Planning for Our Country’s Future
Long before Trump came along, the United States was a country driven by short-sightedness. I noticed from the time I was a young man that corporate decisions were based on quarterly profits, not strategies crafted to guide long-term success.
Of course, this is only one example. Here’s a Chinese proverb on the subject:
For a one-year plan: Plant rice.
For a ten-year plan: Plant trees.
For a hundred-year plan: Educate people.
The reason education is always on the chopping block is that those in government win or lose dependent on very short-term results–and that’s before we had rank criminality in congress and the White House.
