JosephThePoet's Blog

The security of the country is the first job of our governments, yet our governors have superseded the steering of our lives to anyone with enough wealth.  All the wealth of the country is being sucked out to appease the greedy, including our jobs now being sucked out of the country, because no one is responsibly governing the direction of our country.  The politicians make promises to help and protect us yet allow the private sector to govern our future once they get elected to office.  I thought they applied for the job.

Our lifestyle requires lots of power and there are plenty of local power sources for us to tap but our non-governing governments have failed to steer us to this security.  Wind power use had been around for centuries, and electrical production through the simple rotation of a magnet to induce current has been known for over a century, yet our direction for power sourcing was steered under the control of the wealthy and shortsighted to the massively polluting use of coal and oil.

Our whole lifestyle is under threat by the greedy and shortsighted.  The people are the country and are deserving of basic human protections.  All our communities, large and small, need to be defended because together they make up the country.  If these communities have their own power sources then foreign powers couldn’t shut them down so easily.  Our cities cannot survive without electrical power.  Defense is first and foremost the protection of these many communities that make up our country, because if they fail then the country fails.

Guess what?  Providing this security will give lots of local people employment, which is also needed for a country’s security.  If we people don’t work then the country creates no wealth to do anything, and look at how much we owe now with so many of our jobs lost too.  Free trade is stupid trade, whether within the country or outside sourced.  Capitalism has to be controlled or the vile and shortsighted will cause destruction to the people and the planet that is why we elect people to govern us in our democracy.