The US has one of the highest, if not the highest, per capita prison populations. Within the first world it has the highest murder rate, generally 4 times higher than most other countries. Some people say locking people up solves the problem. But the problem is WORSE.
Here's a video of a guy who went to prison and then came out, and he talks about what it's like to be a guy who has left prison. Basically he says that people don't want him a part of their society, and he's left to rot. Crime becomes the only choice because he can't get a job or an apartment. In the US rehabilitation isn't great, in places like Louisiana rehabilitation is not what they want as they want people back in prison because the state pays them to have them in their private prisons.
If you want the US to be a better place, things like this need sorting out.
Start naming solutions.
Change education so that it teaches skills that kids will need when they're adults.
Apparently something has changed since I was in school or even my children were in school. When I was in High School two paths were normally chosen. Academic and not academic. One was to prepare the student for college the other for the trades. Thus the academic route was going to prepare the person for college. The second was to prepare the student for a craft. Either way High School was to prepare the student for what was to come, either higer education or a job in the crafts. In either case the student needed to further advance themselves after graduation.
Restrict guns massively so the police can do their job without the fear of being shot the whole damn time.
Not quite sure how this lowers the crime rate or the incarceration rate.
Change prisons so they rehabilitate and make sure there are ways for ex-prisoners who have served their time to get back into society.
Are you saying this isn't being done today? What manner of force would you use to cause employers to hire a person with a record? Especially a felony record?
Change society in general to try and make it less selfish.
All reports I read state that the US is one of the most charitable countries, if not number one pretty damn close. Is it selfish to wish to profit and keep that which one worked for?
Change the way people vote so that representatives represent the people and not the rich so that policies like these can exist.
How would you change the system? It has been tried many times in many different ways. In reality Trump won on the cheap. His cost per vote was WAY below that of Hillary's. I will agree we need a true third party comprised of the working class. Why blacks and the working poor have not already is a surprise to me. If nothing else Trump's victory shows that regardless of the predictions and what the "experts" say, anything is possible in the system we have today.[/QUOTE]
I think the education system in the US is just broken because the aims of education have been lost.
Getting rid of guns would help to reduce crime as the police would find it far easier to do their job, criminals would find it harder to do their job. Sure, there would still be crime, it doesn't negate the need for a massive overhaul of the US.
When someone comes out of prison they need to prove themselves. They can't prove themselves because they're not given the chance. How do you get employers to employ such people? Tax breaks, incentives, you know?
No, the US isn't one of the most charitable countries.
Charitable giving by country: who is the most generous?
The US came 5th. Quite high up you might think. But this is just for individual charity giving.
When it comes to the govts giving aid, the US is pretty poor.
List of development aid country donors - Wikipedia
The EU gives $87 billion. The US $31 billion. The UK $18 billion. So the UK, 1/5 the population of the US, 4/5th the size of Idaho, gives 2/3rds what the US gives for charity. So, individual charity giving in the US takes over from govt aid.
There's a list of aid below as a percentage of GDP. Sweden is top at 1.4%, the US is at 0.17%. The countries below the US on that list are either struggling financially or were poor countries until a few years ago.
Also, I don't think charity giving shows whether a country is selfish or not. Bill and Melinda Gates are giving huge amounts. Two individuals don't stop a country being selfish. Trump gives what? Well he gives once he's boasted he gave but didn't then got found out, that's how much he gives. Also, it's a mentality. Sometimes people give to charity for selfish reasons, to be seen to be doing good, to be seen as a nice person, to present themselves as a character they are not.
Whether someone is selfish can be seen in their acts. People who think in a manner which is always based around themselves, oh, we shouldn't spend money on school meals, we shouldn't spend money on stopping teenage pregnancies, we shouldn't spend money on things that will make society a better place to live, instead we should funnel it to rich people. That's selfish.
Take that DeVos woman. She's spend millions on the "charity" of promoting school vouchers which are designed to make rich people richer. I mean, come on, that's selfish and the woman is going to be representing the president in education. **** me.
How would I change the system?
Proportional Representation in Congress, a run off for the President, that or change the presidency so that there are multiple elections, or that the members are chosen by the Congress and not by the President. Make it so that people actually have a say in how their country is run, so they don't just have two choices when they come to elections, but that politicians have to work hard to represent the people they're elected to represent.
