What kind of economy are we creating?

[KurtNYC]

26. Germany is now the number 2 exporting country in the world

Not per capita, just straight up #2.

At the end of WWII, much of europe was devastated and unproductive. Factories and farms in the US were expanding to fill the gap. And the population of the US was 1/3 of what it is today (132m vs 311m). How do we get back to that? We would have to bomb Europe into the stone age, nuke Japan twice, kill or deport 2/3s of the US population, etc....

We can't go back. Global warming may create drought, famine, and the spread of tropical diseases to more heavily populated areas of the US. The challenges of the future are very different from the challenges of the 20th Century but the low hanging fruit for improve quality of life includes:
- defeat Mitt Romney
- switch to the metric system to improve exports and engineering of US goods
- universal health care to put us on par with Canada (where US manufacturing jobs go to reduce costs) and other industrialized countries
- stop mindlessly pushing EVERY student into college and start promoting more tech schools which are aligned with emerging jobs, and
- declare "war" on global warming or unemployment or something (besides people) that will unite us against a common foe