Τετάρτη 31 Οκτωβρίου 2012

MADE N USA



During the campaign  for the election of the new President of the US  both candidates were dominating the Media everyday without showing that one of the two makes the difference;  the efforts made to reveal their intentions and to unfold their skills do not convince the American citizen that either of them can provide solutions. Certainly, the stage setting and rhetoric are not enough.
Mr. Romney promises that he will do anything to get the US economy started and to support those who want to produce. The collapse of the Middle Class, as he notes, is undoubtedly  the cause of unemployment plaguing the country. Nevertheless, his insistence to give the solution to the problem, as if unaware that the transfer of the production facilities in countries of the Third World was to reduce the labor cost, is at least an element of acting. For this reason, the question of the modern model of development, the globalization of the markets and the circulation of money are never the argument of those who claim an office of power, despite the hardships they have accumulated to the peoples.
The American citizens are every day encountered with the products of the new global Power that has flooded their markets. They know that the wealth of their country does not belong to them and that they get poorer every day. In short, the collapse of the national economy of their great country, which praised the private initiative and became the Promised Land and the fulfillment of the dream of every immigrant, is a fact.
After all, they cannot be unaware of the fact that the domination of China and unemployment is the result of a strategy that their politicians and their governments have served. We should also have in mind that our transatlantic friends, like the European peoples, have been “spoilt” by subsidies, unemployment benefits and stamps to buy gasoline and food etc, in order not to produce!
In other words, it is unlikely that the new president of the US will stop the imported goods at the borders or add taxes to them, as it is obvious that he cannot convince the Chinese to devalue their currency. Moreover, it would be very intriguing to hear from the new president that he will convert the wages of the American citizens to Chinese wages.
It is obvious that, at the present stage, we have come to a dead-end and it is certain that the 23 million unemployed in the US will increase, drifting poverty and the country's deficits to the peak. Then we will have an idea of the size of the crisis and remember the '30s, when the US president established the Civilian Conservation Corps to reduce the queues of the unemployed.
In the aftermath of the "terrorist" wars, the US citizens today know very well, that the war is not about their own welfare and that, whichever choice they make will prove vain, as both candidates agree on  demonstrating their military power, claiming each for himself the most inhuman and aggressive attitude.
Of course, what usually happens in the end is that we all come to a compromise accepting a succession to an office which results in minor changes of its structure, creating an illusion of change that apparently human nature does not really like. However, the disposition of the peoples to fight will again determine the size of the profit to be gained from the changes that will be imposed.