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Who does the work in America?

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Bob Levin9/21/2011 1:46:31 pm PDT

So this doubles our need to invent—but our schools aren’t up to the task of building a culture of invention, with bad science curriculum, and a celebrity culture that excludes scientists and inventors. Our immigration policy is ridiculous, because we need ideas and skilled labor, if only to increase the tax base. But, I’ll emphasize, not just to increase the tax base.

Our infrastructure does need overhaul. We do have severe water problems in the Southwest. We do need to better harness the rain that we get, and figure out better ways to power our technology. But this isn’t a problem of the just rich, or the just government, or the just GOP or the just Democrats. We could help the rest of the world eat. Olive oil, folks can eat. Light sweet crude, not so much.