American Economy and Global Order

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 9.2 percent in June 2011. That number remains frustratingly consistent each month as millions of Americans struggle to find work. Getting back to the subject of “American Economy and Global Order”. The debt ceiling issue we are experiencing today in this country should be of no surprise to anyone. In fact, if we don’t collapse our economy this time, it will only collapse that much harder the next time. A global economy and a government designed to regulate such an economy would certainly not be concerned with the plight of the poor. The poor have always existed as a basic element of society, since the dawn of time, as a direct result of the most deadly of the seven cardinal human sins, unbridled greed.

Our global economy is starting to remind me of the pick-up games at the gym. The game goes on with or without us. As a country, we have always showed up early and played to win. The American leadership does not seem to understand that if unemployment benefits are taken off, it will adversely impact the demand side of their economy. When the demand side is affected in the US, it will shake the global economy. With an ideal economic model, every industry grows on the backbone of another competing industry and any country only grows not necessarily to the detriment of another country, but its gains are made significantly possible by taking advantage of the lower improvement in development of other countries.

No national leader today is a faceless voice of the country it leads. The televised, Googled image that goes with message is a component of the overall package sold to the national electorate and the world at large. If America remains the global economic power that it is today, then the one world order, that is aspired by the very few and powerful, would not be able to work. In fact, once they take over the Global economy and make it one, they will work on the One World Religion. Some public servants in the federal government will say that corporate officers, especially former CEOs, make the best cabinet-level officers. I will, however, have to admit that most corporate CEOs are extremely devious and pragmatic in their attempts to produce great profits for their parent corporations, and that their honesty and integrity are dubious.

The US can only successfully get out of a recession by heavily investing in new energy technology. A breakthrough energy technology will keep the economy booming again. Thereafter the government should focus on stabilizing that, but a sustainable growth is only possible with a continuous improvement in technology relative to other countries. As we aim to remain off the sideline as a city, state and nation, I am afraid we will have to put all of our effort in understanding the global economy as it exists and determine how adaptable we desire to become.