The fact is we are giving our wealth and prosperity away every day as we continue to send hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign nations for oil. Nations that don't necessarily have our best interest in mind. We are also gutting our manufacturing capacity and sending all of those jobs to China and other 3rd world countries.
Unless serious changes are made, this generation will have the unfortunate legacy of being the generation that oversaw the dismantling and destruction of the great American engine of economic growth and prosperity. Unless the labor unions stranglehold on what's left of our manufacturing base is addressed we will continue to see companies abandon America in search of cheaper labor. Unless our Federal Government makes drastic cuts to its bloated payrolls and services, we will continue to see our national debt rise, eventually bringing us to our knees.
Those who are paying attention know that we are on an unsustainable path. There is too much coming from too few, only to be promised to too many for too little in return. We are becoming a "welfare nation" as entitlements grow and the demand for them increases. As our economic engine shrinks, so too does the supply of jobs, turning what was once a temporary unemployment check into long term welfare for what were once hard working middle class Americans. Americans that now find themselves among the new growing class of not quiet poor but not quiet middle class, with not much hope for prosperity in sight.
These facts are turning an economic downturn into an economic epidemic that might signal the collapse of the America that most of us have known our entire lives. While China and the Middle East wallow in American currency, supplied by cheap oil and cheap labor that produces low cost goods, the United States is slipping quietly into position behind these emerging economic superpowers.
It doesn't have to be this way, yet I see little that tells me the drastic changes needed will be happening anytime soon. The ruling class politicians in DC seem content to allow America to slide into oblivion, as long as their special interests are taken care of. As long as there is something in it for them. We are a nation divided, with too many holding power that do not have the best interests of this country at heart. In short, we have been sold out.
The recent tax “cut” proposal is yet another example of political malpractice. Republicans and Democrats have been arguing for years about how to handle the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Now that we are at the eleventh hour, with massive tax increases looming at exactly the worst possible time, the recently limited Obama has teamed up with the Republicans to offer a plan that will do little to help the economy and in fact do more to harm our current financial dilemma by adding hundreds of billions more to the ballooning national debt.
Under no circumstances should another dime be spent using barrowed or printed money. We are witnessing national suicide, yet the printing presses continue to roll. We are either being led by complete incompetents or by downright evil, for only one of those could perpetuate the kind of actions we continue to witness daily. $14 trillion debt is apocalyptic, yet quantitative easing continues. An annual federal budget of nearly $4 trillion is reckless, belligerent and wasteful, yet the Obama administration moves forward on a spending binge unlike anything we have ever witnessed in our nation’s history. Unions at the federal and state levels continue to hold industry and tax payers hostage for ever higher wages and pensions that are robbing taxpayers of any chance for economic prosperity, yet these same labor forces are producing less and less.
The system is broken, many of us know that. But the nagging question for now and into the future will be how to fix it. Can we fix the problem? Can we find and elect politicians with the political will to do what is right? Politicians that understand the problem and will not sell out to special interests as seems to be the way things get done in Washington now. Can we find Americans with the kind of integrity and decency to represent the will of the people and lead this nation through this horrible period of our history?
We will need to make serious changes to bring real jobs back to America, to compete with 3rd world tyrannical governments like China, where human suffering is common place and cheap labor abounds. We will need to break up the massive power structure of big business and big government. Capitalism in its intended form is for now dead, what we are witnessing in America today is crony capitalism at best, downright thievery at worst. When a single individual can determine that Goldman Sachs shall survive, yet Lehman Brothers shall fail, who the winners and losers are at GM, what dealerships remain open and which shall close, destroying lives and generations of family owned businesses overnight without so much as a hiccup, we are witnessing something other than Capitalism, something that is unjust, unfair and destructive.
The list of betrayals and injustice is a mile long, yet most Americans are not that aware of what is happening right under their noses. The media is mostly silent over the injustice, and will be as long as Democrats rule.
The solution to many of us seems simple, yet the only way it can be accomplished is to defeat those who currently have a stranglehold on nearly every lever of power and influence. The ruling class, the liberals, the career politicians, the corporate greed hustlers, and many, many others that don’t seem to care as much as I do for the America that I know and love.
Stop spending, reduce the size of the Federal Government, end wasteful entitlements that produce nothing and solve nothing. Reduce the trade deficits with our trading partners by any means necessary – the export of our wealth and prosperity must be stopped. Create a stable and predictable regulatory climate that will allow capitalism to thrive, unleash the economic engine that is the envy of the world. It is being choked to death right now by political maniacs hell-bent on its destruction. The "fundamental transformation of America" must be brought to a halt or we will be trying to explain to our grandchildren someday what a great country this once was.
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