The Campaign Reform Bill
For the record; the Campaign “Reform” bill passed by the US Senate on March 22nd 2002 has nothing to do with limiting the campaign contributions that influences and corrupts American politicians. But what most Americans don’t know and the corporate controlled media refuses to tell them is that the campaign “reform” bill fundamentally violates and directly contradicts our First Amendment freedom of political speech. Forget the hard money soft money and all the pages of mumbo jumbo record keeping in this bill. The bottom line is; that within sixty days of an election the only ones who would be allowed to participate in political speech would be the corporate controlled media and the politicians themselves. Twenty five percent of the voters decide in the last fourteen days preceding an election That would give the media and the politicians themselves absolute and exclusive control over election season, public debate. Even the truth is no defense. You could publish the truth and still go to jail. This is how tyranny arises and perpetrates itself. We don’t need laws passed that directly contradicts the Constitution and makes criminals of people who publish the voting records and statements of elected politicians. James R. McClean
The New Economist
Few economists seem deeply concerned by our nations loss of manufacturing jobs. As long as overall job growth stays positive, the analysts stay cheerful that America's New Economy is still on track. But America's economy is being fueled by consumption, not production of goods. This has lead us down the road to debt and the destruction of our manufacturing base. Last year a million Americans were fired from their good paying jobs due to globalization by the Corporate Predators. For our nation to have a viable military we need to be number one in our manufacturing capabilities. A couple of weeks ago the procurement people were complaining that they couldn't find an American manufacturer to make boots for the military
There is no second place winner in a war. US. Rep. Christopher Cox reported that China has over 3,000 front companies in the United States whose mission is to steal and transfer to China our technology. And what is Congress doing about this?
Our nation has a mammoth $400 billion trade deficit. Our trade deficit with Communist China exceeded $88 billion last year alone. Most of that will be used to enhance China's military. Consumer debt is over $5 trillion, most of which is being carried on our credit cards. We seem to have forgotten that the production of goods increases wealth -- while consumption of foreign goods dissipates wealth. Or, maybe we were never taught that at school.
There are three primary sources of wealth; agriculture, mining and manufacturing. Japan, a nation with half the population of the USA. and only the land area of our state of Montana, unable to feed its population agriculturally and having to buy its minerals from abroad; is second in the world in wealth, because of its manufacturing.
In 1964 China upgraded their manufacturing abilities under the leadership of Chairman Mao. They sold so much of their agricultural products on the world markets -- that 26 to 30 million of their people starved to death that winter. Conventional wisdom has not helped us either as the attitude has been -- don't let your children grow up to be cowboys; or blue collar workers. Now only 20% of college graduates find employment in the fields of their studies. Apprenticeships are gone. Skilled workers over fifty hold the few remaining jobs in manufacturing. What happens when they die or retire? Quietly America's manufacturing base has been eroded. If all the products made in China were taken out of the stores would there be anything left to buy? Don't be fooled by the rhetoric that -- China is the largest emerging market. Australia buys more products from the USA. than China and doesn't threaten to nuke us. Besides what would they need to buy from us, when our Corporate Predators have built state of the art factories for them, in their country? The Corporate Predators have lied to us. Trade hasn't changed China's human rights polices. Our governments policies need changing toward trade and tariffs.
Complacency breeds injustice and oppression. The driving force for change has to come from us. For better or for worse, destiny is not an inevitable product of market forces alone, but also of human intent and will. James R McClean.