Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Trade, Jobs and the Political Ruling Class

America has not been America for forty years.  The American ruling class of politicians have increasingly dumped onerous free trade deals upon the American people while refusing to close our borders to illegal immigration.  The result has been a widening divide between the rich and the poor.  Our elite politicians do so to further their own electability and personal fortunes at the expense of the working and middle class.  Looking back through the mirror of history, it is difficult to discount the conspiracy theories about a secret regular meeting of worldwide economic power brokers intent on manipulating the peoples and politics of the world for their own financial good.  Somebody has to be pulling the strings.
 
In America the strings have been pulled by the ruling political elite class of politicians lead by those of us named Clinton and Bush.  Political affiliations matter not at all because the strings have been pulled regardless of who wins a particular election.  In 2016 this political reality would not be changing were it not for two candidates running for the presidency.  Both Republican, Donald Trump and Democrat, Bernie Sanders, are calling for radical change that would again focus our politics on the welfare of all Americans and away from Wall Street and the big money power brokers who insist on cheap labor.

Bernie Sanders would like to solve the dilemma with an even bigger government that will be intimately involved in making the economy work for the little people by regulation.  Mr. Trump seems to have an economic plan that may come to be called, smart capitalism.  The buying power of the American consumer is the only leverage left to us that can protect the American worker from economic abuse from abroad.  Mr. Trump believes that this leverage could be applied to trade negotiations in a smart fashion, if and when there was the will to do so from the top.

There has been no will for the last forty years.  Nothing has exposed the bottom line issue for the Republican establishment as this primary election season.  The scrapping has not been about conservative principles, it never was.  The traditional application of free trade principles is why the so-called conservative billionaire Kock brothers have given up fighting Donald Trump and will likely support the Clinton campaign.  Support for Mr. Trump is not dependent upon foreign policy as claimed by former Senator Sununu on Fox News today, May 9.  Newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives and past vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, now refuses to endorse Donald Trump.  Is he hoping to out maneuver the Donald on the issue of trade in exchange for the party unity, good luck.  Stupid free trade deals are the issue that the people want confronted in 2016 and the Donald is the man.

We the people must ask our political representatives the question, do you endorse Donald Trump?  I want to hear from my own Congressman, Col. Cook, congressman, have you joined the Trump train?  Being the simpleton that I am, I placed a call to the office of Col. Cook in Washington (202-225-5861) and was told that the house ethics committee has ruled that a house member can’t or should not have an opinion on a particular presidential primary candidate.  So I called the House Ethics Committee (202-225-7103) and was quoted a Rule 7 as a justification for the lack of candor they were promoting.  Does this talking point make sense or are they all blowing smoke to protect their Wall Street funding?

Marine Col. Cook has his head down in the foxhole!

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.