Yet Another Scapegoat for Our Choices Made
Posted 10-10-2010 at 08:45 AM by LookinForMayberry
One day, probably not too far in the future (I hope) we will wake up, and this last century will be known as the time of Blaming. We will have discovered that we cannot solve our problems until we take responsibility for them, and then more than half the solution will be achieved.
For now, it seems we've discovered yet one more group outside ourselves to vilify, according to this article in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us...mc=rss&src=igw
Americans need to turn off their entertainments for a few hours a week and start educating themselves again. I know we're capable; we once held an education as something desirable and accomplished great things. I think that stopped around WWII, when even the ignorant (not stupid, just uneducated) could start earning a wage that would support them. But, I digress, back to our scapegoats, and why it's connected to our ignorance.
Bottom line, our consumer choices drove our businesses to move off-shore, because our labor rates were too high to support the low cost products we demand. Manufacturers chase the lowest labor bidders around the world, and we still keep buying the products. Now, after decades of buying continually cheaper consumer goods, we have yet another drain on our American economy through increasing the National Debt and incurring the interest we have to pay.
The sad thing now is we can rarely buy the products we need from domestic manufacturers, because they've closed shop.
It started with our natural resources (like steel, aluminum, etc), and then moved to our heavy manufacturing and then light manufacturing. Now our services are being sent off-shore. Soon, you'll have to buy your Mickey D from Amazon and have it shipped in from Bangladesh.
That's okay, because while we sent all our sources of economy offshore, we've built housing developments on the fertile farmland, and poisoned our food supplies. I figure its going to take a catastrophic event to wake us up, and expect we are not far off from that eventuality the way we're spiraling.
So, go ahead, blame the Chinese. When you are done, blame the Indians, or someone else out there, while you order your next entertainment doodad online over your iPod, while in line at the fast (non)food chain of your choosing and visit with the only friends that are still working.
For now, it seems we've discovered yet one more group outside ourselves to vilify, according to this article in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us...mc=rss&src=igw
Americans need to turn off their entertainments for a few hours a week and start educating themselves again. I know we're capable; we once held an education as something desirable and accomplished great things. I think that stopped around WWII, when even the ignorant (not stupid, just uneducated) could start earning a wage that would support them. But, I digress, back to our scapegoats, and why it's connected to our ignorance.
Bottom line, our consumer choices drove our businesses to move off-shore, because our labor rates were too high to support the low cost products we demand. Manufacturers chase the lowest labor bidders around the world, and we still keep buying the products. Now, after decades of buying continually cheaper consumer goods, we have yet another drain on our American economy through increasing the National Debt and incurring the interest we have to pay.
The sad thing now is we can rarely buy the products we need from domestic manufacturers, because they've closed shop.
It started with our natural resources (like steel, aluminum, etc), and then moved to our heavy manufacturing and then light manufacturing. Now our services are being sent off-shore. Soon, you'll have to buy your Mickey D from Amazon and have it shipped in from Bangladesh.
That's okay, because while we sent all our sources of economy offshore, we've built housing developments on the fertile farmland, and poisoned our food supplies. I figure its going to take a catastrophic event to wake us up, and expect we are not far off from that eventuality the way we're spiraling.
So, go ahead, blame the Chinese. When you are done, blame the Indians, or someone else out there, while you order your next entertainment doodad online over your iPod, while in line at the fast (non)food chain of your choosing and visit with the only friends that are still working.
Total Comments 0
