Raymond J. Learsy: T.Friedman's Take On 'Wimps" and "The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"
All this raises a much more fundamental question: Given our current structure of government and the way it functions, how are we going to compete, and to hold our own in years to come as we go head to head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future and the long-term planning that is essential is to meeting the challenges ahead?
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Very interesting and thoughtful perspective on the role of political elites in France, China and the US and the outcomes related to economic and social changes in the respective countries. Author is critical of the inability (or role of self interest) of the higher levels of government in the US to get anything done due to the self-interested relationships both elected politicians and high-level bureaucrats have with the industries and business interests they regulate. Without a clearly defined alliance by business and government for the "greater good" and a societal support for that goal, it is the author's position that the US is not well equipped to compete in the future with societies that are better educated towork together, make effective decisions regarding long-term goals, and are better prepared as a whole society to compete in the international arena.