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travelnutz wrote:
bigdogger,

You are a dreamer! Competition freely within a nation's market and economy is what spurs product development and innovation. Outside underselling prices kill innovation, a nation's market place for domestic made products, the dollar's value, and the nation's standard of living and makes a nation dependant upon where their dollars went which they now have to borrow back and pay interest in a downward spiral until failure. Beancounters are to count actual beans not what they "think" might become beans someday in a perfect world.

Beancounter's actions have ruined so many businesses and corporations with their lofty or decimating forecasts. A bean isn't a bean until it's a bean!

Then how do you reconcile the fact that the countries that have the highest standards ofliving are the countries with all those evil bean counters? Cost management spurs efficency, which in turn spurs inovation. I am reasonably sure North Korea doesn't have a lot of bean counters and it also doesn't appear that the abscense of them has vaulted their economy forward.