Letter about U.S. workers made good sense

There was a letter in the Sunday, March 29, Daily Inter Lake titled, “Country is exploiting workers, the true job creators” by Rodrik Brosten, which is as true to the status of the United States of America as I have ever seen written. 

The article refers to the working people “doing the physical as well as the mental work in order to make a living and produce goods and services for the rest of society” — the waitress, the carpenter, the farm laborer, the teacher, the nurse “are the people who spend the money they make (consumers) which creates demand and jobs.” 

I urge you to read the article as, in my opinion, it so well illustrates the America of yesterday with the America today.

President Reagan warned America not to judge the economy by Wall Street. That advice seems to have been ignored. The reporting of unemployment today is a joke. It doesn’t reflect how may people aren’t working, the reporting only considers the people still signed up to receive benefits. Many have already exhausted their unemployment benefit time. Still not finding work they must seek other means of surviving. Unfortunately, some of the means of survival is not pretty, such as the necessity to resort to illegal activity and persons having to work two or more part-time jobs, putting a strain on a stable family life.

The one world order, espoused by the money worshipers, is not working as illustrated in the turmoil in the European Union where the euro is rapidly falling and individual nations are threatening to break away. Instead of celebrating the individuality of nations and their people, the goal has been to have one size fits all geared to a one world order monetary base. 

NAFTA and other so called trade agreements have been the downfall of a productive America by destroying better paying jobs that once fueled our economy. During this Easter week the thought occurs to me that maybe what America needs is another Jesus-event to upset the tables of the money changers in their temple of Wall Street.

It is time to put American people back to work producing goods and services for American people. It would be nice to again be able to buy a shirt that had the label “Made In America.” —Robert Hafferman, Kalispell