A Must Read

A serious article on the choices America faces today. He frames the burning issue brilliantly between the inherent "creative destruction" necessary for economic innovation and the need for social cohesion for a stable civil society to raise children and provide for goods and services.

This is the first good article I've read in a long time that synthesizes our recent economic woes and frames the issue in an adult and accurate manner. He calmly lays out the set the choices and the dangers inherent in different paths and most impressively how all of these issues tie together. Particularly startling are his statistics about the American underclass and the sheer chaos that 1/3 of American children are growing up under today. I suppose this is what PRECIOUS is about. But he also warns strongly against falling into a European style Social Democratic model in an attempt to regain "cohesion" and stability in the face of overwhelming international competition. The stats on Europe's decline are frightening and the decline of the West in international power and prestige is not a pretty future if you pay attention at all to world affairs.