Todd Tiahrt: “Yogi Berra said that predictions are hard to make, especially when they are about the future. But that does not mean we…”

“Yogi Berra said that predictions are hard to make, especially when they are about the future. But that does not mean we should not look ahead. In fact, if you do sit down and think about what America is going to be like 5, 10, 20 years from now and how our economy is going to be in relationship to the rest of the world, I think we should all be very concerned. Right now, China is in the beginning stages of trying to start an Asian Union, much like the European Union, where the yuan is the euro or the monetary means. They are trying to combine the people in Southeast Asia, which could make an economy of about 3 billion people. The European Union is now absorbing new European countries, plus they have a natural bond to the Islamic world based on their current immigration trends, and they could easily develop an economy of 1 billion people. So if you look downstream, the very likely position for our economy could be third place, unless, unless, we change the environment here in America. Last year we had a trade deficit of $671 billion and a Federal deficit. If we are going to bring jobs back to America, we have to change the environment by making our country more competitive. ____________________”