Broken America

Image via WikipediaIn this time of economic hopelessness there are some things that people need to know about our government and our country.
     Republicans have pledged to cut billions from the U.S. budget and I think that we have all heard that most of the budget can't be cut. Why? The fact is that most countries in the world hate the United States, so in order to get any kind of cooperation from most countries the U.S. has to pay them. Both Republicans and Democrats know that we are paying billions of dollars, so that countries will not do things that are against our interest, or so that they will buy our products, or let our products be sold there, or to control who they allow to travel to our country. This is not a small amount of money it is 100 of billions of dollars. Add to that the billions we send to countries in weapons and humanitarian aide and the world is getting payed.
     The U.S. government and Congress know that we can no longer afford to pay these countries billions and billions of dollars, but they are being blackmailed by those same countries to continue paying. Neither the Government or the Congress have the guts to say no. They don't have the guts to tell countries that if they don't buy our goods we won't lat theirs into the United States. The government inability to say no to other countries has directly resulted in the flow of American jobs out of the United States.
     Companies that are based in the U.S. need to be able to stamp made somewhere else on their products so they can export them to other countries, because U.S. goods are not welcome in most countries in the world. These companies have moved the manufacturing of products to China, India, and Mexico, so they can stamp made in those countries on their labels. If they don't do that, they can't sell their products in other countries, because Made In America is not welcome there.
      The Depression we are having (it's not a recession), is directly linked to the fact that ours goods aren't allowed to be made here. American workers are out of work, because only Americans can buy goods that are truly Made In America. The fact is that since Americans can't buy enough junk, we have no economy. We can't manufacture our way out of this economic Apocalypse, because most goods are not made here. Our factories are not hiring here, because nothing is made here. Goods are being shipped directly to other countries, so they don't create jobs here. All the jobs that come from warehouses and shipping American goods will never come back because they don't exist any more. What the government doesn't want to tell you is that 13,000,000 people are Shit Out of Luck if they want to work. Those jobs are gone forever and retraining programs are only a way to cover that fact up.

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Bush's Financial Iraq

Congress is hell bent on voting to bail out their fellow country club members. Bush continues to use fear to drive the American People to follow him blindly like sheep. Bush must be related to the boy who cried wolf, except there is no wolf within miles. The result of this bailout will be a commitment by the Federal Government to pour billions into Wall Street indefinitely. Just like Iraq, They will be back asking congress for more and more money, with the threat that the whole economy will collapse. We will see trillions of dollars going to Wall Street so that they can continue to live "The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous while we pick up the tab. The Republican's say that without this deal there will be another Great Depression. The truth is that if it is approved threat depression will come, because the the dollar will be worth nothing after they print trillions of dollars. You'll be papering your walls with dollars and using them as box straw instead of bubble wrap.
In what is one of the most incredible lies ever told by any politician, Bush claimed that the bailout was not designed to save any particular financial institutions, after saying that people's money is safe. If it's safe then why the bailout? There is a lie there somewhere. Think about it.
The politician's have sent out a smoke screen to cover up the real reason for the economic crisis, which is the price of oil. Anyone who beleives that there is another reason for it is on crack. There was no problem until our politician's gave the oil companies a blank check to charge as much as they wanted for oil. When gas hit $4.00 a gallon, American's stopped buying things because they are putting their last dimes into their gas tanks. American's are even charging their gas to facilitate their ability to continue to get to work. In other words they are charging gas to get to work. so they can pay their credit cards and eat. Has Congress given us a bailout for that? Of course not, because they are owened by the oil companies.
The economy is headed for a major crash no matter how much they give Wall Street. This bailout is just a tactic to get past the election's before the economy crashes. Congress is just delaying the inevitable until they can get reelected and Bush is trying to get out of office before the bottom falls out. Why? The reason is obvious. He wants the next president to take the blame for his complete incompetence.
The press is so obsessed with putting Obama into office, that they are allowing our own government to sell us out. On top of that, they are living in a fantasy world where nothing exists except for the election. It seems that in their world everything is fine except that we haven't elected Obama yet.
American's have told Cogress and the president to stck this bailout in a dark location, but they persist in going ahead with it. What is the solution to this problem? Vote them all out. Go directly to the voting booth and vote them out.