-NJF- A response to a YT video about money in politics:

This was an informative and poignant video. What are some ways America can take the money out of politics and still keep corporate money in the country? I think a great presidential platform would be: 1) make the military more efficient and use the cost saving to fund infrastructure and education; 2.) making railway and public transportation more accessible/effective; and 3.) overhauling the power grid whilst installing a fiber optic network large and powerful enough to handle the next 50 years of dramatic digital economy growth/cyber security. I don't see anyone trying to garner meaningful information or contemplate what the Trump campaign actually means; they simply bash it for being racist, xenophobic, and farcical (which it is). While Trump's campaign success is indeed a damning indictment of the American political system, it's almost as important what it means about the current state of the American public. Americans are concerned about where the country is headed. We are concerned about immigration, personal freedom, and to put it simply: keeping America Great. Personally, I don't think we can be great without proper education and equality of opportunity but other people think it revolves more around immigration and enacting policies that stifle American growth. The rest of the world is not going to shutter expansion for the benefit of the environment or corporate transparency. Developing countries around the world are not going to enact restrictive growth policies to avoid deteriorating the already dilapidated environment. The goal of reaching "American" success is too fervent. So we need to reach a balance where we are leading the the way, setting the standard, and empowering the change that needs to take place in order to make the country and its role in the global village a prominent one. However, we need to also make it easy and efficient for companies to find business in America attractive and people to feel like hard work will actually get you somewhere. I know this because I am a perfect example of the negative consequences of the current state of things. I am an accountant with a graduate degree and 4 years of experience. I work for less than $18 ph for one of the largest QSR management companies in the country and I do 110% of my predecessors work with 80% of the time. By the end of this year I will have saved the company more than 115% of my salary in the form of credits due from timely filing of taxes and that responsibility occupies less than 25% of my time. Management here is populated by grandfathered in accountants with degrees 20 years old and a lack of technological know-how that is downright appalling. But this has been the environment at every single job I have had since grad school. Young, smart, and capable people are having their careers stifled because we live in a time where the bratty sons of men who inherited companies built during an era of American prosperity have the ability to screen thousands of applicants which causes the illusion that talented individuals are a dime a dozen. Why invest in this guy when I have a hundred others chomping at the bit to do his job. Frankly, it sucks and something needs to change.