Posted on 03/07/2003 6:20:02 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
3 PARTS:
Congratulations America
Countdown to Socialism in America
Satan's Strongest Weapon
Congratulations America
The following is the first in a three-part series written by our Chairman, Joe Larson. Mr. Larson intents this series to be a wake-up call for America’s Christian Men – men who have long been asleep at the wheel. His words may be bruising, but his message is a blessing. – webmaster
Part One of Three -Congratulations America: Today there are over 10,000 openly Marxist professors and thousands of Humanist professors controlling the universities and colleges that produce America’s teachers and other professionals. Varying forms of Marxist-Humanism are the predominant philosophies of the educational establishment; yet we repeatedly send our most precious gift (our children) off to them for ‘education’ (indoctrination).
Our schools are filled with violence, murder, extortion, rape, unwanted pregnancy, drug use, disrespect, foul language, declining test scores and children who cannot read....
Today’s schools are filled with sex education, political correctness, environmental extremism, global unity, diversity training (pro-homosexuality) and higher order thinking skills [HOTS]; which boldly claim that to become a higher order thinker one must first believe the fact that there are no absolutes, Absolutely! “The Greatest Story Ever Told” based on the greatest book ever written, The Holy Bible about the greatest teacher who ever lived, Jesus is not allowed, let alone used, in the schools of America. The Bible was America’s first textbook; yet today it is referred to as a book of fables.
Our schools are filled with violence, murder, extortion, rape, unwanted pregnancy, drug use, disrespect, foul language, declining test scores and children who cannot read. While the pontificators wonder why, God doesn’t; He knows - Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, I will also reject thee …seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God; I will also forget thy children.” Verse 7 “As they were increased, so they sinned against Me: Therefore, will I change their glory into shame.”
The problem with America’s educational system began with the birth of Socialism and given impetus by Federal government involvement. Lenin, one of the world’s leading experts on Socialism, tells us - “Communism is Socialism in a hurry”. Socialism, therefore, is Communism by gradualism rather than by revolution. The Socialist ‘Fabian Society’, the forerunner of most Socialists groups in America, had as their motto ‘Make Haste Slowly’. ‘Democratic Socialism’ became the battle cry to socialize the United States of America. Their goal was to ‘permeate and penetrate’, then control from deep within. Their first target in America was education.
The problem with America’s educational system began with the birth of Socialism and given impetus by Federal government involvement....
In the U.S. their followers would use language as their first line of attack and deceit. They would wear no badge, nor socialist label, but were to call themselves ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’ and even ‘moderate’. Words were the weapon of choice for this new war. By changing and shifting word meanings they would cover their true purpose. Everything would be done under the banners of ‘reform’ and ‘social justice’, suggesting all was for the public good, for humanitarian reasons, for true democracy and finally for the children. The buzzwords of Socialism, were, and are today, ‘social’ and ‘democracy’ (i.e. social science, social studies and socialization of the child). Remember this; “a Communist never does anything under his own name that he can do under someone else’s.” Robert Conquest.
followers would use language as their first line of attack and deceit. They would wear no badge, nor socialist label, but were to call themselves ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’ and even ‘moderate’....
In the early 1900’s, because of unrest in Europe, thousands of socialists flocked to America for safety. Large numbers held degrees in the fields of psychology, sociology and psychiatry,(behavioral sciences, dealing with behavior and [social] change). Many went on to become college and university professors.
Norman Thomas, Socialist and member of the Civil Liberties Union, boldly told the world,
“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.”
The story of how the Socialists took over the American educational establishment would fill a book; so let us just listen to their own words.
“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.” - Dewey
John Dewey, called ‘the father of modern education’, was an avowed Socialist, the co-author of the ‘Humanist Manifesto’ and cited as belonging to fifteen Marxist-front organizations by the Committee on Un-American Activities. Do the words (the father of modern education) now take on new meaning? Remember, Dewey taught the professors who would train America’s teachers. He was obsessed with ‘the group’. In his own words, “You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”
The School-To-Work system in our public schools (all fifty states) is modeled after the Soviet poly-technical system....
