Innovation

Take a look at this interesting article, and consider how it dovetails with the recent Wired Magazine article. Consider also the growth in government worker compensation and numbers. Our government is a huge leech that is slowly killing its host.

My sentiments exactly:

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/gtlong/2010/0203.html

"The US is no longer a Manufacturing driven economy, or even a global Service economy. The US has sustained itself since the dot.com bubble implosion as a Financial Economy which is now seriously impaled and faces potentially years of ‘rehab’ efforts. Future jobs are not going to come from the old “Corporate America” but rather from a new “Small Business America” - new innovation’ - creating new types of work. Ten years ago there was no such thing as a ‘web master’ or an ‘E-Bay business’. America must maintain & even challenge itself to step up the pace of innovation. The frank reality is we are falling behind." Gordon T Long