A clear weakness of the Trump team is their backwards vision and inability to look ahead and plan for a good future.
The Trump team elevated the financial wealth for investors over the past few years, yet this elevation was based on a backwards, shoddy foundation of bigotry, a huge deficit, pollution-causing policies, a widening wealth gap, positions staffed with cronyism and nepotism rather than the best and brightest, and an unwillingness to take intelligent information seriously and act on it. This weak foundation is one reason why the market quickly collapsed when the country faced the pandemic--any structure built on a weak foundation quickly collapses when challenged. The Bible warns us of that with the quote above.
When the Trump team was warned of possible pandemic danger, they ignored the information. In fact, the Trump team disbanded the Pandemic health team that was in place rather than have the foresight to support the good work of intelligent teams that work to protect us and lead us forward. The Trump team appears to only be interested in the financial wealth of Trump friends and family members, rather than the overall welfare of the country.
In fact, right now, Trump is holding back with regard to producing medical equipment medical professionals say they need to combat this virus. Instead, Trump is relying on private sector production. Is this right? I'm not an expert in this area, but it seems that if medical professionals and states are crying out for these PPE's (personal protective equipment), the President should act.
What can we all learn from this coronavirus event? How can we anticipate problems that might occur in our own areas of leadership and living?
First of all, we are smart to read, research, and pay attention to information related to health. What can we do to be healthy, and how can we help our loved ones to be healthy too? We can eat well, exercise, and advocate for healthy resources such as clean water, clean air, and clean soil. We can avoid behaviors such as smoking and vaping which put us at risk. We can also work to make our homes safe and advocate for safe work places too. We can thank and continue to support public health departments for the good work they do. The Trump team recently announced plans to roll back healthy food regulations for school lunches. This is one more way that Trump and his self-serving teammates work against the health and welfare of society while propping up the wealth of self-serving, private organizations that don't care about public health.
Next, we can work to ensure that all people in our communities have safe homes and neighborhoods. There is a lot we can do to uplift health for people with policies that minimize ownership of dangerous guns, sales of harmful drugs, and the spread of misinformation. While the Trump team has done little to limit the sale of dangerous, unnecessary guns, we know that less guns means less violence. And we can better support health organizations and schools. A well educated, healthy population is a more peaceful, happy population.
Psychological burdens caused by too much work, low pay, lack of basic services, and few supports to support quality family life lead to an unhealthy society too. Good leadership thinks ahead and works to better support people with reasonable work schedules, fair pay, needed family/child leave time with pay, and access to healthy food and good homes. When society is unnecessarily burdened, society is less healthy. Looking ahead means taking people's needs seriously and helping to architect a society that puts people's needs and potential first. Rapid increases in wealth for a few does not serve many when it comes to good living.
The Trump team's leadership is narrowly focused on elevating wealth for a few rather than architecting a quality society that improves the way we live and support one another. Of course financial security is important, but that security has to be well distributed, and money alone does not create a quality society. Trump's roll back of Earth-friendly regulations sets us up for more struggle in the days ahead--the fact that Flint, Michigan still has polluted water is a crime. That situation and situations that lead to pollution like this are a first priority for good leadership.
In our personal lives, we need to think ahead and plan for our own and our family's health by spending money wisely, getting the educations we need to be able to find work and support our families, and prioritizing health when we make decisions about daily living, vacations, home purchases, and meals. We also have to support organizations that care about us--we have to research the companies we support and as much as possible not support companies that promote unhealthy practices, use more than their share of resources, and pollute our natural lands, water, and air. I am reminded of a sad story about Nestle where they were taking the clean water from a poor Mexican community forcing the people who live there to have to buy bottled water--bottled water creates more pollution, costs money, and may not be as clean as our publicly checked waters.
Wealthy businesses and individuals are sometimes able to hide behind corporate boards and other financial/industrial groups when they act without care for people or the planet's health. We see this with anonymous groups that own news stations that promote lies or businesses that play on people's vulnerabilities. This is one reason why we need good government. Good government promotes regulations that can help people live well. For example, efforts in Massachusetts to lessen smoking have been successful. This was an amazing public health effort. In 2017, 13.7 % of MA residents smoked, which was a historic low, though still too high when you read about the life-ending affects of smoking. In Louisiana, in 2017, 23.1% smoked. That is much higher than in Massachusetts. The average lifespan in the United States is 78.69 while in Massachusetts, it is 80 years and 8 months and in Louisiana it is 75.7. I chose Louisiana because I noticed that COVID-19 numbers were rising higher in Louisiana than Massachusetts, and I wonder if that has to do with low educational standing in Louisiana who has greater numbers of smokers. In general, states led by Republicans that support Trump have lower lifespans and lower educational standings. In my opinion, those Trump-loving leaders look out for themselves rather than the people they lead--they support Trump's seeming "survival of the fittest" philosophy rather than good living for all philosophies that Democratic leadership supports. When it came to the tax break for the wealthy, Republican leaders from the poorest states supported that, while many Democratic leaders from wealthier states, supported fair taxation instead. Good leadership looks out for all, and citizens who care about the health of the whole country know they have to advocate for the health and welfare of every person in the United States, not just a few.
