At first, when you look at stuff like imports as a consumer you think, oh wow, cool. I can get this thing for so cheap. I don't know how they make it and send it from half way around the world so cheap, but they do, and I love it. You love it, right? Of course we do. We all love affordable and nice things. And we should.
But what if I told you that because we paid a little less than if we made stuff right here domestically, that your money, my money, the banks money, America's money; Every dollar in all our pockets, is becoming worth less and less and less, so it's only worth HALF of what it was just a few years ago. How cheap is that stuff now? Our predecessors traded a few years of cheap stuff for our entire nations economic security. Just look around at how many towns are absolutely devastated in every state, with folks on welfare and no work substantial enough to provide for a family of even 3 on a single income. That's not America. Is it?
I'm not going to pass blame on any one person or party, because ultimately the problem is systemic to globalization and decades old foreign and financial policy decisions and antiquated strategies including lopsided subsidies and tariffs, with outsourcing and consolidation exacerbating the situation. All of which has left the Fed Reserve Bank essentially stranded in a position of becoming directly influenced by nations with poor economic stability largely due to exponential increases of quantitative fiscal easing on their part and by their governments.
Right, so in plain english that means that first we let companies and banks get too big and sent all our production (income generation) overseas, along with all our money. Then we got conned into fighting a lot of wars on the other side of the planet, because that's where all our factories and resources are now, well not "our" but a few thousand very wealthy people, so we lost a lot of money that way, and lives, don't forget the lives, I know not that important right, but they died anyway, although not like dogs. They died honorably, defending a few wealthy peoples interests. err, America's interests, (yeah, right). So then, instead of everybody shorting everybody, all the nations just decided they'd start owing everybody instead, and became addicted to devaluing currency, meaning they all just started to print more money whenever they needed it. At first in the US we were like, wooooh, we're not gonna do that. but then they said well, then we're not gonna be able to buy any of your stuff because it'll be too expensive. And we were like, Well... maybe a little... at first. But in 2020/2021 during what I like to refer to as the Great Grandpa Smoke Show, between Trump & Biden, we didn't just print a little more money, WE MORE THAN DOUBLED IT. All because our "allies" China and NATO made us. :-) The End. These "allies" are not our friends, and every one of them is actively trying to influence us, the American people, for their benefit, not ours.
Do you know what happens when you double the amount of currency in a nations economy?
Well you do now. Was any of this in America's best interest? YES, just not Americans as in people, because all our money is worth half of what it just was. This is also not the first time this has ever happened. I never thought I'd actually see it, but here we are. The result, less corporations have more money and market share, while more people have less money and actually it's virtually no market share at this point.
But hey, climate change, right.. no? well how about how big of a piece of shit the other guys are? no? immigrants? still not falling for the distractions huh.
How do we fix it?
Stop relying on imports and stop printing money basically. Or at least work towards that end. Here's how.
I will order all tariffs be investigated and certified across all business sectors and compared with domestic production costs and prices to ensure imports have no advantage over domestic manufacturing, and raise them where we need to. (Like we should have been doing all along and without question.)
I will order that incentives be added to the tax code, allowing domestic small businesses to increase inventories without paying tax on moneys earned and reinvested that way.
I will order that the regulations of quantitative initiatives and fiscal practices be limited to within sound principles and remain strictly and directly related to population enumeration.
(See Blog-Controlling Inflation)
I will order that no pricing be forced (fixed) on private markets or commodities due to or resulting from any government subsidies and subsidy programs. That all agriculture, livestock, farming and other sectors with exports remain free of any and all pricing controls from public sectors, works, governments, and entities. And as I mentioned earlier, I will restore robust antitrust laws to combat harmful business consolidation, and restore our middle class.
What do you get if you vote for DC Kersey?
You will get back to being paid what you're worth.
You will get back to competing in a free and fair marketplace.
You will have the same incentives and opportunity to invest in yourselves and build personal wealth for your families that large multinational conglomerates enjoy.
And we can all get back to living the American dream of actually building our lives and a future for our children that's better than what we have now for ourselves.
It's not that there's a lot to fix. We just have to stop multinational corporate fascism and allowing institutions to actively destroy everything we built, for profits. We have to get back to common sense governing for the people.
I can and will do exactly that.