting over scraps. I hate to say it, won't make me popular, but at this point, what the hell, the Ground contractor model is the most efficient model in this environment to insure survival of the company. The money is no longer there to support an overnight express company on it's own merits. Couple that with the growth of the socialist nanny state and the huge debt load that's being managed by printing money and we are very near to financial disaster. No one wants to hear it, we all want America's glory days, but between capitalists seeking to maximize profit, a huge, willing workforce in China and elsewhere willing to work for much less, and public and private unions seeking to maximize income here, it's highly unlikely we'll see in our lifetimes a return to American dominance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1115090, member: 24302"] Notice that your stat starts in 1945. We were the only industrial power standing at the end of WWII. Everything that was great about America was due to having a decades long advantage over others while they rebuilt. Because they have caught up, resulting in a race to the bottom with manufacturing shifting to offshore sites, we simply have too much capacity to produce and not enough markets to consume. The real action today is in developing nations. The single best thing we can do in the U.S. today to become competitive and bring back much needed manufacturing is to become energy independent. Otherwise unionization is just fighting over scraps. I hate to say it, won't make me popular, but at this point, what the hell, the Ground contractor model is the most efficient model in this environment to insure survival of the company. The money is no longer there to support an overnight express company on it's own merits. Couple that with the growth of the socialist nanny state and the huge debt load that's being managed by printing money and we are very near to financial disaster. No one wants to hear it, we all want America's glory days, but between capitalists seeking to maximize profit, a huge, willing workforce in China and elsewhere willing to work for much less, and public and private unions seeking to maximize income here, it's highly unlikely we'll see in our lifetimes a return to American dominance. [/QUOTE]
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