Rosalie Gordon, writing on Dewey’s progressive (Socialist) education in her book What’s Happened To Our Schools, said
“The progressive system has reached all the way down to the lowest grades to prepare the children of America for their role as the collectivists of the future …The group – not the individual child – is the quintessence of progressivism. The child must always be made to feel part of the group. He must indulge in group thinking and group activity.”After visiting the Soviet Union, Dewey wrote six articles on the “wonders” of Soviet education. The School-To-Work system in our public schools (all fifty states) is modeled after the Soviet poly-technical system. Surprise!
In 1936, the National Education Association stated their position, from which they have never wavered;“We stand for socializing the individual.”The N.E.A. in its ‘Policy For American Education’ stated;“The major problem of education in our times arises out of the fact that we live in a period of fundamental social change. In the new democracy [we were a Republic] education must share in the responsibility of giving purpose and direction to social change. The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual … Education must operate according to a well-formulated social policy.”
Paul Haubner, specialist for the N.E.A., tells us“The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; … that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. [Christians?] Our (humanistic) goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values.”
“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well – by creating the international child of the future.”
Some politicians agree. Listen to former Senator Paul Hoagland of Nebraska: “The fundamentalist parents have no right to indoctrinate their children in their beliefs. We are preparing their children for the year 2000 and life in a global one-world society and those children will not fit in.”
From ‘Humanism; A New Religion’, “Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school’s meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?”
P. Blanchard, in ‘The Humanist’ 1983, continues: “I think that the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny how to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average American child now acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history.”
“The battle for mankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom … The classroom must and will become the arena of conflict between the old and the new … the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism.” The ‘Humanist Magazine’
Jan./Feb 1983 –John J. Dunphy.
Our bureaucrats, politicians and educators are constantly on television blaming either parents, or lack of funds for our school’s dilemmas. The answer is always more money and more government control. For well over fifty years the American voter has believed this line of crap. Victor Gollancz, a famous socialist publisher tells us why he believed that socialism would take over America; “Christians are not exactly bright, so it will be easy for socialism to lead them down the garden path through their ideals of brotherly love and ‘social justice’.
Maybe it’s (past) time the Christian men stand up for their families and their faith and put God back, in charge of this nation and it’s schools, where He belongs. It’s that simple.
By Joseph R. Larson
Chairman, Restoring America
A 1996 poll revealed the surprising news that over 50% of Americans feared their government; perhaps this is the fulfillment of a warning by Thomas Jefferson.
“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we have separated.”
From the beginning of America’s colonies until nearly 1837, education in America was purchased through private schools of choice. The churches provided free schools to all who would come. Horace Mann, a Harvard elite, believed his mission was to remove educational control from the communities and the people - delivering control to the state.
One of the NEA’s founders Zalman Richards, at the Union’s 1858 convention, condemned private education with scorn. He asserted that private schools were degrading to the teaching profession. By 1885 some in the NEA were espousing that both property and children belong not to the people, but to the state. By 1905 the American government was spending nearly 22% of all public funds on public education. “Remember” the tenth plank of the Communist Manifesto: “Free education for all children in public schools [and] combination of education with industrial production…”
John Dewey, father of modern education, in 1933 coauthored the Humanist Manifesto I. The manifesto confidently asserts that:
The United Nations education program was approved in 1946 at the first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference. One of the first items on its agenda was the creation of ‘A Study Of Education For International Understanding in the primary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher learning of Member States, to be conducted by the Member States with the assistance of the UNESCO Secretariat’. Each nation was required to conduct a study of how textbooks treated the subject of international agencies and world government.
The National Education Association in 1954 published a book [in compliance with UNESCO] to instruct educators in the proper methods of teaching children about the benefits of world government. It had specific chapters dealing with each benefit and one chapter on how to develop world-minded teachers. The issue of altering world history through educational textbooks was so important that two chapters were dedicated entirely to that subject.
The “Soviet Education Programs; Foundations, Curriculums, Teacher Preparation” was published in 1960 by the U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This document was the blueprint for the School-To-Work restructuring that would take place in America. In 1961, Rep. John M. Ashbrook tried to alert Congress as to the U.S. adoption of a soviet approach to education by citing a HEW document called “A Federal Educational Agency for the Future”. Ashbrook called the new education program “a blueprint for complete domination and direction of our schools from Washington.” Remember Thomas Jefferson’s warning?
“Pacesetters In Innovation” - - a 584-page catalogue of behavior modification programs to be used by America’s schools...
