The Empowered Impoverished

It is confounding that irreverent and gluttonous lawmakers are demanding a cut in salary for autoworkers under the Big Three. The disparity that is being championed in Congress needs to clarified. The North American Free Trade Agreement enacted during Bill Clinton’s tenure as United States President was the beginning of the grift. Painfully as some lesson are learned, American businesses discovered attempting to transplant American work ideals to foreign cultures is not always successful. The idea of utilizing cheap foreign labor for traditional American jobs may have been tempting, but philosophically it proved a failure. Wall Street largely was responsible for the collapse of the Mexican peso by bloating these industrial futures. Mexico it seems was not ready to embrace the ideals of mainstream America. While NAFTA failed supporters of Globalization turned elsewhere. Further abandoning the American people businesses turned to Asia as a source of cheap labor. Only affluent business owner were to benefit from this move. What was to become of the rest of America and her middle class? It seems our Senate believes no one in the United States deserves a fair wage except our lawmakers. As Congress continues to approve the maximum tuition hike each year for colleges and universities allowed by federal law, sources of income to meet these inflationary measures disappear. Not long ago the landscape of America was overtaken by a string of retail stores. America’s emphasis on developing and producing quality goods waned and in its place emerged cheap retail jobs. “You can always be a greeter at WalMart,” the saying goes. Almost overnight the entity of the Soccer Mom was born. While she could be seen as an independent, mini-van driving, liberated woman the reality is she is a mother dependent upon two incomes to support the traditional American Dream. “Somewhere in Time” as the song pines, there was a time when the middle class lived a good life in America. Some political faction decided otherwise and the Walmart Greeter was born. Who decided this? Who decided America, like every other third world country, was contracted to the classism that created poverty in Africa? The disappearance of the middle class in America is the most unnerving of recent political ramifications. It can’t help but be discerned that Republicans want nothing more than the wealthy coffers from which the British monarchy have been feeding for the last two centuries. Is another American Revolution at hand? Americans are developing an understanding of this elitist dogma, and the ousting of federal Republicans can not come more quickly. As the retiring totalitarian regime is forced from office, they cannot help but pluck from the vine the ripe grapes of America’s former glory. Isn’t it time some hands were severed and some heads roll into the guillotine basket? If an 800 billion dollar bail out of Wall Street were not enough, incumbent Republicans still are looking at ways to soil America’s next president even before he takes office.