Where Have All The Jobs Gone?

"There are two kinds of companies: those that change, and those that disappear."

         - Phillip Kotler, marketing expert

I ran across this in the Investor's Business Daily "Issues and Insights" column:

"America is hemorrhaging jobs at a record pace to cut-rate competitors overseas. Or so the common wisdom goes. But a new report shows it's not true...the loss of factory jobs is a global phenomenon."

This is something that was true before I retired.  All smart manufacturing companies were looking for ways to produce more with fewer workers.  They had to in order to survive.

Peter Brookes at the New York Post talks about Bush's trip to Southeast Asia:

"The president knows fighting terrorism alone is a lot like punching a pillow. You can hit it...until you're exhausted, but all you do is move the feathers around. Only working together can defeat the plague of terror."

This can't be the guy the Democrats are claiming wants to "go it alone," can it?   I wonder if the fellow who recently managed to get the U.N. Security Council to vote unanimously for his Iraqi resolution could be the one?  Beats me.

I just finished Tom Clancy's new novel, The Teeth of the Tiger.  It was disappointing, not the quality I've come to expect from Clancy.  I also read David Baldacci's Split Second. It was a page turner, and worth your time. He keeps you guessing until the very end.  Read the reviews.