The World's Gain is not America's Loss

 Even worse than flawed statistics, though, is the tendency to interpret the gains of other countries as losses for America. It's true that the U.S. used to generate more patents than the rest of the world combined. Now we produce slightly fewer than half. It is a safe bet that we will generate a smaller and smaller proportion in the future. We're not inventing less; instead, others are being empowered to imagine and invent. Will we always have more airports than the next dozen nations combined? Will we always have three times as many miles of railroad track as China? Probably not, because the rest of the world wants to be as connected as we are.end quote from below time article to read full article click below:

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Also there is a word button at this article which is a route to Bill Clinton's  video speech on Globalization which he prefers to call "World Interdependence" because it more accurately states both the good and the bad of it all. He said, "It's like a marriage with no divorce option, it becomes an interdependent thing just like the world today." The world is so small because of jets and instant electronic communication everywhere that people just can't get away from each other anymore.