What would make America great, it is already great, it is the wealthiest country in the world. That is how most Americans judge how they are doing. It really is not the best measure. The best measure probably would be how much they spend on their military. They spend a lot of money on their military. They have the biggest military in the world and they are not the biggest country in the world, except economically. I bet, if they cut the military budget by half and use it to end hunger in the world, give everyone who does not have a free education in the world one, they would stop needing the other half of their military completely.
If they employed the half of the military that would then be out of work, handing out that aid and building renewable power infrastructure in those nations, all the nations of the world, including their own nation. If they retooled those missile and small arms factories and got them to turn out tablets, wind turbines and solar panels. If they built desalination plants and pipelines to take the water inland to use as irrigation for Americans and everyone else that needs water. If they said to Russia, hey Dude, you need some water, I see your Aral sea has disappeared, I am sure there is something we could do to help you. I bet Russia would love to spend less on their military too.
People seem to think they need that massive military to keep them safe from people that want to take their wealth from them. I used to work in a bank doing night deposit stuff. The bank was concerned that people might steal money from them, the workers, so they had two options to prevent that from happening. The first option was to make the workplace a great place to work, good incomes, great benefits and caring management, maybe even offer to unionize so their rights would be protected and to put a minimal amount into security. The second option was to spend a lot on security.
The first option creates a positive working environment. It creates a community that is interested in keeping the bank a float. Productivity would be higher, sickness would be lower. People would enjoy coming in to work and they would do anything to keep their job. And people would not steal from the bank, because they would be endangering their great job. The second option would keep the money all safe. It would be a crappy place to work and people would not feel much attachment to the job and the company. People would sometimes get it into their head that they could steal, and they would try.
The Bank chose option two. They had cameras placed everywhere and it took 36 hours to review any work position from the tapes. And people heard the stories about the guy that stole $20k the first day and 20k the second day and how he got caught the third day. There was that story. And there were the three people I worked with who swiped $100 in small bills once a week or so for a month. They were all caught.
The United States is that big bank with the massive security system to protect them. But if the foreign policy was to hand out food, education and home heating instead of stinger missiles, they would not need the security system. Who would want to hurt a nation that helped the people in the poor countries, in their home countries.
Donald make America Great and Loved, be generous to the world.
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