Bottom line is that wise leadership leads for the day and the future too. Wise leadership does not continually look back, blame, lie, exaggerate, and ignore the need to work today for a better tomorrow. The Trump team leadership is weak because they lead for the day with outdated vision, little regard for intelligent information, and no planning for the future. We can do better USA.
When the Trump team was warned of possible pandemic danger, they ignored the information. In fact, the Trump team disbanded the Pandemic health team that was in place rather than have the foresight to support the good work of intelligent teams that work to protect us and lead us forward. The Trump team appears to only be interested in the financial wealth of Trump friends and family members, rather than the overall welfare of the country.
In fact, right now, Trump is holding back with regard to producing medical equipment medical professionals say they need to combat this virus. Instead, Trump is relying on private sector production. Is this right? I'm not an expert in this area, but it seems that if medical professionals and states are crying out for these PPE's (personal protective equipment), the President should act.
What can we all learn from this coronavirus event? How can we anticipate problems that might occur in our own areas of leadership and living?
First of all, we are smart to read, research, and pay attention to information related to health. What can we do to be healthy, and how can we help our loved ones to be healthy too? We can eat well, exercise, and advocate for healthy resources such as clean water, clean air, and clean soil. We can avoid behaviors such as smoking and vaping which put us at risk. We can also work to make our homes safe and advocate for safe work places too. We can thank and continue to support public health departments for the good work they do. The Trump team recently announced plans to roll back healthy food regulations for school lunches. This is one more way that Trump and his self-serving teammates work against the health and welfare of society while propping up the wealth of self-serving, private organizations that don't care about public health.
Next, we can work to ensure that all people in our communities have safe homes and neighborhoods. There is a lot we can do to uplift health for people with policies that minimize ownership of dangerous guns, sales of harmful drugs, and the spread of misinformation. While the Trump team has done little to limit the sale of dangerous, unnecessary guns, we know that less guns means less violence. And we can better support health organizations and schools. A well educated, healthy population is a more peaceful, happy population.
Psychological burdens caused by too much work, low pay, lack of basic services, and few supports to support quality family life lead to an unhealthy society too. Good leadership thinks ahead and works to better support people with reasonable work schedules, fair pay, needed family/child leave time with pay, and access to healthy food and good homes. When society is unnecessarily burdened, society is less healthy. Looking ahead means taking people's needs seriously and helping to architect a society that puts people's needs and potential first. Rapid increases in wealth for a few does not serve many when it comes to good living.
The Trump team's leadership is narrowly focused on elevating wealth for a few rather than architecting a quality society that improves the way we live and support one another. Of course financial security is important, but that security has to be well distributed, and money alone does not create a quality society. Trump's roll back of Earth-friendly regulations sets us up for more struggle in the days ahead--the fact that Flint, Michigan still has polluted water is a crime. That situation and situations that lead to pollution like this are a first priority for good leadership.
In our personal lives, we need to think ahead and plan for our own and our family's health by spending money wisely, getting the educations we need to be able to find work and support our families, and prioritizing health when we make decisions about daily living, vacations, home purchases, and meals. We also have to support organizations that care about us--we have to research the companies we support and as much as possible not support companies that promote unhealthy practices, use more than their share of resources, and pollute our natural lands, water, and air. I am reminded of a sad story about Nestle where they were taking the clean water from a poor Mexican community forcing the people who live there to have to buy bottled water--bottled water creates more pollution, costs money, and may not be as clean as our publicly checked waters.
Wealthy businesses and individuals are sometimes able to hide behind corporate boards and other financial/industrial groups when they act without care for people or the planet's health. We see this with anonymous groups that own news stations that promote lies or businesses that play on people's vulnerabilities. This is one reason why we need good government. Good government promotes regulations that can help people live well. For example, efforts in Massachusetts to lessen smoking have been successful. This was an amazing public health effort. In 2017, 13.7 % of MA residents smoked, which was a historic low, though still too high when you read about the life-ending affects of smoking. In Louisiana, in 2017, 23.1% smoked. That is much higher than in Massachusetts. The average lifespan in the United States is 78.69 while in Massachusetts, it is 80 years and 8 months and in Louisiana it is 75.7. I chose Louisiana because I noticed that COVID-19 numbers were rising higher in Louisiana than Massachusetts, and I wonder if that has to do with low educational standing in Louisiana who has greater numbers of smokers. In general, states led by Republicans that support Trump have lower lifespans and lower educational standings. In my opinion, those Trump-loving leaders look out for themselves rather than the people they lead--they support Trump's seeming "survival of the fittest" philosophy rather than good living for all philosophies that Democratic leadership supports. When it came to the tax break for the wealthy, Republican leaders from the poorest states supported that, while many Democratic leaders from wealthier states, supported fair taxation instead. Good leadership looks out for all, and citizens who care about the health of the whole country know they have to advocate for the health and welfare of every person in the United States, not just a few.
Bottom line is that wise leadership leads for the day and the future too. Wise leadership does not continually look back, blame, lie, exaggerate, and ignore the need to work today for a better tomorrow. The Trump team leadership is weak because they lead for the day with outdated vision, little regard for intelligent information, and no planning for the future. We can do better USA.