The people that America's politicians must answer to are not the power elites. They are not the fundamentalist base. They are not the poor and disadvantaged. They are not the new immigrants.
The people that America's politicians must answer to go to work every day. They own homes. They are raising families. Every year, their dollars are worth a little less. Every year, their jobs become closer to being jobs Americans won't do. The question is never about getting out of debt. It's about how not to get too much deeper in. The house gets refinanced, again. The 401K gets cashed out, again. It isn't about luxuries. It costs to raise kids. It costs to get to work. The neighborhood where you can afford to live is not the neighborhood where you can afford to let your kids grow up.
They have cute names for it. Globalization. The New World Order. It Takes a Village. It doesn't hide the reality. The reality is that it's cheaper to produce goods in countries where people will work for $1.20 a day, and there are no safety or environmental regulations. The reality is that it's cheaper to hire immigrant labor and lower the wages to the point where you can claim it's a job Americans won't do. Don't kid yourself, it's not just fast food and farm work. It's construction, road work, assembly, clerking, truckdriving and on and on and on. The Auto industry is dying in this country, just as steel died 30 years ago. There haven't been American merchant seaman manning American flagged ships since the early '60s. Government is increasingly contracting out services to private industry, who use immigrant labor. They point to the millions it saves in salaries, benefits, and deferred pension costs. For the first time this year the Forbes Magazine list of the 400 richest Americans were all billionaires.
Where does this end? Have you been to Third World countries, where most of the people live in sprawling feral cities that look more like garbage dumps than habitats? Where the rich live up on hills far away, where the air is clear, the water is clean and the fields of fire are unobstructed. Is this the future of America?
I don't think so. The only choice we have is, will the government work with the people to fix things, or will the people have to do it on their own.
If we do it on our own, we won't need the government.
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"The only choice we have is, will the government work with the people to fix things, or will the people have to do it on their own.
If we do it on our own, we won't need the government."
That is the majority of the problems in the nation right now. The federal government has its own interests, much of the time it is different from our own interests (on both sides of the house). If it were up to me, the only thing that the fed gov't would be responsible for would be the common defence and trade protection of the states. Everything else would fall to state, county and city jurisdiction (something like the founding fathers wanted).
When I look at most of the things that the feds have had their hands in, I see that they just mess it up. Many, if not all, of the federal programs would be better off in private hands, they are usually more accountable to the public (their customers) than our politicians are.
I use to wire houses,But had to get out,I couldnt compete with the contractor's who hired illegal immigrants.They wired houses for less than what it cost me.
Everyday I see these unskilled untrained workers wiring new houses and people buy them,Wait till these houses start catching fire!
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