That Should Still Be Us - by Martin Sieff (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thomas Friedman's prescriptions have played a major role in causing America's economic decline, yet many executives and politicians, including President Obama, still look to him as their guru. Sieff exposes Friedman fallacies on the nature of globalization, the information technology revolution, political paralysis in Washington, and energy consumption. He documents how China is investing far more in locking up the world's oil and gas reserves than in developing the ineffective green technologies Friedman claims they love. He exposes Friedman's most acclaimed ideas as retreads of naïve fantasies widely believed and exposed as useless a century ago.

• Convincingly refutes Thomas Friedman's fantasies and many fallacies in his best-selling books, The World Is Flat and That Used to Be Us, and presents a radically different vision and road map for America's economy and its future
• Offers a practical trade and energy strategy to restore American prosperity and industrial strength in the twenty-first century
• Explains why America's economy will soon depend on producing low-carbon footprint natural gas, reviving its manufacturing sector, and protecting its industry from unfair foreign competition and artificially manipulated exchange rates
• Written by veteran journalist Martin Sieff, a regular contributor to FoxNews.com and Chief Global Analyst at The Globalist Research Center

From the Back Cover

Just a few of the destructive, ludicrous fantasies of Thomas Friedman, Exposed at Last!

Americans would be better off building free iPhone apps than cars.

The only workers who innovate are the ones in IT or with PhDs.

Facebook & Twitter create lots of jobs.

America's biggest problem is that our workers don't want to work as hard as those in other nations (when, in fact, they actually work harder).

"China is not the problem," even though we have a $270 billion annual trade deficit with China.

Shipping good jobs from a solid democracy like America to a dictatorship like China will somehow make the world more free.

Trade barriers are falling everywhere, even though Russia, China, Japan, Germany, South Korea, & the OPEC countries protect their domestic economies.

America will soon achieve energy independence if we stop horizontal fracturing for oil and gas.

Higher American fuel bills will ultimately be good for Americans.

Wind, solar power, & biomass can completely replace oil, coal, & natural gas.

About the Author

Martin Sieff is a columnist at FoxNews.com, Chief Global Analyst at The Globalist Research Center, and Editor-at-Large at The Globalist. A former Managing Editor, International Affairs for United Press International, he is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East and Shifting Superpowers: The New and Emerging Relationship between the United States, China, and India.