Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come:

1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a
world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenueneeded to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online
transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundryman. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your
fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget (like Kindle) instead of a book.

5. The Land Line
Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes. (the exception is the land-line based medical monitors that still require hard wired phones)

6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being
given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older
established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."

7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things (reading) that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.
Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix or Fantastix or or.

8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today
your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and even the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud and nd you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider.

In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7,
"They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again. All we will have thatcan't be changed are Memories.

10. Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow
Your Mind

The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial"
nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy
and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the
pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was
America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America
that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to
televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that
crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.



But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America .. Tens of
thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone.
Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time
period. The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight
and yet produces increasingly little. Do you know what our biggest export is
today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the
rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the
world wants to sell to us. The United States has become bloated and spoiled and
our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was. Once upon a time America
could literally out produce the rest of the world combined. Today that is no
longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.
If the de-industrialization of America continues at this current pace, what
possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?



Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things. So if the
United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a
staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be
a great nation? We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the
world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current
state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable. Every single month
America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.



So what happens when the debt bubble pops?



The de-industrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every
man, woman and child in the country. But sadly,most Americans do not have
any idea what is going on around them.



For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them.
Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them
from their slumber.



The following are 19 facts about the de-industrialization of America that will
blow your mind....



#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.



#2 Dell Inc., one of Americas largest
manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.



#3 Dell
has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem
, North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.



#4 In 2008,
1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were
manufactured inside the United States? Zero.



#5 According to a new study conducted
by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China
continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half
a million jobs this year alone.



#6 As of
the end of July, the
U. S. Trade deficit with China has risen 18 percent compared to the same time
period a year ago.



#7 The
United States has
lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.



#8 According
to Tax Notes, between
1999 and 2008employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies
increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S.
employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1
million.



#9 In
1959,
manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it
represented 11.5 percent.



#10 Ford
Motor Company recently
announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul ,
Minnesota . Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost
because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new
"global" manufacturing strategy.



#11 As of
the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last
time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.



#12 In
the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70
percent, over half is spent on services.



#13 The
United States has
lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.



#14 In
2001,
the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet
use. Today it ranks 15th.



#15 Manufacturing
employment in
the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.



#16 Printed
circuit boards are
used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent
of them worldwide.



#17 The
United States spends
approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on
goods from the United States .



#18 One
prominent economist is
projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S.
economy by the year 2040.



#19 The
U.S. Census Bureau says
that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them
that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have
been kept.



So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do
something about it?



How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all
admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?



How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we
realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?



How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones
like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic
suicide?



The de-industrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be
treated like one.



If you disagree with this article, I have a direct challenge for you. If anyone
can explain how a de-industrialized America has any kind of viable economic
future, please do so.



America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to wake up folks and this
November will be the start!!

Thereis nothing political about this
email. It simply points out very probable changes that are in our
future. And, to me, some of these, are indeed a big worry!! I think it is an interesting read, so I
share

Author Unknown to me.

Whether these changes
are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not,
here they come:

1.The Post Office.Get ready to imagine a
world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that
there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have justabout wiped out the minimum revenue
needed to keep the post officealive.Most
of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Check.Britain is already
laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial
system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online
transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right
into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never
received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

3.The Newspaper.The younger generation
simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily
delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry
man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in
mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine
publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major
cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4.The Book.You say you will never
give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal
pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my
hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get
albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music.
The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and
even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half
that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your
fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the
story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding
a gadget instead of a book.

5.The Land Line
Telephone.Unless
you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it
anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are
paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will
let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your
minutes.

6.Music.This is one of the saddest
parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just
because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being
given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and
corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are
simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog
items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older
established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore
this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book,
"Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video
documentary, "Before the Music Dies."

7.Television.Revenues to the networks
are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV
and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing
lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.
Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common
denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4
minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the
cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they
want to watch online and through Netflix.

8.The "Things" That You Own.Many of the very
possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually
own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today
your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and
documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if
need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all
finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you
turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So,
Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you
click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save
something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly
subscription fee to the cloud provider.

In
this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever
from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you
actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear
at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives
be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull
out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull
out the insert.

9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on
nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time
anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even
built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7,
"They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS
coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is
put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.
And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and
again.All we will have that
can't be changed are Memories.

10.Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow
Your Mind

The
United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial"
nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy
and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the
pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was
America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America
that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to
televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that
crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.



But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America .. Tens of
thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone.
Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time
period. The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight
and yet produces increasingly little. Do you know what our biggest export is
today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the
rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the
world wants to sell to us. The United States has become bloated and spoiled and
our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was. Once upon a time America
could literally out produce the rest of the world combined. Today that is no
longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.
If the de-industrialization of America continues at this current pace, what
possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?



Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things. So if the
United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a
staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be
a great nation? We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the
world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current
state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable. Every single month
America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.



So what happens when the debt bubble pops?



The de-industrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every
man, woman and child in the country. But sadly,most Americans do not have
any idea what is going on around them.



For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them.
Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them
from their slumber.



The following are 19 facts about the de-industrialization of America that will
blow your mind....



#1 The United Stateshas lost approximately
42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over
500 people when they were still in operation.



#2 Dell
Inc., one of Americaslargest
manufacturers of computers, hasannounced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an
investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.



#3 Dell
has announcedthat
it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem
, North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.



#4 In
2008,
1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were
manufactured inside the United States? Zero.



#5 According to a new studyconducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half
a million jobs this year alone.



#6 As of the end of July,the U. S. Trade deficit with China has risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.



#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.



#8 According to Tax Notes,between 1999 and 2008employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exactsame time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1
million.



#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it
represented 11.5 percent.



#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul ,Minnesota . Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.



#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last
time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.



#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70
percent, over half is spent on services.



#13 The United Stateshas lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.



#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet
use. Today it ranks 15th.



#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.



#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.



#17 The United Statesspends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States .



#18 One prominent economistis projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.



#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have
been kept.



So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do
something about it?



How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all
admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?



How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we
realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?



How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones
like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic
suicide?



The de-industrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be
treated like one.



If you disagree with this article, I have a direct challenge for you. If anyone
can explain how a de-industrialized America has any kind of viable economic
future, please do so.

Now it gets political and by me, Charly:

America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to wake up folks and this
November will be the start!!  We must put a man in the White House who understands how to run a large business, not another 4 years of socialism.