FF aside , great username . <| sep |> Your greatgrandmother is awesome . I reposted this letter on Facebook because I think it ' s something everyone can benefit from . Thanks for sharing it . <| sep |> Maybe industrialmanufacturing jobs think South Korea . If Lichauco ' s plans were put into place , we would have had a steel industry which would have been the basis for a national railways system . A steel industry could also have been the basis for a shipyard or shipping industry . A good book to read about this is Alejandro Lichauco ' s ' Nationalist Economics History , Theory and Practice . '<| sep |> in my book interesting is a compliment . Have a happy Thanksgiving ! <| sep |> The electoral college is a ridiculous relic of the past and needs to go . A straight popular vote would be more fair and make more states actually matter . Under the electoral college , a candidate will ignore states that are highly likely to be won by their opponent . There is no point in campaigning there when you know you won ' t get any of that states electoral votes . With a popular vote , those minority amount of votes will actually matter and a candidate will pay attention to those voters . Republicans in California would matter . Democrats in Texas would matter . Politicians would seek the votes of people all over the country instead of just in FloridaOhioPennsylvania .