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Blue Star Strategies Newsletter   MARCH 2011

In This Issue

Global Infrastructure
National Cry for Better Education
Middle East Tensions
Hyper Focus

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National Cry for Better Education to Jump Start U.S. Economy Battered by Anti-Teacher
Wars

From tip to tip in the U.S., everyone is clamoring for better education, more math
and science and revved up technology to back up the classroom.

In boardrooms and on Capitol Hill, the cry for Americans to pick up the slack and
put education on the front burner so the U.S. can compete in a global market is 
being repeated.

Yet, at the same time, and in many cases the same hallowed halls of government or
business, another demand is being shouted from the rooftops.

Democrats and Republicans, Governors and Mayors are calling for the dismantling 
of their teachers' right to collective bargaining.

Across party lines, leaders are calling for drastic action. In Wisconsin, the Republican
governor and the Republican led state legislature  are calling for the end to collective
bargaining. In Providence, Rhode Island, a Democrat stronghold, every teacher in
 the city of Providence received a pink slip last week - in order to pressure their
unions wiping out the collective bargaining agreement between the city and its teachers
so the newly elected mayor can pick and chose who returns to the classroom - restoring
to this capitol city its recent history of corrupt political patronage.

At a pivotal time in the U.S. economy, with China and India clearly surpassing American
children in the areas of math, science and technology, the need to build a national
cadre of educated young people who will become the next US competitive generation
is being hammered by short term thinking.

Balancing the budget is one thing - but bankrupting the future of all Americans 
is quite another.

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We hope you enjoy your Blue Star Strategies Newsletter. Every month, we will bring
you articles, photos, and updates about the numerous countries and issues we believe
are most important. Global news is changing fast and we've got a handle on it. Now,
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Global Infrastructure
Not Just Nuts and Bolts

The "jobs bill" Congress has been considering is not merely reduced but absolutely
ravaged - its $15 billion dollars includes negligible funding for infrastructure
 spending.

But infrastructure is not just filling in potholes or repairing roadways. It's about
creating jobs and income - that directly lead to more consumer spending

Infrastructure doesn't have to be just for 'home grown' projects.

For Americans to compete in a global market, a 'new' international infrastructure
must be created and maintained.

When you think about infrastructure, you probably don't think about job creation-but
you should. Every project, from milling and paving roadways to re-strengthening 
bridges requires workers, and creates new job opportunities for many.

It is estimated that new national projects could create a solution to our startling
unemployment rate, now at 9.8 percent but only recently hovering at 10.1 percent.
Though still too high, the drop in these figures shows something important. These
figures show that the 2009 fiscal stimulus package has worked.

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Middle East Tensions Spawn Stronger

Monarchies in Region

The world is mesmerized by the online inspiration for the real world revolutions
 in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya.

But the devil is in the details. Though change determined by the people is a powerful
message based in the tenants of democracy, the question remains: Who will replace
the dictators? And will the military temporary "rulers" continue to hear and respond
to the voice of their nation's citizens?

While we wait with baited breath for those new governments to form, we must also
 keep a watchful eye on the challenges and responses of the regions' monarchies.

Popularity of these monarchies for the most part continues. While the repressive
 dictators-like Libya's Kaddafi and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed,
 imprisoned, tortured or used violence to thwart protesters, the Royal families 
have shown a different face.

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Is Hyper Focus on Deficit Making Congress Miss the Boat?

Members of Congress are battling over the deficit, with a possible government shut
down narrowly averted. While it's smart to save money and lessen the deficit, with
so many freshman members of Congress who gained their seats by running on a 'cut
 at any cost' platform, a hyper focus on the deficit may be leading Democrats and
Republicans to obsess over only one piece of the puzzle.

Partisan attacks between Democrats and Republicans are expected but stripping the
government of all discretionary programs or shutting it down is irresponsible and
no solution to the complex fiscal problems hammering the nation. The new 87 so called
"Tea Party" members are clamoring for more and more cuts-refusing to participate
 in a dialogue about the complexity of the US fiscal crises or the multi-dimensional
solution that is needed.  Instead, these freshmen are eager to bring about "change",
but don't have the experience to understand that "changing" the fiscal reality our
nation faces national budget takes more rhetoric and a sledgehammer.

All budgets are state priorities - and what you "leave in" is even more important
than what you "cut".

Instead of just focusing on cutting the budget - and the deficit - it's time to 
take a more balanced approach.

It's time to create more jobs.

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