To use a sports analogy, America is like the long-time heavyweight champion who has been number one for so long that he gets fat and lazy and stops training. Before long, a young upstart cleans his clock. For years, our government and industry have let higher quality and lower-priced imports enter the American marketplace without adapting the quality or price of American goods. If our government and industry were truly committed to make education, job/career training, quality control, and innovation top priorities, we could compete a hell of a lot better with recent powers such as Japan and China. For instance, there is no reason why American companies can't start making VCRs, Compact Disk players, computers, and other products primarily made overseas to save money.
George Bush likes to say, "Read my lips...". The problem is, whenever he opens his mouth, very little of style or substance ever comes out, other than perhaps his Point of Light Foundation and his incomplete victory against Saddam Hussein. (to be cont'd)
[Originally published in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper and part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die And Other Essays".]
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