Of neo-cons and stupid-cons: Hey! What are you “conserving?”

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Written By Glenn R. Jackson

There is an incredible amount of energy and effort being poured into spinning the dismantling of America’s economic powerhouse as the perfect storm of economic growth. Well, they have the storm part of the story right anyway. Yet unashamed the Bush Administration and their minions continue to push for policies that will destroy the American economy, and the American middle-class along with it.

The Bush Administration continues to campaign for “guest worker”/amnesty proposals that benefit foreign nationals and corporate multinationals, but will push American citizens out of jobs and dismantle the mechanisms of America’s middle-class citizen production and maintenance. A nation’s middle-class exists on the foundations of a broad and strong economy. A broad economy creates many entryways into the middle-class for lower income groups. While a strong economy maintains the health and wealth of a growing middle class. Manufacturing provides the breadth and higher skill jobs the strength.

Wage pressure exerted by a flood of cheap labor replacement “guest workers” undermines the economy’s strength. A massive influx of low skill cheap workers eliminates entryways for U.S. citizens by replacing them with ever-cheaper worker imports/sneak-ins. Over a million high tech/engineering jobs are held in this country by foreign workers. No one can agree to the number of low skill sneak-ins, but Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge seems unperturbed by numbers that exceed 8 million.

The Bush Administration also continues a mindless adherence to Free Trade agreements that are destroying U.S. industries and inviting even more “guest workers” to take U.S. jobs. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as free trade. The cost of free trade is borne by someone, and in the case of the U.S. it is being borne by America’s citizens and workers.

Supporting this Bush driven destruction is a coalition of Neo-Con and Stupid-Con yakking-heads and a self-absorbed group of the “master’s of the universe” Wall Streeter set. All that is important to them is maintaining power and building personal wealth. If it comes at the expense of America or out of the middle-class pocket that’s too bad, but all that matters is ensuring Bush rules for 4 more years.

But 4 more years of what?

The Bush Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 1.024 million jobs HAVE BEEN LOST since the “End of the Recession,” and the number of employed have FALLEN on a year-to-year basis within the November report.

Bush Treasury Secretary John Snow has “staked his reputation” on creating 200,000 jobs a MONTH next year. Yet the “hottest” economy in recent memory at 8.2% growth created a mere 82,000 jobs per month…IN THE UNITED STATES. No one reports the number of jobs created in India or China, but 80% of the 82,000 U.S. jobs are in the temporary staffing, health, education, and GOVERNMENT sectors. All four sectors are largely protected from globalization and foreign workers.

In November the U.S. PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) showed most firms planned for an increase in hiring in manufacturing areas, but the actual manufacturing jobs number declined another 17,000 in November. This continues an unbroken string of manufacturing job losses under the Bush Administration. Large numbers of Americans are simply giving up on finding a comparable job in the new job destruction markets of the Bush Administration.

Clearly after 4 years of George W. Bush the U.S. economy is in deep trouble. Equally clear is that “Con” is all that is left of the Neo-Cons and Stupid-Cons attachment to America. To continue to press the story that the United Stares, with the greatest economy on the planet, cannot compete without relocating our industries and jobs to foreign countries is ridiculous. Spending American corporate revenues, revenues generated in majority from U.S. sales, to build state of the art facilities in India and China is unconscionable. Using American tax dollars to provide business to foreign workers is disgraceful. To continue to believe that this is being done in the best interest of the citizens of America is unsupportable. Which means that continuing to believe that the Bush Administration is in anyway “conservative” is insanity.

Hey! What are you conserving? There’s nothing left.

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