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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (62058)	2/7/2006 11:48:20 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

We need to stop looking at globalization as a policy and treat it for what it is: an event. The question is: how do we respond? The answer must include a long term commitment to improve our ability to compete globally. Investments in education and in programs that ready our citizenry for this challenge. A strategic investment by our government in industries and technologies that will allow us to retain our advantages. Policies that promote our greatest asset - innovation and entrepreneurialism. Bush cuts education, cuts programs that ready our citizens for such competition. He invests in companies such as Haliburton that have no interest in furthering our advantages. He gives free money to corporations and rich individuals that sap our ability to invest in the long term. He divides our people and maintains support through cheap usage of modern day Red scare tactics ("You're either with us or agan' us.") The threat from China is, as you pointed out, not the cheap labor that everyone seems to fear, but the emerging skilled labor of China and India. To prepare, we must invest heavily in education and innovation. Instead, we invest in the military and the rich. Maybe we can just turn ourselves into a giant world police force, and get the rest of the nations to pay for protection. The Mafiaification of America.