Widespread Greed Prompted Current Collapse

As “we the people” watch the news of an ever darkening economy and people losing their jobs and homes, let us not forget how this all started in the first place: When corporate America, in its greed, began to outsource America’s jobs, starting with the clothing and textile industries in the 1970s. The government allowed this to happen because of free trade and capitalism.
Then the automotive industry moved offshore as our American brand vehicles were made in Mexico and Canada, again for corporate greed. These vehicles were of such poor quality that the payment books lasted longer than the vehicles did. Why? Cheap components from foreign manufacturing sources built to corporate greed specifications. Your service calls were “outsourced to Bangladesh or Pakistan” and your warranty claims were outsourced to foreign call centers.
In fact, the only thing that remained in America were corporate offices where nothing is generated but paper. Now as years of corporate greed has piled up and wild speculation in real estate and oil futures lost billions of dollars in the stock markets where corporate America used your 401(k) retirement monies to hedge their profits and the bottom fell out.
They had the gall to ask “we the people” to bail them out from funds from the very taxes you paid in the first place. Then here comes the liberals, the most destructive form of politics this country has ever known, telling us that they can save us if we give them a chance. Are things any better? Have the job losses stopped? Now they tell us they are going to overhaul the health system again at taxpayer’s expense. Why? To make government the caretaker over the entire health system and twice as large as it is now.
As I see it, we should kick open every door in every political office in every state and if we find a liberal there, vote them out of office. Then remind the newly elected ones that they work for us, not the other way around.

Robert Lambert
Abingdon, Va.