The recent press coverage of the record profits of America’s largest oil companies seemingly slipped right by most of America as if carefully lubricated by their own petroleum products. And somewhat ironically perhaps, the headlines which documented the record earnings of America’s oil companies were often positioned right above those discussing the abysmal and ongoing failures of our nation’s public and urban schools.
As we now cruise rapidly toward the middle of 2006, a year in which, in many ways, our great nation seems poised on the edge of its own kind of oil-slicked, slippery slope, there is ample reason to pause, in the midst of myriad oil and automotive metaphors, to ask ourselves if we are appropriately contemplating the realm of issues with regard to the future of America’s proverbial economic engine.
Today, America arguably faces the biggest crisis we have ever faced with respect to our position as a global economic superpower. Curiously though, this threat comes not from terrorists, or other external sources. Instead, this threat to our future hails right here, from within our own boarders.
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