Americans usually refer to their homeland as "the best" greatest "," or "the most powerful nation in the world. Barack Obama has used the terminology of his inaugural address and has repeatedly speak to these points in mind that a public database. Congress to do this are doing. The entrepreneur. The people on the street do so easily because they can.
Perhaps the time has come to begin in the light of everything that has happened this nation so-called "big" For us as a superpower to act again.
The United States will have nearly all the natural resources of a country can or must. Saving for our excessive dependence on oil is to develop the U.S. domestic saving enough most of their resources. The United States also has a huge population and relatively well-trained workers. Our students left their colleagues around the world, but with a little effort you can reverse this trend and stimulate the generation of young people into a strong nation in this time to build up substantial damage is a mess.
United States used a model of inefficiency in the field of national infrastructure. President Eisenhower began to aggressively build and expand our highways of America to join with their neighbors and a national community. He did not stop with the highway, he laid the foundation for our current network expansion and reinvention of public service. The result is economic life and sustainable growth.
Unfortunately in the last two decades, our infrastructure has started to fall apart. Chaos in the streets, old trains, bridges in the control system is damaged and water urgently need an update.
We always hear that America would love us to fix the problem if only he had money. Our nation relies on foreign financing of our budget, annual and fiscal imbalances have more than $ 1000000000000 to cover for each of the last two years.
The Republicans have the closure of almost all social services, proposed to save money - regardless of those who rely on these services in order to survive.
Democrats have proposed to simply spend more and the money later.
No one has proposed to bring back the areas where we have more than enough money left over. Our military budget is more than $ 1000000000000 a year. This money will be spent to protect us and prosecute our wars abroad, but also for complex issues easy to do and not used. While people argue about the need in Iraq and Afghanistan can, there is no doubt that our bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Britain and some remote areas of the waste of money. If we close bases in Europe, the Russian tanks did not appear at the border the next day. If we immediately to withdraw from the Japanese, not Chinese fighters strafe the Imperial Palace. It is also impossible to lead from South Korea to renewed conflict with the North.
The only basic hardware project American power is independent of where the economy. If America is not in national health care system, because these systems are "too expensive" because they have a comprehensive system to an acceptable police.
The worst thing is that the Americans do not use "hard power". Most developed countries in the world hold marginal forces for national defense in size, and the crack team of special forces for operations overseas. Then work with our allies to ensure that any major nuclear power would be stupid enough to violence.
Money saved by maintaining the power of a huge weapon can be included in education, research and infrastructure development, health and national support. How E.U. To pay what the U.S. can not?
If the United States cut military budget with a small portion, perhaps a tenth, could save tens of billions of dollars per year. This money can then in the things that are reinvested to build up the economy. When we send troops abroad, why not send students and teachers to build and repair our image around the world diplomatic? That is what happened in Europe, China, Japan and throughout the developed and developing countries. It is yet another area in which the United States falling behind painful.
In the U.S., we usually only after the crisis landed on us to act before we wait. Our current crisis has been raging for almost two years, and now it is time to take drastic measures to eventually take over. When we mention really great nation, not the "greatest" nation, we are up to the challenge.
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