What if, in this time of uncertainty, our leaders injected some certainty into the world that is the millieu that is that under-certainty for Americans?
What if our leaders, such as they are, were to look at the one problem that we know is a really big problem?
Terrorism?
Deficit spending?
Nah.
Not those.
The ecomony is in there, but this is a one single problem we know is a problem. Infrastructure.
Unglamorous. Nasty dirty. Messy.
Failing.
We had I35 fall in the river in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Collapse. Boom. Bridge in the drink.
Why?
Well, duh.
The bridge had exceeded its life. And at that point, it died.
Boom.
Bridge in the drink.
We have floods every time it rains. Flooded streets, flooded basements, flooded ball fields.
Flood.
From rain.
Not downpours, necessarily. Just rains.
We have bridges ready to fail. All over the place. Eventually all of them will fail. All. Bridges. Will Fail.
So, what's the plan?
Certainty.
In order to prevent failure, we go in and repair.
And, we put some rules for that repair plan.
First of all, only American companies that are based in America need apply to do the work. This is an American stimulus plan after all.
Only American citizens and documented aliens, which means the legal folk only, need apply to do the work.
Forget Halliburton. They call Dubai home.
Forget BP. They aren't American. Not all American. We want all this to be an All-American recovery program. For American workers.
We will only use American architects. American steel. American cement. American trucks, barges, bales, baling wire. This will be in contrast to all that globalist stuff that has exported our jobs and factories to God knows where. We want American manufactured stuff to go into making American roads and plumbing that keeps those road working well, working. Well.
Moving along. Build some new schools. Using, get this. American tools, American workers, American workers making American tools. In American factories.
Sound protectionist?
You bet.
We have more than one tenth of our workforce out of work. Put them to work. Make them build factories for American workers, making American tools, American goods, American products. Ours were once the best products in the world. Now we buy dross, junk and crap that breaks in a year.
Take window fans. Every two years, we need to replace them because they break. Yet, in 1973 I purchased three window fans that each lasted 15, 16, and 23 years. Since then, two years each.
Take hair dryers. Again, that dryer from 1975 still works. The new one I was given in 1998? Died in 2002. Not quite longevity.
Our roadbuilding was and remains the envy of the world. Yet, those roads, along with the draining pipes under them, have deteriorated.
Time, after all, will win. We need to rebuild infrastructure.
We need American workers leaning into that shovel, mixing that concrete. We need America ot rebuild the 80 percent of the manufacturing that we lost in the decades since NAFTA, CAFTA, and every other -AFTA, that has made American workers products into an 'afta-thought in the world. It begins here. It begins now.
American workers, employed by all American, non-linked to foreign companies, no international entanglements involved, rebuilding the greatest nation on earth.
Now.
Think about it.
Then write your city council, congress-critter, senator-critter, and your President. It is time to rebuild America for, by and with Americans. Naturalized, legal, home-born Americans. Top to toe.
It will not be a program that the top internationalists will promote, because they will not be in the 'pool' of companies that can apply for this. It will come from us, the bottom, and will go to the top. That is how this nation has always worked. Rebuild America. By Americans. For Americans.
Let's do it and stop asking, "What if?" Just do it.
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