Thanks to my friend Heidi’s blog, I recently became aware of a new documentary coming out, written & created by Addison Wiggin and directed by Patrick Creadon, entitled, I.O.U.S.A.:
It’s true that America is spending more than it produces! Why the heck aren’t we *still* the industrial powerhouse we got to be by the 1950s? It’s because we have been pandering to the rest of the world and sending everything overseas all too often. We outsource practically everything instead of looking at what’s in our own back yard and using our own resources, yet, at the risk of saving money here and there, we take success of our economy and the good value of the Dollar out of the equation.
We need to bring the extraction of natural resources (and energy), jobs, and mass production of goods and technology back to our country and stop sending all our jobs, paychecks and REVENUE to the rest of the world! There are only a few things we really ought to be getting from other countries and that’s fine imported goods. The rest, we can do without.
Fuck conserving resources. We grow trees and we use them. They grow right back. It has been going on like this for as long as there’s been civilization on this earth. Do the same with water. Same with oil. Yes, it takes trillions and bajillions of years for rocks and earth matter to become oil, and clearly
No related posts.