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State of the Union

First of all the state of the union is all red.  Let's get that out in front.  Economy?  You are joking.  There is none due to the concerns of Big Business.  Jobs hey we gotta keep our profits high.  The little people?  Just put them out of work and on food stamps.

Where is the cotton going to come from when there are no farms left?  Where is the shirt going to be made?  Where are the pants going to be made?  Where are the cars going to be made?  Where are the Mechanics going to come from?  Who is going to repair the roads?  Fix the Electric?  Build our new homes?

This is where we are at.  Government pushing college education to get people into higher paying jobs.  Great all for it.  However you forgot to put food on the table, repair the streets; cars; trucks; public transportation, keep the grid operational, and oh yeah keep the Internet up.  Never mind that you need clothing, fuel, clean water, and some kind of shelter from the cold.  No all you need is a college education and all will be right. 

With the current expenses that we have, over 10 Trillion dollars, this country will run out of operating cash sometime in the fall.  As far as the people who live here expect to see almost everything shut down.  Remember the last time Congress decided to help out?  In the end they spent over a Trillion dollars just to line their pockets.  Nobody got any help and everything got worse.  The only time when public works projects actually worked was during the Great Depression. 

Now we have virtually no food production in this country, almost all the help lines go overseas, almost all the clothing is made in either China or India.  And you thought we have it good.  At the last check the only part of the United States doing any food production was Iowa, Idaho, and Montana.  All the rest of the states are into High Tech Jobs that promise more pay than farming.

Got news for you the Economy as planned will fail and all the money in the world will not grow one tomato or potato.  Where are the farm jobs going?  China, Korea, Cambodia, India, and Siberia Russia.  There is very few farms left in America, or Canada that actually still do nothing but farm.  I can plow around 40 Acres a day and harvest the same amount with the right equipment.
Without it there is the little garden out back that needs weeding, and harvesting.  I hope you begin to see.

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