Please reread my excerpt — we were #1 until 2008!
“For most of the 20th century, the United States has been considered the world’s economic superpower. And up until four years ago, the World Economic Forum would agree. In 2008, it ranked the U.S. as the most globally competitive economy in the world. This year, when the group published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, the U.S. ranked seventh.”
“we were #1 until 2008!”
We haven’t been competitive in more than a decade. It wasn’t since 2008. 2008 may have been a year when we crossed the threshold but the trend started more than 30 year prior to that. The rapid decline started by 1995. Education was terrible by then and businesses started outsourcing in droves.