Took 'em long enough...

but today, the NYT editorial board concedes: Ross Perot* was right!

That race to the bottom is exactly what was warned against in the rush to globalization. And the response was that the low wage stuff would go away and we would retain all the high “value added” stuff. Didn’t work that way.

* the funny plainspoken guy, with those charts, remember? Someday, we'll look back on Ron Paul in the same way, I suppose. Dislike the messenger, but ignore his message at your own risk.

ADDED: Here's the first comment up, on Rosenthal's invitation to readers to put their own special requests on the federal "wish list", of things they'd like to see the President promise tonight:

I wish for a song and a dance.

No, really.

Some Al Green.

He could do his own half-time show.

Lol. Shattering stereotypes daily!