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It appears that speaking of one's country in this forum comes hand in hand with having a competitive metaphoric meassurement of the national penile length. I'd like to have the opposite in this thread, so grab a cup of humility and list things that could use improvement in your country.
Spain needs to improve its educative system ASAP. We're the perfect example of failure with a high dropout rate born out of a the mess that is our system.
It doesn't help that the government implements new laws so very often, teachers need to adapt, students have to adapt.
I'd like to see some unification when it comes to autonomous communities because as of now there's a considerable difference in the quality and level of education between them. It doesn't help that some of us have compulsory co-official languages to learn while others don't.
Voting should see a revamp as well, as we're now dealing with a very exploitable system and people have taken full advantage of it. Not to mention expats living outside of Spain trying to vote have to go through hell just to have their voice heard.
I'd also like to see this country become less tourism-dependant. Let's not talk about corruption, either.
US - end all stupid, fruitless, useless and damaging ideological pretensions and discussions on all sides, and focus on pragmatic fiscal policy and new high technology infrastructure and energy. As well as enforcing legality in terms of immigration: the US will probably need another 100,000,000 over the next 100-150 years, but it needs to be done legally, gradually, intelligently, fairly, pragmatically. It is not too late.
Italy - 180 degree turnaround in fiscal policy goals, from protecting the old and entrenched at the expense of neglecting the young and disconnected to providing economically meaningful and gainful opportunity to entrepreneurially spirited youth simply, to start with, by having bureaucrats get the hell out of the way, far far out of the way. But, after two lost generations and bumbling along on a third, it is probably way too late for that.
Finland needs a healthcare reform ASAP (ongoing since 2014).
We need to get our optimism back. Innovations, jobs, new products, investments, better marketing and so on. The economy is slow, but we're not in any way a lost cause.
We have to rethink our bureaucracy. The public sector and social services have to be streamlined, they are now partly based on a 1970's reality.
Canada -
(local) better civic planning with the legal right to impose better standards of design on builders. Our cities are too drab and uninspired, due mostly to the fact that they're simply a way of making fat-cat developers rich as quickly as possible, aesthetic considerations be damned. I find most foreign cities a cut above and wish we could emulate them over here.
(Federa/provincial) - committed on-going funding for infrastructure using the Central bank to finance same at no interest; fewer monopolies allowed in this country and a re-nationalisation of natural monopolies, like the railroads, that should remain in public hands forever; better co-ordination between schools curricula and the job market so that graduates remain here rather than having to go south for meaningful work; virtually free (small nominal fee) tertiary education; zero trade and certification barriers between provinces - all of them should be struck down immediately. The list is endless, really. This country succeeds despite its useless political and economic elites and not because of them, unfortunately.
Get rid of lobbyists, especially foreign ones.
Any politician caught talking to a foreign lobbyist should have his hands super glued into his own pockets.
US:
Tighten immigration rules and enforcement
ban lifetime politicians
Create actual seperation of church and state
remove the united states from the role of world police
improve infrastructure (actually fix things this time, like roads, bridges, train tracks, etc)
provide single payer health care (not the ACA crap)
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