Trudeau Says Pence Scuttled NAFTA Deal With Untenable Ultimatum

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17. I have lived in some other countries.

We should look at the economies and systems of the countries that appear to be providing better products for less than we can.

We might learn something very important:

Our for-profit health-care system needs an overhaul. Employers should not have to buy expensive health insurance for employees. Instead, health care (insurance) should be paid for out of additional tax revenue and the profit should be taken out of healthcare insurance. It should all be non-profit. We and our employers pay far more for healthcare than many of our competitors on the international market.

The cost of training employees -- better education, especially education in mechanical skills, etc. as well as academic, including science education -- should also be borne by all of us as a society through our government. Education should be free. The competition for it should be won by those who take it seriously and master tasks and knowledge not by those who happened to win the lucky egg/sperm battle. Education should be an award for hard work and self-discipline. And those who master skills should be better trained and better rewarded than American skilled workers have been in the past. Older workers should be encouraged to train and re-train as their skills become obsolete or not sufficient to assist in improving the economy.

Those are just a couple of suggestions I recommend following based on having lived in other countries.

With regard to education, forget further dividing society by promoting private and charter schools. That's leading to a worse education system than we have. Rather encourage public schools to provide more diverse educational opportunities. And provide transportation for students in small towns and remote areas.

Look at how the countries that are outselling the US are doing it. Germany is a prime example when it comes to cars and items of that sort. So is Japan. So is South Korea.

Americans are positively provincial when it comes to making changes that will make our products more desired in other countries.