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Americans Trample One Another To Get Their
Hands On Cheap Foreign-Made Plastic Crap
The American Dream
November 30, 2010
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As this latest Black Friday clearly demonstrated, Americans are literally willing to trample one another to get the best deals on cheap foreign-made plastic crap. Meanwhile, as thousands of factories and millions of jobs continue to get shipped overseas, the United States is rapidly turning into a post-industrial wasteland. Once great manufacturing cities such as Camden, New Jersey have become crime-ridden, gang-infested hellholes. In some U.S. cities, the “real” unemployment rate is around 30 or 40 percent. The American people desperately need jobs, but the American people are also showing no signs that they plan to give up their addiction to cheap foreign goods. Our politicians keep insisting that the American people just need “more education” and “more skills” in order to compete, but they don’t ever seem to explain how more education and more skills are going to make new jobs pop into existence out of thin air. The truth is that the American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Nightmare and there is not much hope that any of this is going to turn around any time soon.
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The video posted below is a compilation of video footage from this past Black Friday.
It is absolutely shocking to see what average Americans will do to
each other just to save a little bit of money on cheap foreign-made goods….
Very few of the Americans in the video posted above probably even realize that this behavior is destroying our economy a little bit more every day.
Proponents of outsourcing point to all the cheap goods filling our stores as a good thing, but they never tell us about all the good paying American jobs that have been lost.
Sacrificing our industrial base for cheap foreign-made plastic crap is kind of like throwing your furniture into the fire to keep your house warm. We are literally participating in our own economic destruction.
This is a long-term problem that we are facing. The United States has been running trade deficits for over three decades. Big corporations like Ford Motor Company are making record profits by shipping our jobs out of the country.
But without good paying jobs, the U.S. middle class simply is not going to survive.
If anyone can explain how the U.S. middle class is going to continue to exist without good jobs then please let the rest of us know.
Just look at what is already happening in city after city across the United States.
In a new article entitled “City of Ruins“, Chris Hedges does an amazing job of documenting the horrific decline of the city of Camden, New Jersey. Hedges estimates that the real rate of unemployment in Camden is somewhere around 30 to 40 percent, and he makes it sound like nobody in their right mind would want to live there now….
Camden is where those discarded as human refuse are dumped, along with the physical refuse of postindustrial America. A sprawling sewage treatment plant on forty acres of riverfront land processes 58 million gallons of wastewater a day for Camden County. The stench of sewage lingers in the streets. There is a huge trash-burning plant that releases noxious clouds, a prison, a massive cement plant and mountains of scrap metal feeding into a giant shredder. The city is scarred with several thousand decaying abandoned row houses; the skeletal remains of windowless brick factories and gutted gas stations; overgrown vacant lots filled with garbage and old tires; neglected, weed-filled cemeteries; and boarded-up store fronts.
Gangs have stepped into the gaping void left by industry. In Camden today, drugs and prostitution are two of the only viable businesses left – especially for those who cannot find employment anywhere else. The following is how Hedges describes the current state of affairs….
There are perhaps a hundred open-air drug markets, most run by gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos and MS-13. Knots of young men in black leather jackets and baggy sweatshirts sell weed and crack to clients, many of whom drive in from the suburbs. The drug trade is one of the city’s few thriving businesses. A weapon, police say, is never more than a few feet away, usually stashed behind a trash can, in the grass or on a porch.
But before we all start judging Camden for being such a horrible place to live, it is important to realize that this is happening in communities from coast to coast. All over the United States industries are leaving and deep social decay is setting in.
If your community is still in good shape right now, be thankful, because what is happening in Camden is going to be happening everywhere soon.
So can anything be done to reverse all this? Well, yes, but right now most of our politicians are standing idly by and are refusing to even speak up about these issues.
Some time ago, CNN ran a series entitled “Exporting America” that looked into the phenomenon of big corporations outsourcing jobs that used to go to Americans. The following are the U.S. companies that CNN confirmed were sending jobs overseas….
