Infrastructure and Unemplyment 2

I wish I could agree that foreign aid is the problem.  It does show how our priorities are messed up, but there is not enough money in foreign aid spending to explain the reasons for the disaster we live with every day.

Fraud and theft pretty much explain it all.

Our jobs are being given away overseas to keep us the working poor in line.  The movers and shakers don't want us to get together and have too much power or we could and would overthrow them.  How do they pull this off?  Mostly by the shrewd use of propaganda.  One of the things this propaganda does is pit us against each other.  The buck private, the private worker, and the union guy are all set at odds with each other.  It's time we realized that with or without organization, we are all members of the same union: the union of the working poor.  Maybe somebody can run with this idea and get us organized.

What might our agenda be?

We must restore the honor, dignity, and skills of crafts and trades that can only be learned through apprenticeship; we must show that these are at least as important or even more important than a college education.

We must prove that if we build it, it is our property, ours the rights of ownership, ours the right to sell, ours the right to profit by; and we must break the strangling vice grip of leverage that claims otherwise.  We must get out of debt and stay out of debt.

We must form cooperative businesses, not corporations, that treat all participants with a weighted equality that accords with their individual skill and experience: the apprentice must respect the master, who has earned his stripes.

We must break the back of at-will employment and let workers truly find a place at the table in a free marketplace.

We must do this at law, not by riot, until we take away the power of a few to run business dictatorships.

We must teach this to our children, and our children's children until we have restored a free society.

In this effort to be free, both Democrats and Republicans are our enemy.  These political parties pretend to be at odds so they can divide and conquer us, and we are being played.

Our camaraderie stands on one fact alone.  We are the working poor: and by working poor, I mean everybody from an apprentice bean picker to a master surgeon, anybody who actually works for a living.

One more thing.  We will never appreciate or develop this camaraderie to its fullest extent unless we return to God.  It is God Who teaches us that these things are true in the Ten Commandments.  It is God Who hates slavery in all its forms and teaches how to break it.  Yes, and He has broken it (Luke 4:16-21).  We would not be in this mess if we had been faithful in following our Leader.  We won't get very far without Him now.