The ONLY REAL FIX for Our Country is to Raise Revenue by Bringing Back Jobs to US Citizens who Pay Income Tax.  Yes, all of our problems will be dramatically reduced if we can rebuild our industry base. But I have some concerns with your ideology.  First of all, you are absolutely right in that BOTH political parties are incompetent and impotent to do anything. They are corrupted to the point of criminality and, to be perfectly honest, I really don’t think they have any clue on how to fix it. This is what happens when we have a plurality of lawyers and elitists running our government. The vast majority of them have never worked a real job or created commerce in their life. This is why we have accumulated this massive debt and unfunded liabilities.  Our trade policies are a mess. But there is a simple solution to that, just stop participating in them. Obviously this will take a few years but it’s not a big problem. The 2,000 page NAFTA mess is nothing but 900 pages of tariffs. The WTO is a little more involved, at 29,000 pages it is more involved with control rather than trade balance. How can you have ”Free Trade” with thousands of pages of wage protections, price controls, dumping laws, regulations and bureaucracy? You can’t.  Our last trade surplus was in 1975. Since then we have fallen to second place in world trade behind China.  Now, there are a couple important points we need to address here. First of all we had our golden era post WW II. We were the only standing industrial nation that could rebuild the world after 2 World wars and a Depression. And rebuild it we did. Europe, Eastern Asia, Northern Africa, we didn’t care, we were building everything from airplanes to zippers. It’s also important to note that in 1960 there were only 3 billion people on the planet, fifty years later we have 7 billion. This is important for a number of reasons.  As we flourished in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, the world was being rebuilt and, more importantly, the world was growing. At a rate of 80 million people annually being born we and the world were growing. In addition to population growth the concomitant effect of expanding commerce was also occurring. As much as we want to remain one of the leading manufacturing nations, more than likely we won’t. Not with our current leadership, culture and ideology.  Your concerns regarding lobbyists promoting outsourcing and off-shoring jobs is cavalier but the reality is the world has gotten much bigger. The 21st century will demand we participate in the global economy that is inevitable. Your evaluation of where most jobs get outsourced to is inaccurate. Multinational conglomerates don’t move their production facilities to barren third-world countries and hope their unskilled, illiterate, untrainable workforce will be productive in the manufacturing sectors. Most of the outsourcing is required to make production facilities closer to consumers in foreign countries. The vast majorities of outsourced jobs have gone to established economy nations or those that are rapidly emerging. Contrary to popular myth, cost of production is not the major reason industries have outsourced jobs.  By the way, your concern about environmental issues is valid to a fault. If you’re really concerned about the alleged global warming scam, you may want to petition Congress to shut down our export of coal to foreign nations. In 2011 we exported 107 million metric tons of coal worth $16 billion, the highest level since 1991. Most of the exports went to Asia, Europe and Brazil. US consumption has fallen by 20% over the past 10 years but our exports have risen dramatically. This leaves the unenviable conundrum. We are doing our share of reducing carbon output but in the meantime we are exporting more coal to be used for foreign energy production. So, are we willing to stop a $16 billion industry, plus its attendant export profits, in a sluggish economy?  Remember, we can either look at the other 6.7 billion people on the planet as competition or consumers. Preferably we do both.  Your notion of “returning private sector” jobs makes it sounds like there are tens of millions of jobs we can just coerce from these other nations.  The first thing we have to understand is that most of our jobs didn’t just disappear in a mass migration abroad. As a matter of fact the biggest loss of jobs has occurred because of global demands and dramatic improvements in technology, innovation, automation and decentralization. Computers and robots do now what used to take hundreds of workers. And if that doesn’t concern you, experts predict it will continue for quite some time into the future.  If you think we can magically bring back millions of jobs, most of which have been consolidated because of technology, you are in for a rude awakening. The days of the illiterate, unskilled, untrained , high-school graduate, or even drop out, just walking into a factory and getting a sustainable job have gone buh-bye a long time ago. We don’t want those jobs anyway.  We have a dramatic demographic shift happening. We, and the global economy, will need much higher skilled workers educated in the Science, Technology, Engineering (STEM) curricula. These will be the productivity creating jobs we will need to compete for and against the 6.7 billion people on the planet.  Just as importantly we are going to need other skilled trades also. Welders, plumbers, electricians and other trades will be needed as the Baby-Boomers retire and take their trades with them. These can be promoted in 2-year degrees to make it easier for entry level jobs to stay here.  The biggest competition we will offer is via the STEM associated industries. This, however, is also where our biggest problem is. Our criminal government run public education system has been graduating illiterates from our high schools for the past 30 years. 20% of graduates can’t even read their own diplomas. Our children rank in the bottom 1/2 to 1/3 in math, reading and science among other OECD countries. Recently it was reported that American adults scored below the international average on a global test. This does not predict a prosperous future.  We are still one of the most productive economies in the world but the 21st century will be much different than last century. We have numerous systemic defects that need to be fixed including eliminating our irrational progressive tax system, reform of regulations, unions need to be less adversarial to industry and our energy policy needs to be expanded in both the fossil and renewable sectors. But as mentioned above the most critical is a total reform of our education system. We are no longer educating our children, we’re indoctrinating them. This is good for statists and elitists that can control the unwashed masses easier but it dramatically decreases our ability to be create wealth, prosperity and an improved standard of living.  Finally, I’d like to ask you to tell us how many jobs have been lost to simple outsourcing or offshoring compared to how many jobs have been lost to technology, innovation, automation and decentralization? This is where much of the confusion in our economy rests today.  We have to resurrect our domestic export industries. Paying a little more for American made products here does nothing to improve our economy unless we are bringing more money in from abroad than we send out. When we continue to create $500 billion trade deficits we will NEVER correct our economy. It’s noble to want to take care of American workers, but in reality we have to please the masses if we want to dine with the classes.  This is our biggest challenge for the next couple decades if we want to really create a strong working class.
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