by Gene Scarborough » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:04 am
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The movement of so many jobs overseas is one of the major factors in our economic crash. Rocky Mount, NC, where I work is a classic example. We moved there in 1986. My wife's family had needs for our presence / the town of 50,000 was an ideal place to raise our teen children X 2. It worked well for us.
Now, in the past 15 years EVERY major industry has left. The last is RBC-Centura Bank and their headquarters building is now moving to Raleigh. Rocky Mount advertised itself as "The City on the Rise." Now it needs, for accuracy sake, "---In Drugs and Crime Only!" It is all the product of racial tension and Corporate Greed.
A town which used to pride itself on equal parks and facilities is taken over by black race-baiting leaders. It is so bad that Law Enforcement cannot arrest a gang member or punk in the hood without cries of "racial profiling" from black leaders. The black neighborhood is filled with drug selling and gunfire all night / every night. Good and kind citizens who are retired there must sleep in their bath tubs to protect themselves from random bullets going through houses. It is more unfair than anything else I know.
This economic crash sees NOT ONE DOLLAR going to small business. Everything spent is with large Banks / Corporations / Investment Institutions. It assumes "trickle down" economics works---so why aren't all GM products sold at a 61% reduction since us taxpayers now own that much of GM? If our money trickled down and back to us---this would be the proof it works. Rich are getting richer / poor are getting poorer. Education is a farce. Welfare is now a 4-generation trap rather than a help to rise above poverty.
In this sense "Conservative" means a return to the injustices and poverty of England and Europe from which our ancestors fled for the "land of opportunity."
I just hope the Conservatiism of Milliken might somehow return to that ideal term. It made us great in the past, but is now dragging us deeper into a polorized country where hate reigns and poverty seems to be our future.
Gene Scarborough