The American Economy finds itself in a rather strange no mans land these days. The average American has a hard time finding work. There are so many “illegal” immigrants working here that are “taking away jobs” from legitimate Americans. Thousands upon thousands of jobs have been shipped overseas never to come back. Just what does this mean. What are we everyday Americans to do? There is so much disinformation out there we don't know who to believe. I suggest we simply take a long look at our own history. And leave the rose colored glasses in the drawer.

This country was founded on cheap labor. From the earliest days, the “Rich” among us were landowners back in the day and they relied not on other Americans to run their sizable plantations and farms, but rather on cheap labor in the form of slaves brought in to do the menial work that was the foundation of our countries original wealth. It was the millions of men and women who were sold into slavery that our foundation was built upon. After over a hundred years of this “business model” we had our Civil War and slavery was abolished. At least in that form, no longer could the rich “own” their workers dictating how and what they did. Cheap labor did however persisted in the form of immigrants brought in to do the dirty work time and again. When the “Captains of Industry” needed to fill their factories they brought in unsuspecting immigrants from all over the globe. The Irish fresh from their famine who would do anything to make a life for themselves. Of course they weren't “slaves” in the proper definition of the word, but very cheap labor willing to do whatever was asked of them non the less. And the Railroad Barons built their cross country rail lines on the backs of the Chinese whom they imported for just that purpose. And on and on it goes. Business in America has relied on cheap and plentiful labor to do the back breaking work again and again.

And business in America? We busy ourselves pushing paper around, consuming far more than we really need, getting deeper in debt all of the time while we produce literally nothing tangible anymore. Our intellect flutters around the electronic ether while we become fatter and fatter. Now this might just seem a bit unfair and it is. The average American has for generations worked very hard to make a decent living. Building up the industrial infrastructure that won wars and put two cars in every driveway. Our scientists and doctors are the ones who built the first computers, the A Bomb and health care like none other. But now, when it came to producing these materials, well the business leaders have once again decided it is far too expensive to do it here so over seas it has gone. Computers and TVs from China. Drugs from South America and cars from Korea.

This is nothing that is going to be fixed easily. It has become a huge tidal wave washing away at our very fiber. But change can be done has to be done, and we are going to have to make changes as a society just in order to survive. In the past, and I mean for HUNDREDS of YEARS, America was so large and full of potential we were able to absorb all of the “cheap labor” that Big Business illegally imported to do its dirty work. Opportunities for all wasn't just a dream it was a reality. It might have taken a generation or two for an ethnic group to realize but it WAS always achievable. NOT SO ANYMORE!

As a country we have used up all of the vast tracts of undeveloped land. Mined all of the easily found minerals and planted every conceivable acre with industrialized efficiency. There is no room left for the American Dream. If we do dream and develop a new technology, Big Busines immediately sends it overseas to be developed and manufactured. The big companies importing all of these goods from China are going to find that not only have they stolen their very market away from themselves in the US but that the “New Markets” that are in places like China don't do business the same. And guess what, they are not going to work cheap any more either.

The crux of our situation is not :the jobs, not the immigrants or even the cheap foreign labor.... It is the business model the rich and influential have been adhearing to for so long is what is broken. Technology has and can solve many problems but what has to happen is we need an answer as to how do we, as a species... the global community, come to find a way to have a fair and respectable life style for all. Whoever comes up with a solution for this dilemma, this new business model that will work for all will be our salvation and they are going to be the ones to write the next chapter in our history. And if a solution isn't found? Then, not unlike Russa, I am afraid anarchy is the direction we are headed in and that isn't a history human kind is deserving of.