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history of the United States of America. We have the developed world's highest rate of crime and poverty and imprisonment, an inadequate education system, decaying infrastructure, and no strategy for harnessing the new technologies of the 21st century to commercial job growth and for managing the changes that we confront.
All these developments and problems undermine our diplomacy, make it harder for us to secure favorable trade agreements, as we see in the breakdown of the,GATT negotiations. They make it more difficult to finance essential military actions or to initiate international cooperation to deal with world crises, whether they're economic or political or military or environmental. Mr. Bush's economic neglect has invited foreign pity literally. You remember the Japanese trip which ended with the Japanese Prime Minister saying he felt sympathy for the United States. He did not feel sympathy for us because of our military weakness. He felt sympathy for us because he thought we had refused to address our problems here at home, we had gone into a period of economic decline, and our best days might be behind us. It is time for economic leadership that inspires foreign respect.
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