--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:48 PM 3/12/2004 +0000 Richard Baker wrote:
> >> I never said, by the way, that I favored tariffs or trade 
restrictions
> >> except in consideration of environmental factors and labor 
practices.
> >
> >How about to preserve strategically important industries in the US?
> >Wouldn't it, for example, be embarrassing to one day go to war with
> >China only to find that the Chinese produce all the bullets for US
> >rifles or something like that?
> 
> Only if the US and all of its allies forgets how to produce those 
bullets.

Good point, so how many of this generation of software engeneers are 
going to suggest the study to their children? If Software development 
is seen as a job for imigrants and cheep labor how many will be 
spedning 5 years to get that degree? How long will it take before all 
of the inovation in software is done offshore? Isn't it software and 
hardware inovation that curently makes our military the strongest?


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