The riches in agriculture, technology, tourism, natural harbors and an embarrassment of other assets have been run into the ground through liberal policy and unchecked third world immigration.
If they're ever going to reclaim a functioning society, they ought to build enough prisons to hold 1 million people, and hope that removing the criminals from society will allow the law-abiding majority to be productive enough to support the incarceration of the lawless.
Swift public executions of the top 100 worst criminals would be cheaper and more effective.
“removing the criminals from society “
The problem is that we’ve labeled everything a crime. You, too, are a criminal and I bet you commit at least 3 felonies every day without even knowing it.