Leisure Time?!? Fuck That!!!

Leisure Time?!? Fuck That!!!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Two interesting news reports this week, and both have to do with the same thing -- the first one was the fact that Germany's industrial base is short some 38,000 engineers; the second is that the front pages of Japan's news papers are boaming the fact that Japan is losing is edge on "quality" in manufacturing.

What is this telling us about the manufacturing giants of the Industrial Age?

We all know that America's edge in just about everything except for TV/Film, drugs (illegal and legal) and financial has been considerably dull for at least 10 years -- if not longer, and now the other two post-WW2 powerhouses are stumbling.

The countries that emerged from the ashes of Hitler's nightmare and the Japanese aggression have pillaged the planet to the extent that they can't even sustain themselves with any kind of economic drive outside of the intangibles that are endemic to the ethos of the nation.