In order for you to help begin the process to make the United States a better place, you must become educated in the problems we need to face, and where they come from.  What are the problems?  Here is a start of the list:
Corporate Power
1) Corporate control of the politicians through campaign contributions
2) Corporate control of the media to keep the people mis-informed
Bank Power
1) Central bank control of the economy through the money system
2) Fractional Reserve Banking-- money generated from nothing, and then charging interest for something created from nothing.
3) The unconstitutional creation and continuing existance of the Federal Reserve, which is neither Federal or a Reserve.
4) The removal of the United States illegally from the Gold/Silver standard allowing unlimited creation of fiat money and theft from the people by inflation
Unconstitutional Laws
1) Money system in control by the banks instead of the people as specified in the constitution
2) Reduction of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, such as the PATRIOT act, and the intrusive TSA and Department of Homeland Security

Ecology
1) The intrusive EPA and its gestapo like enforcement techniques that eliminate due process
2) All the while the environment continues to degrade because the big polluters have the money to buy influence.
3) Sustainability: how are we going to continue to sustain our quality of life while natural resources continue to deplete at the same time that population continues to expand.
4) Energy is becoming expensive and harder to find, yet the government efforts to support renewable energy are meager, random, and often counterproductive

Quality of Life and Lack of Control
1) Due to the above problems, people feel powerless to control their lives, and either drop out of the process (voting is at an all time low) or react with random acts of violence against people and organizations (mass shootings, assinations)
2) Exploding Medical Costs
3) Exploding Educational Costs
4) Exploding Debt load by people and governments making for higher taxes and inability to keep up with cost of living


The first step to better the United States is to reclaim control of the country from the corporations.  The corporations today have more power than the people.  This power started with one court case in 1886: Santa Clara County v. Southen Pacific Railroad.  You can read about the case and it's importance at:

http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/pdf/primers/hidden_corporate_history.pdf
and:
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/edwards_morgan_corporate.html

As of today, corporations have all the rights and privilages of a real person, including full Bill of Rights protection. The most abused right is the right of free speech.  They translate free speech into the right to bribe politicians to make laws more favorable to them.  That is why things keep getting worse.  Just a few weeks ago the Supreme Court ruled that Corporations can make campaign contributions of unlimited value, and with no public disclosure.  Politicians are being bought and paid for!
Corporations also have incredible power because they have tremendously more resources available to them than a real person does.  A person trying to sue a corporation for a mis-deed has almost no chance against the corporate lawyers.  It's almost a joke for a person to sue a corporation, no one in their right mind would consider it.
Because their lifetime is unlimited, their power can continuously increase.  The only people they are beholding to is their stock holders, and stock holders are basically gamblers who could care less about the public good.
Of three groups effected by corporations, (customers, employees, and stockholders), the stockholders have the most influence, followed by slight influence by employees, and little by customers (Let the buyer Beware).
This is the reverse of what would be good for society in general.  Customers should be first (safety, value), with stockholders (gambelers) last, if good for society is the criteria.

So that is your assignment for today.  Get educated. Google is your best friend.
Tomorrow, the media.
Thanks for Reading,
The Mogambo Patriot