I'm not sure that's the path we need to look at. Industrial is so last century, lol. We are stumbling right now in finding out what the next economic base is going to be. First it was agrarian, then industrial, then computer tech and innovation, then information, next will be energy. But we have an entrenched oil/industrial base with alot of money and access to power and policy.

If we are to meet the demands of a future of technology that grows exponentially, we must have the best educational system in the world. Best equipped, best funded, best staffed, effective and as close to free as possible. We no longer hold that edge over the rest of the world. We need to be the innovators again. I don't care who makes the crap or where, as long as each time one is sold, someone in the US is getting the royalties for it. Let the world pay us for our genius, our ideas, our technology. Work smarter, not harder. That is the only way we could sustain a service industry sub-based economy. Continuous conspicuous consumption fueled by the fruits of innovation.

There is, for the first time, a competent global challenge to the US in the areas of innovation and research. The US must return to it's preeminence of invention and discovery.

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