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This is a web site dedicated to being self sufficient. We usually look at our own individual self-sufficiency but let's discuss our nation's self-sufficiency.
For the past four weeks I have been working in a part-time job at amazon.com. I work in the receiving department and un-crate or un-pack incoming products. There are about 200 people in my department working two 10 hour shifts every day. We open boxes and inspect every item that enters the building. Each item is counted and entered into the computer system. It's a pretty good job for senior citizens to work from 5 weeks to 3 months leading up to Christmas day. It's the only I could afford Christmas.
Just about every person in my area of the department is thoroughly disgusted by the amount of MADE IN CHINA boxes received every day. Oh yeah, last week we had a few MADE IN VIET NAM boxes, too. For the past four weeks we have received 100% of the merchandise from foreign countries. And all of it is crap.
American citizens are out of work. American citizens are worried about their future and worried about their financial problems. American businesses are going out of business every day. Our manufacturing base is all but gone. Just look at all the small shops that are vacant, all the small (and large) businesses with boarded up windows, all the vacant parking lots at manufacturing establishments.
Let's not for one minute point our finger at our government. Let's not point our finger at any businesses (Sears, Macy's, Walmart, etc.). In my opinion it is the consumer and nobody else. It is the person who stands at the cash register with her purse or his wallet open. Nobody else. We have a very bad habit, here in the good old USA, of pointing our finger at everyone else when it is usually our own fault.
Yup the prices could be a few pennies higher. But how much is your country worth to you? How much do you love your fellow American citizens? If a world war should break out we will be at the mercy of China. They could bring us to our knees over night. And we do not have young folks trained to make anything. The Chinese government has us by the short hair because our manufacturing base is so weak. Saudi Arabia controls our oil flow and we refuse to wean ourselves away from foreign oil. How long do you think we could exist if the oil flow is stopped? Sure we have oil reserves here in the US but our government will never allow the oil to flow to the citizens. They think of our domestic oil reserves as private for government only.
Global economy? Bullcrap! It may very well be too late for the USA.
For the past four weeks I have been working in a part-time job at amazon.com. I work in the receiving department and un-crate or un-pack incoming products. There are about 200 people in my department working two 10 hour shifts every day. We open boxes and inspect every item that enters the building. Each item is counted and entered into the computer system. It's a pretty good job for senior citizens to work from 5 weeks to 3 months leading up to Christmas day. It's the only I could afford Christmas.
Just about every person in my area of the department is thoroughly disgusted by the amount of MADE IN CHINA boxes received every day. Oh yeah, last week we had a few MADE IN VIET NAM boxes, too. For the past four weeks we have received 100% of the merchandise from foreign countries. And all of it is crap.
American citizens are out of work. American citizens are worried about their future and worried about their financial problems. American businesses are going out of business every day. Our manufacturing base is all but gone. Just look at all the small shops that are vacant, all the small (and large) businesses with boarded up windows, all the vacant parking lots at manufacturing establishments.
Let's not for one minute point our finger at our government. Let's not point our finger at any businesses (Sears, Macy's, Walmart, etc.). In my opinion it is the consumer and nobody else. It is the person who stands at the cash register with her purse or his wallet open. Nobody else. We have a very bad habit, here in the good old USA, of pointing our finger at everyone else when it is usually our own fault.
Yup the prices could be a few pennies higher. But how much is your country worth to you? How much do you love your fellow American citizens? If a world war should break out we will be at the mercy of China. They could bring us to our knees over night. And we do not have young folks trained to make anything. The Chinese government has us by the short hair because our manufacturing base is so weak. Saudi Arabia controls our oil flow and we refuse to wean ourselves away from foreign oil. How long do you think we could exist if the oil flow is stopped? Sure we have oil reserves here in the US but our government will never allow the oil to flow to the citizens. They think of our domestic oil reserves as private for government only.
Global economy? Bullcrap! It may very well be too late for the USA.