Dear Mr. Trump,

I've wanted to write down my thoughts on your election and subsequent term in the White House for a while now, but only recently have I reached my limits of idiocy and ignorance coming out of your administration and, most especially, you.

I want to start with your election campaign. I feel this is fair considering you, for some unknown reason, seem to think you're still campaigning. You talk a great deal about “making America great again”. Well I agree with you. This country has fallen as the best country in the world. When you compare the United States to other first world countries in the world, we fall well below the bar that has been set for us by countries like the UK, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Denmark, France, Australia, Russia and many others. What is putting us below these countries? They all offer some form of Universal Healthcare to their citizens. Some of these countries have been offering it since 1912! There is something seriously wrong with America when countries like Cuba, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Serbia, Botswana, Bhutan, Croatia, Rwanda, and many other third world countries have universal healthcare yet we still don't. Universal Healthcare will make America on par with the majority of the world, so it's time to embrace it. Universal Healthcare is one of the steps we need to take to “make America great again”.

Another thing we should do in this country to “make America great again” is to offer free post secondary education. Again I deffer to several other first AND third world countries that offer it to their citizens. Why are we not? Do we not want to support our citizens having all the best opportunities to do what it takes to succeed? Why do we keep it a 'pay for' system? Do we want to make sure the only people in this country to succeed are the already rich and powerful?

Another necessary step in making America great again is to increase the minimum wage to a livable level. It's sad that in a country as rich as this one is, that our citizens have to work 2 to 3 jobs to live. It's shameful that a person working 40 hours a week still doesn't make enough money in a minimum wage job to afford to live independently. Canada, a country ranked 19^th in GDP versus our 9^th place, has a higher minimum wage than we do. The lowest minimum wage I found in Canada was $10.50 an hour, and the highest is $15.00 an hour. We were once considered the land of dreams. Anyone could come here legally and make their dreams of finding work that paid enough to support their families true. Not anymore. 99 % of our citizens can't find the “American Dream”. The “American Dream” is now the “American Fantasy”. I am 46 years old at the writing of this, and I know only one person who has managed to reach a level that I would consider affluent, and my standards aren't really that high. Yet you say we should do away with the minimum wage all together? That we should go back to a time when there was nothing preventing an employer from paying his employees $1.00 a day or less? How can you justify that? Anyone who bothers to look can see the levels of greed prevalent in business today. There isn't a business in this country that would willingly pay people what it would take to be able to support themselves. No, I think that the minimum wage laws in place now are the only thing preventing employees from total desolation. We need to keep the minimum wage laws firmly in place and raise the minimum wage to at least $15.00 per hour. It would save the economy in this country. People would actually have money to put back into the economy. They could afford to pay their bills AND have a few nicer things. It would increase spending in almost every market across the country, and across every industry. It could be the saving grace this country has needed for years.

I have a lot to say on the subjects of Terrorism, and Immigration as well, but for now I will end this blog post. I need time to calm down and gather my thoughts on those subjects as well. But I think there is enough here to give you something to think about. I know how important impressions are to you and what I've said should help to show you that we are indeed not the greatest country in the world, but not for the reasons that you seem to think are important. We're not the best because so many other countries in the world are offering better treatment to their citizens than we are. They have a far better standard of living in their countries than we do. If you truly want to make America great again, you need to make this country at least equal to other first world countries, and then you can look into making other improvements, but let's aim for making America even again first.