Re: Dean's Speech at Nationals
 

if you want to get picky about history, Nazi Germany was the first to put a man made object into space -the V2 rocket that rained death on London was both supersonic and high enough at apogee to be considered a space craft.

Re: Dean's Speech at Nationals
 

i didnt read all the posts before i wrote this...sorry if im repeating, but theres not enough time to read them all. here are my opinions

outsourcing isnt bad-rather it is what keeps american companies in business. Here are some facts to back it up. The number one selling car in china-made by an American company: General motors. So, they move some jobs out of the country to produce goods at a lower cost in order to sell more cars there and in other places at a lower cost. The revenue this provides allows them to do research into things like alternatively fueled vehicles. And where are thos vehicles produced first? America. You can't ignore his "golden egg" remarks. If we kept everything in america prices would NEVER go down, flat-lining our economy. SO we outsource to make money-then put that money right back into America.

If you listened closely enough to mr. kamen, you would realize that his speech was not really nationalistic. His speech was there to get us to peer into the glass of creativity, knowledge, and invention. He didnt want us to sit here on this forum and debate about wether his glass is half full or half empty. He wanted to know if we can use our knowledge and creativity, what we can do with it, and how we can get MORE of it. THe goal of his speech was to get people searching for solutions to the problem of outsourcing, not debating the meaning of his words.