What makes a country great?

Donald Trump says he will make America great again, but he never defines what that means.   Ben Carson says people should be self sufficient. So, what makes a country great?   I think Ben Carson is close.

A country cannot be great unless it is self sufficient.   For America that means being self sustaining, financially, morally and in the management or our own resources.   A country cannot be great if it does not enable its people to achieve self sufficiency.  

A self sufficient people is empowered by their creator to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.   There is no guarantee of  equality of outcome.   One person may be happy to simply fish, hike, hunt and relax in nature.   Another may wish to become the next Steve Jobs.   Who is better off?  

Throughout the history of the world there have been times when America has been self sufficient and has enabled the majority of its citizens to be self sufficient.   These times seem to follow a significant world and/or national event.   The revolutionary war is an example, as is world war two.   The civil war is particularly interesting.   After the civil war, the party of Lincoln (republicans) had ousted the party of Davis (democrats).   This set in motion a long period in which minority groups lacked self sufficiency.   The party of Davis set about to rebuild its institutions.  It simply substituted the ghetto and sanctuary cities for plantations.   Liberal elites truly believe very few among us are capable behaving independently.    The end result is the limiting of an entire society.  The minorities are cast in the virtual bondage of  welfare and drugs, or simply live in the shadows providing low cost labor, and serving as though in virtual bondage.   The situation has gotten worse under President Obama, as nearly half of the country is less than self sufficient.

What needs to be done?

We must restore America to self sufficiency.   We must restore all “Americans” to self sufficiency.   In so doing we will enable America to shine the light of liberty upon the world.  “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”  This phrase must mean something again.   Mr.  Trump is wrong; we don’t need a wall.  We need 50 million more self sufficient people.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan… if you seek prosperity for the people of America those living in Furguson, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago,  .. tear down these walls that enslave with the bonds of perpetual dependency.  

It is more than just the United States that has been hopelessly damaged by the war on poverty.  It is all of North and Central America.   It is amazing that we have spent 22 trillion dollars “fighting” the war on poverty.  We should have divided it up and we wouldn't have any poor.   Let the liberal democrat get a hand on it and you have perpetual poverty at enormous expense.

Now that America(North and Central) has been fundamentally broken by the war on poverty how do we rectify the situation?

Simple … we stop fighting the war on poverty.   It ends tomorrow and we start restoring America to self sufficiency and every American to self sufficiency.   We start by making “made in America”  mean something again.   Along the border of Mexico and the United States;  we build the greatest manufacturing center the world has ever seen.   During world war two; the greatest generation uprooted millions of people from the ghettos, share crop farms, depressed dust bowls and moved them to new and emerging manufacturing centers: California, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee and Nevada ….  It is time to do it again.   

We must call on the youth of America to put their shoulders to the wheel, to wage the war for self sufficiency.   Tear down the ghettos, the projects, the inner city quagmires.   Replace them with parks and vibrant communities.   We must call on the illegals to emerge from the shadows show their patriotism for by the United States and Mexico.   Help us create 50 million Mexican/American manufacturing jobs.

Once we restore manufacturing, the blue collar jobs will enable self sufficiency on both sides of the border.   We’ll have guest workers, but free to come and go as they like.    

America will be self sufficient again:

We will stop the endless national debt.   We will end building “poverty centers” in our inner cities.   We will not build the fence (it will be unnecessary).    The line to work will form on both sides of the border creating the greatest manufacturing recovery the world has ever seen.  

GPC Passing Through