WHY AMERICA IS DYING
America is the middle class and middle class is America. The middle-class stabilizes our country by creating not only a buffer between the rich and the poor but also by giving the poor and the middle class the hope of one day moving up.
NAFTA and GATT have effectively eliminated hundreds of thousands of middle-class jobs. Nothing is made in America anymore to export to other countries. At one time America made the majority of cars, radios,TVs and other electrical and mechanical appliances. Today thanks to NAFTA and GATT we continue to import more than we export. Our economy is dying, our middle class is shrinking and our elected officials do not have a clue, and do not care. They have guaranteed retirement and guaranteed health care.
Additionally foreign corporations and American corporations shelter profits while the American middle class pays taxes to cover for their mistakes. When the US government bailed out AIG the first thing AIG did was to give bonuses to their CEO’s, CFO's, presidents and vice presidents.
And of course they deserved those bonuses because they got the stupid American congress to use middle class tax dollars to pay for their mistakes.
It seems like any time you call a Corporation whether it's support for your computer or information about the warranty on your new car the person on the other end of the phone line is either in the Philippines, India, or Costa Rica.
We were told that America was good be a great service economy. And America does have a great service economy. That has hundreds of thousands of jobs, unfortunately those jobs are not in America.
We still see and hear news commentators and government officials stating were coming out of this recession. We are not in a recession. THIS is a depression. Not only in economic depression but also a moral and financial depression. Bill O' Reilly are you listening?
How many people have to lose their homes before our elected officials and those millionaire news commentators figure out that there is a problem and the problem is not going away.
A Wells Fargo's president testified in front of Congress and explained the reason for a very low number of home loan modifications was because people losing their homes were not submitting the correct paperwork.
I wish Congress would have called me to testify to tell them how Wells Fargo called me from eight different locations in eight different states in 20 different occasions requesting documents that had already been sent over a period of three months. but never showed up in their computer system.
Finally I got my home loan modification by faxing every single document about 16 pages to 18 of the different fax numbers Wells Fargo had given me. When I got my final papers and had to have them notarized the notary who was also a fax service stated that only two people out of probably 200 that had come to her office got a loan modification. The others had been given the runaround by various bank departments in various locations just as they had done to me and were still trying to fax documents their banks said they never received.
How can we justify that 1% of our population receives 23% of the salaries paid in the United States. Maybe Rush Limbaugh has the answer. And how can Congress pretend with a straight face and say that these rich need tax breaks. And as we continue to go into debt and President Obama tries to buy our way out of this depression. Yet No one has suggested that America cut foreign aid by even 10% across-the-board. Or CUT CONGRESSIONAL SALARIES OR BENIFITS!
I'm sorry but we have to start putting American citizens that are poor homeless and without food BEFORE the poor homeless of other countries that we have supported for years.
America can no longer pretend to be everyone's big brother and protector. That is not to say that we shouldn't help countries like Israel that are surrounded by people that would destroy them if they could. But it does mean that we should not continue to prop up European countries who have received aid continually since World War II.
If we learned anything from the war in Vietnam it was you cannot put troops on the ground and when a war with infantry. We can only win wars by not putting troops on the ground and instead use air power to destroy the enemy. Today in Afghanistan we are losing brave man because they cannot distinguish a friend from an enemy. If all bad guys had green and white striped faces there wouldn't be a problem but that's not the case just like it wasn't the case in Vietnam.
In the 1970s former Gov. Jerry Brown said we must eliminate our dependency on foreign oil. People called him Governor Moon Beam . Almost every political science professor I knew predicted that wars over oil would continue for 50 years or more unless we developed independence from foreign oil. Now 40 years later we are still servants of OPEC and there is no end in sight to their dominance over us or the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. I guess Governor Moon Beam was right and the pundits were full of shi_!
Al-Qaeda does not have to bomb us to destroy us. We are destroying ourselves through greed and ignorance. Most of our elected officials do not understand and do not care about the middle-class. When Congressman recently started talking about changing Social Security rules because Social Security is running out of money. They forget to state that Social Security was short of money because t Congress stole it from the American people to pay for their pet projects that were not funded.
And when Congress says that unemployment has dropped or is remaining steady most people don't remember that Pres. Nixon changed the way unemployment statistics are figured. They are not figured by how many people are unemployed! They are figured and based on how many people can still collect unemployment. So if 100,000 people last week run out of unemployment benefits they are now not counted as unemployed. They are just out of work and shi_ out of luck.
The solution to these problems are very simple. First we must eliminate all campaign contributions. Second we must limit the amount of personal money any person can spend to get themselves elected. Third we must develop a free Internet and television system that allows candidates time to speak and make proposals regarding their programs.
The OPEC nations are all rich. Al-Qaeda is rich. Many of the members of Al-Qaeda were educated in America. All Al-Qaeda has to do is start making campaign contributions and they will buy America politicians or run their own undercover candidates and destroy America at the same time from the inside legally if they aren’t already doing it.!
