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Over One Million
Dollars every 42 seconds
Our national
debt, that we owe to
China
This
amount is so large, that few people can even
read or comprehend this number and what it truly represents, meanwhile it is
constantly growing.
The
congressional leaders
in Washington D.C. have created this debt on your behalf. it is you and your
children who
will be responsible for re-paying this national debt through future
taxation. Meanwhile our congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, do
nothing nor truly care how they are destroying our country. Their only concern
is being re-elected, collecting their outrageous pay, benefits and
retirement packages.
Shame on all of you in Washington, D.C. for creating this mess
All of you should be sent home during the next
election
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Not
Made In China
Why
is this so important?
The economic future
of our nation as well as the future for our
children and grandchildren are dependant on the choices
that we make today. With each passing year we are
becoming more dependant on communist China to produce
our consumer goods, meanwhile more and more American
jobs are being lost to factories in China, as these
products that were formally made in America are now
being made in overseas. As this trend continues our
trade deficits with China grows larger with each passing year,
further indebting the US Government to another nation. Like a massive hurricane looming on the horizon,
this potential finical disaster of our national and
personal wealth will result in the destruction our
industrial powerhouse that formally fueled our economy
and gave security to our nation and its citizens. This
is the largest transferee of a nations wealth (to
another nation) in the history of mankind,
and will create the economic destruction of ours and
most western nations, if this is allowed to continue.
Loss of leadership:
Neither our
elected leaders nor our corporate leaders seem to care,
as long as huge profits continue to roll in, with
corresponding campaign-contributions to fund
congressional re-election campaigns. It is
with these excessive profits that these huge
corporations continue to ship more manufacturing jobs
into China, as they continue to finance the elections of both political
parties, so as to own and control both sides of the
political aisles in Washington. In the end, it is the American
worker who is loosing their jobs to Chinese factories
who are producing low cost consumer goods, ... that we
are demanding.
In a nut
shell, we are slowly self-destructing the economic
manufacturing base of our nation and with that, the security of our families with each
and every product that is Made In China. You may
deny this fact as long as you are fully employed, until
the day that you find that your job has been eliminated and
consequently
you
are unable to secure another well paying job. It is then
and only then that this self-imposed suicidal cycle of
demanding cheaper and cheaper foreign produced goods,
that the average citizen will fully realize what our
government, corporate leaders and "We-The-People" have
done to our nation. By then this declining cycle will
almost be irreversible, with plants that have been shut
down in excess 15 to 20 years and are unusable for
further productive needs, the probable
recession-depression that will surly surpass what occurred in
1929.
Nine months after writing this,
the beginning of mortgage crisis started to show up, the
failure of major US banks, the decline of the stock
market, escalating oil prices and the further
devaluation of the dollar world-wide. All totally
independently separate situations and yet they are
interwoven together because of the decline of the
American dollar as well as our ever-increasing national
debt. Or another way of wording it is that...
"OUR DOLLAR is becoming
WORTHLESS"
International trade:
I have to admit, up
until only a few years ago I truly believed in fair and equal international trade between
nations, thus benefiting the manufacturing, creative sectors as well as
the people of all nations, but something has gone severely astray
in the past 15 to 20 years. Neither of our leaders in the White House nor our
Congressional leaders have the vision or truly care about this potential
economic disaster that is quickly approaching our nation. Our elected
leaders are only interested in ... their ever increasing pay, retirement, health and
benefit packages and being re-elected as well as their obligations to the corporations who
PAID to have them placed into office with never-ending campaign
contributions. Meanwhile the bed-rock of our nation, its manufacturing sector continues
to decline while national debt and trade deficits continues to balloon out of control, and no one in
Washington seems to care.
Foreign Debt:
With each passing year our national debt as well as our
trade-deficits grows larger with China, while our dollar continues to be
de-valued against other international currencies. Because of these
excessive profits being earned by government-owned factories in China,
consequently it is China's national banking system has been
purchasing U.S. Treasury Bills to finance our national debt that our government leaders have
created and to offset the re-payment the trade deficits that we help to create by
purchasing so many of their products. With each year these
trillions
of dollars that we owe the Chinese government continues to escalate, due
to our own greed for quick corporate profits and low cost consumer goods.
The number on the top of this page is in the TRILLIONS, and growing
When
any foreign nation has such finical power over our government due to our national debt and trade
deficit, likewise they have the power
to ignore or to dictate treaties, agreements and a slew of other factors that benefit
their nation. Meanwhile we
Americans will have to be taxed heavier in the near future so as to re-pay
this foreign debt. Repeatedly year after year our own government is unable or
unwilling to provide the basic health care & social needs that Americans so
desperately need. It does not require a Doctorate in International-Economics to conclude that something is seriously wrong,
accordingly we are equally responsible for re-electing these do-nothing presidents and
congressional leaders who have sold their souls to corporations who finance
their re-elections campaigns, while giving little to no thought about the
repercussions of their lack of actions and this is the primary reason for serious
national problem. We have always assumed that our congressional leaders were suppose to represent "We the People"
but the reality of today, is that they are only representing "We the
Campaign-Donors", while our country's finical security quickly slides down a
slippery road towards fiscal instability.
The
Mart & Big-Box Stores:
These corporations
(and others) are largely responsible for this impending disaster that looms on the
horizon. They are obsessed with acquiring low cost goods so as to promote higher sales
and boost their corporate profits, with little regard to the fact that
the former
"Rust-Belt of the 80's" is again spreading cancerous effects upon the
nation as more and more business close due to the
lack of contracts for products that are now being Made In China.
We as consumers are equally responsible by demanding and purchasing such
goods, consequently causing this domino-effect of cascading economic decline,
foreign debt and a de-valued dollar that was the only dependable currency
world wide.
