Friday, August 23, 2013

Why Our Government Needs To Rethink Its Priorities by Walt Barrett



   Not everyone is going to agree with what I have to say in this piece
because they have other interests and other goals that do not include the problems of the unemployed or underpaid American workers.
   I don't want to come off like the famous cartoon character who is always depicted as the guy standing on a street corner holding up the sign that says “The End Is Near”, but I really feel compelled to make some observations about our governments policies and also the policies of other nations that we are involved with as well. Since the end of The Second World War I have personally watched this country move steadily down hill because of bad foreign policy decisions until now we have reached the point of practically no return. Now it seems that things are at the point where almost anything we do makes matters worse. The simple answer is that we should never have interfered in the first place. You cannot solve other countries problems for them. We have to solve the problems in our own country. The world domination game is a dead end street. In this age of nuclear weapons no one wins, so no one really ever gets to dominate. Besides, as I have often said before, no one can rule the world while standing in financial quicksand! It's time to clean up our own house. We need to stop all foreign aid. We needed to stop fighting wars that we are being baited into and we need to focus on America. Now we cannot even afford to take care of our own wounded hero’s.
   Millions of American citizens are still without decent food, clothing, and shelter because we have allowed millions of manufacturing jobs to go overseas. The global economy is a joke. It can never work as long as there is an inequity in the minimum wage between countries. It is plain to see that the people who exported all of our jobs off shore only care about the bottom line and the short term high profits. They are not concerned about the future of young Americans.
   Any company who exports their jobs to another country has to realize that sooner or later things reach a point where they will erode their own customer base so badly that our ever growing number of poor people in America will not even be able to buy even the cheapest goods that are imported from other countries. They are not that stupid and have to know that this will happen, but they don't care because now they are so rich it doesn't matter to them.
If American workers had decent jobs that paid decent wages they could afford to pay their own way for food, clothing, shelter, medical and dental care. Our government has never given that system a chance to work. Right now it seems like the medical, dental and pharmaceutical business are totally rigged. Millions of people are having to do without these services because they are so expensive. We need to level the playing field and give people a chance to work and be able to afford these services. I am not in favor of business picking up the tab or a welfare state either. I know that is partly why they went off shore. People should be able to work and make enough money to support themselves totally. I don't believe in socialism. I do believe that we have to keep the jobs here in our own country. The so called global economy is just a lot of political B.S. We have to do what is necessary to improve the business climate in our country and bring back millions of jobs. I am really wondering if our government has decided that our country is just going to live with up to ten percent unemployment so that this sham of an economy can just keep going on and on and on! Just think of the money we can save on welfare alone!
My next blog in this series is about how we can stop the foolishness and save a great deal of money in the USA so we can get back on the right track. It's going to be a doozy!

Walt


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