Christian Guiao
Ms. Williams
English 1A TTH 9:00
12/22/13
America
the Land of Great Economic Wealth
America will rise again with the
help of the jobs that feed the economy but this will not happen anymore due to
the faulty job system that America have. Without Jobs to help the Americans it
is hard to feed this economy that swallows everything it its path. In the book The Rich and the Rest of Us by Tavis
Smiley and Cornel West, it shows how in America there are little jobs that
Americans can get and those jobs are not even going to help them rise up from
poverty. This has happened because corporations send factory jobs overseas to
cut cost and the remaining jobs that are in America has low paying jobs that doesn't help Americans get out of the poverty class. To rebuild America the
government needs to regulate the job system in America, because America needs
to have people working here and not overseas and have wages that can support a
family so we can get out of this recession.
The
loss of jobs here in America is the fault of big corporations trying to squeeze
more money in producing their products. They want to pay the minimum and
getting maximum profit so they get more money. They have done this by sending
factory jobs overseas to cut production cost. West and Smiley states “Business
leaders have prioritized the path to profit at all cost and opted to transport
American jobs overseas, we have no choice but to explore ways to create jobs in
our communities”(158). To send jobs overseas has been a steady trend in the
America that it affected the people that used to have those jobs. Corporations
send these jobs overseas because it will be cheaper for them to produce the
product there. By sending the jobs corporations are getting more money and
increasing their revenues because of cheap unregulated labor. The government
should regulate these moves since it has been taking the jobs of the people
here in America and pushing them more and more into poverty. With the jobs back
here in America people might have the chance to rise out of the poverty but big
corporations are using their power to stop any actions that might take away
profit from them. An example of how corporations used their power is shown in
the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA is a bill that enables businesses from America to send factories to
Mexico and Canada and make products that used to be made here in America.
Corporations has been relying on this bill to make more money so by having this
bill revision the money that is going to corporations can now go to the people
and the jobs that are supposed to be here can come back here.
The loss of jobs here in America has
been so severe that it can plunge this country to more trouble. If we don’t try
to fix it then it will plunge this country into a point of no return where it
will be hard to get up. The way that this country is going it will happen very
soon. West and Smiley states “The United states has lost a staggering average
of 50,000 manufacturing job every month since 2001. The country now ranks last
among top 15 manufacturing nations in terms of imported industrial production:
an ominous portrait indeed”(186). America is inching closer and closer towards
economic destruction in every passing day that we don’t try to fix the problem.
If we keep going head on without trying to change anything then the working
class of this nation will lose while the one percent will not. We need to stand
up for ourselves because if we don’t say anything then noting will change. The one
percent doesn't care if they send jobs overseas because they are saving a lot
of money but the working class does and they don’t try to do anything about it.
They need to organize and make these corporations stop in sending jobs in other
countries; they have to let their voices heard and make things happen. If the
working class is united then the one percent will not have any choice but to
comply with their wishes.
We
have to rebuild this country from the bottom up to come back to the economic
powerhouse that we once were. This country will not rise from the ashes if the
one percent keeps beating the working class to the ground by shipping jobs
overseas and giving them low wages. We need to set up a system where the
working class can become the middle class again to have this country back to
its former glory. West and Smiley states “We can help close the dismal blue
collar job gap and put able bodied, low-skill and no-skill Americans to work on
community based infrastructure projects…We can create dignified work that provide
services and products that are essential for growth, survival, and better
living…a plan specially aimed at struggling neighborhoods and grasping emerging
opportunities, and with good living-wage jobs, we can shore up families
battered by bills and rebuild our troubled nation”(187). An economy is build up
of makers and buyers, an economy will not exist without one another because the
two are co existing. Right now America only has makers and not many buyers
because of the recession. Corporations need to realize that they just can’t
keep making stuff without people buying it because sooner or later an inflation
will happen and their product will lose its value because there will be many
products but not a lot of people buying them. With good wages and many job
opportunities the equation will be balanced and America might come back to its
former glory. With constant pressure to corporations to change their policies
then maybe we can finally see a change and the middle class might make a
comeback.
America
is in a crash course going straight to destruction. If Americans don’t take the
wheel of this country then it will be heading into a head on collision and it
will be destroyed and in pieces. There are many things that are destroying the
once thriving economy of this nation but sending jobs overseas and low and
wages that limit the people from buying goods is two of the major causes. We
need to stop sending jobs overseas and we need people buying again to jump
start this economy because if we don’t then it might get to a point that it
might be too late for America to get out of the hole that it has dug up. In book Catch
22 by Joseph Heller it states “What are you talking about? America is not going
to be destroyed. Never? Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was
destroyed, Spain was destroyed All great countries are destroyed, why not
yours? How much longer do you think your own country will last? Forever?"(279).
All thing have an end, no matter what you do there is always an end. Nothing
Last forever and sooner or later America will be destroyed too. If we don’t act
now that fate might be sooner than everyone has imagined and it might be too
late to prolong its destruction.
