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A good start is a living wage for all. That does not seem to be a component of "Capitalism" where maximum bottom line is the motivating force.

If we are going to compete with the numbers in China and India, we must cultivate all our assets. Our brain trust has to grow expotentially.

When companies are expected to grow at better than 10% by their share-holders, a shift in the labor force overseas is inevitable. Soon, with growing competition for limited resources, that paradigm will be tested. The era of zero growth may be soon upon us.

Our country thrives on the idea of Manifest Destiny. The Earth's limits have been attenuated. How about some major projects at home to set us in good stead for the 21st Century? If my taxes go for something that will pay off, I'd send in my nickel without complaint.

Wasting time nation building. What a misguided goose chase fostered by highly educated guess-meisters who, for their compensation, should have known,(and they knew and ignored) better.

I believe that a new value system is needed. Someone above mantioned that notion. The idea that having more money and the stuff it can buy, as a determinatn of one's social status seems to ignore whether one's actions getting there are advancing civilization. Right now the ends justify the means. A teacher is paid less than what they are worth because what they produce, i.e., minds that reason, are not in demand.

Maybe one day we'll have had enough of this soul-less, superfluous, foreign made, hocum. The purveyors of all these supposed "goods" would have us dumbed down. A grab-ass society is their fertile plain. They've lead us to suburbia and now we may be over extended.

All the little guys, in their shops and garages, busting their butts, trying to invent our way out of this mess, have got to figure a way not to get ridden out by the bohemoths of corporate greed.