Please, Obama, Rebuild Us
Are you getting tired of living in a country in which state-of-the-art public facilities were built in the 1950s and the data communications and public transport systems are some of the worst in the first world? So are we. So is Thomas Friedman.
So here's hoping President Obama uses some of the $1 trillion of fiscal stimulus to build us:
Anything else? Enter your wish list below, and we'll pass it along. Here's Mr. Friedman:
I had a bad day last Friday, but it was an all-too-typical day for America.
It actually started well, on Kau Sai Chau, an island off Hong Kong, where I stood on a rocky hilltop overlooking the South China Sea and talked to my wife back in Maryland, static-free, using a friend’s Chinese cellphone. A few hours later, I took off from Hong Kong’s ultramodern airport after riding out there from downtown on a sleek high-speed train — with wireless connectivity that was so good I was able to surf the Web the whole way on my laptop.
