WHO'S GAINING ON US TODAY?

Perhaps the easier question is "Who isn't?"

Remember Edwin Moses, the 400 meter hurdler that went years without losing a race? He was World, Olympics, you-name-it champion time after time. His reputation was besmirched when he was arrested for soliciting prostitution from a policewoman disguised as a whore - what an unlucky choice for Edwin! Athletes and athlete/students in this country are judged by a different system than are you and I, so Ed wasn't convicted of anything and paid no formal penalty, though one wonders what his wife had to say.

AT ANY RATE, before all that, Ed had something like the following to say about training; "Whenever I'm tempted to take a day off, I remember that somewhere out there a competitor is working hard to beat me."

I've been applying this wisdom to the U.S. We have not just taken a day off nor a week, month, nor even a year. By all appearances we're taking FOUR YEARS OFF! Yes, sir, we're relying on CHANGE to protect us and apparently hoping our adversaries will change, too, in ways favorable to us. :-)tee hee

Years ago, for example, we developed the supreme fighter aircraft in the world, the F-22, but we don't make it anymore; what we've got is enough, right? At least, that's what the Harvard U. defense experts and string-pullers have decided. B.O. the N.O. and the BADministration also have scrapped the Joint Strike Fighter, and following its downing a foreign-made missile in a test, they've reduced the Airborne Laser project to an impotent effort with no manpower to develop it.

Lately the Chinese, soaking up a lot of know-how from out-sourcing and a windfall of money from about every "manufacturing" and sales firm in the U.S. rolled out a plane they claim superior to the F-22. Change for us means falling behind.

Where did all this saved money go, one wonders. Oh, to important projects like those of the Worst Lady, where three meals a day and fed into children whose parent (singular most appropriate) is too stupid, negligent, or lazy to learn how to transform food stamps into health children's diets, as opposed to potato chips and pizza.

B.O. and Co. ought to heed Edwin Moses; take even a day off, and the people that want to annihilate you gain a step or two. THEY don't rest.