On Chaos: It Must Create a New and Better Nation

With all of the bad news in the USA and the world…from a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of Americans, to police in the United States shooting and killing the same citizens it is supposed to be protecting…most people have probably missed the news that a new nation is arising from amongst this turmoil.

The newest country has already written its Constitution and is now preparing to have elections for President and its Congress, both upper and lower houses.  It appears that when it is finished it will have a Congress of predominantly like-minded men and women who are preparing to change both their country and the world.

Among the many things to be considered once the elections are held, and the different elected officials are sworn into their offices in January, is a budget.  A country of very wealthy citizens, the budget as planned will provide primarily for the common welfare and good of its people, with the remainder aimed to help those less fortunate in the world.  This new nation will eschew a large standing Army, preferring to spend money to help other nations rather than destroy or threaten them. 

To aid it’s own people, and to avoid the welfare schemes that so often befuddle other nations, the country will provide each citizen over the age of 18 with a minimum monthly stipend of $2,000 to be used by individuals to pay for basics…housing, clothing, and food.  A jobs program, including a minimum of two years of national service in some capacity, will be established to assure businesses have trained and motivated staffing and government has the people it needs to assure the citizens are granted life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Healthcare will be included in that mix of programs for citizens.  Called “Medicine for All,” the program will be available to every citizen at no additional cost outside of tax on income in excess of $2,000 per month.  Men, women, and children will have access to a nationwide network of clinics and hospitals served by highly skilled doctors, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. 

On the international side, the founding members have decided to not fund a large standing military, save for perhaps a small lethal force similar to the Marines.  Instead the leaders have decided to use additional funds to help other nations through loans or direct support.  Amongst these plans is helping other nations build infrastructure, for example dams, seaports, airports and roads.  This assures other nations can less expensively create more goods and move them easily to the rest of the world. 

Money would also be used to help countries that want to remove bureaucratic hindrances keeping the nation from prospering.  These programs would work directly with citizen groups, versus single despotic leaders. The new leaders believe that helping other nations, much like the Marshall Plan helped Europe after WWII, is a much saner approach to foreign relations in the 21^st Century.

The founding leaders understand that by creating such a society, people from other nations may want to participate in the new nation’s rise and emigrate there.  To this end a system of regulations to assure those who want to come and take part in this new experiment may do so easily.  There will no visa requirements for anyone to visit this land.  Bio-metrics will be required from those who wish to visit, however, so that no one can enter to do harm. 

If someone wants to stay and work they must apply for permits to work and, over a five or ten year program, they could use this hard work to prove they would be good citizens.  According to records, the new nation will be especially open to those who are bringing needed skills or those persons who are coming from nations under duress.  No one will be turned away unless it can be proven they come to harm or hinder, not to make the new nation a better place.

This, of course, brings up the issue of how this new nation will pay for all of these programs once elections are held in November 2020.  According to records made available a graduated tax structure will be established, requiring each citizen and corporation working within the country to pay according to their earnings and the success of their business.  No citizen or corporation will be allowed to keep earnings in excess one hundred million dollars per year.  All businesses will be welcome to grow provided they do nothing to hinder the enjoyment of the citizenry. 

The new country has plans to deliver a robust economy based on a capitalist model.  The most important element, of course, is their plan to assure its citizens have money for basics.  With approximately 257 million people over the age of 18, the economy will have billions of dollars each month available to local, regional, and national businesses to count on.  Add to that the income earned from supporting those businesses and this new economy will rival any in the world.   A nation investing in its citizens, versus wasting money on war, will be the idol of the world.

The name of this new nation, springing up out of chaos?

The United States of America