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American's Deceived - Now Suffering Outrage Fatigue

Published 12/05/07 Thomas Heffner - Print Article
E-mail - editor@economyincisis.org

“It is outrage fatigue, and it is epidemic. It's a feeling that we are being hammered unlike any time in recent history with so many appalling and disgusting and violently un-American incidents and scandals and manipulations that our b.s.-detectors are smoking like an old V-8 engine on a hot summer's day and it's all we can do to get up every day without screaming.” -Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle


Every American citizen should be outraged at what is happening to our country:

  • 3 million manufacturing jobs lost in the last 5 years. How are we going to dig our way out of our tremendous national debt when we can’t produce anything to sell abroad?
  • Middle-class wages are stagnating, oil is skyrocketing- average consumer savings rates are some of the lowest rate since The Great Depression.
  • Entire industries sold overseas- jettisoning jobs, technology and putting our country’s future well-being in jeopardy.
  • Two million Americans will lose their homes due to foreclosures. Two million is greater than the populations of Boston, Seattle and Denver combined.
  • A euro now trades at close to $1.50, in 2003 one euro traded for one dollar
  • A Defense Budget of 420 billion- accounting for 43% of defense spending in the entire world- forced to import bullets due to the shrinking manufacturing base at home
  • $9 Trillion and rising in National Debt plus a $765 billion balance of trade deficit in 2006. This equates to $1.5 million per minute falling into foreign hands. This is the money foreigners are using to buy our best companies, which will inevitably place us back into colonial status. We will not own our country anymore!

It is time to channel our collective outrage fatigue and turn our country around. America became a superpower on the backs of a thriving industrial base. Manufacturing and production was a success domestically due to hard work, ingenuity and lack of competition from overseas industries that were recovering from the bombs dropped on them in WWII.

Since the end of WWII, the rest of the world has rebuilt, caught up, and now surpassed us. All-the-while we have been fed tales about a transition to a service economy, and the promises of free trade, as we have sunk deeper and deeper into debt.

Something needs to change folks!

Our current economic path is bankrupting us. Our policies have rendered us industrially impotent. The solution to this is not- like some suggest- to let our currency fall to near-nothing to boost imports- it is to reinvigorate industry to compete in the world and strengthen trade laws to combat countries who ‘cheat’ on trade.

Contact your congressional representatives and channel your outrage fatigue. Demand that they wake up and take action, before it is too late.

Click here to contact your Representative in Congress.

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guest says "If not the leaders of our country, than who?" on 12/12/07
Remove all incumbents for starters. Insanity, doing the same thing over, and expecting a different result.

flotsamoverbd says ""This is American Culture"" on 12/08/07
The primary problem with Americans is that they love to blame someone else for their problems. Both Democrat and Republican politicians have been "serving" only themselves. We need to quit voting for a party and begin voting every incumbant out of office. That, in the short term, will rectify the problem. Quit baming someone else! You, in voting for a party, are the problem! flotsamoverbd

guest says "This is American Culture" on 12/07/07
Why are people so surprised about the loss of jobs and importation of illegal immigrants? They help lower the cost of doing business by undercutting Americans and unions, accepting lower wages,and working as compliant slaves for their masters. Its far more profitable than using Americans.

Realize that this
is now the nature of American Culture. Business always has and will come first and people will come 2nd or lower as long as Proift is the motive for human endeavor.

The culture of the USA has been retooled to be a fundamentally materialistic and conservative and religious nation that blindly pays homage to multimillionaire televangelists on Sunday only to worship and envy the superwealthy for the rest of the week.

Every country has its national character and philosophy and the USA used to be admirable in many moral and humanitarian ways as a guiding light of democracy and an innovator of new things and a brave nation that would stand up to and oppose evil as it was loved around the world.

But folks that was 50-75 years ago when FDR was the president. The USA has chosen a very different path, and seeks now to be a belligerant world bully. A nation of torture. A government of secrecy and Constitutional violations. A nation where short term business profiteering and billionaires are lauded as the most important policies and people whom politicians should consult.

These are our American values that have been chosen intentionally in preferance to other goals and values.

All of those who welcomed in the Conservative Evangelical revolution have helped make it so.

So, we should not be surprised to see the natural effects of these choices.



guest says "FATIGUE" on 12/05/07
WHATS HAPPENED IN THIS COUNTRY-GREED AND MORE GREED,THE SELLING OFF OF AMERICA, INEPT POLITICIANS,ILLEGAL IMIGRANTS AND A FEELING OF WHO CARES