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So-called pivot to asia, that our focus is still so heavily on places like afghanistan, syria, egypt, libya and elsewhere. but at the same time, the vice president has the challenge of assuring china that when we talk about pivoting to asia, we re not seeking a confrontation with china, we re not seeking to unduly constrain china s prosperity growth and even its increase in military sophistication. okay. afghanistan, let s get to that with president hamid karzai still threatening not to sign that deal that would keep american troops in his country for years to come. it s hard to believe that we re asking this because it once seemed so unlikely. is the zero option on the table now? could we possibly have zero u.s. servicemen in afghanistan at the end of next year? you know, the zero option, i think, is very much on the table whether the administration wants it to be or not. because the american people are really growing tired of this conflict, tired of the loss of life, tired of a c ....
By health care and they have the low-hanging fru, infrastructure, education and training. it s a political will more than an economic problem to address a lot of these issues. first of all, you nailed it. competitiveness while you can compete in the other markets. the on way can you do that is through productivity. you have to be a productive enough do-to-do business so you can put for sale that simply is not true enough today to support job growth and the prosperity growth that we saw. the solutions are vef straight forward. ....
Expectation of a couple generations of americans. all the studies done about income in america suggest over the last decade our income has gone down. much of that drop came during this last recession and even after it. in other words, the recovery has not restored our prosperity growth. if you look to the future, they say okay, we ll get a 5% gain in income through 2021. but that is not enough to restore our prosperity level to where it was before this recession. so the bottom line is this. the prosperity growth we saw for a whole generation up until the beginning of the last decade, that was a constant gain in prosperity. that has come to an end. it has gone into reverse and it s not going to improve for another 10 years to come. that s the official view. martha: standards of living in the united states will continue ....