Friday begins early for me, up and at them at 5 am here. Drag the garbage cans down and recycling buckets and then stumble into kitchen for coffee. Ah life some say is simple and clean, but damn if the world is not so mean!
Each day goes by the economy seems not to get better. More people are hungry and homeless in the USA then at anytime in recent history. Sadly, no jobs seem to be popping up out there. How long can Americans keep up this way? We have to make a difference in the economy soon, or go back to the bread lines of the days of the Depression.
Americans are well known through out the world for helping others and that is a nice reputation for any country to have. On the other hand we are not known for taking assistance from anyone at all it seems. I have a different opinion of how to turn the economy around then most I suppose. I believe that the American People and it’s nation, need to start pulling back and stop helping the whole world and start helping themselves. We have our hands in too many pies so to say and we are breaking our own backs. First step stop helping all these others and revert those funds back into our economy.
Second step rebuild our manufacturing base. Find people who have new ideas, new inventions and products and mass produce them and sell them to the world. America was at it’s strongest during the days of the manufacturing boom. But all of the blue collar workers who manned those factories are now out of work and without hope. So we need to rebuild that area or if we are not going to rebuild that area, then retrain these people for other occupations and move to a total white collar world. To do so is not easy, when the blue collar population have their talents and skills and pride. It is impossible to train blue collar personnel to do white collar work without educational access to the colleges they will need. So our colleges especially Community Colleges will have to take part in this retraining in a big way.
Thirdly, you can’t build a manufacturing base back up if you keep importing more then you are exporting around the world. Our imports far out weigh our exports. We need to scale back the imports and start building up the exports once more. To do this we must once again sell the American people on Be American Buy American by manufacturing products other countries need and can use and doing it in the best way possible.
Fourth expand the job market in the US by creating new green jobs and blue collar jobs and setting the high standards in each area. By doing this other countries will look at American products once more as products of distinction, and worth the value they will pay for them. We need to reinstall in the American people a base of pride, distinction, and motivate them to do better by setting examples with our politicians and leaders. What happened to the great leaders of America? We need new Roosevelt’s, new Eisenhower’s, new Nixon’s and Kennedys and new Kings.
Fifth and not least but most we need politicians in office who spend less, save more, and will save our Social Security, Medicare and Medicate , and at the same time promote and fix the Health care system that Obama put in place not destroy it. No other President has been able to push Health Care Reform through Congress and sign it into law, Obama did. Give the man some credit folks, he is much more approved of and respected then his predecessor ever was in the world.
Sixth, when President William J. Clinton left office, the USA was in the black by billions. Now we are in the red by trillions, find the economic advisors Clinton had, rehire them to make the deep cuts necessary in the budget and stop spending more income then the revenue we take in as taxes. Lets also start collecting some of the damn debt’s other countries owe us. If Clinton found a way to get the American Government out of debt in his 8 years in office then, lets just ask him and the people he used to help us do it again!. The solutions are here if we as Americans use the resources and personnel we have on hand and work together to get it done.
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