I think it would have sustainable agriculture at its heart rather than manufacturing. we are probably going to head back in that direction as people lead simpler lives, which I think they are and will, and manufacturing jobs become taken over by robots. People will have to work somewhere; there will be machines to do some of the worst heaviest farm work, and people will understand they have to pay more for healthier, more local food. People in America have never really lost their love of the land. We'll have more integrated facilities..like cows grazing on Microsoft headquarters say...goats all over. Animal husbandry has to return; the way we raise animals is horrible in many situations, and yet many of us need to eat meat unless they grow it safely in labs somewhere.

We need to quit enabling teen pregnancy. If you don't want teens to get pregnant, they have to be chaparoned, at least to a certain age.

Poor people need help, obviously. Medical care, housing, etc. They need to exchange some labor for some help, which at least in the fairly recent past the very suggestion of which, that they be asked to shovel snow or paint libraries etc. has been sneared at. As I have often said, there needs to be a contractual understanding between the haves and have nots: haves will provide the necessities of life; have nots will provide dignified, supervised, non-exploited labor if they are able, and not do anything to damage public facilites, such as housing projects. They will not engage in anti-social behavior, such as gangs, meth use etc. They will not, nor would anybody if I was queen, have children out of wedlock. At least deliberately. And no, I would not be punitive toward them but neither would I enable this to keep happening as it is. It is probably the key factor in getting people out of poverty period. Address this and all sorts of other things just fall into place.

Well, I have to go back to work now.

mg