There is talk about stimulus packages, and economic recovery.  There is also talk about cheap offshore labor and sometimes slave labor.  There is talk of more wars.  It seems to me that these are issues our country has had to deal with again and again in its short life.  We also have some new issues like global warming, finding sustainable energy and global (possibly nuclear) terrorism.

Being builders, we Americans tend to create new stuff to work through our problems. While we need a new spurt of innovation to meet new needs, I think that we also need to think, as a society, or as communities, on how to sustain innovation.  I think in the process we need to teach the world to fish.  The way to accomplish this is to funnel stimulus funds to inventors.  Some ideas: » Read more: How To Save The World?