Any Man Can

It's not the American worker that is lazy and overprivileged, it's the American consumer. So lazy they can't even read a tag to see where they are buying from. By definition of overprivileged: having an excess of opportunities or advantages; it is the consumer, not the employee who has an excess of opportunities and advantages. In that state of overprivileged the American consumer can't be bothered to pay $5 more for American products that might benefit their own job creation. If America is over ran by the Chinese, it will be the American consumer, who thought it was a good idea to sell America one penny at a time.

My business struggles, like America does, but do I indulge in unethical practice? No. I search the internet to find a merchant that promises American labor will benefit from a purchase. Even then there is a caveat of American made, where possible.

I, as an American laborer, work my ass off because that is what should matter. That is the America we all know and love, even if it only exists in movies and minds. That a nobody, through nothing else but sweat on his brow and the will to make it so, can do anything. I work my day job to pay my bills and eek by, but never get ahead. I come home and work on my company when my child is asleep. I believe in the things that matter, regardless of contempt or folly, because the things that matter are what a man should believe in.

To fix the problem I hear deregulation, as if the businesses that dominate have anyone's interest but their own in mind. I hear cut taxes, to give these mammoths more money to spend here, instead of taxing those that ship jobs overseas, or taxing their product born in China and elsewhere being sold here.

I hear that my suggestions would scare away those companies, and I think, why now do you stop believing in a free market? Our nation is still a desirable marketplace. There is still money to be made here. If a company wishes to leave because we demand fair trade practices, then buh-bye! I have no tolerance for disloyal companies that threaten the people that made them what they are. A small business will fill the gap, and create those jobs and products we desire.

Industry special interests have to get out of the way and allow the any man to do just that, but that is the slip between the factory and the ship. The corruption that plagues our government has allowed corporations to have the same rights as you and I. With that, I have to ask, just how many Representatives and Senators does a company get to influence with their 'voice', and how many do I get? There should be a cap on how many districts a company can reside and influence, just as there is for me, or the individual rights will continue to remain disproportionate.

To fix the problem of corruption, I hear a call for increased states rights in law making, as if we learned nothing from the Civil War. That our leaders being close by will better represent us. Then why have a federal government at all? Could it be that we need to assure a unified and just law of the land? Cry states rights as much as you like, a State with as much power as the federal government is just as likely to be riddled with corruption. We shouldn't just pawn off problems in a government nutshell game that hides the problem and moves it across the table. That change could only help temporarily, if it would help at all. It's a cowards way out. It's admitting defeat. That We the people cannot change the big problem, so lets create 50.

That is the solution, We the People. We need to account for our actions and inaction. The majority of us have stood by for most of our lives and never even bothered to do the one simple thing that matters, to vote. I've heard the argument that voting doesn't matter, that if it did, voting would be illegal by now. If that were true, then why does the Tea Party even exist? They could just pay off the leaders to behave however they wished. Why even bother with energizing a base, and rallying?

We the People need to abandon the lies that help destroy our Democracy, before revolution can ever be called for, we should call for voter turn out in numbers of 80% or greater.

If we never even bother to participate in our Democracy, then how could we ever call for revolution? How can you call for the violent bedlam of widespread battlefield anarchy? How could you justify the deaths of your friends and neighbors in civil war, if you didn't first just vote at least once? How could you believe that a revolution would matter, if we prop up the same Democratic rule with continued apathy?