Hands On Cheap Foreign-Made Plastic Crap
The American Dream
November 30, 2010
<--- http://endoftheamericandream.com/ar...states-turns-into-a-post-industrial-wasteland
As this latest Black Friday clearly demonstrated, Americans are literally willing to trample one another to get the best deals on cheap foreign-made plastic crap. Meanwhile, as thousands of factories and millions of jobs continue to get shipped overseas, the United States is rapidly turning into a post-industrial wasteland. Once great manufacturing cities such as Camden, New Jersey have become crime-ridden, gang-infested hellholes. In some U.S. cities, the “real” unemployment rate is around 30 or 40 percent. The American people desperately need jobs, but the American people are also showing no signs that they plan to give up their addiction to cheap foreign goods. Our politicians keep insisting that the American people just need “more education” and “more skills” in order to compete, but they don’t ever seem to explain how more education and more skills are going to make new jobs pop into existence out of thin air. The truth is that the American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Nightmare and there is not much hope that any of this is going to turn around any time soon.
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http://www.infowars.com/americans-t...eir-hands-on-cheap-foreign-made-plastic-crap/
The video posted below is a compilation of video footage from this past Black Friday.
It is absolutely shocking to see what average Americans will do to
each other just to save a little bit of money on cheap foreign-made goods….
Very few of the Americans in the video posted above probably even realize that this behavior is destroying our economy a little bit more every day.
Proponents of outsourcing point to all the cheap goods filling our stores as a good thing, but they never tell us about all the good paying American jobs that have been lost.
Sacrificing our industrial base for cheap foreign-made plastic crap is kind of like throwing your furniture into the fire to keep your house warm. We are literally participating in our own economic destruction.
This is a long-term problem that we are facing. The United States has been running trade deficits for over three decades. Big corporations like Ford Motor Company are making record profits by shipping our jobs out of the country.
But without good paying jobs, the U.S. middle class simply is not going to survive.
If anyone can explain how the U.S. middle class is going to continue to exist without good jobs then please let the rest of us know.
Just look at what is already happening in city after city across the United States.
In a new article entitled “City of Ruins“, Chris Hedges does an amazing job of documenting the horrific decline of the city of Camden, New Jersey. Hedges estimates that the real rate of unemployment in Camden is somewhere around 30 to 40 percent, and he makes it sound like nobody in their right mind would want to live there now….
Camden is where those discarded as human refuse are dumped, along with the physical refuse of postindustrial America. A sprawling sewage treatment plant on forty acres of riverfront land processes 58 million gallons of wastewater a day for Camden County. The stench of sewage lingers in the streets. There is a huge trash-burning plant that releases noxious clouds, a prison, a massive cement plant and mountains of scrap metal feeding into a giant shredder. The city is scarred with several thousand decaying abandoned row houses; the skeletal remains of windowless brick factories and gutted gas stations; overgrown vacant lots filled with garbage and old tires; neglected, weed-filled cemeteries; and boarded-up store fronts.
Gangs have stepped into the gaping void left by industry. In Camden today, drugs and prostitution are two of the only viable businesses left – especially for those who cannot find employment anywhere else. The following is how Hedges describes the current state of affairs….
There are perhaps a hundred open-air drug markets, most run by gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos and MS-13. Knots of young men in black leather jackets and baggy sweatshirts sell weed and crack to clients, many of whom drive in from the suburbs. The drug trade is one of the city’s few thriving businesses. A weapon, police say, is never more than a few feet away, usually stashed behind a trash can, in the grass or on a porch.
But before we all start judging Camden for being such a horrible place to live, it is important to realize that this is happening in communities from coast to coast. All over the United States industries are leaving and deep social decay is setting in.
If your community is still in good shape right now, be thankful, because what is happening in Camden is going to be happening everywhere soon.
So can anything be done to reverse all this? Well, yes, but right now most of our politicians are standing idly by and are refusing to even speak up about these issues.
Some time ago, CNN ran a series entitled “Exporting America” that looked into the phenomenon of big corporations outsourcing jobs that used to go to Americans. The following are the U.S. companies that CNN confirmed were sending jobs overseas….
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