and a Luddite by any other name is still a Luddite.

DJ, You are absolutely right that the US is the world leader in manufacturing, something few people realize while every politician in sight is screaming about sending US jobs overseas. We can maintain and even increase our edge in manufacturing through increased productivity. Every company and government agency needs to have as its objective, “Twice the output with half the labor.”

This goal has been articulated again and again since Fredrick Taylor wrote The Principles of Scientific Management. In his opening sentence he states, “President Roosevelt (in this case Theodore), in his address to the Governors at the White House prophetically remarked that ‘The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question of national efficiency.’”

VK, I refer you to the following clip to see if I have taken anything the President said out of context as you accused me of doing.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...g_tellers.html

A large part of our unemployment is caused by others providing better and more productive ways of doing things. The US producing ATMs did nothing to increase unemployment here. If we did not, then someone else would have done so and we would have lost not only the teller’s jobs, but also those associated with the production and servicing these machines. Turning your back on the truth of economics will not make that truth go away. Claiming people who claim that increased efficiency causes unemployment are anything other than Luddites is to ignore the truth.