The White House’s AI Action Plan paints a bold vision: moredata centers, a future-ready workforce, and innovation at hyper-speed; but the real economy, as echoed in the Beige Book, presents a grounded counterpoint. Skilled labor shortages, infrastructure gaps, and regional disparities threaten to stall this grand project before it gains full momentum. The benefit is undeniable: smarter healthcare, resilient industries, and better jobs across all skill levels. But unless local schools, trades, and small communities are empowered, we risk building an AI future that excludes the very citizens it's meant to uplift. Can decentralization and voluntary market-led solutions close the gap where top-down planning falls short? What incentives would truly alignnational ambition with community capability?

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