1. Withdraw troops from Iraq
2. Trim the military budget and others to provide for funding and grants to businesses willing to work on our infrastructure
3. Use trimmed money for an overhaul of our infrastructure High Speed rail systems, updated telecommunications connections, fix the interstates and highways
4. Through this private companies can then spurn technological advances just like we used to.
A high speed rail system would be beneficial to all of america, remove a good bit of our dependence on foreign oil and generate a great deal of work for the people that are unemployed.
Telecommunications would boost our status as having some of the worst internet connection speeds of the first world countries, and would benefit all of us (think google's gigabit internet project)
Using the Corps of engineers to fix our ailing roadways sounds like a good idea.
Finally an overhaul of our electrical grid, in order to be more efficient than it already is, with an emphasis on nuclear power and fusion research (Why should britain be one of the few places with an actual (somewhat) functioning fusion lab)
America could become the leader in technology like we once were if people would just demand that we focus more on our national infrastructure and telecommunications structure
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