Opinion: Come together, America
Editor's note: This political opinion piece was published in the Sunday issues of several North Idaho newspapers as a paid advertisement. Please feel free to comment.
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To The Hard-Working People In North Idaho Who Have a Hard Time Finding a Good Paying Job
Fellow North Idahoans-
I’m a Real Estate Broker, and I’ve been lucky enough to call North Idaho my home for the last 18 years, since moving here from Detroit, Michigan, in 1998.
I sell a lot of property here, land, homes, etc., and one of the primary questions I get asked is “Can I get a job there if we move there?”
Because I am honest (to the point of irritating people sometimes) I’m forced to tell them the truth:
“No, jobs here are scarce, especially good paying ones. You’re better off starting a business of some kind.”
Am I wrong, folks? No, I’m not.
Good paying jobs in our areas, and in most of the rural countryside in our country, are either non-existent or few in number, and we all know it.
In all seriousness, why is this? WHY can’t we produce GOOD PAYING JOBS in America?
Is it because we don’t have the natural resources?
We HAVE the resources, from our vast woodlands & logging to mining here in Idaho, to the rich & giant Mesabi Range in Northern Minnesota, where America’s Iron Ore used to be produced, to the coal mines in Appalachia that have been literally put out of business - primarily by self-serving greedy politicians ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.
Or; are we unable to create good paying jobs because we’re a Third World country, and can’t afford to extract our own resources?
We have enough money to be able to bail out the largest banks in the world, and GIVE AWAY billions per year to OTHER nations that “need our help,” so we definitely have the money.
Is it because we’re not capable of hard work for a good hour’s pay?
No.
As much as some folks like to complain about our younger generation’s lack of work ethic, the truth is that the lost work ethic is strictly provided as a result of a simple lack of OPPORTUNITY that those of us in earlier generations had. Opportunity equals drive; for anyone & everyone. If you make good money & have a bright future as result of having a great job; BECAUSE you can advance, then the lack of motivation that our younger generation seems to have acquired will be replaced by extremely DRIVEN 20-35-year-old people.
THEY, our youngest generation, will revive our economies, and those of the world.
But our young people MUST be given the same opportunities to develop our natural resources, the same opportunities that we were given, in the 1950s to the early 1980s.
The simple reason that we have a lack of jobs in the most productive society in the world is purely politics, both sides of the aisle; Republican AND Democrat.
Both sides, folks; they sold us down the river.
They told us starting in the late 1980s, that our country was going to move a lot of our manufacturing overseas, but that middle class America would be “OK!” because we would become a “service economy” and a “high tech, creative economy” that would create more than enough jobs for everyone!
They were wrong; it was a lie; actually perpetrated by politicians and the very rich, whose OWN best interests were served by moving our jobs, and our money, overseas.
What Are We Going to DO about the lack of jobs in America?
Want JOBS in America? Want JOBS in North Idaho, and not hotel worker or convenience store manager jobs, but REAL good paying manufacturing, and industrial jobs, with REAL opportunity for growth, enough to start a family, and not have to work side jobs, and to make sure that getting any assistance from the government is the LAST thing on your mind?
WE CAN DO IT.
First we must look to history because it teaches, and the answers are actually simpler than most think.
EVERY nation throughout history, that truly prospered, and became industrially dominant on a world stage, accomplished this PURELY on the basis of four things:
(1) The nation must have abundant natural resources to develop
(2) The nation must have a hard working citizenry and industry CAPABLE of developing those natural resources
(3) All government entities- local, state and federal- need to have as their primary goal business development that is exclusively SUPPORTIVE of American small and large businesses and their environment, instead of restrictive.
(4) LEGITIMATE trade agreements with other nations of the world that do not move OUR jobs overseas in order to enhance the profitability of major global enterprises and corporations at the expense of good paying middle class American jobs and people.
How do we do this, then? HOW do we bring back REAL jobs to North Idaho, and to America?
First, we MUST stop the fighting among ourselves, the fighting that typical politicians need in order to get them votes, while our people go on welfare & EBT cards.
It’s absurd to see someone who is hurting financially, say out loud that the biggest problem we have in America is “racism?”
Is “racism” bad? Absolutely.
If we want to rid ourselves of “racism” and hate, gangs & violence, drugs, then what is the single most important thing we can do?
Provide JOBS for the middle class, for the minorities, for all of us; because as long as so many stay poor, “racism” will be the primary issue, and the less well off will remain loyal voters for whatever politician promises them more government aid & assistance; and I don’t blame them for it. One bit.
If we want to truly CHANGE things, we must wrap ALL of our collective heads around the ideal, and premise, of voting for POLICIES, and not the person.
Therefore, I am voting for, and encourage you as well, to vote for Donald Trump.
Why?
Policies
Because the Democrats AND the Establishment Republicans hate him. (This is good; he is NOT “one of them”)
Because the TRUTH is, that most people in America need good jobs more than they need anything else.
There’s no getting those manufacturing jobs back without renegotiating our trade agreements
Because we DO need a legitimate border
Because we do need to legitimately screen immigrants arriving from countries that we know hold people who will murder our citizens.
Because we, together; Democrat and Conservative, black, white brown, it doesn’t matter; as a nation, we need to come together and make a real and hard choice between going on as we are, with too many of our Brothers and Sisters struggling; or going “out on a limb” and electing someone who will stand & fight against both sides of the aisle, with the backing of the American people, to right our ship, to get our manufacturing jobs back; to say what’s right, and wrong, no matter whose feelings are hurt, or who is offended.
Hispanic and Black people, and any minorities especially, should vote for Trump.
He represents their best chance to climb the ladder of prosperity in our country.
Unhindered open immigration has inflicted more pain & suffering on Hispanics & Black folks than any other group.
Jobs; REAL ones are the single strongest helping hand that can possibly be given or provided to any minority.
When Black AND White people from the South emigrated to the north, to cities like Detroit, why did they come, what would drive them into the snow, and cold of Detroit?
Jobs. Work. Hope.
For a better Life.
I’m from Detroit originally.
My family were all Democrats, union members, bricklayers & line workers at Ford Motor Company.
They were all told that their jobs would always be fine, because the Unions would protect them; and they did, and could still protect them but ONLY if the jobs exist in the first place.
Detroit, where I come from, was FULL of good intentioned people. Still is.
Unfortunately, corruption got in the way; the plants left, the welfare & alcoholism came.
And the politicians became rich, and powerful.
It’s time to wake up, to grow up, as a nation.
We AREN’T racist, we ARE poor. Way too many of us of all colors.
Fix that issue, and I guarantee you that whatever racism still exists in our magnificent country will disappear, and overnight; because truth be told we Americans are a generous and decent people.
Come Together
Vote for making things better. Help me restore our country, slowly, for sure, but a step in the right direction; without a doubt.
Vote for: Donald J Trump For President
Sponsored by: Chris Walsh, Broker Revolutionary Realty