Oh boy, we need an Innovative Thinking overhaul...
Lack of Leadership and Innovation thinking continues...watching the debate last week was a painful experience for me. Besides the total lack of respect that McCain exhibited to his counter part, there is so much to say about the lack of intellectual rigor that was so evident from our septuagenarian candidate.
How can we still be talking solely about spending and framing the debate in a spender and not-spender polarity? Have our leaders so diluted the message – and ourselves - that we cannot develop the debate past the spending, no-spending mantras? Do we have to rescue everyone from celebrity-induced trances (including our supposed leaders) in order broaden the debate and make them understand that education and our children are NOT “expenses”. Have we become so deficient in understanding this? Education is an INVESTMENT and not an expense. Healthcare is an investment in our people and not an expense. Broadband connectivity is an investment in our knowledge infrastructure and not and expense. There is abundant research on these issues. Investment of this sort pay big dividends in the long ru; there is a payback that is captured. Yes, there will be a cash flow issue at the front-end but in time all of us benefit from these investments.
One example of an investment that paid unbelievable dividends to our country was the GI bill. Studies have proven that the country more than made up for this investment after World War II. Mr. McCain ought to know this.
Investments – and especially education – are so obvious a benefit to society that it really needs no further explanation, or does it?
Are we that bereft of intellectual curiosity that we can’t allow ourselves to understand these concepts? If so, we are in a lot deeper trouble than we thought.
How can we still be talking solely about spending and framing the debate in a spender and not-spender polarity? Have our leaders so diluted the message – and ourselves - that we cannot develop the debate past the spending, no-spending mantras? Do we have to rescue everyone from celebrity-induced trances (including our supposed leaders) in order broaden the debate and make them understand that education and our children are NOT “expenses”. Have we become so deficient in understanding this? Education is an INVESTMENT and not an expense. Healthcare is an investment in our people and not an expense. Broadband connectivity is an investment in our knowledge infrastructure and not and expense. There is abundant research on these issues. Investment of this sort pay big dividends in the long ru; there is a payback that is captured. Yes, there will be a cash flow issue at the front-end but in time all of us benefit from these investments.
One example of an investment that paid unbelievable dividends to our country was the GI bill. Studies have proven that the country more than made up for this investment after World War II. Mr. McCain ought to know this.
Investments – and especially education – are so obvious a benefit to society that it really needs no further explanation, or does it?
Are we that bereft of intellectual curiosity that we can’t allow ourselves to understand these concepts? If so, we are in a lot deeper trouble than we thought.
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