Over the last several days I have had the chance to speak in a variety of forums: colleges, a management consultant meeting, with SEIU members and leaders in New York, and to SEIU's first ever national meeting of Republican members.
What I find both amazing and gratifying is how much everyone loves our country, and want their children to do better economically. Americans are becoming well aware that our country is growing apart economically -- wages are at the lowest percentage of national income since the great Depression, and corporate profits are at the highest level of national income ever.
For the first time, everyone on the Forbes 400 richest Americans list is a billionaire.
A rising tides is not raising all boats, as John F. Kennedy once discussed. Today, it's only the luxury liners.
Change is inevitable; progress is optional. That's why America needs a plan to create a country that works for everyone.
I wrote this book in the hope of further stimulating an American discussion about rewarding and valuing every one's hard work, and about not letting our kids and grandkids be the first generation in American history to do worse than their parents.
That is not the America any of us want to be our legacy!
That is the America we need to put back on track.
The ideas for our country to be successful, as I outline in the book, are all around us, and not just centered in Washington DC. And if we use this moment to lift our voices we can lift our country to meet the challenges of this profoundly new economy.
Team USA needs a plan, new relationships and new ideas. Let the debate begin!
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