The
Panda Bear is pleased that some of the topics she blogged about a year ago,
such as goods from China, and the outsourcing of US jobs is now being discussed
by major news outlets. It is about time!! Even in the 1990's, the
Panda Bear found it hard that she as a US citizen had to compete against the
entire global economy for jobs and services that were local to the Panda Bear.
She felt as a US citizen she was a low person on the totem people
of American consideration for jobs. It creates a culture of overwork in
the US in that the average Americans constantly has to compete against the
entire world for US jobs and services.
The Panda Bear has also
complained that the US can spend considerable amount on foreign aid while
denying help to its own citizens who suffer from the same problems. The Panda
Bear recently came across an example of this double standard. The Panda
Bear heard on NPR that
there is a major AIDs epidemic in the African American community. Under
President Bush, the US spent much more combating AIDSs in African than in the
US.
To the Panda Bear this
seems wrong. First, the US government should want to help its own
citizens, some of whom have paid taxes, before it helps the rest of the world.
Secondly, in these times of high US unemployment, if the US spent more
money on programs to help US citizens, it would stimulate the US economy by
creating more jobs for Americans which would lead to a higher demand for US
services.
Has the US government
asked the US citizens on whether they want US to be a superpower? Many
Americans feel they would rather lead calmer lives and live in an ordinary
country than living in a superpower where everyone is running as though they
had their head cut off. The Panda Bear personally believes the US and
the world would be happier if the US was less involved in world affairs.
The Panda Bear thinks
let some other country feel the heat that comes from being number one.
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