[Coco] Something of interest to the design people here

[Salvador Garcia]

"You see the results of that today because we are no longer the most 
productive country on the planet, the Chinese Communist model has been 
kicking our butts for years and now China is officially the top dog now."

Agreed 
 
"Sorry about the politics, but this country is fighting for its life."
 
 And agreed

A quick anecdote. When I "graduated" from kindergarten my parents moved to Mexico. There I attended first grade and half of second. When I was in second grade we were learning our times tables and how to write in type and script. Then we moved back to the US and I finished the last half of second grade. I noticed that the education system was behind. I did not start learning how to multiply till I was in third grade.

I was also able to compare subjects taken in Jr High School and High School and found that the US curriculum was more basic. As I graduated from college I firmly believed that the US was falling behind in education. Now fast forward 30 years and I see reports where the US is not anywhere the top 10 countries as far as education goes. On certain subjects it was ranked in 27th place.

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As Gene points out the US is now not the most productive country. High school grads are not pursuing technical careers. This has reached such critical levels that now there is a wave of attempts to get young kids interested in different engineering fields. This has given us such trends as STEM and Maker Faires. Schools and libraries are holding Science Fairs. Even if these efforts are successful, there won't be results for a decade (at least).

The US, considered one of most powerful nations, has a people that are one of the sickest on the planet.

Yes, I agree with Gene in that the US is fighting for its life. Decades of incorrect decisions are now taking its toll and putting the country in a situation that can't be corrected in the short run, if at all, since The People need to understand that there is a problem and need to want a solution. Instead we are being inundated by political TV spots as to why we shouldn't vote for so and so (at least in the areas that will be having elections soon).

I too apologize for this rant. I just hate to be led by nincompoops. :-) Salvador


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 11:59 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Something of interest to the design people here


On Monday 27 October 2014 05:47:08 Mark McDougall did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 26/10/2014 9:51 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I found out years later that he had called the owner 3 times wanting
> > to fire me for insubordination, but the owner told him "not no but
> > hell no".
> > 
> > Thats a warm fuzzy feeling at 11,000 feet over Lake Michigan when I
> > was told that.  In the owners airplane, a twin Cessna. :)
> 
> You need to sell the movie rights to your biography Gene!
> 
> Regards,

What?  And bore the heck out of anybody so desperate as to buy a ticket to 
it?  Besides, production costs would be in the millions. I think not.  
Most would probably call it fantasy, not believing for a second that it 
could happen that way in real life.

But it seems like I did have an uncanny knack for being at the right 
place, at the right time, to have participated in some small way with some 
of our greatest projects back when JFK etc thought we had money to burn 
for R&D.

Then the libs come along and moved all those $ into a black hole called 
welfare, and wrote the R&D tax credits back out of the tax laws too.  The 
end result is that only 5% of what was being done in 1955 is being done 
today.  The results of course are predictable by anyone but the libs. I'd 
like to outlaw their rose colored glasses that blind them to the real 
world and common sense.

You see the results of that today because we are no longer the most 
productive country on the planet, the Chinese Communist model has been 
kicking our butts for years and now China is officially the top dog now.

As you all know, I think our Constitution and Bill of Rights are the two 
most significant documents written since the Magna Carta.

But the folks in the windy city have a problem, Kelly is introducing house 
bills, at Bloombergs request, 5 of them at last count, that would trash at 
least the first 4 amendments in the Bill of Rights. She needs to be 
encouraged to find another line of work on Nov 4th.  The libs in Colorado 
got their tails docked in that recall, and Chicago needs to do likewise.

Sorry about the politics, but this country is fighting for its life.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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