Worse and worse
Dale Linn
Originally published 06:00 a.m., November 22, 2007
Updated 02:32 p.m., November 21, 2007
The Nov. 3-4 edition of the Emporia Gazette tells of the U.S. opening its roads for Mexican truckers. It also told of flooding more Somali refugees into Emporia.
Might as well. In 1965, manufacturing accounted for 54 percent of the economy. In 2004, it accounted for just 9 percent. Today it is even less that that. Does anyone besides Barbara Walker (owner of the Gazette) truly believe that NAFTA was passed to help America?
Our elected officials have allowed rampant disrespect for our border laws until we have somewhere between 12 to 40 million illegal immigrants now living in the U.S. We have a national debt of nine trillion dollars, increasing right now at a rate of $1.44 billion every day. We have an annual trade deficit ($856 billion for the year 2006). As our dollar’s value plummets, inflation goes up, despite what our government might say. Including Medicare and Social Security obligations, our debt, as of 2003 is estimated at $44 trillion, or a tightly packed 44,000-mile-high stack of 100 dollar bills. All this, and our government spends money like it’s water.
People are finding it increasingly hard to meet payments, cannot afford health care and are living paycheck to paycheck. We are borrowing $196.4 billion more to fund the war that we cannot afford. Does anyone actually believe that our country is going to continue like this for very much longer?
I’ve got an idea, let’s put 40 million more illegal immigrants on the dole, start paying everyone’s health care from taxpayers money, bring as many more taxpayer-subsidized refugees into our country as we can and begin bringing Mexican trucks onto our roads (never mind what they are carrying). In fact, let’s just sit back and let the corporations run our country. (Oh, we’ve already been doing that, you say). Well, we must be in good shape.