More (Steve) Jobs and Ambitions to Become a Disney Animatronic

Obama should launch his own moon shot. What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, but more stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make 2010 what Obama should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the year of making our pie bigger, the year of “Start-Up America.”

Obama should make the centerpiece of his presidency mobilizing a million new start-up companies that won’t just give us temporary highway jobs, but lasting good jobs that keep America on the cutting edge. The best way to counter the Tea Party movement, which is all about stopping things, is with an Innovation Movement, which is all about starting things. Without inventing more new products and services that make people more productive, healthier or entertained — that we can sell around the world — we’ll never be able to afford the health care our people need, let alone pay off our debts.

via Op-Ed Columnist – More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – NYTimes.com

If you ignore the political slant in this piece if it’s something that doesn’t sit well with you, the overall message is still valid.

The country needs to create excitement in youth about making things and being innovative, about having outlandish ideas and goals and trying to reach them, so the future is not just a culture of passive media ingesters.

Kids should aspire to have a robot built after them and installed in Spaceship Earth, like the Steve Jobs one I saw this past weekend.