- The other day on The Huffington Post, an article by Arianna
Huffington Asks, "Is America Becoming a Third World Country?"
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- Excellent Question... LAME Solutions Arianna!
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- A friend shared with me an "interesting" article
on Huffington Post that asks a VERY pointed and painful question, "When
it Comes to Innovation, Is America becoming a Third World Country?"
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- I'm not a fan of Ms. Huffington, but the provocative
title certainly got my attention. She correctly points out that America
surged in the post-WW-II years mainly because we had little competition
from the war-ravaged European nations. We had a nice 25-year run while
Europe rebuilt and Asia emerged from its isolationism. In the late '70s
while we were destroying our manufacturing base and rushing into the new
information age, the Asian nations said, "We'll make that stuff for
you." Now we don't know what hit us and are scrambling for answers
and solutions.
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- Here's the link to her article...
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- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/when
-it-comes-to-innovati_b_512280.html?just_reloaded=1
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- This is how Liberals get shnookered. Someone such as
Ms. Huffington, asks an important question, outlines grim statistics, then
offers totally lame solutions that make guilty liberals feel good what
we should do.
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- Here are her 3 solutions to bringing back innovation
to America;
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- 1. High speed internet access for everyone so that we
can innovate. The Obama administration has a plan to increase broadband
from 65% to 90% by 2020. (TEN YEARS from now?)
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- 2. A non-profit green bank. This is part of the next
jobs bill that will create 4 million new jobs in 2 years. (Similar to last
year's jobs bill that created 2 million new jobs that no one can seem to
identify?)
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- 3. A new immigration policy to grant visas to foreign-born
entrepreneurs. Right now, Senators John Kerry and Dick Lugar are working
on their "Start Up Visa Act." And they hope to pass the measure
this month. They're right on the problem, yes sir. You see, great ideas
come from all over the world. So we should let MORE foreigners in because
we can't think of any good ideas. (This one is my FAVORITE! [Frost Woodridge
will LOVE this one too!] I'm feeling better all ready-NOT!)
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- Sorry Arianna, but that's just liberal drivel! Lets take
these three lame notions apart.
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- 1. Access to the internet doesn't deliver education -
parents, teachers and schools do that. The internet serves up porn and
social BS, such as Facebook and MySpace. We've fallen behind because we
have turned public schools into daycare centers and colleges into online
programs with no dialog, no lectures to listen to, no interaction with
professors and students. Just read the material, regurgitate it well, and
here's your specialized degree. You won't know much of anything outside
of your little micro nitch, but you'll have a degree so you can get a good,
$10 an hour job.
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- Here's a REAL solution: If we want smart kids, unplug
them from TV, limit internet access, ditch the No Child Left Behind Program,
let teachers TEACH and fund the arts. The solution is NOT more internet
access. Friends, new ideas are NOT in a computer or online. They are inside
your head. You'll never find them unless you have some quiet reflection
time to THINK. Unplug and start digging in that gold mine between your
ears.
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- 2. Green banks for green jobs is just like "everyday
low prices" that creates everyday low wages. Look, I like solar, but
unless we're talking about retrofitting every home in suburbia with the
next generation solar panels and batteries for energy storage, this is
a lateral move. Should we do it? Yes! Will it save us, no. Geothermal?
GREAT! But we don't need a Manhattan project to figure that out. Send a
team to Iceland and learn how to do it right. Windmills? Forget it, let
the Dutch keep theirs. Windmills are a maintenance nightmare and we've
yet to see what happens when a plane flies into one or one falls down in
a hurricane or earthquake.
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- Here's a REAL solution: Webster Griffin Tarpley (http://tarpley.net/)
has talked about this many times. Instead of propping up, dead, zombie,
parasitic banks, use 0% Federal credit with a small administration fee,
instead private "for profit" banks that make fortunes for shuffling
paper and moving electrons around. Since the 2008 Bank Bailout Bill was
passed, banks have made more money than any manufacturing company in America.
And what tangible "things" do they make? NOTHING! American citizens
have no use for mortgage back securities or other exotic instruments.
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- If we want to create high-paying, high-tech jobs, finance
a new Trans-Continental Mag-Lev Railroad System, like China is doing with
their new 250-mph rail road. Imagine the thrill of working on the world's
most advanced train system.
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- Want to create high-paying, high-tech jobs? Use federal
credit to fund the new NASA Solar System Space Exploration Program. Imagine
the thrill of helping build parts and equipment for the new USA Moon Base,
building a space dock that builds REAL starships that can go to Mars and
the rest of the solar system. If we don't do this, China and India WILL!
While we're frittering away, wringing our hands, they're making plans.
Time's a-wasting!
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- 3. The LAST thing we need are more foreigners. If unemployment
was 1% instead of 21% (as measured by the 1980 standards) it "might"
make sense to let a few foreign entrepreneurs into America to create new
businesses that would be required to STAY in America. But that's NOT reality.
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- Arianna, how is letting more people into this nation
when we don't have enough jobs for the people that live here, a viable
solution? It's NOT! What, we are incapable of thinking of any new ideas
so we need outsiders?
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- Here's a REAL solution: Let the foreigners fix their
own nations. What, India is all fixed up and now they're coming here to
fix up the U.S.? I DON'T think so. We can talk with them on the internet
or by phone, remember. They don't need to come here. And instead of major
high-tech companies, such as Microsoft getting special work Visas for foreigners
because they work on the cheap and send home most of what they earn, hire
the best and brightest young Americans, pay THEM an honest wage so that
the money STAYS in America.
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- If you don't understand this or are confused, look at
the Amish business model. They buy from one another, NOT toxic Chinese
junk and fake food from Wal-Mart because it's cheap.
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- This is such a large and important issue, one that would
take many more words to address. This short essay is by no means intended
to be an outline for our future. But Ms. Huffington is a typical Liberal
she states the obvious, lays a load of statistics on her reader,
then offers dead-end solutions.
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- Snap out of it Liberals.
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- To paraphrase my hero, George Carlin, if you think that's
the American dream, YOU'RE ASLEEP!
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