The attack into Iraq was swift and well done, but no plans were made for after sadistic Saddam was removed from power.
Without equipment, supplies and people landing to assist in helping the Iraqis immediately in starting the rebuilding of their country the Iraqis were instead left to sit around stewing in their misery which allowed the anti-America forces to gain unrestricted access throughout the country. If there had been any intelligent planning on what to do after wresting control from Saddam’s forces then the people would have acted against those who wanted to come in and cause problems in their country instead of turning a blind eye to them.
President Bush and the UN argued over who would create the Iraqi government while they totally ignored the plight of the people. That is not what liberators act like, or even what a smart conqueror would do. How could they have not realized that they must address the plight of the Iraqis if they wanted to stabilize the country? The first few days gave proof that the Iraqis first welcomed the US troops, but that advantage was lost when the US offered up nothing to improve their lives.
The same lack of insight in understanding, or maybe simply a lack of caring about, the plight of the people is causing the failure of the US today as well. How can anyone honestly think that exporting the good paying jobs of the country’s people, without replacing them with equally valuable local employment, will somehow help the country? And allowing businesses to do anything they please, like the financial institutions abusing mortgage lending practices that promote the failure of those mortgages, is further proof of incompetence in governing.
President Bush’s government is throwing money around like a madman and enacting policies that destroy the economic stability of the country’s masses, yet all his “experts” fail to see the coming fall. The US needs a government that realizes that the people, the masses not the few extremely wealthy, are the country. If the masses fail financially then the country fails too.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Recession
Is the US in a recession? I think the worst is yet to come.
The American dollar is becoming a liability. The smart money is switching to the Euro.
Soon the world’s big oil suppliers will demand oil be priced and paid in Euros instead of the continually faltering American buck, and we’ll have to buy imported oil using Euros because no one will want to get stuck with US dollars.
Still the US legislators insist on throwing $160 Billion foolishly into the market as a pretended economic stimulation package, instead of using the money to promote the country towards a financially stable footing by requiring the money be spent in specific US markets that will stimulate and protect our economy.
People without good jobs can’t spend the money our country needs to sustain our consumer driven society or pay the taxes our government needs to operate and pay its bills, so we have to create many new jobs to replace the large number of good paying jobs that have been moved out of the country. And the more locally produced power we create the less oil we’ll need to import to meet our needs. It can’t get any simpler than that. These two simple factors in an equation that will help protect or destroy our economy, depending on whether or not we properly address them.
The $160 Billion should be mostly spent to promote local business and employment growth in local energy creating, and some other infrastructure works as well. It wouldn’t require waiting until May to create economic activity and the money would be already spent promoting the US economy before the $160 Billion is given out by the government under the right plan.
The US has little time left to protect against the economy tanking big time.
My “Open Letter to North American Politicians” addresses the threats we are facing and I continue under “The US Stimulation Package 1 and 2”, at: http://community.myfoxstl.com/blogs/JosephThePoet
The American dollar is becoming a liability. The smart money is switching to the Euro.
Soon the world’s big oil suppliers will demand oil be priced and paid in Euros instead of the continually faltering American buck, and we’ll have to buy imported oil using Euros because no one will want to get stuck with US dollars.
Still the US legislators insist on throwing $160 Billion foolishly into the market as a pretended economic stimulation package, instead of using the money to promote the country towards a financially stable footing by requiring the money be spent in specific US markets that will stimulate and protect our economy.
People without good jobs can’t spend the money our country needs to sustain our consumer driven society or pay the taxes our government needs to operate and pay its bills, so we have to create many new jobs to replace the large number of good paying jobs that have been moved out of the country. And the more locally produced power we create the less oil we’ll need to import to meet our needs. It can’t get any simpler than that. These two simple factors in an equation that will help protect or destroy our economy, depending on whether or not we properly address them.
The $160 Billion should be mostly spent to promote local business and employment growth in local energy creating, and some other infrastructure works as well. It wouldn’t require waiting until May to create economic activity and the money would be already spent promoting the US economy before the $160 Billion is given out by the government under the right plan.
The US has little time left to protect against the economy tanking big time.
My “Open Letter to North American Politicians” addresses the threats we are facing and I continue under “The US Stimulation Package 1 and 2”, at: http://community.myfoxstl.com/blogs/JosephThePoet
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Our life and future
The security of the country is the first job of our governments, yet our governors have superseded the steering of our lives to anyone with enough wealth. All the wealth of the country is being sucked out to appease the greedy, including our jobs now being sucked out of the country, because no one is responsibly governing the direction of our country. The politicians make promises to help and protect us yet allow the private sector to govern our future once they get elected to office. I thought they applied for the job.
Our lifestyle requires lots of power and there are plenty of local power sources for us to tap but our non-governing governments have failed to steer us to this security. Wind power use had been around for centuries, and electrical production through the simple rotation of a magnet to induce current has been known for over a century, yet our direction for power sourcing was steered under the control of the wealthy and shortsighted to the massively polluting use of coal and oil.
Our whole lifestyle is under threat by the greedy and shortsighted. The people are the country and are deserving of basic human protections. All our communities, large and small, need to be defended because together they make up the country. If these communities have their own power sources then foreign powers couldn’t shut them down so easily. Our cities cannot survive without electrical power. Defense is first and foremost the protection of these many communities that make up our country, because if they fail then the country fails.
Guess what? Providing this security will give lots of local people employment, which is also needed for a country’s security. If we people don’t work then the country creates no wealth to do anything, and look at how much we owe now with so many of our jobs lost too. Free trade is stupid trade, whether within the country or outside sourced. Capitalism has to be controlled or the vile and shortsighted will cause destruction to the people and the planet that is why we elect people to govern us in our democracy.
Our lifestyle requires lots of power and there are plenty of local power sources for us to tap but our non-governing governments have failed to steer us to this security. Wind power use had been around for centuries, and electrical production through the simple rotation of a magnet to induce current has been known for over a century, yet our direction for power sourcing was steered under the control of the wealthy and shortsighted to the massively polluting use of coal and oil.
Our whole lifestyle is under threat by the greedy and shortsighted. The people are the country and are deserving of basic human protections. All our communities, large and small, need to be defended because together they make up the country. If these communities have their own power sources then foreign powers couldn’t shut them down so easily. Our cities cannot survive without electrical power. Defense is first and foremost the protection of these many communities that make up our country, because if they fail then the country fails.
Guess what? Providing this security will give lots of local people employment, which is also needed for a country’s security. If we people don’t work then the country creates no wealth to do anything, and look at how much we owe now with so many of our jobs lost too. Free trade is stupid trade, whether within the country or outside sourced. Capitalism has to be controlled or the vile and shortsighted will cause destruction to the people and the planet that is why we elect people to govern us in our democracy.
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