Unless something goes terribly askew, Tea
Party Republicans and their pretenders will probably secure the majority
in both the House and the Senate with the election to be held in
November. That will just about make Obama a lame-duck president his
last two years in office, which would be a good thing, considering all
the damage he's done in his first two. But I am already beginning to
see and hear the Bush-type NeoCons rubbing their hands in gleeful
anticipation, and this time we'd better have learned our lesson and keep
them at arms length, or we will see the same mistakes made all over
again.
The most harmful act ever perpetrated on the American people in the last twenty years was not
the hijacking of four airliners by nineteen terrorists who used them to
topple the Twin Towers, ram the Pentagon and kill 3,000 American
citizens on September 11, 2001. That event wasn't even close. No, the
most harmful act ever perpetrated on the American people in the entire
history of the United States took place in 1993-94, when President Bill
Clinton defied his own Democratic Party and signed Republican-sponsored
bills committing the United States to global free trade agreements.
That insidious act, in and of itself, did far more harm to our nation
than any Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Stalin or Mao could have ever hoped
for or envisioned.
In the meantime, nobody is talking
about it -- at all! It seems everyone is so sidelined with silly
emotion over a proposed Mosque two New York blocks from Ground Zero that
they have literally lost their collective minds, and that is
inexcusable.
NeoCon Republicans under Bush did nothing
for small businesses that once provided the bulk of employment in this
nation. Every act committed and every bill signed by President Bush was
specifically honed to benefit large, multi-national corporations, firms
that have absolutely no loyalty to America or its
citizens, but they do have lots of money to spend on elections. Those
massive firms wanted nothing more than to make money and make a few
people fabulously wealthy, and presidents Clinton and Bush were their
perfect, amoral patsies to get it done.
As a result of those free trade agreements,
the United States is no longer a strong and respected super-power,
and this was done to us from within.
It all happened very slowly and
incrementally. Here and there, American manufacturing companies layed
off their work force, closed factories and moved their manufacturing
operations to emerging nations like Communist China, Communist Vietnam,
India, Indonesia, Mexico and anywhere else low labor costs, low taxes
and non-existent environmental regulations attracted them.
And why would they want to
stay here? With the signing of the free trade agreements, If they
didn't close up shop and move, it was obvious their competition would,
so the American jobs would have been lost either way. If the
manufacturers moved overseas to low-labor ports, they could continue to
produce products at much lower operating costs while still using the
same high technology to produce goods as excellent as were made in the
USA, but the corporate profits would be substantially greater. With few
or no trade restrictions, those corporate manufacturers began exporting
their goods to the United States to sell them for just a few dollars
less than an American-based manufacturer could, and faced with the
choice between American-made and foreign-made products of the same
quality, American consumers invariably opted for the less expensive, but
equal, foreign
products. As a result, the few hold-out manufacturers remaining in the
U.S. eventually could not compete and went out of business too. The
net result was the loss of tens of millions of family-wage-paying
American jobs, and unless those free trade agreements are reversed and
we once again become the manufacturing giant we once were, those
family-wage-paying jobs will never return.
Ever so slowly, the effects settled in.
Like a slow-growing, malignant tumor, most Americans hardly felt a
twinge of discomfort at first. A few jobs lost here, and a few jobs
lost there, a plant closing here and there, and in the meantime the
Stock Market inexplicably soared. Government regulations were relaxed
to the point the guy washing dishes at Denny's could buy a $300,000.00
home with creative financing -- financing that would make the same
sucker homeless in a few years, but hey, people were making money! As
the housing bubble neared its inevitable ebb, even the newly unemployed
could still make money by refinancing the equity out of their homes, and
if all else failed, they could always rely on their credit cards.
Hardly anyone questioned the historic resilience of the U.S. economy, as
if it were impregnable. "The jobs will come back", many said, "but we
are
embarking on a new and 'better' American economy, one that does not
rely on manufacturing, but more on service".
