Letters

WAKE-UP CALL OR VAPID PLATITUDES?

Re "A Wake-up Call From Asia, " Editor's Page, Page 9, January 2006. It is truly a wake-up call. We need to bring the awareness and reality to the attention of all the people in our surroundings in order to create the sense of urgency. Education, in my opinion,

Daniel Chen, sales director

Evergreen Packaging Equipment

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Thanks for re-enforcing the notion that developing countries are not going to be satisfied with peripheral work as they have a very sophisticated workforce with a quick learning curve.

Lee Fernandes, chief industrial engineer

Crucible Materials Corp.

Syracuse, N.Y.

This article is more of the same from Ms. Panchak. Specifically: vapid platitudes, snippy admonitions (You'd better wake up.) and vacuous statements of the obvious (No country has a monopoly on innovation.) These trite annoyances are joined together in the space of two sentences, "I believe the U.S. will maintain its leadership of global manufacturing, but there are no guarantees. We're not going to succeed if we are complacent."