With the United State economy slowly sinking down and dragging other economies with it (1) the time has come to take a look at where we have gone, just in the last eight years. The US has lost much of its soft power and the military is barely able to handle its current constraints in Afghanistan and Iraq. There is a change coming, and time is opening up for a new type of global politics. One relying on more heavily economics, instead of individual governmental policies. Countries will get along based off overall economic well-being--not governmental similarities. The US has been reaching out and borrowing money from anyone who will open their pockets and the once extreme gap between the US and other counties technologies is closing from what it was at our peak eight years ago. Power will not longer be held heavily in the Atlantic, as it once was, with the US as its head, but things will slowly start shifting East.
In the next two years China will overtake the United States as India's largest trading partner. (2) These two countries have room to grow and people who are willing to do it. While we all sit and discuss Heath Ledger's death, immigration, and what Hillary really did say about Barack. The US government will continue to call on other countries to feed our addiction to borrowing and spending. An addiction that has us $9,193,707,576,770.42 short. (3) How about instead of talking about the need to build a wall, we work on improving our school system to keep us competitive in this new age of globalization. The only reason we are still ahead is because we are still on the prosperous wave handed to us by our ancestors.
(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/business/22stox-web.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
(2) http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/
(3) http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
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