It becomes more and more difficult, as the election draws closer,
to decide who may be a good choice to lead our country. It
is hard to understand how our President or his presumed opponent
may help our nation.
They each have a great knack for passing blame over but neither
offers a decisive plan to move the country forward.
Mr.
Romney loves to rave on about the Olympics. The Olympics
survived since 765 BC and faced challenges during many years.
I suspect the games survival would have been assured, with
or without Mr. Romney’s assistance. Perhaps some U.S.
hopefuls may have had a difficult time making the games when
Romney helped but the event would have gone on. Hearing him
persistently say he “saved the Olympics” diminishes
his credibility.
Mr.
Romney’s involvement with helping small businesses
that he brags about when he claims, “I will create jobs” is
hard to swallow when we recall the loss of our steel
industry to overseas interest.
Reading
current commentaries regarding Romney’s history
with Bain Capital, I came across a definitive quote published
prior to the 2008 primaries. It was from an article written
in 2007 by Bob Drogin, of the L.A. Times. “From l984
until 1999, Romney led Bain Capital, a Boston-based private
equity group that earned jaw-dropping profits through leveraged
buyouts, debt hedge funds, offshore tax havens and other financial
strategies. In some cases, Romney’s team closed U.S.
factories, causing hundreds of layoffs, or pocketed huge fees
shortly before companies collapsed.” How can we be expected
to just forgive the losses caused by a company that was only
looking for “return on investments” and
not creating jobs?
Why
is it although contributors are limited regarding how much
they can donate to a candidate, they can attach
a
title of “Super
Pac” to their actions and spend all they want? The Pac’s
even try to make it appear candidates approve of all the ads
they place. This proved not to be the case last week when a
super Pac, via ads placed, tried to revive a question about
Obama’s ties to Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Mr.
Romney came forward quickly and vehemently denied
his approval
of the ads.
Here’s a thought; how about one of the candidates admitting
the greatest cause of our countries problems is we have become “so
smart” we create many of them ourselves.
We are our own worst enemies; and we call it advancement.
I call it
- reversing.
In the past, 20 to 40 people worked on each assembly line in
the hundreds of auto plants throughout the country. Today a
handful of workers run the line while robots perform most of
the tasks humans did.
Remember when dairy farmers (and there were many of them) had
a small herd of cows which required humans to milk and feed
them? Today dairy farming is a conglomerate, herds are five
times the size and every aspect is automated and operated by
a small number of people, many from other countries.
What’s
amazing is how the cost of all the products produced by automation
keeps increasing
in spite
of all the jobs lost.
Our
tax dollars funded Obama’s bailout
of the auto industry. As a result, the
auto companies were
allowed
to get back on
their feet on our backs. Now they are stealing
from the very taxpayers who saved them
from disaster.
We
were so smart we told our children they had to have a college
degree to find a
good job.
Who could
have
imagined that job
would be flipping burgers or washing
cars. I’ve met some
young men who have jobs as waste management collectors. The
title doesn’t change what the job is; picking up garbage.
Some of them also have degrees they can’t
use.
How can we expect jobs to increase when we send all of our
needs overseas?
We
need a leader who will offer to subsidize companies that
bring jobs back to our
side of the world.
Companies who will
strive to hire people in our country
to produce products in our country,
not overseas.
We
all want to buy
products made
in the U.S., so why can’t this
be done?
We need to slow down production of electronic equipment (and
HP did, they laid off 27,000 workers this week). Electronics
are re-developed before they can complete production and many
are obsolete before they reach store shelves.
As
I See It, we just need to slow everything down, take a breather
and stop inventing
ways to replace
people
willing to work — with
machines.
Remember
our veterans with respect at Monday’s
Memorial Day Services.