As a Colombian citizen by birth and an American Citizen by choice and have lived half of my life in each country I think I can bring a different perspective of the events happening today. I'm very worried that United States my adopted country is moving in a direction that is making it more similar to the Latin American Countries with an increase social gap and with the wealth accumulating in a smaller percentage of the population, this model doesn't work and the proof is the Latin American countries; when I was growing up in Colombia 95% of the wealth was in 5% of the population, your future was set no by your merits but the family you were born in, your success in life was set more by your social status that your own merits, and I sadly I'm seeing a similar trend in United States, just look the price of tuition for college making more difficult to people to attend, how much human talent are we wasting as a society because poor smart kids cannot afford to attend?, we can to make a kids to get in debt for the rest of their of their lives to pay for their superior education, the wealth and power of United States is based in the generation of knowledge and we have to continue investing on it if we want to continue the leading of the world, the beacon that all societies look as an example.

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