Supply Side, anyone?

Well the disaster pornography is hot and heavy 24/7 folks. Everybody is shining up their multi-million dollar resumes for future contracts, in the mean streets of Port-au-Prince Haiti. Strangely thou not a word of relevant context, on why so many people died. Goofy Pat Robertson(From the Holy Church of the Blood Diamond) even provided a lead in for the story to start? Now many Americans will go blissfully through their simple lives, and never give a second thought to the country of Haiti. One them poor countries where all them black folks live in squalor.



To be quite blunt this is the end result of "Supply Side Economic". Cut them taxes, no big government for me, to many bureaucrats making rules that stifle business growth...ect. I could go on, but if you turn on a TV or pick up a paper in the good old US of A, then you know this stuff by heart.



So lets look at Haiti, and take stock of where we are right now. Haiti didn't have high taxes, they didn't have big government, and there damn sure wasn't any safety standards or building codes to stifle multi-national corporations. The result was of course decades of international intervention in to the lives of the Haitian peoples. Non-stop corruption and military dictatorships stripped the wealth from that small island nation like a machine locked in overdrive. At one time Haiti was one of the great economic powers of the western hemisphere. While absent from our history books, the Haitian people take great pride in throwing out Napoleon's Army and becoming a free people. They had farms that produced sugar they exported and food to feed the population of the island. Then suddenly they could no longer export their sugar, and farms were abandoned so folks could find work in the city to keep from staving to death. Great thing if your a corporation looking for a labor pool of cheap exploitable labor? Hey,no taxes to fund basic social services, no building codes to diminish the profit margins of your factory, and no fire department to create a bloated bureaucracy. All good till a 7.0 earthquake hits the middle of that mess, and the sweat shops pull up stakes to move to greener pastures.



If this sounds like some place you know, it should? Welcome to the place we find ourselves in the year of our Lord 2010. Everybody's moved off the the farm and headed for the big city. The jobs simple people fed their families with, have moved to greener pastures. The only thing that is missing is the complete demise of our infrastructure, and a 7.0 quake hitting a city like St.Louis,MO. If you aren't paying attention you should be. Go to the 912 Project and read the goals of this so called grass roots movement and extrapolate out the end point. The nirvana so to speak of the folks funding that operation. This is the America they want to create, and are ready to spend millions to achieve that goal. Since "We the People" vote for the government we want, then you are only left with one question?



Is that where you want your children to live?