I just finished reading through "Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited:  Rapidly Approaching Category 5."   Quite possibly the scariest and most depressing thing I've ever read.  If you're on a sinking ship, and you know it's going down, what would you do?  Exactly... I'm off to get a bottle of whiskey.  Later, gents.



Some quotes from the appendix on perspectives...

"The greatest long term threat to U.S. national security is not terrorists wielding a nuclear or biological weapon, but the erosion of America's place as a leader in science and technology." 
-Gordon England, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

"If you don't solve the (K-12 education problem), nothing else is going to matter all that much"  -Alan Greenspan, former Chairman, Federal Reserve

"When I compare our high schools to what I see when traveling abroad, I'm terrified for our workforce of tomorrow."  -Bill Gates, Founder, Microsoft Corp.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what it never was and will never be."  -Thomas Jefferson

"The fate of empires depends on how they educate their children."  -Aristotle

"The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the United States, and the 21st century belongs to China.  Invest accordingly."  -Warren Buffett