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1 WORKING THE PIVOT POINTS TO MAKE AMERICA WORK AGAIN Frank Islam Ed Crego Potomac, MD

2 Copyright 2013, Frank Islam, Ed Crego ISBN: All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Printed in the United States of America.

3 Table of Contents Foreword ix Preface: Pivot Points in Perspective xiii The Confidence Game xiii American Misery xv American Melancholy xvii American Mania xviii Tipping Points, Turning Points and Talking Points xx Why This Book? Why Now? Why Us? xxi Ch. 1: Pivot Points in American History: The Way We Weren t... 1 Revisionist History The Platform for Pivot Points Pivot Points on Parade Pivot Point Takeaways Ch. 2: The Deficit and Debt Crisis: Poised on a Pivot Point The Debt Ceiling Debacle The Debate in Context and Perspective Simpson-Bowles Moves Center Stage Paul Ryan s Private War Goes Public

4 iv Working the Pivot Points The Stupor Committee Free for All Stuck in a Time Warp Noncompromising Positions Ch. 3: Attention Deficit Disorder: Show Me the Money Fiscal Cliff or Bunny Slope? From Cliff Dwelling to Mountain Climbing Sequestration Nation Fuss Budgets One Man s Debt Ceiling/Another Man s Floor A Tale of Two Countries It s the Econometrics Stupid The Economic Abyss The Skilled Worker Shortage Fallacy Pivot Point Recommendation: Create a National Jobs Agenda...63 Ch. 4: Congressional Dysfunction: Beltway Blues The 112th s Report Card You Can t Get There from Here In God We Trust Trust-Busting Congress at the Crossroads Getting to Maybe Pivot Point Recommendations: Working on Yes Structure: Break Up the Island States of America Knowledge: Make Congress Smarter Finance: Control the Big Money Interests Ch. 5: Citizenship Dysfunction: Coming Together or Coming Apart? The Great Divide The Politics of Division and Subtraction High Anxiety, Low Information, Moderate Expectations The Divine Right: Conservatives, God, Politics and Policy A Case Study: Gun Control vs. Mind Control A Citizen s Mind

5 Table of Contents v Citizenship in the United States Education, Civic Education and the Civic Literacy Gap Time for 21st Century Citizenship Pivot Point Recommendations: All for One and One for All Education: From STEM to STERN Collaboration: National Service Not Military Service Participation: Voter Expression Not Voter Suppression Interdependence Day: Celebrating the Us in USA Ch. 6: Individual Economic Well-Being: The 100 Percent Income Inequality: Trends and Tragedies Inequality Takes Many Forms Health Inequality Unemployment and Underemployment Inequality Generational Inequality Gender Inequality Asset Inequality The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class A Permanent Underclass? Clash Warfare The Not So Great Redistribution Debate Hands On, Hand Up, Hands Off Labor s Love Lost Pivot Point Recommendation: Renew the American Dream Job Creation Wage Enhancement Asset Building Social Safety Net Development The Rationale for Attacking Inequality Hope Dies Last Ch. 7: Global Competition: Up Against the BRIC Wall Competitiveness Assessment Overall Competitiveness Assessment Basic Requirements Competitiveness Assessment Efficiency Enhancers Competitiveness Assessment

6 vi Working the Pivot Points Innovation and Sophistication Competitiveness Assessment Strengths and Weaknesses Analysis Brazil Strengths and Weaknesses Russia Strengths and Weaknesses India Strengths and Weaknesses China Strengths and Weaknesses United States Strengths and Weaknesses Competitiveness Sustainability: Chinks in the BRIC Wall The Context for Competition: Is Globalization Dead? American Competitiveness: Good to Great Pivot Point Recommendation: Global Competitiveness Commission We ve Only Just Begun Ch. 8: Manufacturing: Slip, Sliding, Away? The Manufacturing Imperative The State of Manufacturing The State of Manufacturing Legislation National Manufacturing Strategy Make It in America Agenda National Infrastructure Bank Manufacturing Ideas Andrew Liveris Brookings Institution The Information Technology and Information Foundation Manufacturing Renewal Recommendations Primary Recommendations Subsidiary Recommendations The Manufacturing Need Pivot Point Recommendations: Back in the Driver s Seat National Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Bank (3-I Bank) Job Creation Linkage Small Business and Entrepreneurial Financial and Technical Assistance Manufacturing the Future

7 Table of Contents vii Ch. 9: Entrepreneurs: I Have a Dream No Fire in the Belly. No Fuel in the Tank Small May Not Be So Beautiful Small Business Scorecard Start-ups and Entrepreneurial Job Creation The Federal Government, Entrepreneurs and Small Business Growing the Gazelle Companies Pivot Point Recommendation: Help the Mainstream and Main Street Making the Case for Small Business Ch. 10: Immigration: Don t Fence Me In Immigrant Nation Importing Talent Exporting Talent Immigration Straightjacket Mexican Immigration Today: A Trickle or a Stream? Reform Senate Style: An Idea Whose Time Had Come A Building Consensus Bushwhacked Reform House Style: What s This About Comprehensive? Pivot Point Recommendation: Strategic Immigration Reform..223 A Dissenting View on High-Tech Immigrants Differing Views on Costs and Benefits Ch. 11: Education: Up in the Error Higher Education, Student Loans: Victors and Victims Attainment, Accountability and Avoidance The Need for Customer-Centered Reform of Higher Education Education Reform in Motion American Students versus the World Doomed by Demographics? Charter Schools: Cure or Curse? Educational Statesmanship Pivot Point Recommendation: Create 10,000 Union Cities Ch. 12: Innovation: Progress Is Our Most Important Product Innovation Inhibition

8 viii Working the Pivot Points Patents Pending Patents Periscope The Innovation Playing Field Innovation Opportunities Innovation Industry Targets: Health Care, Government and Education Innovation Partnership: The Public and Private Sectors Making America the Creation Nation Again Pivot Point Recommendations: A Mojo Agenda Establish a National Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Bank (3-I Bank) Right Size, Modernize and Incentivize the Federal Government Prepare the 21st Century Workforce No More Jobs? Epilogue: Pivot Forward American Exceptionalism Defeats Extremism The Citizens Mood 2012: Realistic/Skeptical Not Cynical A League of Their Own The Reasons The Responses The Recommendations Political Messengers Need New Ideas Decomposing Congress Congressional Omens and Indicators The Citizens Mood 2013: Concerned, Skeptical but Caring The Pivot Point Crystal Ball Expected Case Best Case Worst Case Greasing the Pivot Points Patience, Persistence and Principles Acknowledgments Bibliography Endnotes Index

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