Taking the Country Back

The Tea Party’s main slogan for the 2012 Presidential election is “we’re gonna take our country back.”

Seriously? Why not invoke the  war cry of past republican slogans such as:

·         A Chicken in Every Pot, a Car in Every Garage (1928) Herbert Hoover

·         Safety First (1929)

·         Had enough? (1946)

·         I like Ike (1952) Ike Eisenhower

·         All The Way With LBJ (1964) LBJ

·          Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion for All (1972) Thomas F. Eagleton

·         Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago? (1984) Ronald Reagan

·         Ross For Boss (1992) Ross Perot

·         Read My Lips: No new Taxes (1992) George Bush

·         County First (2008) John McCain

The candidates are openly not only denouncing the democratic president, but they are also denouncing democracy in an attempt to label Barack Obama, a black President, a one term president.  They started by calling him a liar during his first State of the Union (Joe Wilson, Republican South Carolina _ September 2009).  Then They pushed on his Hawaiian birth certificate for over three years, and now they want the country back.

Take the country back from whom? Last I checked the United States of America was not invaded by a foreign force.  We still have a democratic process and a black President sits at the white house.  So I must assume that they want it back to the Bush years? I doubt it.  They want it to the days of the lack of financial regulation, soaring market prices, and Bernie Maddoff.  Really?  Well most of that happened in the Republican era.  Fittingly, the good old days ended with the collapse of the housing market while a Republican sat at the white house

 I will  go as far as to claim that the Tea Party is a scary organization, with views so far to the right, that it  it is borderline fascist.  It is anti labor, anti immigration, anti debt, anti government, anti black President.  Centrist Americans are starting to see through the smoke and are seeing them for their radicalism and” fascism. 

Most Americans are not comfortable with the phrase “take our country back” because the majority of America now is biracial and can trace roots to immigrant or slavery ancestors.  Therefore, nobody wants to go back to the days of racism against the Jews, the Italians, the Irish, and of course the Africans.

Tea Party Republicans will be defeated at the polls for a simple reason that most Americans are not radicals.  They are centrists who can decipher through the smoke to reach at the truth.  Obama has won Iraq, he is winning in Afghanistan, he go Bin Laden, and he  has stabilize the economic mess he found the country in.

But perhaps, the biggest reasons they will lose are because nobody wants to see a protectionist, fascist, and radical president.

An Economic Case for Immigration Reform

China is now the number two economy in the world!!! I has now passed England, Germany, and as I am
typing e almighty Japan for the second spot. It economy registered a second quarter value of $1.33
million USD. The main reasons for the growth are the massive labor force, weak human rights, and poor
environmental records.

I will be very brief on the human rights, because it does not exist in China. Basically you must obey the State at all times. In private, public, religious or otherwise. Incredulously, on the religious aspects, it is now allowing for Catholicism to be practiced by its citizens . Well, may be not so incredulous as it serves the State, when its citizens put more emphasis on the afterlife than their perilous day to day existence.

In terms of the environment, China abuses it almost as much as the US and it will soon be number one in offenses against nature. Coal is their biggest source of energy, but I am not complaining, as I really do not want China to draw all of their energy needs from nuclear plants. A fully nuclear China is much of a scare to the world.

Now, to the point of large population and its relationship with a growing economy. If we relaxed the borders and allowed cheap labor to enter the US, China would never be able to catch up to the US' staggering 14 million USD economy. An increasing labor force could mean thousands of new manufacturing jobs. I know that everyone wants new high tech jobs. But China got to number two not with high tech, but with low tech, back breaking, sweat shop, no bathroom breaks, 10 minute lunch break types of jobs.

I call for more immigration into the US and more low tech jobs to reverse the trends of mills to loft housing units. These lofts are not selling and their values are now low enough that entrepreneurs will flock to them and turn them back to producing shoes, clothes, and other consumer goods.

I am also a believer that the US will find a balance between human rights, and environmental concerns. However it will be at a cost to what we now enjoy. Per capita income could go from $40,000 USD to $30,000 USD, still well above China’s $2,000 USD. We will be forced to provide greater wealth care and welfare. Large US cities could go back into the rat infested slums of the early 20th century. But it would all be worth it. Immigration reform is all that stands in our way of maintaining our number 1 status for the next one hundred years.

The age of the Obamas

Blacks have come a long way in America, from slavery, to the presidency of the United States. We live in the times of the Obamas, but after nearly a year and a half, only few of us still stop to cherish this exceptional feat. Except of course, for the opposition, that is, all who are still too shallow minded in believing that a person’s color supersedes of his qualities or defects. They notice because are still hurting from their defeat and it is a demonstration of what a person of any race is capable of achieving if given the opportunity.

At first glance, it seems to be a good thing, that we are not always thinking about the fact, that out of a former enslaved race, rose a man who would became the leader of the so called free world. But, the fact that we do not notice, is a sad and dangerous thing. It means that a black person, in the eyes of the World and the American elites of all race, is still not yet presidential enough to hold a CEO title, get the higher wages, or receive the best medical care. The black person gets the benefits of the heavier prison sentences, and corporate downsizing only to be recycled as a low level staff in another role or another company.

We must never let it feel "too old" that a black man is the President of the United States of America. In the past year and a half, President Barack Obama, has successfully led fights against the Great Bush Recession, the Health "Fear" Industry, and the Wall Street Grand Casinos. But I see the formation of radical tea party movements and others alike, boasting in their boycott of the recent gains made by the the American people. Their agenda is to trip our triumph for their own benefit at the voting booths in the upcoming 2010 midyear elections. The fall elections will have vast implications in the choosing of the next American President.

In the age of the Obamas, we should take a moment to appreciate how far we have came. We should to use President Obama's story as motivational tool for corporate America and an individual. Even if it is due to the uncertainty that this may not happen again,

S.A.