The people of our country and elected leaders are trying to find a way to move the nation out of some hard times that are disturbingly reminiscent of the Great Depression. For the effort to achieve success, it will need to go beyond the policies and programs that to date have been mostly directed at arresting the financial slide of banks, Wall Street and some large corporations.
If more of a substantive nature is not achieved, this finance-stabilization effort will constitute little more than chasing money from one pile and pocket to another in an attempt that only slows a fall into a deepening economic morass.
In terms of responding to the last several decades of American deindustrialization, much of what has been done seems to constitute little more the cooking the economic books. And this stimulus stew has not dealt what it is that this generation of Americans is going to be able to do to earn a living and enjoy some time of leisure.
With most of the goods now sold in box stores manufactured in the world’s factory, China, what economically rewarding, culturally beneficial and personally meaningful work are Americans going to be able to find?
I believe it is time build the national infrastructure that affords all Americans the opportunity to engage in real free enterprise that empowers them to create and enjoy their own way of making a living.