"It is time that our policy and business leaders wake up to the fact that America’s flowers now bloom oversees" It sounds more like the dandelion theory. Where

"It is time that our policy and business leaders wake up to the fact that America’s flowers now bloom oversees" It sounds more like the dandelion theory. Where the initial see might be in one location, and a flower might grow only to be geographically dispersed in the next generation of mature plant (not flowering bits). So the next generatoin will be "rooted" somwhere far away...If this was the metaphor, your plot of land might not have any growth in period T+1, because the "winds of change" or whatever. Of course the problem with this...it may be more or less dispersion...you're predicting the weather...etc. So, as analogies go maybe its not perfect.