Making America More Competitive.

Aug 3, 2008

Hard to believe, but children born in the United States this year will graduate from high school in 2025. When those children — the Class of 2025 — walk across their graduation stages, will they wonder why they have fewer opportunities than the last generation?

Unless we change the current political paradigm, the Class of 2025 will argue that their future was compromised by the previous generation's monumental shortsightedness. They will point to unchecked physical infrastructure degradation, erosion of the educational system, astronomical health care costs, runaway litigation, regulation persistently driving opportunity offshore, disinvestment in research and development, consistently reckless deficit spending, and mounting debt.

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