To the Editor:
One place you can start is by asking your congressman or senator in Washington. If you get I don’t know for an answer, hang up, you just spoke to an idiot. The real answer to the question is our jobs are not in our country, our jobs are in someone else’s country. How did that happen? Big money paid to have them shipped from our country into the promised land and they are still there today.
With the recent stock market crash, it brings back memories of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a joint adventure of our two political parties who decided they were going to raise the economies of three nations — Canada, Mexico and of course our country. It didn’t work out. We lost thousands of jobs due to greed for the almighty dollar.
The Fortune 500 companies looked upon the American workforce as too costly, as they had to pay a higher wage with health benefits and contribute to pension plans. So, they moved their facilities with the excuse that we can better serve the Mexican economy by moving to Mexico altogether with the blessing of our boys and girls in Washington who set it up in the first place. Did our boys and girls in Washington know beforehand that American men and women would be sacrificed at an alarming rate. Of course they did since we were the only country who set up a program that would retrain anyone who lost their job.
Because of NAFTA, our boys and girls in Washington called themselves American. Makes you want to wonder what is a real American. One who just calls themselves one or one who really is one by how they display their actions. These Fortune 500 companies still call this country theirs by keeping their headquarters here. Maybe it’s because they still feed off the American people.
When the stock market crashed we asked ourselves how many of these banks and stock market companies owned or have stock in these Fortune 500 companies? How much of our bailout money went to these companies whose headquarters are still here? Makes you think. If these companies were going under here, then they had to be going under in the other countries where their branches are located? So we have to speculate how much of our bailout money went north, south, east or west of our boundaries? Will Washington tell us the truth? Of course not since it was a Washington operation to begin with and since no one in Washington will ever admit to a mistake made by a member of their political party. So where does that leave us? At the mercy of big money.
Are we at fault? In some ways we are. We trusted those in Washington who told us to trust them. We did. That was our first mistake.
We made people money by how we worked. They wanted and needed more, so they took our skills and know-how to people who work for pennies instead of dollars. This was our second mistake.
Could the bailout be our third mistake? Maybe if we don’t get anything out of it, it could be.
Patrick Dio Sr.
South Philadelphia
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1. Anonymous said... on Apr 8, 2010 at 05:26PM
“to the author you are so right, there are 3 types of people in america those that own it those that manage it thosre that work it ,there are more worker than mgrs, or owners ,their time will soon be up, all over thew world the workers are waking up to the fact all the world wealth is controlled by 1% of the population,???can the mgrs of america stop the workers ????”
2. NJA said... on Apr 8, 2010 at 06:59PM
“To the author of the post above me, you might be in a better position in life if you learned how to spell, just a thought….”
3. chaloots said... on Apr 9, 2010 at 08:17AM
“To NJA, seems to me that the author above you has big fingers and hits two keys sometimes. How do you know if he is not in a better position in life than you or any other person.But why judge someone on how they spell? Was it because he was telling the truth?”
4. NJA said... on Apr 10, 2010 at 05:51PM
“A typical response, I can predict your posts on here to a “T”, you sound like the adults in the Peanuts cartoons, Waa waaa waaa waaa waaa. Why rely on government on anything Going to the doctor now will be like going to the DMV to renew your license, until noon on January 20, 2013, a new day and a rebirth for America…
P.S. Are you ready to pay double for your soda, that democratic mayor is doing such a good job…
”
5. chaloots said... on Apr 12, 2010 at 09:08AM
“What was so predictable? NJA you are the one who is predictable. Instead of trying to unite, NJA you'd prefer to divide, belittle, and call names at people who don't fall in step with your outdated ideology! Good luck with that January 2013 thingy, but I don't see the Tea Klux Klan Party uniting all Americans or all Republicans for that matter. Love thy neighbor, don't persecute them!”
6. Chris Doyle said... on Apr 13, 2010 at 10:02AM
“Chaloots, don't waste the energy debating with NJA. Clearly NJA has nothing of value to contribute to any discussion here. A sure sign of this is the inability to refrain from insulting somebody whose opinion is different from his own. NJA is just another American who hates Americans. Quite sad.”
7. Janice said... on May 12, 2010 at 03:26AM
“@Chaloots,
You stated, "Instead of trying to unite, NJA you'd prefer to divide, belittle, and call names at people". and in the next line ; "Tea Klux Klan Party " Love the hypocrisy Chaloots! You are obviously informed by your liberal blogs and MSNBC. You apparently have know idea what the Tea Party people stand for so I would suggest you keep your bigoted opinions to yourself.”