WE CAN HAVE A DEBATE ABOUT ALL THINGS IF FIRST WE HAVE JOBS

 

A PLAN TO SAVE AMERICAN INDUSTRY AND JOBS

The earliest written history of mankind, even the most primitive cave paintings, became possible only once we learned how to create for ourselves one essential tool. A tool without which there would be no music, no mathematics or science, no books or theater, this one thing made all of what we call civilization possible.

People as individuals and later in groups spent their entire waking existence supplying their need for food, clothing and shelter. Hunting and gathering slowly gave way to a stationary existence of cultivating the soil and domesticating animals in a relentless pursuit of just one thing. We as a species became industrious enough to supply our needs and have some time left over to ponder the world around us.

For the next 5000 years we learned how to increase the amount of free time we had compared to the time spent supplying our basic needs. Some of the techniques that mankind devised, we revile today as barbaric. The great advances in mathematics, construction, art, music and theater in the cultures of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Chinese were possible in large part because they used slave labor to supply their needs. The industrial revolution was a short 80 year time span beginning in 1760 that changed everything for mankind. We went from cultivating the soil using trained beasts and traveling around on wind driven ships to doing our work with steam and internal combustion engines. We learned to enslave machines to do our work instead of other humans. Slavery did not go away because mankind suddenly grew a conscience, machines made slavery obsolete and it was discarded. Women no longer used a spinning wheel and loom to make textiles. Canning, refrigeration and chemical preservatives allowed us to store our food. Medical advancements began to extend our lives. We even found ever more efficient ways to kill each other in war.

Wars have always spurred intense periods of innovation. Something happens when the collective will of a society is focused on a single goal that has never been matched in a time of peace and plenty. Once the goal is in sight, voices of opposition from within a society are paid no heed.

The industrial revolution and the industries it spawned along with our ever greater life spans have freed up our time as never before. Some people use their free time industrially to build and create. Some people use their free time to do drugs, play video games and fill out applications for government assistance. Others spent their time and energies in perpetual opposition. These people seek to control others by claiming some moral high ground as justification while blocking others from earning or keeping the fruits of their labor.

Some in our society view the Constitution as nothing but an outdated charter of negative values that blocks the government from fulfilling its great promise. These same people work for generations to erode the protections in the Constitution so that they can regulate society to their own design. The eighty thousand pages of regulations promulgated last year are just the latest infringements by these people on the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of Americans.

WHAT IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE INDUSTRY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAIN

Just as if we were fighting a war, the American people need to take no heed to the voices of perpetual opposition. Without silencing those voices we need to put every regulation, rule and law that they have forced on America to a simple test. Does it promote or hinder the industry of America’s citizens?              I submit that there is nothing about January first 2014 that requires 80,000 more pages of regulation than we needed on January first of 2013.

If a tax on American industry reduces its ability to compete against foreign industry the tax must be eliminated. If a law or its regulations force or even just induce American jobs to go overseas we must find a way to preserve the intent of the regulation without the unintended destruction of our jobs.

We taught the world how to make steel with a blast furnace and then virtually regulated the steel industry out of America. We still use steel but it is largely bought from foreign countries. It is hard to buy a John Deere tractor made in this country. Regulations and labor laws make it almost impossible for large scale manufacturing in this country and insanely we have done this to ourselves. Law suits, regulations and taxes hurt our ability to compete while less expensive products from foreign manufacturing flood our free market. Other countries place import duties on our goods while we shackle ourselves with ever more regulations creating a giant wall between us and prosperity. It is time for the industrious American spirit to rise up and stop the cancer of bureaucracy from destroying the nation. The culture of opposition must be replaced by our traditional American “can do” attitude.

The conservative message needs to be that we will have the debate with liberals about abortion, global warming, income inequality, and every other one of their cherished causes but first let us get America back to work! The country does not need a government program to create jobs, industry will take care of that if we can just get the self imposed obstacles out of the way. Insurmountable regulation is the plague of our time.