“Call it the triple deficit,” said Mr. Rothkopf. “A fiscal deficit that will soon have us choosing between rationed health care, sufficient education, adequate infrastructure and traditional levels of defense spending, a trade deficit that has us borrowing from our rivals to the point of real vulnerability, and a geopolitical deficit that is a legacy of Iraq, which may result in hesitancy to take strong stands where we must.”
Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, and author of the new book Superclass, which I may have to read despite it's conspiracy theory sounding blurbs...
Each one of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international ?nance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world’s most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time.
Under any circumstance the "triple threat" mentioned hits on a lot of my concern with the current American situation. How do we work through these three deficits? I don't know the answer to that, but I do know we aren't doing much to address any of the three at this time.
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