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Categories - Copywriting - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Finance - Let the Bells of Freedom Ring Once More The United States was formed from 13 colonies of people who trapped, hunted and farmed for their survival and the right to be free. We gloried in our freedom as we helped each other build our homes and survive in the wilderness and if no one helped us, we did it alone. We began to move westward for the opportunities that our imaginations told us were there and no path was too hard, no mountain too steep, no river too wide, and no enemy too mighty for us to reach the destination of our dreams. When we got there we created the opportunities that we had only imagined because we were free and we could do whatever we decided we wanted to do. By the time World War II rolled around, we had spread across a continent, surviving against all odds, cheerfully and ambitiously facing each day for the opportunities that abounded and the freedom that the morning sun brought. By this time, we had become the greatest industrial nation in the world and were producing almost half of the world’s manufactured goods. We manufactured half of the weapons used in the war and we were the envy of every country in the world.
We were Americans and, despite our differences, we stood together with our hearts bursting with pride as we said the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the Star Spangled Banner. We knew what those words meant and we felt our patriotism deeply as we exercised our rights to assemble, free speech and freedom of the press to keep our government of the free on the right path. We also appreciated hard work and we were eager to help our fellow American and even other countries as they struggled to get ahead. We were joyous and wanted everyone to enjoy the things that our freedom had brought us.
As we began to try to share our good fortune, we forgot that our independence and our competitive spirit were the things that had made us great. As we began to arm other countries with the technology and education that would help them succeed, we also began to offer them handouts. Soon, we had the entire world begging at our doors and our hearts would not let us turn them away. We had created a world of beggars instead of a world of competitors. Instead of competitors to drive us, we had partners to coddle. As we handed them our manufacturing capability, we offered them trade agreements where we would buy their goods and they would not buy our goods until we ran out of money. We offered them surpluses and we took deficits in return and we taxed our own manufacturers while we charged them no tariffs. Our political independence is now threatened because our economic independence has vanished.
We were the inventors of automobile manufacturing, but our car manufacturers are now dying. The greatest industrial country on the planet now employs around 10% of its population in manufacturing. It has been over 150 years since this was the status of our work force and we now borrow billions of dollars from other countries each month in order to stay afloat. We have learned that free trade is not so free.
The new model for the world is becoming China whose political philosophy should bite into the heart of every free human being. Instead, we now look at communism and socialism as things we should not fear instead of things that we should conquer. While we have been calling China our partner, they have chosen to put China first instead of equal and they have studied how the United States rose and how it is falling. They have chosen to rise.
While we have opened up our economy to them and allowed them to share, they have kept their prices low and ours high in their own country. The only way that our companies can sell in their country is at a loss while considering it to be an investment. They have made our companies dependent on their manufacturing producing entire inventories for many of our firms. They now produce 65% of Mattel’s inventory while blaming them for poisoned toys produced in Chinese sweat shops. China has become the largest exporter in the world and our deficit with them is now half a trillion dollars. We are now as dependent on China for manufacturing as we are on foreign oil. They know that this is better for them and worse for us. Some partner.
As China is putting men into space and heading for the moon, we are becoming dependent on Russian rockets to service the space station that we built. While China now has $2 trillion in reserves, we have become the beggars, $12 trillion in debt. We are being issued terms that no longer allow us to run our own country independently. Our own banks are now foreign owned and conspiring against us. For some reason, as we enter the worst recession the world has known and our country and its population have been stripped of their wealth, the dangers of protectionism are still being sung.
We can only hope that it’s not too late and our government and we can come together to let the bells of freedom ring once more.
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