Ever since the computer came around I have resisted and let the younger generations show me up. Finally, I have forced myself to explore the unknown. It may be because retirement is sometimes a bit boring or that a small slice of self-respect has at last risen to the surface, anyway, I took a course in Microsoft Office at the Copper Mountain Community College this past semester. During all of the semester I felt like a duck out of water but everyone was extremely patient and supportive of this newbie. It has been a very long time since I sat in a class room.
The
experience informed me most about the quality of the young people attending the
college, these are serious folk who value the opportunity that the college
offers. Looking back over the years I
wish that I had taken life and learning as seriously as these kids. Professor Boyer-Whitehurst assigned a Power Point
project for each of us to present to the class, asking that we choose a subject
that we were passionate about. Doing as I
was instructed, I prepared a presentation entitled, “Our Broken Economy”. The point that I was trying to make was that
the economy is a reflection of our politics but I was not aware that politics
is sort of taboo conversation around campus.
Our
politicians have always had their grubby hands in the economy but this new
American economy has become politicized beyond all recognition over the last fifty
years. It was my hope that through the
presentation I could convey to this new coming of age generation, the implications
that our current economic environment was about to impose upon their
lives. Of course, they know the
difficulties before them. One of the
ladies in the class almost yelled out during the presentation, “what can we do
about it?” I was so stretched trying to
get the presentation fit into the allotted five minutes, there was no time to
address the question but a class discussion was in order.
The simple truth
is that our American economy is owned by corporate business folk through their
lobbyists and politicians in Washington D.C. As never before, both political parties have
been hooked by the dollars flowing from big business in order to control the
political agenda. What do they
want? Simply stated, they want cheap
labor and cheap money. Our politicians
have coughed them up to get elected and then cashed in, ignoring the interests
and needs of the people who elected them.
The word that best describes their debauchery is treason, national
treason selling out America and the American ideal of upward economic mobility
for all.
The
Democrats are the hypocrites who have their hands out while speaking empty rhetoric
about the middle class and a “living wage”.
At the same time their espoused policies cut off the legs of the working
class preventing upward mobility.
Policies like big spending, overseas trade deals that give away jobs and open borders immigration, all combining to further divide America into
the rich and the relatively poor and getting poorer. Hillary
Clinton is the poster child for this duplicity but she has plenty of
company. President O’Bama is the grand
poohbah of hypocrites. His policies distract the people by dividing
the electorate with racial animus while he opens the floodgate of cheap labor through
both legal and illegal immigration. I know how big his library will be, it will be
befitting his royal status.
The
Republicans are the worst offenders of the people. They taut capitalistic ideals and a free
economy as an excuse to give American jobs away overseas and to give tacit
approval to the same immigration policies of the Democrats. More importantly, the GOP only advances
candidates for president that will give due deference to their big business
donors. The people have caught on to
their deceit and this accounts for the popularity of “The Donald”, who is the
only Republican candidate bucking the establishment GOP scheme. America will conclude that Mr. Trump is the
only real alternative to politics as usual.
Will he be any different if elected president, who knows? At least he is talking the right game now.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
