If you want to bring back jobs and “make America Great again”. Here is the simple prescription – stop driving a car, and insist that everyone else do the same thing. Also stop ordering goods online.  It really is that simple.  Why? Because no one wants to walk two miles to get groceries, or baked goods, or shoes.  The above pictures represent some of the sponsors for a booklet published by a neighborhood church in 1935.  Within a 1 mile radius of my house, were multiple shops, stores, bakeries, and businesses.  All of those businesses needed employees. They were in business, because if you don’t have cars, you need nearby businesses.  Due to cars, we don’t need those businesses now, because we just get in our cars and drive.  The reason small businesses and retail outlets are going out of business, is that due to Amazon and other online businesses, we don’t need to drive to shop locally anymore either.  So ordering online is the exact opposite of “making American Great again”.  Shopping locally is a way to make “America Great again.”  It really could be that simple.

• Disclaimer 1: America is great, and always has been. Yes we have our troubles, but we do not need to make it great again.
• Disclaimer 2:  I have not even touched on climate change.

© words by Dan DeMarle 2017