Something is not happening, regardless of what the government says there is no economic recovery. Unemployment down, nonsense, if you remove enough people from the potential workforce you can get any number you want. All anyone has to do is look around and see empty shops and vacant buildings.
Find a business that is open, walk in and ask them how’s business and they will tell you. “Not good but we’re hanging on” at best you might hear an “O.K.”. That doesn’t sound much like a recovery. Why hasn’t business come back after all we poured millions into a “stimulus”? So what’s going on?
One is the manipulations of the numbers to make the government’s efforts look good and to keep the people in public office looking good. What can be done about it, nothing. As long as we have people in office who think lying to the American people is doing the right thing. What has happen to integrity in the people who serve?
Also in question is what happened to all the jobs? Thanks to the government agencies they have been able to kill off most of them except for more government jobs. Try and start a lemonade stand and you will face people from the Health Department insisting that you get training in food handling and the city insisting on a license and of course all the fees involved.
Then we have to face the big gorilla of them all the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under the guise of protecting the environment they grab power everywhere. Who are these people and who voted them in? Their job seems to be to shut down every business that might change the environment.
They want to reduce carbon dioxide, the stuff we breathe out and that the plants breathe in and then producing oxygen. When you think about it man is the problem. We need food to eat and water to drink, if they could cut into that we (those of us left) would leave the world a better place or so they think. Control everything that moves under its own power. Control is their reason for being, unfortunately men and women move on this earth and they are screwing up the environment.
Think if they were in control when America was built into a powerhouse; no Carnegie Steel, no Rockefeller oil, no Henry’s Fords. Yes these people who built America into a powerhouse did some damage to the environment but that been cleaned up and unfortunately no industries like that could be built today.
The steel industry has pretty much left the country and car manufacturing is mostly gone overseas where the EPA has no authority. Look at oil, America developed fracking to produce oil from unproductive fields yet the EPA is trying to shut them down with help from oil producing countries. Let’s think about that claim, oil is produced from 4, 5 and even 10, thousand feet below the surface, water is produced within a few hundred feet of the surface.
Someone is going to say the farmers in California are drilling deeper wells and yes that is happening because the EPA has insisted the Delta Smelt is more important than water to the farmers. So the farm workers who used to be employed are living on welfare in squalid conditions. The productive farms in the central valley lay fallow. Then there is the proposal to control farm runoff which will put our nation’s farmers at risk.
It is the same everywhere, control, control and even more government control, let the people be dammed and that is exactly what is happing the people are dammed to no jobs or lower paying jobs. America is collapsing because of Washington bureaucrats who seize power and use it to what they determine as a just cause. Environmental protection is certainly an important cause but not at the expense of the people and their lives. “We the people” must speak up and reject the regulations that cost jobs and provide very little protection. We must change the focus to be looking out for the human species first and rebuilding America to the economic powerhouse it once was.
Love your last line. “We must change the focus to be looking out for the human species first and rebuilding America to the economic powerhouse it once was.”
The only thing I would add to your excellent account is that this is also happening in our local governments as well as our State government. They are so confused believing that their orders come from the Federal level.
Government was designed to work from THE PEOPLE upwards. Get involved and stay involved in your local government and remember that last line, The People DO have the Power to Change things back to LESS government, less regulations and taxes. It takes YOU to show up, write, emails, and make calls directly to those voting to add those taxes and regulations! We can lower regulations & taxes through People standing up and yelling, well maybe yelling is not needed, but emails and calls and showing up at the local meetings works.
“We must change the focus to be looking out for the human species first and rebuilding America to the economic powerhouse it once was.”
You make me sick. It is people like you that are ruining the world for future generations. If you have any children or grandchildren you owe them a huge apology! I debate even responding because I find the saying “you can’t argue with stupid” to be true and relevant to this situation. The United States is the leader in release of Greenhouse gases including Carbon Dioxide. Greenhouse gases are essential to keeping our planet warm and habitable. However, when the concentration of greenhouse gases increases too much it warms the planet too much. This causes the climate of the earth to change This is natural, but when humans pollute the Earth it happens at a very very very unnatural rate and life cannot adapt. The Earth is in a very dangerous place. There are species dying off. The domino effect of the climate changing will be huge. Ocean currents will change which be a positive feedback cycle of change that we will not survive. This concept is NOT debated in the scientific community. Please educate yourself so if I choose to have children they will have a planet to live on in 100 years. And yes our water source is running our. Leachate from trash and runnoff from farms is polluting our water and our entire world! HOW DARE YOU BE SO IGNORANT when you live in a country with so many resources to educate yourself.
One way to greatly reduce our carbon footprint would be to use more renewable resources. The sun fuels life and we know this. Plants harvest its energy, animals eat plants and use that energy, and down the food chain. In places such as Mesquite where we have sun almost everyday, shouldnt we utilize this? I think that is what the Universe would want. We should also harvest the wind. But no, someone would stop making so much money that will be worth nothing when the planet is not livable for humans. Please tell me why you are so against cleaning up the planet to ensure future generations clean air and water? You have the power to overcome your ignorance. How about take a college class on the environment?!?
-AN EDUCATED RESPONSIBLE PERSON!
One more thing. When you complain about the government having too much control I am sure then you agree the government should have no control in medical decisions such as abortion, reproductive rights, and no control to prevent gay marriage or gay couples from adopting children!
I agree with this statement Anonymous.
“One more thing. When you complain about the government having too much control I am sure then you agree the government should have no control in medical decisions such as abortion, reproductive rights, and no control to prevent gay marriage or gay couples from adopting children!”
Liberty Shirl,
Would you give some ideas of WHERE we could show up?
Hi Tami.
City Council, Water Board meetings, Zoning meetings, Planning meetings, and certainly, (a distance but important), Clark County Commission Meetings. Don’t forget emails and calls do work too! Call your commissioner and go see them in person to chat about your concerns but be prepared with facts and your questions. They work for you and spend the People’s money! You are able to watch the Commission meetings online ( http://stream.co.clark.nv.us/cctv4 ). Their agenda for upcoming meetings is posted by the Friday before the Tuesday meetings online. (upcoming agenda http://agenda.co.clark.nv.us/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1590&doctype=agenda )
Here’s a link to get info on many areas of interests: Keep this link handy and find the areas of concern to start paying attention and getting involved.
http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/Depts/public_communications/Pages/CountyAgendas_CommissionsCommitteesCouncils.aspx
This is the Mesquite agendas link for committees:
http://www.mesquitenv.gov/city-government/committees
For Clark County there’s a group that pays attention to a few good things:
https://www.facebook.com/SouthernNevadaWatchdogs?fref=ts
There’s a start for you and all will become easier once you start to go and see for yourself.
Hope the links are allowed to be posted and that they help Tami.