HOW DO WE FIX THE
ECONOMY?
Spain just announced 27% unemployment - their youth unemployment is 50%. They, like Europe, have chosen the austerity path. Their economies are SHRINKING. Our Congress wants to follow their example, the same mistake FDR made in 1937 during the Great Depression.
The answer to that question is in the final chapter of my
newly-released eBook "Better Times Ahead April Fool" – Documented
with over 100 photos by author showing the last 30 years of global change as he
personally took most of the photos in this insightful book.
The first 8 chapters are vivid - from growing up on an
Iowa farm to global business experiences in nearly 50 countries, starting with
a less than auspicious beginning when I was hired fresh out of law school by the
notorious, infamous Brown & Root (now KBR). Shortly after my arrival they
were indicted for price fixing and the company president shot himself. Things
only got more interesting after that. I was one of only 7 attorneys in
the whole company. They wanted to move me to be the contract lawyer a naval
base in Iran on the Persian Gulf -- just before it was overrun in 1979...
Then along came a white knight company (Dresser) that
sent me to 30 countries in five short years -- including China, India, Brazil -
all BRIC countries now (the fastest growing competitors to the USA).
Then I was laid off, along with tens of thousands of
other people during the Great Texas Oil Bust. Even our former Governor went
broke. I had to invent a job due to the economy and my age. The book's journal entries, written in far-off
hotel rooms, give a unique view not seen in news accounts.
From then on, I focused on helping small American
businessmen and women do what they wanted anywhere in the world they wanted -- including
a Seabrook Texas housewife who invented a ceramic Turtle to sell to tourists
visiting from the cruise ships in the Cayman Islands. I helped set up her
business. I took a small Texas video company to see the new Euro-Disney buyers
(their park had a Western theme) after
it opened in Paris. But a big problem came up. To get to the meeting we had to get
there from England by running a blockade--French farmers had blocked the roads
and rail lines in France in a protest. Being an entrepreneur had costs
and a steep learning curve --I even ran out of money on one of my first
international trips to three countries (Chapter "Broke in Bangkok").
These are some of the stories in the first 8 chapters
over the last 30 years that will give you a global vision of the real
world of 200 countries we must compete in to succeed in the 21st century. It’s updated
with photos from 2013 -- for a startling country comparison you can see with
your own eyes.
Look for yourself. Compare our technology to theirs!
Compare our education to theirs. See what I've seen. Then my solutions should
make sense to you.
It has been my global economic, business, political,
security experience in all these countries in the past decades that provides
the insights into the solutions presented in "Agenda for American
Greatness."
America has fallen behind. But the good news is that we
have the resources to get back to No. 1 again -- IF we have the WILL to do what
it takes to do it.
It will take a SMART strategy. It will take a GLOBAL
strategy -- we don't live alone on this planet. Being stupid in our policies
and choices of action has profound economic and life-changing consequences
--since that is what put us in this situation.
Americans can't make intelligent choices if we are
clueless about the real world (versus the pundit world) we are competing
against. We can't afford to double down on disaster or voodoo economics.
We have a SKILLS GAP, and an education gap - but there is
a formula to regain our national mojo in Agenda for American Greatness. The
eBook chapter is the latest edition--the website version is FREE but its an OLDER version than the book...without reading the book, you won't know how the journey got there.
Details and links to Amazon, iBooks and Barnes & Noble
(at bottom)...
by Michael Fjetland
http://bettertimesaheadaprilfool.com/
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