Posted by
Mrs. Cod on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:35:49 PM
Americans cannot seem to understand the implications of the fact that we have lost Whole Industries to Inexpensive Overseas Labor, (Read: Dollar-a-Day-or-Less-Labor) including our Textiles, Appliances, Televisions, Lumber Processing, Steel, Cameras, and various other Electronics, etc. In WWII it was the retooling of the Automotive factories that saved U.S. People may think that the Domestic Automotive Industry is not important, but they do so at their own peril. You cannot eat Hollywood Entertainment, Casino Chips, Pigskin, or Lotto tickets. At least not where I live. My current Mantra is: "He Ain't Chevy, He's My Brother." I mean this in more ways than one. lol. What goes around comes around and when a country such as China, (who by the way, was granted Most Favored Nation Status by Bill Clinton) many companies took Bills Green Light as a Go Ahead to export out all of our American jobs. Keeping a manufacturing base in the US isn't xenophobic, it's common sense. I submit a copy of an op-ed piece I sent to various media outlets regarding the scientific and delicate Art of Engineering. FYI...Though I am not trained in the Fine Art/Science of Engineering and remain a small guppy in the food chain of life, I think that there is something fishy going on in the "global warming" propaganda machine. Though I am not an expert, it would seem that if you compare the disciplines of Engineering and "Global Weather/Warming Forecasting", you can infer that Automotive Engineering is a Hard Science. "Global Warming," Soft. Engineers use hard data, math, measurement, specifications, physics, testing, testing and more testing, validation, calibration, algorithms (no pun intended), yada, yada. Unlike Hollywood celebrities, Engineers "act" for the betterment of Function, Safety, and Society. Climatologists, well, sort of, rely on 100 year weather tables and some would say, dare I say it, extreme speculation. As in, "I think it's getting warmer. How can I use statistics to get everyone else to feel that way? And make a tidy profit as well." There is an estimated 6 Trillion dollars to be made on this Forecast of Fear. Some of the biggest names in "Global Warming" have already joined forces to capitalize on this huge emerging market, which they, in fact, created. What is Deadly Serious, however, is the Hard Science of Setting Engineering Standards. At this point I would like to submit an e-mail, somewhat edited and embellished, for clarity, sent to Congressman Rep. Mike Rogers R-MI:“I am writing you to protest the extremely bad decision to let Federal Judges set Corporate and Fuel Emissions Safety Standards. Since when would a Judge or Congressional body tell the Expert Engineering Staffs in many disciplines of Automotive Engineering how to do their jobs? Would Congress let Judges dictate how many volts of electricity are allowed in a pacemaker? How to do brain or heart surgery? What movie George Clooney should make? (Naw. J/K) Would a Judge tell Pharmaceutical companies the dosages for drugs? Has the Domestic Auto Industry, the last bastion of a hobbling U.S. Manufacturing Base, become the "Whipping Boy," the “Public Piñata”™ for the spineless? I hope not. What is the scientific background of these congressional emendators in automotive emission standards? Where did they get their Engineering Degree? I heard that if you increase CAFE standards, it becomes a Safety issue, i.e. smaller cars = Less Safety. And potentially more Injuries and Fatalities. That should be obvious to the naked eye. It was better when our Congress was concerned with the Health and Safety of ALL citizens, not just Powerful Super Greenish Niche Lobbyists. How can people who know nothing of Automotive Engineering make decisions that will impact the Health, Safety, Life and Limb of All Americans? Let’s perpetually punish the Producers, (i.e. Domestic Auto Makers and their Suppliers.) and give the real Polluters (i.e. Blanka and Blankdia)) a Pass. Pathetic!
Let the Engineers.Engineer.Using Hard Science not Fairy Tales. From: Detroit (Formerly: Motor City)