America's Greatness.

       Even though it pains me to say it, I'm beginning to think Donald Trump may have been right. He wants to make America Great Again. I thought America was already great, and it is. But something is missing in our greatness, and perhaps Mr. Trump saw that something. I don't know if the greatness lacking that he saw is the same as what I see as missing in our greatness.
       What made America the tremendous success it was, is the amalgam of truly gifted entrepreneurs and job creators. Its their ideas that make business and industry flourish in America. However its like a wheel with only one spoke, it won't go far. It needs investors to provide the cash and impetus and the means to get business up and running. Investing is the second spoke in the wheel of American greatness. Still business and industry can't fulfill the needs of the American public's demands.
       The third spoke in the wheel is labor. Without the workers to make the wheels turn, business and industry comes to a halt. The workers strengthen the wheel by also becoming the purchasers of the products and services in vast numbers which is the force that makes the wheels turn.
       The problem comes in when the spokes of Business and Industry sit down to divvy out the profits from their success. Business and industry leaders speak for the companies, investors have their speakers and labor once had its speakers at these sit-downs. But the Unions which once represented labor to see that it was fairly treated have fallen into disuse for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was corrupt leadership and campaigns against unions in general.
       The result is that the harmonious interactions of the past have given way to a situation that has left workers out of the mix in far too many companies. The wages of management and investors have risen astronomically while the wages of labor have fallen substantially when inflation is taken into account. This is not what the founding fathers had in mind. They saw a nation where all would flourish. When America's business and industry fail to include labor in its sharing of its profits, then America loses its greatness.