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Cities like Cleveland Ohio were not one-horse technology towns
( This is another published letter from April 1997 that predicted the 2008-09 economic crisis Cleveland was a center for high technology for years only to be knocked out my Free Trade. I was part of it for many years. Like many other major cities, high technology was growing and I traveled frequently to the Silicon Valley in the process.
Has Northeast Ohio gone shy-tech ?
"Herb Kleiman (column, May 16 ) talks about Cleveland being a one-horse technology town. He is right about many things, but leaves out the important parts. ( Cleveland was a thriving high tech center for years - I helped jump start the CAT- scan industry in Cleveland and served high tech innovators at research and development companies associated with the Silicon Valley and Case Western Reserve University. )
The Silicon Valley is a field of broken dreams. It is a Philistine place with many stories to tell. Many have started up new ideas there only to be squashed bugs by the top players who s techiques go far beyond technical know-how. [ The executives of the top companies he mentioned would sell their own mother for money.
The Silicon Valley story shows how someone can start something new, advancing not only technology but human dignity, only to be thrashed in a few short years. The big boys will take the new idea and send its production outside the United States to the sweatshops of the world to show a better bottom line.
It is silly to have research if it is based on teh assumption that there would be more jobs here. Unfortunately, it has not happened this way, and you can just study the CAT-scan industry to prove this.
I was in the Silicon Valley many times and always felt relief coming back to Cleveland. There is an innocent, blue collar mentality here that is not easy to find anywhere else. This mentality is based on hard work and returning to our families for a life worth living.
Research adds very little if the jobs go somewhere else. No amount of research will do any good if the American worker is put on the world block as a commodity to be traded competing with 20-cents-an-hour workers
It is good to talk about research and cutting the budget, but without real jobs, you can say goodbye to the good times as we knew them. And God forbid if we mention ethics and morality for the business world."
( We now have found out what happens when economies are based on making money on money instead of making things - the bottom falls out. And now the only answer there is lies in Big Government bailing out Big Money. Workers were fired instead of hired for the sake of stock market values and now the market is bailed out to do it all over again. )
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Cities like Cleveland Ohio were not one-horse technology towns
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( This is another published letter from April 1997 that predicted the 2008-09 economic crisis Cleveland was a center for high technology for years only to be knocked out my Free Trade. I was part of it for many years. Like many other major cities, high technology was growing and I traveled frequently to the Silicon Valley in the process.
Has Northeast Ohio gone shy-tech ?
"Herb Kleiman (column, May 16 ) talks about Cleveland being a one-horse technology town. He is right about many things, but leaves out the important parts. ( Cleveland was a thriving high tech center for years - I helped jump start the CAT- scan industry in Cleveland and served high tech innovators at research and development companies associated with the Silicon Valley and Case Western Reserve University. )
The Silicon Valley is a field of broken dreams. It is a Philistine place with many stories to tell. Many have started up new ideas there only to be squashed bugs by the top players who s techiques go far beyond technical know-how. [ The executives of the top companies he mentioned would sell their own mother for money.
The Silicon Valley story shows how someone can start something new, advancing not only technology but human dignity, only to be thrashed in a few short years. The big boys will take the new idea and send its production outside the United States to the sweatshops of the world to show a better bottom line.
It is silly to have research if it is based on teh assumption that there would be more jobs here. Unfortunately, it has not happened this way, and you can just study the CAT-scan industry to prove this.
I was in the Silicon Valley many times and always felt relief coming back to Cleveland. There is an innocent, blue collar mentality here that is not easy to find anywhere else. This mentality is based on hard work and returning to our families for a life worth living.
Research adds very little if the jobs go somewhere else. No amount of research will do any good if the American worker is put on the world block as a commodity to be traded competing with 20-cents-an-hour workers
It is good to talk about research and cutting the budget, but without real jobs, you can say goodbye to the good times as we knew them. And God forbid if we mention ethics and morality for the business world."
( We now have found out what happens when economies are based on making money on money instead of making things - the bottom falls out. And now the only answer there is lies in Big Government bailing out Big Money. Workers were fired instead of hired for the sake of stock market values and now the market is bailed out to do it all over again. )
Ray Tapajna - Chronicles of events behind the global economic crisis
