2016 Presidential Campaign Declaration No. 1

How to Make America Greater

Greater Innovation in 21st Century

I declared my 2016 Presidential Campaign across my social media platform on Google+, Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook half a year ago and posted several declarations and video clips based on basic economic theories. As far as you can tell, my focus is on economic growth. Having been silent for quite a while, I observed Presidential Candidates’ campaigns from both parties. If elected, Clinton most likely will keep the current policy to have America maintaining her leadership globally with the potential risks of being caught up by other nations within the next several decades; Trump will play devil’s advocate to ensure America’s domination by downplaying diversity and globalization; Sanders will promote his Socialism based on his own understanding by sacrificing beneficiaries of current system; Cruz and Kasich don’t have clear strategies and paths to reach the stage of General Election.

As I have been advocating in the last decade, Hecomism is my core philosophy to having all social issues cured globally. It is modern Socialism to having solutions of how to make America great again worked out with the growth across the countries regionally and globally.

Vision of Heconism is Universal Integration without Boundaries; Mission is Creation & Development of a comprehensive economic theory to have all global issues resolved. It will be applied to our country successfully first through my Presidential Campaign by utilizing the theory of Integration of Dynamic in Capitalism and Stability in Socialism to have US economy growing perpetually at the condition of equality.

Economic growth is not a steady process but in much faster pace in one period than the others. United States had experienced a Special Century from 1870 to 1970 driven by Great Inventions such as Electricity, Internal Combustion Engine, etc. However, in the first 50 years, the growth had been slow until the inventions were utilized massively and comprehensively. After 1970, the growth rates have dropped significantly because developments of entertainment, communication and information technology have been the drivers, which have much less significant impacts in people's daily life than those great inventions in a 100 years ago. In addition, inequality, educations, demographic and debt have caused huge negativities. 

Americans had been leading the world for so many years, Europeans and Japanese only started catching up after World War II, mainly in 1950s. People in developing countries hadn't even been able to compare anything with Americans until 70s. As I recall, my dad bought a 9" black and white TV in 1975, which was the first one amongst several apartment buildings in our neighborhood in Beijing. Kids crowded in our 150 square feet room to watch boring programs with full of joys. Americans probably had already watched much more entertaining shows on much bigger TV 30 years ago. Even in early 80s, we still used scrub board to wash clothes and my family's first refrigerator was bought around 1979.  Nowadays, it's no doubt US overall is still leading the world, but European countries, Canada and Japan have the advantages in some of the areas. For example, Americans bear the highest medical cost amongst developed countries. This has been a constant topic in Presidential Debates. 

From 1890 to 2014, three major factors had driven the growth rates in three periods:

During the first period from 1890 to 1920 and the third one from 1970 to 2014, The three factors: Education, Capital Deepening and Total Factor Productivity drove the growth rates at the similar scales. But from 1920 to 1970, TFP played a much more significant role because of tremendous innovations and technological progresses. As everybody concurs, the major concern today is economic growth and parents are really worried that their kids may suffer lower standard of living than themselves. Given the empirical evidence, innovation is still the key driver to having American growth rising rapidly. The question is where we can innovate to have our overall standard of living increased onto a distinguished higher level. Internet virtually connects everyone on earth in real time no matter where you are and make the whole world much smaller. I am wondering if something can be developed to have people connected physically near real time. I don’t mean Virtual Reality. From another perspective, I consider why the recent innovations on entertainment, communication and information technology are less impactful in human beings' life than those in 100 years ago is that they are more consumption-oriented. We need to invent something more production-oriented. 

To conclude my first declaration, I would like to summarize my campaign philosophy:

To make America Great Again should base on exponential economic growth at the condition of greater innovations in productions through the collaboration nationally, regionally and globally in a peaceful and clean environment.