Over 60 years ago, in the infancy of television, from 1955 to 1960, a benefactor gave away $1,000.000.00 to lucky recipients. During the program, the benefactor tracked their choices, their lives and their outcomes. 

One guy bought a building and turned it into a recreation center for the poor kids in his inner city.  Another single parent started an entire organization to deal with adopted kids, homeless  kids and drug addicts.  Each story gave hope to the audience.  For  me as a young man, I felt that such "good" in the world needed to be multiplied throughout our society.

Here in 2022, we've got more problems, divisions, violence, angry youth and political turmoil than can be handled.  We're being totally, systematically and sociologically torn to pieces.  We're no longer Americans pulling in the same direction.  Democrats hate Republicans and vice versa.  At least when we were all Americans, we all enjoyed positive stake in our mutual outcomes.  

Today, we've got 45 million foreign-born. We've got 3,000,000 crashing our borders illegally this year. All those legals and illegals are birthing 1,000,000 more of their own.  How long can that keep up? How long can we even pretend that this is our country anymore?  

We've got the mainstream media lying  to us. We've got a senile old man for a president who has done nothing of value in all his 50 years on the dole of the public taxpayer as a politician. Joe Biden cannot grasp what's going on in the world.  We've got Congress tied up in knots.  Our cities rot at the core as to useless schools, gangs galore, drugs  everywhere and illiteracy driving the madness.  Pick any big city!  You hear about 50 shootings and 10 deaths as a matter of course.  Notice that Black Lives Matter don't do anything to respond to all that black on black killing.  

But just have one police officer shoot a minority while resisting arrest or committing a crime—and  they burn  down $2 billion worth of city  blocks in dozens of cities!  

So, what if I had Elon Musk's $250,000,000,000.00 bank account?  What would I do?

First of all, I would gather all the greatest educational minds in the country to come up with educational solutions to our illiteracy rates that are off the charts.  I would give money to educational organizations to mentor, build after school facilities, vocational jobs and more solutions that would give inner city minorities a chance to thrive.  

For those  kids with very low intellectual horsepower, I would have programs that guide them toward jobs with dignity, a decent salary and positive outcome. 

Second, I would gather the finest business minds in America to create a new job paradigm that include environmental responsibility, iron-clad integrity, social responsibility and more.  I would encourage new-thought to solve the problems of  poverty in Chicago, NYC, St. Louis, LA and every city where the poor subsist.

Third, I would begin the much-needed solutions for 540,000 homeless Americans.  We must use laws to keep them off the streets and into apartments, warehouses with rest rooms, and feed them. We need every kind of therapy to help  them off drugs.

Fourth, I would send the  National  Guard to totally shut off  our borders. I would stop the drug cartels within weeks to shut down illegal immigration and drugs.  I would enact laws that put any and all drug dealers in jail for life, no parole.

Fifth, I would spend money to support law enforcement for all our laws to apprehend and  prosecute all criminals with appropriate prison  sentences.  

Sixth, I would use TV ads to show criminals what it's like  in prison as to killings, drug distribution, rapes, robbery, smash n grabs, and all other horrendous crimes.  Just put the little anarchists in prison for very long sentences.

Seventh, I would put billions into brilliant minds to create alternative energy, wave, wind, solar, fusion, river turbines and any other scientific advancement.

Eighth, I would enforce egress vs ingress as to immigration.  We only  take in as many as leave  our country annually. Those who come in must love America, speak English, bring a much-needed  skill and pass all exams for citizenship.

Ninth, I would spend billions  to educate all American employers to NOT employ illegal alien migrants.  I would make sure employers who broke our laws…also go to prison.

Tenth, I would run educational ads to create a 50 cent deposit-return law at the federal level to make sure that every piece  of plastic, metal and/or glass enjoys a return for the money. Kids would scour the country for 50 cents per item.

Eleventh, I would move toward a Steady State Economics model to enhance our ability to remain sustainable now and into the future. www.steadystate.org  (Casse)  A steady state economy is an economy of stable or mildly fluctuating size. The term typically refers to a national economy, but it can also be applied to a local, regional, or global economy. An economy can reach a steady state after a period of growth or degrowth. To be sustainable, a steady state economy may not exceed ecological limits.

Such a system also means a stable population that maintains itself within the carrying capacity of the land, water, air and resources.

That's just a start. What ideas do you have that I can publish in  Part 2 of this series? 

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