JosephThePoet's Blog

The protection of a country is not just about having the biggest and best military.  Without a strong economic base to support it a country will fail.  Regardless of whether your biggest concern is about your employment, keeping your home, your retirement, people’s education, transportation infrastructure, our energy needs, or healthcare, you had better be concerned about the strength of the country’s economy.  Do to the factors we are currently facing if we just want to keep our current comfortable lifestyle we have to act now to implement intelligent projects to direct the country before the opportunity is lost to us.

Too many politicians take the view that the market should choose the direction the country takes which ensures that every vile person will get a chance to assist in the destruction of the country.  Apparently politicians are not capable of understanding that their job is to lead the country to encourage its prosperity and survival.  And to the politicians whose solution mantra to everything is always “We have to lower taxes because other countries are doing it and it works”, I say, “Other countries can beat us out with things like lower business taxes, lower personal taxes, lower employment costs, and lesser environmental regulations”.  We cannot compete with countries like China and India on their terms, and I don’t think the public wants to lower the country’s standard of living to cater to big business and the super wealthy.  And maybe someone would like to research and post the annual interest amount our governments are paying on our debts so we may see the $Billions of tax dollars that could have instead been used to promote our country and reduce our taxes also?  We have to take advantage of where we are currently strong like in having many well educated and skilled people, the newest technologies, plenty of natural resources, and a desirable lifestyle.  Look around the country and the world, and you will see that there are plenty of examples to prove that people and companies will always move into areas that cost more money because of the prestige, enjoyments, and other advantages they get by being there.

Our politicians have to realize also that the ways to solving many of our problems is by following the same path.  Here is an example of how the paths can converge.  Promoting getting wind generators onto farms would help our farmers remain solvent in business to protect our food supply and this would also protect our power supplies, provide good paying jobs in manufacturing, education, installation and servicing, and also help us to maintain a good technological base.

For years our governments gave money and tax advantages to the auto industry to get them to locate locally or to stay around to employ people in good paying jobs.  They did this regularly without any requirement that the companies do anything significant to ensure the jobs would even still exist in the near term future.  It is time our governments require specifics when investing in companies to better ensure the promotion of our provinces and states into the future not just to bribe companies that are currently employing people to stay a little longer.  Wind power, solar power, and hydrogen fueled vehicles and refueling stations are areas we can begin to concentrate on to ensure our future success as the demand for these products will increase worldwide for many decades and these technologies will improve our standards of living as well.  The magnitude of change to our countries would be massive along the lines of the pollution and health threats alone and their associated costs to us as well.  Our politicians must act now to strongly promote specific types of business growth that will provide us with quality jobs and to encourage the research and ingenuity that will lead to the products of the future.

I’ll finish with educational concerns.  Having known about electricity for over a century and with electricity having such a massive elementary involvement and influence within our living environment, why are we not teaching it in our elementary schools and continuing with it through high school?  And with everything so computerized we should be teaching our youth programming coding methods early too.  Encouraging technology knowledge and experimentation in school will help them build logical thought progression during the time when they are such fast and eager learners and will help them to create the wonders of the future.  Schooling should always be adjusted for relevance to the children’s lives and made exciting to encourage their participation.  Our colleges and universities should not be the primary learning centers for the majority of our citizens to learn about our technologies.

These things would be obvious if our politicians followed God’s laws and principles in the performance of their jobs.  So will our leaders do the job they were elected to do to protect the country or will they continue to act like a bunch of clueless spoiled children who would get totally lost in a rat intelligence maze test?  Stay tuned: same bat time, same bat channel.