Build up our educational sysem. Make sure that every person that has the ability and will to take higher education has the oppertunity to do so. Make sure that health does not bankrupt our workers and that the people working at getting an education have adaquete health care so that poor health is not a factor for them.
Build up our infrastructure. Our wonderful interstate system is falling apart. Our internet system is orders of magnitude behind that of Japan and South Korea. Most of our cities are served with water mains of which many are over a century old and leak more than they deliver. Our rail system, compared to that of Japan and Europe, looks like something pre-WW2. Start funding R and D on orders more of magnitude than we do today. And tell one major political party that science from obese junkies on the radio is idiocy.