Democratic Leaders Push 'America Competes'

The AP reports:

The United States will "spiral downward" and may not recover in a fast-changing global economy without urgent investments in education, health care and alternative energies, Democratic governors said Tuesday.

"We're getting the living daylights kicked out of us," said Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.

Rendell, finance chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, said the United States is falling behind China, India and other nations on education, health care and the race to find alternatives to oil. In addition, he said unfair trade practices are shipping U.S. jobs overseas.

Is Rendell talking about his own state of Pennsylvania which has union problems which make the state uncompetitive internationally? No word yet on whether Rendell wants to get rid of unions.