Coming Soon: A Post-American World?

This morning, my wife and I were watching CBS News Sunday Morning and they had a really interesting story that discussed how America is falling behind.....whereas other countries like China, Japan, India, Brazil, and South Africa are growing at an enormous rate, economically. "It's happening because the rest are rising, and it's happening because the natives have gotten good at capitalism.", said Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and the best selling author of "The Post-American World".

I feel that the best part of the whole story was the very last sentence, "But Zakaria worries that one day historians will write about how the United States globalized the world, but forgot to globalize itself. " This says a whole lot of things that I believe is totally true, the U.S. government and some of its "well-off" citizens have forgotten about our own country. I feel that these same people have their noses too far in the business of other countries, that they've forgotten about our own problems. How can we, as a country, help out others, if we can't even help ourselves?

These other countries who are now striving, we, at one time or another, have helped. I say we let "them" pick up some of the slack and redirect our focus onto ourselves. It's just good business practices!

Please take a moment to read over the story and think about it!