https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20603/rx-for-america
We might start by returning to energy independence. The climate would not be hurt one bit: The US has plenty of oil under the ground; we can extract it more cleanly than anyone. Instead, we are paying exorbitant prices to, say, Russia for oil that is far dirtier, while the Chinese Communist Party are opening two new coal plants a week. The result, in terms of clean air, is therefore currently either net-zero or, thanks to “protecting” the planet from America’s clean oil, actually down.
Additionally, the US outlay for buying overpriced foreign oil and gas for immediate domestic use has simply served to finance both Russia’s war on Ukraine, and Iran and Hamas’s war on Israel. If the US were to start drilling, refining and exporting oil again, its price would go back down to $40 or $50 a barrel, nearly half its current $83 – and Russia and Iran, soon unable to afford their global aggression, would be forced to stop.
Next, the US should return to a policy of strong economic growth. No country has ever taxed itself into prosperity. Let America’s animal spirits — in a creative, economically open market — loose again. Lower everyone’s taxes and tear up all regulations that are now throttling growth. Most regulations are probably only there because some adversarial country that is trying to cut the US down to size — think Russia and China — wants them to be.
America’s “competitors” are not competitors. They are openly adversaries (here, here, here, and here) and would seem to love nothing more than putting the US out of business. They are already doing their best to cripple and displace the US technologically, militarily and economically. The Chinese Communist Party, after causing more than a million Americans to die by deliberately lying to the world about the human-to-human transmissibility of Covid-19, are literally poisoning Americans by smuggling in fentanyl and other lethal drugs. According to Dr. John C. Hagan, writing in Missouri Medicine:
“Enough fentanyl to kill every person in the United States is smuggled in monthly. Prosecutors and courts consistently fail to prosecute drug dealers whose products kill more than 100,000 people per year.”