Good-paying American jobs are drying up
Patty Petersen
Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:48 AM PDT
Over the last few years, I have watched as things worsen here in America. Starting with the corruption of big corporations stealing the hard-earned retirement accounts of the average, hard-working American. Yet nothing is being done to these thieves. They are still not behind prison bars where they belong.
Blue-collar jobs have been leaving the United States for years, ever since the World Trade Organization was created. My husband is a blue-collar worker, a member of the Boilermakers Union.
There is no industry to speak of left in the United States. All the big companies have moved their operations out of the country for cheap labor with no benefits and no taxes being paid into the economy, which would help us have a strong nation.
Now the white-collar jobs are being sent overseas. What is going to be left for the American citizen to support himself and his family? Jobs that pay minimum wage and no benefits? How are we going to be able to buy cars, gasoline, groceries, entertainment?
Big corporations are hurting themselves, because soon only the rich will be able to afford anything. Are there enough of them to carry a nation?
Last night, as we watched the news I became enraged. They announced that after Nov. 1 emergency rooms can turn away people if they cannot pay for their treatment.
What are we becoming? Are health professionals and hospitals going to watch as someone dies from a heart attack, or bleeds to death because of a fatal accident?
There are too many Americans right now who do not have any medical coverage at all. And yet this nation gladly gives medical coverage to legal and illegal alien people who have crossed our borders and reside here in our country.
I would love to ask President Bush when he is going to pass laws to make the big corporations bring the jobs back to America and give us all good medical coverage, instead of sending our tax dollars to provide for other nations. When is he going to look out for the good of the average American citizen?
It is obvious that he has never had to worry about food, shelter or medical attention. I don't even believe that he knows what real life is all about.
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