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Two major federal initiatives were developed in 1965 with funding from the “Elementary and Secondary Education Act” which was passed in that same year. One was the Behavioral Science Teacher Educational Program; the other was a government publication “Pacesetters In Innovation” - - a 584-page catalogue of behavior modification programs to be used by America’s schools. No, not 584 pages of educational programs, but 584 pages filled with behavior modification programs. In summary, the intent was to create future Americans who would accept the United Nations and the concept of a global nation and one world government.
If schools really taught American history and government, people would know that in 1970 Congress recognized that the federal government had limited authority in education. In an amended General Education Provisions Act clearly stated a “Prohibition against Federal Control of Education”:
forbidding the federal government from exercising any “direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration or personnel of any education institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system.”
All 790 federally mandated programs are using America’s children as research projects....
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In case you are wondering, this law is still valid! The government and educational elite get around this law by a loophole, which allows federal funding of “research and development”. All 790 federally mandated programs are using America’s children as research projects. Do the words guinea pigs come to anyone’s mind?
Catherine Barrett, then president of the National Education Association (1976), gave a speech in which she said,
“First, we will help all of our people understand that school is a concept and not a place. We will not confuse “schooling” with education. The school will be the community, the community the school.”This reflects the Communist view of education and lifetime control of the masses. Barrett continued,
Students will learn to write love letters and lab notes....
“We will need to recognized that so-called ‘basic skills’ which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one quarter of the present school day. The remaining time will be devoted to what is truly fundamental and basic -- time for academic inquiry, time for students to develop their own interests, time for a dialogue between students and teachers – more then a dispenser of information, the teacher will be a conveyor of values, a philosopher [in secular humanism]. Students will learn to write love letters and lab notes.”
In the 1980’s, the DOE (Department of Education) changed the character of public schools from ‘teaching’ to ‘ workforce training’, the Soviet poly-technical system. This was done through a DOE work called “Course Goals Collection”, fourteen volumes of 15,000 goals covering every major subject taught in public schools. 70,000 copies were distributed to approximately 16,000 school districts then in existence. This is how Outcome-based education made its way into the schools of America. OBE’s purpose is to change attitudes, values and beliefs.
DOE changed the character of public schools from ‘teaching’ to ‘ workforce training’, the Soviet poly-technical system....
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During the 1990’s we were given Goals 2000 and School-to-Work programs that transformed our schools, which through one generation will transform America. School-To-Work was put in place not by legislation, but by executive orders of state Governors. Charlotte Iserbyt in her book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America” describes this transformation as “the internationalization of education with the exchanges of data systems, curricula, methods, etc., all essential for the implementation of the international socialist management and control system being put into place right now.”
Clinton administration stated that the new Federal system of education is based on standards developed by “international agreements”....
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In his last term, President Clinton issued an Executive Order calling for all American schools to adopt “international education”. International education is defined in detail in the U.N. World Declaration On Education For All 1990. It is School-To-Work for the world. The March-April 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, written by officials in the Clinton administration, states that the new Federal system of education is based on standards developed by “international agreements”. The U.N. World Conference On Education For All, states that the ultimate goal of education is “to work for international peace and solidarity in an interdependent world.” That folks, is the beginning of the New One World Order.
The official title of the Nazi party was “The National Socialist Workers Party Of Germany”. The Nazi’s called themselves “The Children of the New Age of World Order”. Those who challenged the Nazi’s power were branded “conservative reactionaries” or worse yet, Christians were condemned as “right wing fanatics”. History teaches us that if we do not learn the lessons of the past we are doomed to repeat those mistakes.
Alexis deTocqueville confidentially stated that; “In America religion is the road to knowledge and the observance of Divine laws leads man to civil freedom. It is by the mandates relating to public education, that the original character of American civilization is at once placed in the clearest light.” He then went on to cite the preamble to the Puritan provision that every township should have a school –
“Whereas,” says the law, “Satan, the enemy of mankind, finds his strongest weapons in the ignorance of men, and whereas it is important that the wisdom of our fathers shall not remain buried in their tombs, and whereas the education of children is one of the prime concerns of the state [society], with the aid of the Lord …”
Another bit of wisdom no longer taught in today’s schools was given to us by Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the Constitution – “A free government … can only be happy when the public principle and opinions are properly directed – by religion and education.” Samuel Huntington, signer and governor of Connecticut, told us “While the great body of freeholders are acquainted with the duties which they owe to their God, to themselves, and to men, they will remain free. But if ignorance and depravity should prevail they will inevitably lead to slavery and ruin.”
