From the desk of Imperial Wizard: Cole Thornton

Written on 7/20/2008

A Crumbling America

Everywhere you look people have for sale signs on their homes. Unemployment is increasing more everyday. Gas is at record highs climbing more each day. Insurance rates are through the roof. Companies are laying off or closing all across the land. People can't pay their bills. Many have to choose between food or gas to go to work. What has happened to the land of opportunity?

When Ross Perot ran for President, he said if N.A.F.T.A. passes, all you will hear is a giant sucking sound heading south. Many in the news media, especially the radio talk show hosts, ridiculed him greatly. Guess what? It passed, and that giant sucking sound could be heard across the land. Huge mills, factories, and warehouses shut their doors. Production began in Mexico with cheap labor and no benefits to pay. Notice one thing here, the price of the goods didn't drop.

Along comes China, with cheaper labor yet. Now they are the ones producing in vast numbers. Of course they don't have the quality control or the health requirements we have in America either. Their goods do not have the many inspections we have here. Stands to reason that their products won't be as good as ours. Peoples children have been poisoned, along with their pets and we still buy the Chinese junk. People tell me well, that's all they have at Wal-mart..... So? Buy somewhere else. Raise cain with the managers at the store and tell them you refuse to purchase that junk. If Americans would stick together for just a little while, and boycott this imported garbage, the retailers would have no choice but to supply what we want. WE control Wal-mart, K-mart, Sears and the rest with OUR dollars. If we don't spend, they don't do business.

We did our Christmas shopping this year without relying on any overseas products. I bought my wife a nice antique ring that was made right here. She bought me collectibles also made here. We looked around for gifts for each other utilizing antique shops, the internet, and magazines to find American made products. We got things for the grandchildren made right here, including books. (Yes, books, they still read them). We have lists upon lists of many web sites that sell American made products. All it takes is to change your buying strategy a little. If we all do this, we can still turn things around.

Americans need to also HIRE Americans. I have a good friend that is in the landscaping business. He hires Americans only. He was telling me once that he could also hire cheaper Mexican labor, but refused to do so for a few bucks. I greatly admire him for that. I told him he probably gets a lot of repeat business because of the quality of work that they do. I have seen the quality in the construction industry go so far down in the past couple of decades that it is sickening. Shoddy workmanship is the norm. It is absolutely disgusting to see what people pay to have a house or building built and then to see how awful the finished product is. It truly amazes me that people put up with it. We have gone from a proud workforce that took pride in their work to a slam, bang, get it done bunch who show no pride in their work what so ever.

Americans are hurting, and it is only going to get much worse unless we act, and act now. We MUST quit sitting back and taking everything so lightly. We had better act now, for now is about all we have. We need to contact our elected officials and tell them how we feel. Tell them we won't put up with it any longer. Tell them to put America first. Remember, they technically work for us! NOW is the time to stand up and be heard. Tell them to close the borders, to fine heavily the businesses who hire illegal aliens, to enforce our immigration laws, to put a stop to this insanity. Things have gone far enough and we have to be the ones that put an end to it. If we don't, America has surely had it.

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