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Overview
There has been a lot written about Donald Trump and his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination. But what does he think are America’s biggest problems? What solutions does he offer to address those issues? Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again offers us a look into his thinking through his own words.
Crippled America is a book that discusses the problems and solutions for key areas (such as energy, healthcare, immigration) in the United States. It also contains Trump’s views on lobbyists, special interests, media outlets and other people he sees as losers or takers of an unacceptable status quo. The status quo has crippled America from being its best self.
To fix America’s problems, we need to restore competition in areas such as education and health care. We also need a strong military and infrastructure. We should implement a flat tax plan that benefits the middle class, while bringing manufacturing jobs back to America from overseas. To achieve these goals, we need someone who has experience running successful businesses—not just another politician who is dependent on political parties or rich donors for funding. Crippled America will help save our country by giving Donald Trump everything he needs to make it great again.
Key Takeaways
The United States has lost its position as the leading country in the world. It needs to start winning again and restore itself as a leader of the free and unfree world.
America needs a new tax plan. This plan would have the middle class and lower-income earners keep more of their money while restructuring how the richest Americans should pay taxes. The plan will be revenue neutral, but both liberal and conservative news outlets distort or lie about it anyway.
Obamacare is a terrible solution to our health care problems. We should repeal it and replace it with private sector competition between insurance companies. America needs to regain control of its borders, but we need Mexico’s help in doing that. If Mexico pays for the border wall, then American-Mexican relations will improve. The US educational system is failing, so we don’t need Common Core standards; instead we should have competition among schools. To operate from strength, America must maintain the strongest military in the world because only strong military can protect us from threats around the world
The United States must also rebuild its economy, and it can use economic power to get countries to support US policies.
The United States has a lot of natural resources. We can use these resources to become energy independent. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind turbines are too expensive and inefficient, so we should stick with the current sources of fossil fuels that we have now.
We need to improve our infrastructure.
Key Takeaway 1: The idea of American greatness, that is, of the United States as the leader of the free and unfree world, has vanished. To restore its greatness, America needs to start winning again.
The United States has suffered both real and psychological defeats. The economy is down five million jobs since 1997, one in five Americans are unemployed or underemployed, the middle class and more than 40 million Americans living in poverty have seen their incomes decline, foreign policy with Russia, China, and Iran is an embarrassment.
The United States can still be great again, and it’s wealthy in resources. The problem is that the most powerful people are lobbyists for special interest groups who aren’t using those resources well. A successful businessman with no political experience may be able to change that by breaking the deadlock in Washington.