The founders of American government believed that schools were the proper means to encourage religion, morality and knowledge. The Northwest Ordinance (federal law considered one of the four foundational or organic laws in America) presented the requirements for statehood … the ordinance declared; “Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Therefore, I can safely tell you that our Founding Fathers believed Religion was the road of to knowledge, ignorance was the weapon of the devil, and that awareness of history was necessary to keep their wisdom alive. This philosophy is diametrically opposed to today’s educational methodology. In fact, teaching the above information is actually forbidden or improper in many schools in America.
When I was in high school, I had a journalism teacher, Dr. E. L. Kaufman, who had me read and study the 1919 – Communist Rules For Revolution. How many of you have ever read or even heard of these rules? I know that these rules are no longer taught in today’s government controlled educational centers of political correctness. Strong words? Yes, but sadly true. In 1919, files were seized in a raid in Dusseldorf, Germany. The files were marked ‘Communist Rules For Revolution’. The files contained the following nine rules:
Today in America, MTV is said to be the most popular show on television, with the World Wrestling Federation running a close second. Most of us remember pictures of Jon-Bonnet Ramsey dressed to mimic and emulate adult sexuality. Madonna, Marilyn Manson and Dennis Rodman are the role models of young Americans. Advertisements for R- rated movies, junk food and foul mouthed rap stars are shown daily to our children in school, courtesy of Channel One.
In 1962, Supreme Court of the United States prohibited prayer in public schools, in 1963 they banned Bible teaching in public schools and in 1980 the same court ordered public schools to remove the Ten Commandments from student view. (The students might have believed and followed the values presented therein.) Since then, illegal drug use in youth has climbed 6,000% - births to unmarried girls (15 to 19) up 500% - teen suicide among 15 to 19 year olds up 450% - child abuse in America up 2,300% - and last but not least, even after lowering the standards twice, our student SAT scores are down 10%. [All statistics from the U.S. Government].
In August of 2001, the Federal government announced that nearly 50% of Americans no longer pay Federal income tax. Isn’t this the perfect example of Socialism’s premise of the redistribution of wealth? Each of the 50 States now has a copy of the Soviet Socialist Poly-technical Educational system in place, called School-To-Work, although not one single state legislature has passed a bill requiring this as legislation. It is frightening and upsetting to me how many of these rules for implementing Socialism/Communism we are inflicting upon ourselves. Will the silent majority in America wake up and take a stand in time? I know what my duty is; Restoring America, one friend, one neighbor, one community and school at a time.
Joseph R. Larson
Chairman of Restoring America
Related Article:
Current Communist Goals - 45 GoalsSource: Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Documentation
Note: The Congressional Record has only been digitized for years 1983 to Present, which are available on the Internet at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces190.html
Each state university library is a federal repository and an excellent source for the Congressional Record and other government records.
Congressional Representatives can also supply page copies of the Congressional Record to their constituents that ask for specific information.
Microfilm: State University Library Federal Repositories
- Congressional Record, Vol. 109
- 88th Congress, 1st Session
- Appendix Pages A1-A2842
- Jan. 9-May 7, 1963
- Reel 12
State University Libraries will also have the book.
- Book title page:
Skousen, W. Cleon. Naked Communist, The- Salt Lake City, Utah: Ensign Publishing Co.
- C. 1961, 9th edition July 1961.
my comment: In both WWI and WWII the American Government fought on the side of the Communists. Despite the "cold war" that followed, the goals of the communists were steadfastly imposed upon the American people. As Americans (the Protectors of the Constitution), we must ask ourselves,...
"What kind of leaders have we elected?"
"How could it be that Americans have so blindly followed corrupt politicians?"
"How can Americans even assume that we are still a free people?"Men who believe that they are free when in reality they are mere slaves are to be pitied more than those who know that they are slaves.
Wake up countryman, wake up and wake up your neighbor also! Those repugnant servants have sold out the American people, and have made their (communist) goals "current".
These 45 communist goals are a matter of public record - we have no excuse; worse, our 'humble servants' have known, or should have known, these goals since 1963!
None of the 45 Communist Goals were in full effect in 1963, as I read them today - I can count 41 of them as 'done deals'. Just read them... again, and see what YOU think.
