Interesting to note from the responses — Americans are conditioned to argue rather than fix things. We don’t fix things any longer. Personally, I’d be thrilled to see any of the three I named in my essay fixed or any of the other problems my readers believe are more important. If we could just fix SOMETHING wouldn’t that be encouraging? As it is, I feel pretty hopeless most of the time. Thank you for providing me with another relevant topic for my next article.