Whats up with dat

There were two reports which caught my attention this past week or so. Individually I might not have been shocked but, coming one after the other like they did, I was stunned---I was for two reasons: a) the minor attention given by the press and b) the insult levelled to concerned New Yorkers on the whole when the one was followed by the other.
The first was the report by Forbes Magazine on 9/20/2011 identifying the 400 richest people in America, among them were also the richest new Yorkers.The report claims the NY mayor is the second richest New yorker with $19.5 billion behind David Koch with $25 Billion. Bloomberg the report stated made $1.5 Billion last year I do not pity or envy the rich- this is the nature of capitalism.
When the second report came out my jaw dropped at the headline of 9/23/201:
"New york city poverty rate rose to an alarming 20.1% in 2010, latest census Bureau figures show."
The report states that food pantry and soup lines are getting longer and Agencies are running out of supplies, people have used up all their emergency savings on food and rent;"if this problem goes untreated you are endandering the entire economic engine that is New York city' ... the report concludes.

Changing nature

In the 1980's Charles Handy offered that very soon the monster of changing nature of work will encompass us. Indeed the world and certainly the US has seen it happen before we realise it.The idea of working for an employer for twenty, thirty and forty years is quickly disappearing.The technological age has redefined 'work' as we know it. People are 'working' away from the 'office' more than ever,Many offices have less and less people on few machines. Some of the most critical decisions are no longer made in the boardrooms or even the bedrooms. Electronic machines have made it possible not only to create/design jobs but to control jobs.What used to take an eight hour day is now taking an eighteen hour week with prolonged leisure time. It is possible to 'work' for many employers from your front porch without having to leave your home. Street sellers/vendors have access to high tech machines where they can check on, order, pay and track the delivery of their products. Multi-billion mergers, acquisitions, trades and contracts are made on the golf course or from a touch screen.
By now everyone knows the dilemma of large companies who give you an '800 number' and you are connected to someone in Pakistan or India and we learn about the joys and pains 'outsourcing'.
So why are we so shocked and angry that 'American' goods and services are made overseas.Certainly the products are made cheaper and in larger quantities elsewhere. The companies become the villain, the foreign countries become the villain and we continue to cry out about the lack of jobs and the mortgaging of the economy in the process. Did I say mortgage.. I hope no one forecloses on us. All kinds of products from sneakers/sports wear, to clothing, spare parts, cars,electronics toys are in America but not made in America the list is endless. We keep oscillating from one economic color to the other... is this is the gray economy.
We are indeed in a dilemma these days. Either let our 'stuff' be made by the Chinese or the Taiwanese or let them be made at home by the Mexicans. You see it?