Us Auto industry

I don’t know about you guys but I’m disturbed that the country that invented the car no longer can compete with foreign cars pricing. The US auto industry is suffering because of lack of innovation. The automobile has done the same thing for over 100 years. I think they need to change it. It has been a stand alone product because of its expense. Now a days they incorporate luxury controls in lower priced models. What if they offered those luxury models for the standard price? They would attract confident customers that they are getting their monies worth.
If the US automakers co-operated with National cell phone /communication companies to make a compatible standard for everything then people would get more bang for their buck. Ford has started this with its new sync option. They could make speech to text software. There could be a phone book registry on your cell phone that was fully compatible with your car. On top of that the car could serve as a GPS receiver for a program that runs on your phone or in your car. That way you would never need to synchronize everything.
Cell phone companies need to let go of their controls on phones that work on “their” networks. Hard line phone companies had that same problem when they first came out. They would rent telephones to their customers. By letting that control go there would be greater innovation of cellular technology.
Eventually National Wi-Fi internet service will be extended beyond just cites and while you are driving you could dictate emails, send IMs. The car could serve as your antenna which would increase your ability to find Wi-Fi signals.
And eventually in the future we will all have computer/robot drivers permanently. And if GM, Ford, or Chevy incorporates all this technology into driving at no extra cost they will increase there user base especially with younger drivers. Imagine having a free chauffer that knows where he is in relation to all the other cars with GPS onboard. Traffic jams would be a thing of the past.

What happens to be on my mind

I read an interesting piece on Real Clear politics. And it appears I have discovered the reason people want the “UN out of the US and Us out of the UN”. Our spending greatly outweighs any other member. To state pure numbers for some shine, we spend 4.0 % of our GDP (I think it’s needless to say that out GDP greatly outweighs all other countries.) while the average spends 2.2%. And we don’t get most of the say. And other countries can block the sanctions is ridiculous. We are giving up most of the power we would have on any other stage. It goes hand in hand with defense spending.

As for Iraq and the UN. We go it alone in Iraq because we have to. Our allies and fellow UN member’s armies have shrunk considerably. Canada which had million man army after WWII now has 62,000. And Britain the 4th largest national economy has just more than 100,000 solders. Canada and the Brits both have mostly specially trained troops. But our marine corp. is over 175,000 strong. The Downsizing of military spending in other countries is leaving us standing out. And now if there is a War we will have to support these allies that never do anything for us. It’s not that they don’t want to it’s because they can’t. We need to encourage these countries to reinstate and maintain larger standing armies. We should set the ultimatum that they have to increase there spending or else we leave the UN and that they need to move out of NYC.


In my opinion our fellow UN members are cutting these armies to make up for higher spending in their welfare state democracies. Which are poor in service and in quality? Aside from that clinging to our allies that are looking for a handout are barely allies at all. Using their pathetic forces to help maintain world stability isn’t even a reality. They don’t help us in Iraq because they can’t. They can’t do anything with their army because it is stretched thin. Their standing army numbers are too low. Their will be a day when a conflict arises among them and their enemies. But we will be “stretched too thin” in the words of Colin Powell. Not that I trust a quitter but still it must have some element of truth. I think it's time we raise standards in the UN or drop out. We deserve the space in Manhattan. If they still want it they can have it, but move it out. As a nation we should be vaguely be associated with it. It’s a big hole in which we throw money into. Also it has never produced results. It hasn’t really diverted any war or decreased the severity. When it was created it might have been slightly useful but since 1945 communications have since expanded and striped the roles these figures had. Goodbye UN!