The environmentalists were more than giddy.
No longer would American manufacturers pollute our ground, air
and water. They were overjoyed to see all those steel mills and
automobile manufacturing plants close up, and they didn't mind at all
the fact that Americans with thirty years in manufacturing would now
have to completely re-orient their lives by replacing one
family-wage-paying job with two or three lower-paying jobs and no
benefits. After all, nationalized
health care would remedy the latter, and those displaced folks needed
to go back to school to learn a nice, clean, "green" trade anyway. The
environmentalist freaks thought it was all a splendid idea -- so long as
it didn't affect them.
Almost all Americans now live in cities and
suburban neighborhoods dotted with signs advertising foreclosed homes.
Downtown businesses all over the U.S. are closing down, with Main Street
store front windows covered by cheap plywood. Hardly anyone can find a
job that payed as well as the one they lost, so they either collect
unemployment benefits or they accept the lower-paying jobs when those
benefits run out. The standard of living most Americans enjoyed until
2005 or so is eroding downward, and it will continue to erode downward
until American wages and benefits reach parity with the rising standard
of living of the emerging nations who now do all the manufacturing we
once did. What we are witnessing is the destruction of a once great and
powerful nation from within, and no Muslim did this to us.
The powers that be want as many Americans as
possible distracted by that proposed mosque and all those evil
Muslims. So long as our attention is on anything other than the actual
cause of our misery, the real perpetrators stay out of our cross hairs.
That is why they are printing money they don't have on extended
unemployment benefits because they know this nation's social order will
begin to implode rapidly if they don't. People who cannot feed their
children will do some very shameful things they normally wouldn't do,
and what our government fears most is that the general population will
finally wake-up to what they did and turn on them in numbers they cannot
control or defend against.
Just look at the incidence
of murder-suicides of entire families being reported all over the nation
right now. People in extreme financial despair are killing themselves
and those they loved, but it won't be long before enough of those people
get together and decide that if they might die anyway, they might as
well get together and die trying to kill those reponsible for what has
happened to them. That next logical progression is fomenting as I write
this little rant, and the feds know it.
The people who did this to us are not Muslim
mosque-builders. The one person most responsible for this high-treason
is a man who is still highly regarded by many Americans who don't
realize exactly what he did to them and this nation, and his name
is William Jefferson Clinton. That man planted the malignant seed of
free trade agreements in 1993-94 that has now grown into a painful
and probably fatal cancer, but he did it with the encouragement and
approval of corporation-elected Republican whores doing the bidding of
their masters.
That is why I have been encouraging as many people as possible to elect small business Tea
Party Republicans, and not those like Mit Romney, whose business
background is a corporate one. Large, multi-national corporations have
no soul and they have no national loyalty. The corporate god is money,
and by written law, a corporation's sole duty is to provide the highest
possible return to their investors no matter who gets hurt, so long as
the corporation operates within the law. That is why the multi-national
corporations pushed for the free trade agreements. Pre-free trade laws
included protective tariffs and trade restrictions that made it
unprofitable for a manufacturer to
produce goods in low-labor nations and export them to America, so the
multi-national corporations virtually pooled their election money
to buy politicians who would sell free trade to America, and that is
what led to the dire economic conditions we have in the United States
today.
But again, nobody running for office or holding an elected office, is talking about it. They don't even want you to think
about it, which is why they've got Hannity, Limbaugh and all the rest
directing your attention to a proposed mosque and the evil Muslims
behind it. I can't believe how many stupid people there are that fell for it.
No voter in his/her right mind should want
to be represented by a corporate, bought & paid-for politician, but
the fact is that most Republicans are corporate whores,
and those Republicans with the biggest war chests at election time are
almost entirely bought & paid-for, so when election time comes in
November, try to remember this warning: If you elect the same kind of people as you did before, you will get the same results.
Carl F. Worden
August 25, 2010
