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Well said Paul, right up to the point where you suggested electing an engineer to the political arena, that's where it falls down. Politics should be left to politicians as we engineers are generally honest people, and often our honesty would be dismissed because of party politics and financial influence. Therefore any elected engineer would be come inert or nullified. Finances play a major role as the few wealthy financiers and corporate bosses have a world econony and this lets us down to a large extent. We could go for inventing but the influence of the aforementioned would automatically mean they buy the rights and manufacture in the cheapest economy which currently would be Asia and India. To an extent we do need politicians to listen and take a long term view, unlike the corporate view of short to medium term returns on investments. This could ensure we develop a thriving economy which is sustainable in the long term and secures engineering and support jobs. Ultimately we need politicians to LISTEN to us and take on board what we are saying and promoting engineering to the public and politicians alike is the only way to do this.

6 Jun 2012

4:01 pm