Originally Posted by closedcasket:
Yada Yada Yada.....OK, easty, I'll bite. You've been trying so hard, I almost feel sorry for you...
As an American I have heard this same song and dance, and so has my father and his grandfather..
First, the Russians were coming, then we were losing the space race, followed by the Vietnam fiasco, the demoralizing Carter years with high oil prices and unemployment and finally the Japanese buying up America. Miraculously we have survived all this so far.
America's political dysfunction guarantees that U.S. productivity will be compromised – yet so far it is the only developed economy growing, while Japan and Europe languish.
America's math and science education trajectory, if not corrected, will diminish our competitive advantage – yet for the time being there is immigration, because the world's most prominent universities, which are American, are drawing the brightest minds.
America's huge energy consumption has been a gnawing problem for decades – yet all of a sudden it's solvable.