[PRCo] Re: China

[Dwight Long]

   Fred   Eastern :Pa had its share of the decline as well as my old
stompinggr= ounds did.  Perhaps Lancaster County was an island of exception,
but B= illy Joel did not get the idea for his song "And We're Living her= e
in Allentown" out of thin air!   Dwight

Apr 5, 2011 03:17:48 PM, pittsburgh-railways at dementi= a.org wrote:
Yes. It alway= s chases the cheapest labor doesn't it......

I saw the same thing in= eastern Pennsylvania when western Pennsylvania was
declining because we ha= d lower than national average wages and the work
ethic of the plain people.= Jobs came here and so did the kids to work them.
Our population climbed in= Lancaster County from 230,000 in 1950 to 520,000
today. Unemployment dropp= ed to an unprecedented 1.4% of the labor force in
1964. As one industrialis= t put it, "That's rolling the barrel over, wiping
the moss of the underside= and trying to get a few hours work a day out of
the moss." Well, in the 20= 08 recession our unemployment rose to where it
had been in Pittsburgh and J= ohnstown when steel shut down because the
goodsproduced here are now done = in other nations. 

For the first time, our kids and grandkids and gr= eat grandkids are going
tobe making less than the previous generation or t= hey will work a lot more
hours. 


On Apr 4, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Her= b Brannon wrote:

>I remember when the United States used to have= a vibrant economy like that
>showing in these videos. Busy streets,= people going to work, shops and
>stores all open for business. Oh y= es, that is our former economy we're
>looking at.
>On Mon, Ap= r 4, 2011 at 19:28, Fred Schneider wrote:
>= 
>>Peter Folger and I both have a strong desire to educate. He ke= eps
telling
>>me to keep it up. This is an item he passed along t= oday which I think
>>deserves much wider distribution.
>&gt= ; The second and third links just show views of China. While we may be
&= gt;> upset that they are taking our dollars, they are also part of our w=
orld ...
>>our planet.
>>
>>The third link? W= ell, if any of you operate conventional air-brake
>>streetcars in= museums, imagine doing it on city streets with people and
>>auto= mobiles impinging on you every few hundred meters. Look at what the
>= >lady in the third video contends with while running her car in Dalian.= 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: = "Peter Folger" 
>>>Date: April 3, 201= 1 2:30:48 PM EDT
>>>To: "Peter Folger" 
>>>Subject: A return to Dalian, China
>>>
&= gt;>> A return to Dalian, China
>>>If I ever had my drut= hers answered this is a place I most assuredly
would
>>like to vi= sit; hopefully I have not covered any previously sent videos.
As
>&gt= ; Bill Withun, now retired curator of transportation at the
Smithsonian,>>> 
>>>(http://teamstermagazine.com/smithsonian%252= 6%2523039%3Bs-rail-chief),
>>opined one night years ago
>&g= t;> 
>>>in a Lowell, MA, Thai restaurant, "these are the pe= ople you need to
keep
>>an eye on for they are smart and think>>> 
>>>in the long term, they have it far more toge= ther than the Russians."
>>>
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>>Fashio= n.
>>>
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>>>
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Dalian the Capital of Romance and
>>Fashion.
>>>
= >>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKI-JCb4i6A0&NR=3D1
&gt= ;>> 
>>>Old-style Trams in Dalian China.
>>>= 
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9RIspfxAYWU
>>&= gt; 
>>>Dalian trams.
>>>
>>>http://= www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Di9i5fWVF7-0
>>>
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>>>
>>>htt= p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DZDuZmRuYifw&feature=3Drelated
>>= >
>>>Peter Folger
>>>P.O.Box 1741
>>= >Biddeford, ME 04005-1741
>>>transitman at maine.rr.com
&g= t;> 
>>
>>You might also want to look at some of the= stuff on the internet on the
>>Chinese high speed railways. That= 's a concept the rest of the world
>>embraces but we say is impos= sible.
>>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQ9WEXdn_qV= 0&NR=3D1
>>>
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&gt= ;> 
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>-- 
>Herb Brannon
>In Cuyaho= ga Valley National Park
>
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