Watching the President this morning ask what we have to do to get ourselves out of our “neutral” economy. I’ve got some ideas… what if we start taking jobs back from other countries until we have stabilized our own economy? I rarely find products now that say, “Made in USA.” What’s up with that? If we produced goods and services here, wouldn’t it put us back to work? What can we begin to develop, produce and then offer to our foreign importers that they want to purchase from us, tilting the scale back to us doing something for ourselves?
What if we begin to tax imports much like quite a few other countries at 20% import tax?
What if we begin to tax businesses who take their business overseas rather than give them a tax break as we do now?
What if large groups of people are gathered by the media NOT to get together to “whine and complain” about what our government is not doing for us but rather to work towards making our country whole and peaceful and brilliant again? Remember those days?
Regardless of what the media has termed as important, e.g.,
“what’s wrong with the latest drug infused Hollywood actor or actress?
a bus driving off the road in Ohio when you live in California
what political party someone is associated with and how wrong is that
what the differences are in each other
what’s wrong? what’s wrong? what’s wrong?” because the good news “doesn’t contribute to the bottom line?
What if we tax the media to have the right to cause the upset and concern by “reporting” their sensationalist stories?
What if we acted from what…
John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address, “And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
… and come together with the sole purpose of looking for what we can do WORKING WITH RATHER THAN AGAINST each other?
Aren’t you sick and tired of the infighting country we have become? The country that almost runs the people off the road that have decided they need to slow down in their cars to take a right turn? The righteous, indignant, warring factions we have become much like what we declare doesn’t work in countries like Iraq? Think about it. don’t Democrats remind you of Shiites and Republicans remind you of Sunis. How are we being so different right now?
What are each of us doing for ourselves to bolster our country to be the great country it can be? The American dream is based on ingenuity of the people; have we given up and given in to the settlement that we cannot do it ourselves?
This is a wake up call, folks, what’s it going to take for us to look to what we can create that’s possible?
I’ve changed the name of this post from,
“When did we become a country of looking from what’s wrong rather than what’s possible?”
…because am I not being one of the complainers and whiners if I declare that ‘we have become’ rather than coming from an inquiry, being curious about the possibility of, being inquisitive of whether ‘have we become’?