An Open letter to Congress and the Senate

Dear Congress and Senate:

I am writing this letter to request that you convene a meeting to save America to address the points I am going to address in this letter. I will beg you to read the letter personally and I will hope I receive your answer and not a formal answer typed by an intern. Otherwise I may have to declare myself in a hunger strike in front of the Capitol building.

Donald Trump campaigned all over the nation with the constant propaganda that American manufacturing job losses to China and Mexico were the reason for a collapsing American economy.  President Trump has followed up on his promise to pressure manufacturers to bring back manufacturing jobs and has threaten any companies that had plans to move their facilities abroad. But I am here to tell you that it will solve nothing.

There are several issues that are very unfortunate, most Americans are ignoring, that for all the rhetoric, Trump is making colossal mistakes.

For one he is offering tax breaks to Corporations that have kept their money outside the United States. Literally tax payers will pay the companies that cheated in their taxes so they can bring back their money.

Second, Trump is offering all kinds of advantages such as border taxes, deregulation, tax breaks. Most of those measures favor corporations and create expenses that the American people will have to bear. For example, most companies will not pay taxes to sell to other countries but pay severe taxes to imports. But since most products have thousands of parts made outside the United States, the consumers will end up paying much more for their products.

Now the biggest mess to be created and to confront America is a dirty little secret.  In reality most Americans companies will be better off leaving China, Mexico and other countries because cheap labor is going to be phased out soon, and they will have to pay retirements to all those people. They do not talk about what is coming in the near future, and it should be, a wakeup call to most Americans.

The sad reality for all the people that believe in Trump’s lies is that they are going to be disappointed in so many ways.  Trump is actually the worst possible president we can have at this junture. The reason is that the United States needs someone capable of understanding a new revolution of technology. The changes in artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, 3- manufacturing, advanced robotics and driverless vehicles will replace 47% of all U.S jobs in the next decade. It is practically a tsunami and life changing event that will force more than 80 million people to change their way of life.

Automation and technology is without any doubt reaching incredible advances, but the cost and upheaval to the population and how we live, has the potential of being the most disruptive for the United States. 

In that regard, Trump is doing all the wrong things.  The most important aspect to address is education. We need a massive budget and changes to the education system to be able to jump start our students in all those technologies. Universities, high schools and technological schools need to upgrade classes, technologies and prepare as fast as possible for this new technological revolution. Otherwise history will repeat itself and we will be ill prepared. Specially with someone as incompetent as Betsy DeVos.  

We need a plan to adapt quickly and in fact I propose the creation of a technological council with the assistance of two supercomputers to analyze the data, and the possible outcomes of every single plan they can come up with. We need to minimize as much as possible the disruption to our society and an easy transition to those technological advances. To do that our schools, universities should work closely with corporations in their research.

I believe education should start an immediate program using technologies for fast learning using holographic interactive education. That should be combined with scholarship for technologies so that all engineering fields can attract students of different backgrounds, even those without financial means but will be even hungrier to achieve greatness and will welcome the opportunity.

Otherwise what we are confronting is millions of jobs at risk. The worst is that even low paying jobs will be affected as Starbucks and every fast food chain may become totally automated operations. Manual laborers and construction workers will be replaced by robots; long-haul truck drivers, taxis and uber drivers will be replaced by self-driving trucks and cars; accountants, clerks, paralegals, telemarketers and customer-service reps will be replaced by artificial intelligence; and security guards by robots and drones. Even professionals in the fields of accounting, law, finance, consulting, journalism and medicine are at risk of losing their jobs to smart machines and artificial intelligence.

It is more than obvious that somebody is manipulating Trump. Otherwise how do you explain his desperate effort to kick out Hispanics and illegal aliens, because we are not included in the plan.

Quite frankly and forgive me for being so bold in what I will say. But right now, the United States of America would have been better served by the Bicentennial man than Donald Trump.

If you are a representative of the people of your state, then you ought to them the responsibility to prepare this nation to the technology advances that are coming is such a fast pace that we can’t blink. While humans will always exceed in most of the tasks that require higher-order critical thinking, innovation, creativity, high emotional engagement with other humans and trade skills requiring real-time problem-solving and manual dexterity. The reality is that humans is entering a new chapter and we need to prepare our children to excel at doing those things that are, for now, uniquely human. We must come to grips with the reality that Finland, Germany, China, Japan are preparing their kids better than we are. Good will no longer be good enough for American kids if we are to be a powerful nation. As it is, we have the worst education system of the developed world and Donald Trump had the audacity to give us Betsy DeVos. 

Every American citizen has a duty with their own children to inherit them the best possible education they can get. What kind of parents are Americans that they no longer care and accept the horrible school system of today? Great part of the blame should be directed to so many incompetent leaders that despite the obvious keep voting for the status quo.   Our political leaders need to confront the changes and do something about it. We live under the constant creation of enemies real and imaginary and they are always quick to point out the need for another war, another toy for war and what are you defending if your children can not read and are totally unprepared for these massive changes?

Donald Trump has managed to become the king of liars that whores around the world must be depressed to see such awesome talent for lying. But we need to come back to reality and embrace this challenge. If we are to remain a powerful nation, we have to start with decency and honesty. the land of opportunity as technological advances cause massive job losses. The stresses upon our system and way of life will be huge. This is something that can become a terror movie with Steve Bannon as the producer if we continue like this. America cannot become a silly White House that has more similarity with Richmond High. 

I am addressing my letter to my congressman and to every single member of the senate and congress because I even have created a better immigration plan that can provide the money for this incredible changes, you can access my plan here. http://sostohumanity.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-vaca-plan-for-immigration.html

I am also asking the public to make some donations so that I can pursue this goals. I am willing to place all my inventions to serve this purpose and I hope that Congress and the Senate will create a commission as I have recommended.

I came to this nation with $5 in my pocket. I believe that there is no impossible task, but we need a responsible government that provides its people with the education and the means to take advantage of those developments and technologies.  

Sincerely

Germanico P Vaca