Does America have anything going for it?

A Petition from Jose Lugo, producer Direct Democracy TV

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Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:11:33 -0400

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Resolution:
Does America have anything going for it?

President George Bush recently said when questioned by a reporter
about what
America has going for it, said that "America has a great spirit".
Well, it may be that "Spirit" is all America has going for it.

Now, some of this may be old news, but follow it through and you'll
see what
I mean.

If you consider that for the last few decades manufacturing and it's
jobs
have been leaving America at a very steady pace with the result being
that
America now has a much larger percentage of low skill, low paying jobs
than
it did around the end of World War II. For example, there was a
section of
America that was once called "The Iron Belt" it produced most of the
steel
used for the battle ships and other weapons of World War II. But just
after
the war these steel mills started closing down to the point that many
people
called it the "rust belt". I guess these fools never heard of words
like
updating and modernizing and they certainly didn't care about all the
jobs
that were being lost to other countries because of this. Currently
there are
about three steel manufactures left in America, and one of them is
facing
bankruptcy.

Also, if you go into any store in America, and check the country of
origin
of most products you will see that most of the products America uses
are
made in foreign countries. It's gotten to the point that most "made in
America" products are found in antique stores.

To this the government said "we don't need manufacturing, we're going
to be
the great information society, we have the internet and all the jobs
the
internet is creating". This was true for a while, but then the great
".com
revolution" crashed because they were simply not making any real
money, it
was all hype. Although it's true that some yuppies made a few bucks,
but
when the bubble bust on Wall Street, these yuppies headed South with
all
the other jobs that went that way and Wall Street has been in the
dumps
since then. The reason for all this may simply be that with so many
corporations giving more money to politicians than the voting
population can
give, that the government is now geared to catering to the
corporations a
great deal more than the voters. The reality has been forgotten that
for an
economy to function properly it needs manufacturers operating
efficiently
and people on the streets with money their pockets to buy those
manufactured
products. It's a cycle, but with most manufacturing done in other
countries,
this cycle is now cycling money to other countries, not to the
American
economy. So the American economy is slowly going down.

All this has left America as a place with not too many opportunities
and
with houses that are so expensive that anybody foolish enough to buy
one
risks bankruptcy. In conclusion, America has nothing going for it.

What's going to happen next is an open question. The economy may limp
along
to a slow death or when everybody realizes that the whole American
economy
is just a "bubble economy" like the ".com revolution" was because it's
all
hype with no real money being made and if they all jump ship at the
same
time, we may get a stock market crash as in 1929. If the latter is the
reality, the best bet for a job will be with the Mexican army picking
up
dead American yuppies from the desert floor with sunburned hands
clutching
useless keyboards.
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