] Re: A very important item -- How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: INVENTOR () pobox com
> Date: July 4, 2010 1:37:14 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: INVENTOR () pobox com
> Subject: RE: [IP] Re:    A very important item -- How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - 
> Bloomberg
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> Dave – After I saw this posting on your site I read Andy Grove’s article.  It was MARVELOUS and showed how American 
> industry is committing Seppuku a Japanese word for Suicide – by transferring virtually ALL of our technology to the 
> Orient for manufacturing.  Which means transferring virtually ALL of our technology and knowhow overseas to teach 
> them to grow our competition.
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> While I have not always agreed with him, in this article HE IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
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> Which leads me to wonder what would cause David P. Reed  to write; “It's sad, but Andy Grove will be pilloried by the 
> flag wavers who think that enriching the wealthy is the proper thing for Americans to want to do.”
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> What has this statement have  to do with Andy’s article?
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> And his saying that Andy “begs the question”etc – has NO RELATION to the article and the warning that Andy was 
> conveying.
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> As a point of information – I was running a development company for Sherman Fairchild and was at a board meeting 
> where my colleague Bob Noyce (who was not invited) was effectively “fired” because he was not considered strong 
> enough to be considered to become the President of Fairchild Camera.  The actual statement was that he wouldn’t be 
> able run a company as LARGE as Fairchild Camera which was then about 100 Million in sales.
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> They were, obviously right.  He quit and with Gordon Moore raised the money to found INTEL!  I believe that Andy 
> Grove was either their first employee or one of their first. But he certainly made a lasting impression and was the 
> brains behind the enormous success of the company.
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> In Andy’s article – he is warning America that what I call our “outhousing” of production is also outsourcing our 
> native and crucial TECHNOLOGY – and are losing it – likely FOREVER.  Bad move!
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> George Margolin – Vice President Professional Inventors Alliance.
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> From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] 
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 8:18 PM
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> Subject: [IP] Re: A very important item -- How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg
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> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
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> Date: July 2, 2010 9:30:47 PM EDT
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> To: dave () farber net
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> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
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> Subject: Re: [IP] A very important item -- How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg
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> This is a great article, but it begs the question: what investors in the US care about "American jobs"?  Greed is 
> Good, and if a wealthy person can make more money by not creating American jobs, they are being even "gooder", by 
> definition.
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> If you read Atlas Shrugged, as so many in Silicon Valley seem to want us all to, there is no patriotism there.  There 
> is no love of American culture, or freedom.  Just selfishness.
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> It's sad, but Andy Grove will be pilloried by the flag wavers who think that enriching the wealthy is the proper 
> thing for Americans to want to do.
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