Educated Americans, Indian Mangoes and Free Trade Politics
John W. Slagle
March 07, 2006
President Bush?s Nuclear Information Agreement with India in exchange for mangoes sounds like a fantastic international trade venture. Congressional consultation or approval is apparently unimportant.
Outsourcing American businesses and high tech skilled jobs to India is also great for commerce and India?s middle class. In-sourcing foreign workers under the needed skills visa program is also necessary for our growing economy.
These are jobs the President apparently believes cannot be filled in the United States.
American citizens can be educated for another field if their employment disappears overseas. Perhaps with the importation of mangoes, the government will allow this nation?s unemployed to open neighborhood ?Juice Stands? to feed their families while being ?educated? for another lower paying job.
The operation of six major Seaports plus two on the Texas Gulf Coast by UAE is now well explained. Few people realized that 80 per cent of our Seaports were operated by foreign interests and that is an education.
The Administration always brings up the racial issues regarding the Port Operations to keep people divided, when the division is between classes, the world Elite and the working citizen.
The American people are becoming educated, aware of price increases of cheap imported foreign products and dependence on goods this nation no longer manufactures.
Four and one half trillion dollars in trade deficits sounds economically unsound but it is Free Trade. Our national goal of equality to all nations globally means total nondiscrimination. To make judgments against the UAE that has sponsored terrorism in the past but are friends at the moment is considered racist and mean tempered.
Our elected officials have confused citizen?s faith in government with ignorance and stupidity when free trade, commerce are more important than national security.
There should be a clarification that not everything is ?For Sale in the United States? to a foreign nation by secretive decisions by CFIUS without Congressional authority. It?s called national security, not xenophobia.
Perhaps President Bush is correct by stating that the American people need to be educated. Since September 11,2001, a majority of taxpayers have become docile and completely trusting when it comes to current political events in this nation. Concerns about the situation in Iraq, the economy, climbing national debt, decreasing veterans benefits, illegal immigration and globalization are a few very important issues for study.
The taxpayers of this nation are far from being ?brain dead? yet it seems the will or needs of the people is of little importance in the Monarchy of Big Business Politics.
Perhaps in educating ourselves, we will find that we have allowed our Congress and Senate to become overly comfortable between elections. When elected leaders are controlled by lobbyists to special-interest monies and influence, their true purpose of office is forgotten as well as their constituents. Greed, corruption and personal scandals will always be a part of politics, regardless of the party in power but taxpayers, voters place them in positions of authority.
A citizen?s duty is not to vote every four years on partisan lines and consider their national obligation ended. Voters should elect the best possible representative for the state or the nation, and see what they are accomplishing or not accomplishing in Congress or the Senate yearly. It?s all a matter public record, bills to popular votes on important issues and ?pork barrel spending.? Checks and balances are the taxpayers who pay the bills for all government civil servants including the President.
That is definitely an education in politics beyond casting a vote every few years and ?trusting? leaders to represent the majority populace. The United States of America is not yet a Kingdom composed of separate "fiefdoms'where ?srfs? have no voice in government.
An election year is the time to carefully consider who will remain in office with the best interests of this nation foremost and always. Republican, Democrat or Independent, the right to vote should never be taken for granted. The responsibility for our children?s futures is on our shoulders, our decisions as voters,not a corporate boardroom.
Outsourcing American businesses and high tech skilled jobs to India is also great for commerce and India?s middle class. In-sourcing foreign workers under the needed skills visa program is also necessary for our growing economy.
These are jobs the President apparently believes cannot be filled in the United States.
American citizens can be educated for another field if their employment disappears overseas. Perhaps with the importation of mangoes, the government will allow this nation?s unemployed to open neighborhood ?Juice Stands? to feed their families while being ?educated? for another lower paying job.
The operation of six major Seaports plus two on the Texas Gulf Coast by UAE is now well explained. Few people realized that 80 per cent of our Seaports were operated by foreign interests and that is an education.
The Administration always brings up the racial issues regarding the Port Operations to keep people divided, when the division is between classes, the world Elite and the working citizen.
The American people are becoming educated, aware of price increases of cheap imported foreign products and dependence on goods this nation no longer manufactures.
Four and one half trillion dollars in trade deficits sounds economically unsound but it is Free Trade. Our national goal of equality to all nations globally means total nondiscrimination. To make judgments against the UAE that has sponsored terrorism in the past but are friends at the moment is considered racist and mean tempered.
Our elected officials have confused citizen?s faith in government with ignorance and stupidity when free trade, commerce are more important than national security.
There should be a clarification that not everything is ?For Sale in the United States? to a foreign nation by secretive decisions by CFIUS without Congressional authority. It?s called national security, not xenophobia.
Perhaps President Bush is correct by stating that the American people need to be educated. Since September 11,2001, a majority of taxpayers have become docile and completely trusting when it comes to current political events in this nation. Concerns about the situation in Iraq, the economy, climbing national debt, decreasing veterans benefits, illegal immigration and globalization are a few very important issues for study.
The taxpayers of this nation are far from being ?brain dead? yet it seems the will or needs of the people is of little importance in the Monarchy of Big Business Politics.
Perhaps in educating ourselves, we will find that we have allowed our Congress and Senate to become overly comfortable between elections. When elected leaders are controlled by lobbyists to special-interest monies and influence, their true purpose of office is forgotten as well as their constituents. Greed, corruption and personal scandals will always be a part of politics, regardless of the party in power but taxpayers, voters place them in positions of authority.
A citizen?s duty is not to vote every four years on partisan lines and consider their national obligation ended. Voters should elect the best possible representative for the state or the nation, and see what they are accomplishing or not accomplishing in Congress or the Senate yearly. It?s all a matter public record, bills to popular votes on important issues and ?pork barrel spending.? Checks and balances are the taxpayers who pay the bills for all government civil servants including the President.
That is definitely an education in politics beyond casting a vote every few years and ?trusting? leaders to represent the majority populace. The United States of America is not yet a Kingdom composed of separate "fiefdoms'where ?srfs? have no voice in government.
An election year is the time to carefully consider who will remain in office with the best interests of this nation foremost and always. Republican, Democrat or Independent, the right to vote should never be taken for granted. The responsibility for our children?s futures is on our shoulders, our decisions as voters,not a corporate boardroom.
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