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
