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Like a Herd of Turtles by Michael Weinstein
What's happened? Have you noticed how the overall enthusiasm in our society has almost wasted away to zero? Where did the leadership, energy, activity and bold thinking run off to? When did someone flip the innovation switch off?
In the past 30 years, we have seen 2 HUGE shifts in the global marketplace. First, the shift to a global economy in the late 70's and early 80's. Remember when we as a country used to shudder about the fact that the Japanese were buying up all of our treasury paper? Some real financially intelligent soul would remind us that the Japanese were dictating our prevailing interest rates, along with supposedly buying up our country and actually controlling our monetary policy! WOW!! That was some real deep thinking, probably right from the hallowed grounds of our own centers of higher learning! After all, weren't those so called book smart people the only ones who actually knew what was going on?
The second shift involved our supposed selling out of our entire manufacturing sector of our domestic economy! There was a time when the US was the manufacturing center of the planet. We not only made everything here, but we also thought it would be a great idea to spread our manufacturing knowledge around to all of those less fortunate countries! Hey, if we can't let someone kick our ass on their own, why not show them the right way to kick our ass using our technology and experience!
So, in both instances, the US basically gave up on our global dominance in both manufacturing and financial leverage! But wait a minute! Why stop there? As long as we are giving away the farm, quite literally, let's also bleed off the very drive and energy that formed this country! Forget our creative independence! Forget our leadership in every aspect of the now global economy! Isn't it a whole lot easier to sit back and watch everyone else take charge? Hmm! Does the mere thought of being strictly service oriented make your skin crawl? How about the fact that we so readily sell our natural resources to other countries, only so we can buy them back later as a now finished product! Makes a whole lot of sense to me!
We should stop and ask ourselves, at some point, why we lost it all! Or better yet, why we gave it all away! When it comes down to giving up on our creativity, our thirst for knowledge and innovation, and our global leadership and controlling dominance, the game is just about over! We should live by our new slogan: it's better to eat dust than make it! Or how about this: why lead when you can so effortlessly follow? It's time we took back our drive and our ambition! It's time we stood tall as a country again, being proud to have the rest of the world talk trash about us! The real name of the game used to be: thanks for playing! Let's bring it back!!
Michael Weinstein has worked in a retail environment for over 30 years, including 8 years in investment banking and over 20 years in management. He is also a successful soccer coach and bodybuilder, possessing a knowledge of nutrition and supplementation as well as exercise physiology.
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