[rogersm]

Surprised how many people are talking about currency/government protection and so few people about engineering.

[crdb]

Good engineering has a cost and this cost has to be financed somehow. You cannot operate in an environment where all the other players have large structural advantages due to macro conditions and "play fair" and win.

[rogersm]

Good engineering requires good processes, good planning and good decisions, something almost no-one is discussing here.

Let's get real... there's a lot to improve in the american engineering.