http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jeff_ge_joyride_Z3frhCTVy6YtMT3dmmpAPMThe comments at West Point -- which were received positively by those in attendance and across the corporate world -- reiterated his view that financial-services skills are today more valued than engineering, technical or scientific knowhow.seemed to hit the nail on the head for me. It seems that the United States has become all about making money at all costs. Wall Street gets paid insane amounts of money for outsourcing jobs to increase the supposed earnings while the unemployment rate hits an all time high? It just doesn't make sense to me. I thought the United States was suppose to be a melting pot of races, cultures, and peoples all coming together for a greater good, to be one people for one country. I guess my ideal United States is not a good global view. I would have us be self sufficient, relying on no other country or power. Making and consuming all our own goods and services. Producing an economy that cannot be intimidated and sabotaged by other countries. A country that cannot be bought with foreign oil, or foreign factories. A place of hard working individuals with a pride in each others work and satisfaction in their own. A country like that would be a wild-card for the world. Most undesirable indeed! :)
