By Bill Ferguson
The Macon Telegraph
As I look back on the presidents who have served in office during my adult life, I can remember the exact moment when I became officially disillusioned with each one of them. There was always one thing that happened during their term that served as a turning point, a point at which I went from giving them the benefit of the doubt to giving up on them and looking forward to the end of their time in office.
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WORST PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES WOULD EVER HAVE BUT NOW HE IS NUMBER 2 THANKS
TO OBUMMER........
Reagan is the one who started pushing us as a "consumer" nation and wanted a transition into a "service based economy". He heavily favored trade with Japan to the extent that his administration actually fought against American industries in trade disputes.
Reagan "sold" our consumer electronics industry to the Japanese for a few million dollars of gifts and contributions to him an his library. He even let our steel industry go.
Since that time every president and our congress has worked tirelessly to promote "free trade", and cast any attempt of fair trade as protectionism. We have virtually eliminated all our import duties while other nations maintain clear barriers to our products.
For example, USA companies have to obtain a expensive difficult European compliance (CE) to sell into a group of European countries, while those countries can trade freely with each other. Many things are required to be tested in European labs. There are no similar restrictions coming this way.
These great American politicians, including Clinton with NAFTA, are the real reason we have no jobs. They had the distorted vision to think our wallets had no bottoms, and we never really needed to build anything here. Their idea was we could just "service" each other by selling imports to each other.
Unfair trade, and the foreign energy we buy, is why we are broke today and getting "broker". Our condition has nothing to do with health care or taxes, because that is money we spend here on ourselves. Our country is like our own family. Anything we spend inside our own house stays in our house to recycle. Any money we ship outside pretty much stays gone now.
Look at the largest oil company we had, Standard Oil. It became British Petroleum years ago. We sell pieces of ourselves to the first person who pulls up, just like common street whores, and we wonder why we are in bad health. We blame it on money we spend on ourselves, instead of blaming it on money we ship offshore by the boatload.
The politicians who pimped us out the most are our biggest hero's. We had lots of money while they were selling us to the highest bidder, so we think times were good.
The U.S. has the highest healthcare costs and the lowest number of doctor visits. Makes sense that the powers that be are against any sort of reform. They are making some jack!
International business not restrained by government interference or regulation, such as duties.
antitrust laws - The Federal laws forbidding businesses from monopolizing a market or restraining free trade.
trade - A transaction of a security or commodity.
free enterprise - Business governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy.
#1 there are always around these kind of controls.
#2 we have given government too much control over our individual lives in order to gain a free handout. (no such thing as free btw)
It is time we stop holding our hands out and make some meaningful changes. Real change begins with (I). I work for what I need. I give to those who are truly in need. I act responsibly. I do not overcharge for services. I do not overcharge for goods. I use what I have responsibly. I do not expect you to pay my way simply because I don't want to work. I do not resent what you have - and certainly I do not expect the gov't to step in and give me your prosperity simply because you worked for it and I have less. I take the time to be truly informed and quit believing what the media is trying to cram down my throat as truth. I vote according to my conscience. I live by the rule that if it applies to me it probably applies to someone else. I live by do unto others...
Many fingers of blame
A half-century of federal-government intrusion has produced its latest rapacious consequence in education, as shown in The Telegraph’s report, “Four principals to be replaced if (federal) stimulus funds accepted.” Distant bureaucrats under the president’s Department of Education have placed our school system into jeopardy. Dedicated principals and teachers must get the ax, says imperial Washington, as if they are the cause of student’s poor performance.
Parents without values, misplaced objectives and government policy, lack of expectations, curriculum restrictions, ignored realities, dumb-down academics, poor public attitude toward education and the lack of discipline because of onerous regulations – are all at fault. These cannot be corrected by any amount of technocratic “federal stimulus funding,” “school improvement grants,” or government-dictated “intervention models.
We are seeing what we don’t want to admit: the results of long-term liberal-secular-progressive social policy:
1. Work ethic is largely absent because many students know they do not have to perform, learn a trade, or become educated. If they turn out ill-equipped, social programs will provide for them.
2. Government has created and maintained a large under class of unproductive people who re-elect the politicians who supposedly care for them – America’s vicious circle. All Americans’ lives became politicized.
3. The meaning of America is largely gone – a positively encouraged, self-sufficient people valuing individual liberty and freedom under the Judeo-Christian inspired constitutional republic that the founding fathers gave us.
The Telegraph article quotes a teacher, “Our school is in danger.” We are all in danger. The schools could lead us back to our rightful paths,but not with the obstructed course devolved upon them by an oppressive central government.
Dr. Clyde D. Marlow
Macon