Sunday, August 11, 2013

This is the part where I make an opinion.

The trade relationship with China was grossly mismanaged during the George W. Bush years. It has created a disaster for the USA. It has left the USA Consumer impoverished.

All this hardship cast on the USA was under the leadership of a man that was distracting the nation's attention, through nationalism, to wars; one of which we never should have fought.

It is not China's fault. China was simply a Wall Street play toy. 

The USA and China both have challenges. China needs to build it's own consumer market by increasing production of products that Chinese citizens will purchase. Right now it is mostly luxury goods for the Chinese wealthy. China needs to develop a Middle Class. It's own consumer class to purchase the goods it makes.

The USA needs to increase the wages of the Middle Class and seek to expand it's manufacturing sector. The USA manufacturing sector is ravaged by China. I could not believe Siemen's abandoned it's solar industry.

If the USA doesn't raise the Minimum Wage, it will continue STRUCTURAL unemployment until China grows it's own consumer economy and Middle Class. 

The West has a problem and it has a problem with China created by a USA War President. 

China needs better energy sources which the country is capable of building. China also needs far better mentoring to grow it's Middle Class. 

Some of the tech jobs in China belong back in the USA. The tech industry is hurting itself by outsourcing all their manufacturing. It makes no sense. They are undercutting their own markets.

China is not the culprit. A few Americans thought they would take advantage of China and turn a quick buck. China needs better mentors that sincerely care about the country, especially the Chinese people.

Former President Clinton made huge strides in bringing 'a value system' to Eastern Asia. Those countries love him. They celebrate his friendship. I would think China would seek to market more American made products than they do and bring that trade deficit into line, otherwise, they too will crash their own economy. Their exports are dependent on The West.

But, what is more troubling than any other aspect of this is the fact China was never mentored into producing high quality goods. It was as though the American people were dummied down to accept what they could afford as they fell further and further into poverty. I know China doesn't want that and they are as much a victim of such ruthless tactics as the American people were.

China has plans to improve the quality of life of it's people. It was made evident in the latest five-ten year plan announced about a year or so ago. I was happy for them. They found a noble mission. As the Chinese people find more and more footing in a Middle Class the relationship with the USA will improve. We will have more in common.

We were duped. For eight years the American people were driven into fear that distracted them, nationalized them and forced them into poverty while raping the American Dream. We were lucky Barak Hussein Obama came along. I could not mean that more.

We cannot return ruthless politicians to the Oval Office. The American people need to realize they are creating own economic emergencies. They are allowing politicians to place them into a 'funk' that provides exploitative realities whereby the Upper One Percent are the only victors in our economy. The Middle Class and the Poor need to be victorious from here on. 

An entire generation of Americans were out of work as soon as they graduated. That is America? 

It is time we take our country back. All the way back. Our children and their future demand it.

2014 and 2016 are pivotal elections where we return our economy to function or we retreat into a far more poor scenario. We haven't recovered completely due to a structural unemployment rate. We need to elect those that believe in higher wages, good benefits and the education of children.

Don't blow it.