Polls find that polls matter

71% of the HBS alumni expect America’s competitiveness to decline:

Fully 71% of the businesspeople polled expected America’s competitiveness to decline over the next three years. (National competitiveness is a slippery concept: countries do not compete in the same way that firms do. But the businessfolk in question answered some clearer questions, too.) Some 45% said that American firms will find it harder to compete in the global economy. A startling 64% said that American firms will find it harder to pay high wages and benefits.

Gee, you mean the fuckwads who enjoyed exporting jobs to China, supplying endless gobs of tax evaded cash as venture capital to fund Chinese & Indian startups and ignoring American infrastructure, schools, & labor dont think America’s future is bright. No fucking way!