The greatest fear of the Left is that third world countries will see the advantages of free will expressed thru Capitalism and become rich, educated and anti-Communist. There is no place for Communism is a free trading world and you anti-globalists should put down The New American and try to think logically.
Free market trading zones and international business is the OPPOSITE of Socialism.
By empirical examples throughout American and world history he explains clearly what constitutes free trade and how Government meddling leads to the tyranny of socialism - communism.
I highly recommend you both read it so that you can solidify your arguments instead of resorting to attacking each others mental capacity with phrases like these:
You anti-free traders are the world's goofballs.
I highly suggest you wake up and learn to think for yourself.
So we move our capital and human resources into more efficient and advanced technologies. There is always short-term pain, for long term gain in becoming more efficient. Look at the world auto industry for examples.
Smaller trade deficits?....no, much larger and increasing monthly.
We benefit from getting as large a volume of imports as possible in return for the amount of exports, or equivalently, from exporting as little as possible to pay for the imports. The way the term deficit is expressed in foreign trade is a misnomer.
More jobs for our economy?....no, quality high tech jobs are disappearing perhaps forever at an alarming rate. More wealth?.
Unemployment hit 25% in 1933, it now stands at 5.8% and that number is skewed terribly by the welfare state. Americans are the richest people on earth and getting richer in spite of the stock market and trade deficits. We do have the high skilled jobs as measured by the fact we are still the most productive people on earth too.
debt is soaring at the personal, coporate and gov't. level to levels that would've seemed absurd just a few years ago.
Personal debt is soaring, Yes. But national debt is far less than it was as a % of GDP in 1979. With low interest rates the Government has refinanced a considerable amount of the federal debt as well. Corporate debt is used to leverage productivity gains, as you know.
Did sending jobs to Mexico stem illegal immigration as promised?...no, illegal immigration has increased exponentially with no end in sight.
Half of your point is lost in the fact that they still keep coming. This must be the land of opportunity. It also happens to be one of the freest (socialist) nations on earth. As far as the strain the illegals place on government services, I agree. Call your state legislators.
I sympathize with your challenge of having your capital assets tied up in the electronics industry if you feel threatened by competition. You clearly need to risk moving what capital assets you have left into a more promising endeavor if you fear losing your patrons to competition from abroad.
I would have to write all day to express what you don't seem to grasp. Your current beliefs about economics are the very reason countries turn into protectionist, insular, unproductive, socialist states. I'm sorry if recommending a book on economics with detailed empirical evidence to prove my point offends you too.
Some of your assertions really mystify me, your thoughts on illegal immigration especially. Of course, they live in a rotting third country but the main reason they're here is they receive numerous benefits paid for by you and me. If you don't think it's a problem fine...but I care more about my children's future. We are subsidizing the greatest corporate welfare scam in history but I guess that's just the way things go huh?
You need to read more carefully. I said "As far as the strain the illegals place on government services, I agree. Call your state legislators." in my last post.
While I did state the percentages of federal debt have improved, I recognize that the long term problem will not be resolved without addressing the socialist policies of a big brother style wealth redistributing Federal government which promotes strong disinsentives to work and create wealth.
My point here is that Free trade is not part of the problem. Any, and I mean any, resrictions on trade in our economy is detrimental to our freedom and wealth potential.
Japan subsidizes their steel industry heavily. In order to subsidize lower prices on steel the Japanese gov't must tax ordinary citizens to move money to the steel producers. We get cheaper steel paid with the tax dollars of Japanese citizens. Neat, huh? Now we take dollars that were in our less efficient steel industry and plow them into R & D for cheaper energy sources or other market driven needs. We do lose jobs in steel, but we gain jobs in new needed investments with the unused capital.
The most fundamental part of free trade confers a mutually beneficial agreement between traders or there would never be a trade. So even if other countries want to sell us candy, gloves, and cars, we won't buy them unless we see a benefit. And if someone else can make them cheaper we will switch trading partners in a heart beat.
It has nothing to do with unfair trade rules such as tariffs and subsidies. These are tools of government to confer your money and mine to special interest as they see fit. It is the same in other countries or markets. So, if you can see it, free trade removes the tyranny of gov't. and trade rules impose the tyranny of gov't and make the market less efficient. This in turn reduces our standard of living.
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