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People are unlimitedly inventive. The tone of the article is from a zero some perspective. That is that if some poor guy, working for food gets a job, a guy in the west is laid off.

We need to have a little faith. Just making things isn't enough now adays. People want quality. People by MP3 players but want Ipods. People buy cars but want a BMW, even in Japan. The thing itself is no longer sufficient. People want to buy the idea, the style, the fashion.

Germany's problem is the difficulty in new, young business growth. It is difficult and expensive and the risks are high and profits low. This makes it hard for technical, medical, scientific business growth that would hire young Germans and become the future leaders of German industry. It seems like such a waste of schooling, youth and talent.

This anti business atmosphere is not so much one of cost, but of time. When dealing with government permits, time means nothing to government and who's workers that are habituated to pay checks coming in more steady then the tide. Government workers and agencies know nothing of competition or the time value of money. In the states many business move from older, slower, more bureaucratic states in which permits, if gotten at all, take lots of time, move to younger, quicker, lower tax states. As a phenomenon it wouldn't be bad if state workers just stayed home, then only the tax burden would have to be carried. As it is now, each state worker wants to have a say in everything, at every level so to justify and protect their job from wrong decision making and risk. Thus each worker is incentiveized to be as slow and as cautions as possible. The more state workers, the more commissions, the more hearings, the more permits the more costs the more time. Meanwhile in Florida, or China the competitor is up and running, and what does the state worker care? Back to the article. First labor goes. Then business. But what happens when, as is happening now, business development is done quicker and faster in Asia? That is were the article author should of looked. No business, no jobs. But, still the state doesn't care because they can manufacture their own gold through the printing press, credit markets or higher taxation.

I understood:

Time is the fire we are burning in. We are suffering a strong case of holistic bureacratic foot dragging.

Printing dollars and euros is not creating anything of value really.

Innovation needs the acceptance of technology not EPA the greens and Al Gores anti technology campaigns.

Europeans are still under the influence of the blooming and flowering 80s - still stuck in distributing the wealth that is long gone. So are organizations in the US like the UAW.

Since we now agree on all of that - what do we do now ?