I RATHER LOVE AMERICA, AND I WANT TO AGREE WITH YOU. However, 1 Billion Chinese that are hell bent on nationalism, working very hard, saving and making it better for their children than they had it themselves is going to be serious competition.
Graduation rates for Black students in metropolitan Detroit 37% for black males, less than 50% for black females. Obama may be able to motivate the more challenged young people and that would be a great start.
Bush has not set a good example and motivated very few if any - and that is being kind. Americans have had it too easy for too long and are just now being reminded of world normalcy. America needs to close loop holes for the special interest groups, such as sugar, insurance, pharmaceuticals, lumber, banking, etc.
The Government needs to review monitory exchange rates between us and most of our Asian trading partners. The dollar drops in value 50%, yet the YEN is always about 110 yen to the dollar for example. Pretty simple mathematical bull shit there, and the same with China.
America needs to become energy independent with in the next 5 to 3 years (energy independent within North America). How can we do such a thing you may ask. Rather easy really. 1/3 of all the oil used in America is used by the Military. Cut their Budget by 50%. Put all that money as matching incentive for anything that creates energy or saves energy. Pay for half of all insulating of buildings in America, capture wasted industrial heat, Create R & D for alternative modes of Automobile propulsion.
Schools should be heated with boilers that make electric and the waste heat used to heat the schools in the north, and in the south they should have Photo -electric roofs to make electric to cool them and produce light.
Should northern Roads have Photo –electric cells along side to run lights at night? How about Windmills in the meridians or along the sides to capture the air as gushes by with the Semis. Should America be reviewing the use of Trains and get more trucks off the highways. Raise the fees for Trucks so that more goods would travel by rail and leave that extra space on the high ways for people.
There are a million ways to reduce need for energy, produce more energy at lower prices and so forth.
All of this would produce millions of good paying jobs, jobs of taxable income and lead us to world dominance of alternative energy industry.
This is just a start to compete with China my freinds...