The U.S. Congress, Our most Successful Exporter

For about 20 years now, the U.S. Congress and both Democrat and Republican administrations have enacted trade agreements that are systematically wiping out the middle class in this country. The U.S. government may be our largest exporting engine. U.S. companies move jobs to foreign countries by the hundreds of thousands. Members of congress accept campaign contributions from foreign interests while their constituents lose jobs, homes and a way of life that has taken years of hard work to achieve. U.S. corporate executives collect compensation that is difficult for many Americans to understand.

We have moved from a position as the greatest industrial nation in the world to a country with a rapidly expanding social services workforce that dispenses taxpayer dollars to individuals that were once productive employees and the envy of the other nations of the world.

While businesses close all over America, we have a government that allows (actually encourages) the entry of illegal immigrants into the country to work for unscrupulous farmers and businessmen at substandard wages.

Hello! It is time to wake up. Washington needs to be cleaned up. If we don’t go to the polls this November in record numbers and register our displeasure with the current political process, than we deserve to be ignored. Regardless of who wins the White House, the Congress must be cleaned out.

Free trade might provide some benefits to U.S. companies and the more affluent U.S. citizens, but it is having a very negative impact on middle class America. Click on the links below to read more about “free trade’s” negative effects. http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/briefingpapers_bp147 and
http://www.americans-world.org/digest/global_issues/intertrade/reservations_trade.cfm

Are you old enough to remember when the U.S. had the following industries?

Automobile

Clothing

Manufacturing

Steel

Ship Building

etc, etc.

Friday, April 25, 2008

The U.S. Congress, Our most Successful Exporter