THERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT "RESTORING MAIN STREET"...BUT MAIN STREET DOES NOT EXIST....
MAIN STREET THESE DAZE IS A WALMART AT ONE END OF TOWN AND A MICKYD'S AT THE OTHER END...
WITH A FEW $5 PER HOUR JOBS IN BETWEEN!!
THE OLD MAIN STREET FROM 1900 TO ABOUT 1980....SIMPLY IS GONE...
THERE IS NOTHING THERE... IT'S EMPTY...OR MARGINALIZED TO A PITIFUL DEGREE...
PERHAPS THERE ARE A FEW STRUGGLING "BOUTIQUES," AN "ANTIQUE MALL" ...OR A PITIFUL COFFEE SHOP OR STRUGGLING SMALL TAVERN...
BUT MAIN STREET IS TOTALLY A FIGMENT OF PEOPLES' IMAGINATION...THESE DAZE...
BUT THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT THE OLD FACTORY SECTOR ALSO DOES NOT EXIST IN SMALL TOWN AMERICA ANYMORE...
BACK IN THE DAYS OF MAIN STREET ... THERE WERE ALSO MANY FACTORIES IN TOWN...
MANY SMALL SHOPS...MAYBE A FEW LARGER OPERATIONS...
BUT THEY ARE ALL GONE NOW TOO...!!
WHAT OBAMA HAS TO WORK WITH... IS ESSENTIALLY A HOLLOWED OUT ECONOMY...
THIS NOTION OF "GREEN JOBS" IS FINE... WE CAN BURN DEAD DINOSAURS FOREVER...
BUT THE NOTION THAT THEY "CAN'T GO OVERSEAS" IS QUESTIONABLE...
SO MUCH OF THE OBAMA AGENDA IS PURELY MYTHICAL .... THAT I REALLY CAN'T GET EXCITED ABOUT IT...
THE CORE ISSUES ARE BEING IGNORED...
1. SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE... FOR COMPETITIVNESS... AND TO ELIMINATE MEDICAID , PRIVATE INSURANCE AND MEDICARE IN ONE FELL SWOOP!!
2. MASSIVE CUTS IN THE WAR BUDGETS (SO CALLED DEFENSE PORK SPENDING)
3. THE MANUFACTURING DECLINE DUE TO LOW WAGE GLOBALISM...
WHEN WILL THE REAL ISSUES EVEN BE MENTION...NOT TO MENTION SOLVED...??
SORRY IF I CAN'T GET INTO THE OBAMA AGENDA JUST YET...
