Tuesday, January 05, 2010
What’s needed are big new innovative efforts to fashion an economy that creates jobs for all who want and need to work. Just getting us back in fits and starts over the next few years to where we were when the recession began should not be acceptable to anyone. We should be moving now to invest aggressively in a new, greener economy, leading the world in the development of alternative fuels, advanced transportation networks and the effort to restrain the poisoning of the planet. We should be developing an industrial policy that emphasizes the need for America to regain its manufacturing mojo, as tough as that might seem, and we need to rebuild our infrastructure.
Bob Herbert, NYT
I'm not saying Europe is perfect, but many of those nations seem far ahead of us now, better positioned in energy, health care, transportation, education. They have different immigration problems, since they're not accustomed to diversity. They've basically settled a lot of matters we've avoided. We can't seem to focus on more than one issue at a time. A jihadist slips through, fortunately he fails, but that becomes all-consuming even though the holes can't be plugged in a day or a week. They can & will be fixed. We have to learn to juggle better.
