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None of our political leaders are discussing these root causes to the problems of our economy:
1. The percent of people between 40 and 55 years old is decreasing.
2. The purchase of foreign oil is draining 5% of our economy each year.
3. Manufacturing is decreasing as a percent of GDP.
The negative impact of each of these is documented in my book, Save America Now. Our politicians are not addressing these root causes to our economic problems. Instead, they are implementing programs that waste money with no results at creating jobs.
Representatives and Senators argue that the total population of the USA has increased, so the reduced birth rates of 1970 to 1985 should not be impacting our economy. Many of them state that the tremendous amount of immigration in the last 30 years should have corrected the decreased birth rates. They deliberately allowed immigration to replace the loss of births to our US citizens without telling us that they were doing it.
Their actions caused damage to our American culture and to our economy.
Why didn’t the politicians tell us that the low birth rate would harm America? Because it was politically incorrect. Feminists and intellectuals were pushing zero population growth.
So instead, the 3rd World countries kept multiplying while the white industrialized populations decreased as a percent of the total population. In just 50 years, the white population in the world, which is mostly in industrialized countries, decreased from one quarter of the total to less than 10% while the total population more than doubled. The white industrialized population stagnated while the rest of the world increased more than 100%. And that affects everything in the USA from less demand for products, to less Social Security revenue per retiree, to increased average healthcare costs per person, to less homeland security. All growth in the USA for the last 40 years is from immigration and its offspring.
The increased demand for housing from baby boomers drove the economy from the 1980s until 2007. 2007 is the same year that the average age of baby boomers pushed past 55 years old. And since those baby boomers did not have enough children to replace them, demand for housing is falling apart which is causing sales of furniture, appliances, etc. to also fall apart.
In addition, T Boone Pickens pointed out in 2008 that $700 Billion leaves the USA every year to purchase foreign oil. That is more than 5% of our annual GDP. Our energy needs are growing 40% in the next 10 years. So, even if the USA grows its use of alternative energy by 20 times in the next 10 years, it will not even cover the increased demand for energy. Therefore, alternative energy will certainly not make a dent in the $7 Trillion that will be spent on foreign oil in the next 10 years (1/2 of our total economy).
So why aren’t the politicians telling us the truth that even the most optimistic development of alternative energy sources will not make a dent in the outflow of capital from the USA for foreign oil? Why aren’t they telling us that the only way to stop the outflow of capital is to drill for more oil, build nuclear facilities, and mine for more coal while developing alternate energy sources? Because they are either traitors or they are stupid. You be the judge. Who benefits from the outflow of cash for oil? Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia.
These politicians also know that conservation will not work. If the USA reduces consumption, that will also reduce production of goods which will reduce manufacturing jobs.
And just like with negative population growth and foreign oil purchases, the loss of manufacturing is killing the USA. As a percent of GDP, manufacturing has decreased an astounding 70% in the last 50 years.
These same politicians point out how services have replaced manufacturing. But how does replacing the manufacturing industry with a service industry help increase exports and reduce our trade deficit? Do they expect the USA to correct the trade deficit by trading CPA time, or legal advice, or teachers, or government employees for the goods that we now buy from foreign countries? Do they think that the tiny economic multiplier effect from services can replace the huge multiplier from the manufacturing supply chain in our economy?
So why aren’t politicians attacking the manufacturing problem? Because none of them want to offend their political bases by attacking the reasons why manufacturing is leaving the USA:
1. The USA only graduates ¼ of the engineers per capita as compared to Asia while having the highest cost per student in the world.
2. The taxes on manufacturing companies, especially when the taxes of the complete supply chain are considered, are astronomical as compared to other industrialized countries.
3. Labor costs are more than 2 times those in Asia, South America and parts of Europe.
4. The market in the USA is not growing as fast as in countries that do not practice zero population growth.
Instead of tackling the problems of a negative birth rate, foreign oil, and the loss of manufacturing; our government is imposing programs that harm us even more … like mandatory health “insurance,” cap and trade, the GM union bailout, pension fund bailouts, teacher bailouts, bank bailouts, abortion funding, alternative sex education, gay marriage, tax penalties on married people, more government employees, and amnesty for illegal immigrants. And all of these programs continue to harm our culture and our economy. They continue to reduce the intrinsic birth rate, increase our dependency on foreign oil, and chase manufacturing out of the country.
So why do politicians ignore these root causes? Because their political survival is more important to them than what is actually good for America. They pander to banks, unions, feminists, insurance companies, foreign governments, teachers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc. who are the very ones who are killing our economy.
Time is running out. So, what are we going to do about it? Our Declaration of Independence states:
governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,
Time is running out. The survival of the USA depends on instituting a new government this November that will address these three root causes. Otherwise, this great experiment called “America” could be finished.
Michael Master is the author of “Save America Now!” It can be ordered at http://www.amazon.com/
gp/product/1616235756