The US congress on competition from Japan and others.

Old but interesting read. Note the first sentence on the foreword....

http://books.google.com/books?id=ln2...K_5MQk#PPP1,M1

Here is another one:

http://books.google.com/books?id=E3n...gdSvw#PPA10,M1


I was 11 when this was published so I can't comment on what was going on in the manufacturing scene at that time but I do remember going to the local store and seeing the shelves packed with cheap Chinese stuff.

It is clear from the two cited documents that congress (or at least the members who bothered reading the reports) knew what was going on with the American manufacturing scene, now 18 years later the problem is worse.

I must also mention that the Office of Technology Assessment (responsible for those publications) was abolished in 1995. I wonder if this was one of those cases where one kills their doctor for telling them they've contracted a serious disease.

Probably a joint casualty of the Republican Revolution and Gore's "Reinventing Government" campaign.

Gene

Members of Congress are accomplices in the destruction of the USA. I don't know what's in it for them, but they hate the USA and want to see it destroyed. They do these studies, not so they can prevent the loss of manufacturing, but but so they can find better ways of speeding up the destruction.