19 million jobs, 60% of US exports

Yeah, another thing I could go on and on about that is wrong with this country.
The short version is manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas where cheap labour can be found (cough...China...chough).
So what's left in the US?
Intellectual property (that'll help really to have some independance when it comes to physical goods), virtual money making (Wall Street...yeah great) and the service sector (would you like cheese with that?).
So our duty as Americans seems to be to buy cheap plastic toys made in China for our kids around the hollidays so the US economy can thrive?

It is my understanding that the general feeling amongst average people (me included) is nothing is being made in the US anymore.
Just look at where the parts in our computers are made to the largest extend.
One other word, solar panels...like I said I could go on and on.

For shipping manufacturing jobs overseas, there isn´t one country, or more accurately, one company who doesn´t do that. It´s not just that wages are cheaper, companies have to invest less in safety standards, as most of those don´t exist in those countries.
it´s all about maximising profits.

Tony Blair was a U.S. puppet. Great movie about it: The Ghost Writer. Germany did not have full sovereignty from the end of WW2 and until today, a document affirming a condition called "German Chancellor Act"

Also article:Berlin is Washington's Vassal Until 2099

The motivation is simple ...

" We here in Hollywood lack the imagination to create anything other than reruns sold the way we have always sold them and we also lack the motivation to provide any sort of service or value added features to attract people to genuine products. How can we continue to fleece people ? .. i know lets call a congressman and legislate it to be so ... "

The option is to manufacture a quality product and base the price on the reliability and the support (that needs to be) available. CH Products are a good example of American build quality - conventional but sturdy - their controllers have the reputation of lasting a decade or longer. If something goes wrong they will fix it, and the software writer can be contacted any day on the users' website. They don't really do meaningless bells and whistles...but most users don't need that.

The problem is more about weaning your children away from the boredom/ gratification/ boredom cycle that has taken over from society.

It gets the unions out of their face as well

Anyone noticed Google will be changing their Privacy Policy in the next few months? Have you seen what is on it?

Im pretty sure this is not coincidental.

So anyone recommend a new search engine?

Or in simple terms GREED!!

Google probably had it in the works to go along with the SOPA/PIPA thing they expected to pass. Google has been doing alot of things over the past few years and gotten away with it.

Youtube ads are a good example. Google uses your creative videos for their advertisers, they pay the creator of the video nothing. If that isn't the gravy train you tell me what it is. That is copyright enfringement, but they get around it with their waiver agreement you sign onto when you post your videos.

Google is no longer a benefactor or friend to internet users. It isn't about search either. It's about monopolizing marketing.

Also, I just heard that twitter is going to do censoring thing. I wonder if the Saudi Prince that invested 300,000,000 in twitter had anything to do with that. I think Saudi royal family is fearful they will be next in revolutions. Twitter and facebook were the communication mechanisms that facilitated the overthrow of Egypt. People were communicating with each other, which is critical to such actions.

I use "AdBlocker Plus" plugin module for firefox mozilla, never seen an ad on youtube :)