WPR's The New Rules: U.S. Global Role Depends on Hard Fiscal Choices

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 12:02AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in China, Europe, India, Japan, Russia, US, WPR Column, globalization

Much of the global perception of America's long-term decline as the world's sole surviving superpower is in fact driven by our fiscal decline. That's why I was disturbed to hear Democrats so quickly dismiss GOP Sen. Paul Ryan's bold, if flawed, federal budget proposal on the grounds that it would "end Medicare as we know it."  Frankly, arresting our decline means ending a lot of things "as we know them." That's simply what being on an unsustainable path forces you to do.

Read the entire column at World Politics Review.

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