My biggest problem with Bush....

[Mike AI]

really?

Germany - our MAIN competitor in Europe,
Japan, our MAIN competitor in Asia...

is your BEST CASE scenario that Iraq becomes our MAIN competitor in the Middle East 30-50 years down the road?

Serge you are still thinking like a man who grew up under Communism!

Competition is a good thing. Economic competition drives the US to get more creative and inventive.

Plus look at German and Japanese economy past 10 years.... Germany has such a large welfare state they cannot get anything done ( US is following) and the Japs have so much corporate welfare that they cannot get anything done.

If the US stays the way it should - not a big welfare state - a Country that allows for the free flow of capital and rewards risk takers - the US will always be on top.

Competition that I worry about is Global - and this is coming from China in the next 40 years.....