Let's fix America!

Dear Americans,
Here are some ideas as to how we should repair America:
1. As for the “financial world as we know it,” throw it away because it is not worth fixing. Good riddance!
2. Restore large and small businesses that are American owned with funds allotted by the bailouts. A multibillion dollar business must help fund programs that help the American people live at a reasonable level of comfort without debt. There should be a cap on their earnings that reflects their equal efforts to help poorer segments of the economy.
3. Subsidized areas of the economy that are essential: lodging, jobs, education, medicine and protection.
4. Provide adequate shelter and food for everyone. Persons with more than one dwelling should help by providing housing to those who have none. They can sell the extra properties or develop them for use as public housing.
5. Provide a “job” to all that can work at a minimum (but higher than it is now) wage so they can feed and clothe themselves.
6. Bailout the American school system. Give money to states and local governments to pay for a completely new educational model. Emphasis should be on the liberal arts, math and science in keeping with the high quality of learning in other countries such as England or France. Teachers and other educators should be valued with a higher pay bracket such as lawyers and doctors and other professionals.
7. Guarantee health care to all. Use a system such as the very successful Kaiser HMO to build a national system so that all Americans can obtain care.
8. Use local police, law enforcement and the National Guard to keep law and order. Local police and fire departments should also be compensated with higher pay and venerated for the extraordinary duties they perform.
9. Insure that everyone is safe, warm, fed and educated.

The present order of the American economy compensates individuals with (income in
the millions and billions) assets that could feed whole countries around the world.
Their earnings are obscene. Why is government regulation so lax? Why is the imbalance so obvious and accepted by such intelligent educated people? The majority of people here in the US struggle to provide the basics for their families, let alone those who are working three jobs to pay for college or training for a trade. The division is classes has grown into a giant chasm that may claim the life blood of the existence of America. America, as we have known it, is dying. We must accept that. New financial models, new systems for organization, new technologies for production, new economic structures for manufacturing need to be built from the ground up. The important priorities such as those delineated above must be addressed by the government and our people. The lesson to be learned is improvement begins at the bottom and grows up, not the old status quo of Reagan’s“trickle down”. This and only this thinking will mean renewed prosperity and justice for us all.

Elizabeth Brady