America is slowly but surely headed to economic ruin unless we turn it all around. The facts are facing us daily, markets continue to drop for American companies, our deficit rises daily, and as we all know our job market disappeared. The real question is do we have a political leader who realizes all of this and can lead us out of it once more to prosperity?
As I see it right now we have a bunch of Republican candidates lining up to take pot shots at President Obama, yet they have no firm solutions or ideas to turn around the job market and economy anymore than he does. Plus they work overtime to block anything going through Congress thinking if they do, it will make Obama a dead issue come 2012. Sadly, I don’t think so, nor do many other Americans, for Obama is doing what he can but being blocked by them.
As the manufacturing base of America disappears so does the American Economy. If we can’t manufacture cars, appliances, steel, and what we believe the world needs here in America, then what good can we do?. America was built on the backs of middle-income families and workers who filled these factories and made the parts and cars and items that fed the world. We now sit back and drive Japanese cars, what happened to good old-fashioned Fords and Chevy’s, and Chryslers? They are slowly disappearing at a fast rate from our roads. American car companies now want to move their factories overseas to save money! We must stop that at any cost!.
As our manufacturing base has ended and started to disappear we have in many states and cities and towns, turned to retail companies to get jobs. Retail stores and malls spring up all over America to only last a short period of time then they disappear. Why, simply because if you have no income, 9.7 unemployment, you can’t afford to eat, drink, party, or buy items for fun or even needed to survive.
Roosevelt gave us the new deal, and he created jobs by supplying weapons of war to our own military, expanding air lines and aviation and the military in general. He produced many industries and companies by giving them tax breaks, assistance, and in the end because we were in wars. We can’t do that one again for sure, the wars we fight now a days for other countries, are no more than policing actions like we did in Korea and Vietnam and, those are indeed quicksand pits, that will swallow us up.
So to grow our economy I firmly believe we need to take some serious steps. 1) Renegotiate the Trade Agreements , get us back to exporting more than we import. 2) Give tax and tariff breaks and assistance to our own companies like Ford, and others GE included and keep them in America or bring them back here. Companies like GE, Ford, Uniroyal and others disappeared oversea, due to costs to run them being too high, lets lower that overhead and cost for them and bring them home.
Unless Congress gets off its ass and realizes by stalemating and blocking any action of President Obama and not taking action themselves, they are not making themselves look good, they are destroying this country! Someone needs to tell their Congress, Representatives and Senators both, it’s time to wake up and move!. Act now or we shall all be facing changes we never will want to and can not escape easily!. Economic ruin and destruction killed many Empires and so did internal political struggles and fights, those Empires include, Rome, The Incas, and others over centuries of life. Economic endings , finish countries and coming to an Economic End is like committing suicide with a shotgun, we are blowing our own brains out. Do not allow Congress to blow our lives away, our freedoms away, and our stature in the world. Do not allow them to ruin our standing, they have the responsibility to build our country up, not tear it down and lead us to Economic Ruin or an Economic End!
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