Better USA; Better World

As I look around, I think that the following list is a way to better our country and better our world.

1. Support public education with better funding, better systems, and more employees to service the needs and potential of our country's children and families.
2. Support quality health care for all with affordable health care, more health care professionals, and more accessible health care centers.
3. Work with America's best and brightest to protect natural lands and resources at home and abroad--we absolutely have to protect clean water, clean air, and clean soil. Our lives depend on this.
4. Build strong communities with a personalized view of what communities need--one size fits all solutions won't necessarily work here, but attention to good recreation, quality basic needs such as homes, health care, education, nutritious food, and clean, beautiful environments, the arts, and positive economic opportunity will help. 
5. Increase quality services to elevate lives with a focus on the people-to-people service as this will be a good response to increasing automation that is taking jobs away. With more qualified environmentalists, doctors, nurses, educators, and other social service agents, we will better care for one another, our communities, and environment. 
6. Better global partnerships by acknowledging the impact of past worldwide acts of hate, oppression, and destruction such as colonization, war, slavery, and greed and working together to better communities around the world by dealing with crises related to immigration, war, poverty, environmental destruction, environmental protection, and oppression.
7. Create opportunities by bettering supports and efforts related to invention, services, environmental protection, sustainability, safety, and good living for all the world's people--rather than support efforts of competition, turn our efforts towards collaboration, cooperation, and betterment for all. 

We can work as a world to better opportunity for all the world's people. We can move beyond our primitive survival-of-the-fittest selves to using our creativity and ingenuity to better the world for all the world's people. Some will say this is a pollyannaish point of view, but I believe it's a point of view that takes us to the great potential we hold as a people who desire life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all.

It's true that to achieve this vision, we may need to use the path of world unions--unions of everyday people who are working to better lives and opportunities for all rather than a few self-serving individuals across the globe. The world is changing, and I believe we can move that change in a positive direction. Do you agree?