These huge
corporations when singing contracts with their suppliers, could very easily
demand that each and every product should have at least 40% of its components
manufactured in the United States, so as to help create an even larger base of
their potential clientele. They do not do this, because they do not
truly care about you or the nation, their only interest is their ever increasing
profit margin, the consequence of selling your soul to China for a quick profit.
The
Rotating Dollar:
Typically, when a
person spends one dollar with a local business, that dollar is normally re-spent at least
seven times before it leaves the community forever. Like-wise
there is additional re-spending (Of that first initial Dollar) when it is
re-spent repetitively again by seven fold and the process may replicate its self as
much as 49 times until all of those first initial dollars truly leave the
community forever. Accordingly with every purchase made locally,
especially with products that are Made-In-America, it provides potential
employment in that
community as those same dollars are repetitively rolled-over and are re-spent
with in that region. In general the whole community benefits, giving us a vibrant economy and full employment that then
repeats its self through out the whole nation.
When dollars are spent
in large corporate discount and big-box stores with (With out-of-state corporate headquarters)
and on products that were Made In China,
all of those profits immediately leave the area forever, (with the exception of low wages
employees), thus depleting the local economy of the potential economic growth and
expansion that could have occurred, if we had spent our dollars with local
business who made the effort to carry products that were Made-In-America,
consequently providing employment and a vibrant economic future for all Americans.
Made
In America:
Take a walk through any "Mart-Store or Big-Box store", pick up each and
every box, you will find 98% of these items were Made In China.
By now you are fully aware that all of your clothing in your closet has been
manufactured over seas. Now take a minute search your own pantry, freezer,
canned and dried-goods, shockingly you will find even our food supplies are
being imported from China. Then pause and wonder... "How will your children and grandchildren ever
afford a home, vacation and some basic finical security, if they are unable to
find a decent paying job in the future". The next time you are in a "Mart or
Big-Box Store" take a moment and ask to
speak with the manager, and
inquire... "Where are the American Made items found within the store?", when they
tell you "There are none" then inform that manager that ... "I was
planning to spend $400 to $500 for gifts, but since all your products are all
Made In China, I will have to spend my money elsewhere, where the
products are Made In America. It is then and only then, when
these discount stores see a reduction in their sales and profits, that they will return to having
products produced and Made In America rather than China.
The
sky is falling:
With the Chicken
Little Theory, "The sky is always falling", consequently no one bothers to
listen and truly absorb this basic problem that we are facing at this critical
period in our nations history. Yes, our economy is
booming, with low employment and acceptable inflation, but the reality of the
situation is really dependant on what side of the economic-fence that you
are sitting on at the moment. For those who are fully employed, they truly do
not care where the products are manufactured, as long as they can buy them as
cheaply as possible. For those who have lost their jobs and now working two to
three low paying service-related jobs, just to keep their family afloat, they
truly understand the ramifications of what is occurring. The destruction of
national manufacturing capabilities does not only effect skilled and un-skilled workers who
are trying to achieve the American-Dream by having a decent paying job, but it
also effects our best and brightest, highly educated management employees,
engineers, accounts, designers and a slew of other personal who services will no
longer be required here in America, as these jobs are also being out-sourced to
Chinese government owned factories. You can keep your head buried in the sand and deny
the possibility that this is occurring, or you can take a moment and ponder the
total ramifications of what is actually happening now and where another 10 years
of this insane direction will take our nation and its people.
I for one do not want
to be fully dependant on a Chinese-Communist-Government for our basic food and
consumer goods. At the Port of Los Angeles, fully-loaded ships are backed
up 50 to 200 miles every day into the Pacific ocean, waiting for their turn to
unload these Made-In-China imports, likewise when leaving our ports they are
usually empty to near empty, as few to no exports are being shipped back to
China, ... something is seriously wrong.
Most
Americans are fed-up with corporate-greed
and their
MADE IN-CHINA
products, that result in ....
- Unsafe Food
- Lead-Painted toys for our children
- 50 cent (Cost) Barbie Dolls that sell for $20.00 = (@40-X mark-up)
- Poisoned Pet Food
- Unsafe Food from filthy Chinese fish farms
- Unsafe Baby Cribs
- And tens of thousands of other re-calls and unsafe items
- While some Americans are unable to locate well paying employment
Elected Presidential and Congressional
officials
who's
only interest is...
- Being re-elected again
- Obligatory votes, to re-pay corporate donors
- Their outrageous pay
- Their Cadillac Health Care, but none for the people
- Their $100,000 to $200,000 yearly retirement, while your mother is
expected to live on $800 to $1,000 per month in Social Security.
It is this shameful greed and lack-of-action by our elected
officials, that is the primary reason for creating this potential destruction of
our national finical security, and for that they should all be held
accountable. Have any of them ever phoned your home and said.. "Joe, is there
any thing I can do to help you?", the only time that they ever phone you
is when they are looking for your vote to be re-elected again. Let us
send them all back home during the next election and replace our do-nothing congress and
president with people who will finally represent the people of our nation and
not the corporate donors who have been keeping them in office decade after
decade.
Though the jewelry
industry is dependant on various gemstones and other occasional supplies coming
from other countries, this is the reality of international trade that reflects
itself on this and other industries. But I also refuse to carry any
jewelry that is
MADE IN CHINA, and I make an extraordinary effort to create and carry
Fine-Jewelry that is Made In Vermont or Made In America.
Why?
Because I care, and so should you
Now is the time for
each American, to stand up and be counted with their power of their purchasing
dollars with each and every transaction that you make, by requesting & demand items
that are Made In America
When Quality Counts, nothing can exceed an item that has been..
Made In America
American products create American Jobs
Think before you buy, it is your future...
if
you do not care about yourself, then do it for your children
Walt Tofel
 
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