AMERICA, IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP

Are Americans capable of understanding their plight? It has been said that most can neither do simple math nor comprehend what they read. That may explain why they do not see what is happening to their country, or why they do not seem to care. Yet, those with these basic skills also appear gullible to the propaganda they are continually fed. Is the answer, that the message is so desirable that they cannot resist accepting?

Now, who could resist such ideas as "more is better," "we are creating jobs," "diversity is beautible," "globalization is inevitable and we must adjust to compete," "cheap labor will reduce prices," "growth increases economic wealth," "we need growth to save our social security system," and "free-trade will boost the economy." They do sound inviting, desirable, and difficult to resist, because they so plausible. Yet, these ideas are causing our nation to disintegrate.

The drum beaters proclaim that globalization is the answer. If we expand to foreign markets, our economy will grow through the melding of our economy with the global economy by free trade, capital mobility, and uncontrolled migration. The result is an erasure of our national
boundary for economic purposes. The shifts in trade patterns have resulted in the loss of millions of jobs, contributed to declining real income and making the U.S. the largest debtor
nation. We have lost U.S. captial and U.S. labor cooperating to produce U.S. goods to compete against other nations. The result means that without employing U.S. labor these global capitalists will be unable to sell their products, because of loss in our purchasing power. Can we say the benefits outweigh the negatives?

If more is better, how can we ever resist having even more? With only 4.8% of the world's population we consume 25% of the oil, and 30% of world materials. We import more than $700
billion more than we export. We borrow $3 billion per day to fuel our greed. We are fast approaching the time when we will be unable to pay our debt, which now cost us $400 million daily to just pay the interest on the $9.2 trillion. We are told growth will get us out of debt.
If only we could grow faster, our problems would disappear.

The economist would have you believe that the foundation of our economy is growth. We grow our population with legal immigrants and illegal aliens as a means of maintaining our consumption-based economy.

Consider, the following and then ask yourself is this what you want for your children, grandchildren, or should we get really serious about controlling both legal and illegal immigration. Between 1990 through 2000 we added 32.7 million people; an increase of 13.1 percent. If we continue on this path our population in 2020, 2040, 2060, 2080 and 2100 will be 360, 460, 589, 753 and 964 million, respectively.

Agronomists and ecologists have a different view of population growth. Piemental and Giampietro (1994) indicated the U.S. has about 400 million fertile acres, and estinates are that
one acre of land is lost to urbanization and highway construction for every person added to the
population. They estimate that by 2025 we will be forced to cease exporting food in order to
provide for the increase in our own population or continue to borrow in order to buy it from other countries. We are already on the verge of bankruptcy because of the expanding population. Can we continue to pave over our nation? At what point do we exceed the carrying capacity of our arable land? How much genetically inspired food do you want to ingest?

Someone is suggesting that we taxpayers subsidize farmers to delay them from selling their land. When Joe Farmer sees the sign on his neighbor's land that says "200 acres for sale, $40,000 per acre," you can bet he is calculating. "Now, that's a cool $8,000,000 today, and I am 65, and..." Obviously, the state doesn't have enough money to compete. So, if you want to preserve farmland you had better seriously re-think the growth model.

Besides why are we allowing the destruction of this nation? Can we not see the damage being
done by the greed of some individuals and international corporations, at the expense of our environment, our economy, our quality of life? Why should economic growth be more important
than the happiness of the citizens? I do not need another exotic restaurant to be content! How
long will it be before our debt outstrips our ability to pay even the interest on the debt???
What then will happen to growth???

Unhappy Americans in Idaho

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