When times are tight, people look for new, less expensive ways to do old things. Necessity breeds invention.
Therefore, the country that uses this crisis to make its population smarter and more innovative — and endows its people with more tools and basic research to invent new goods and services — is the one that will not just survive but thrive down the road.
We might be able to stimulate our way back to stability, but we can only invent our way back to prosperity.
We should be taking advantage.
we should be stapling a green card to the diploma of any foreign student who earns an advanced degree at any U.S. university
They would invent many more jobs than they would supplant. The world’s best brains are on sale. Let’s buy more!
we should also use this crisis to:
basic scientific research
find a cost-effective way to extend health care to every American.
clipped from: www.nytimes.com