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(2/2011) America: To Recover, Begin At Home
By Liz Colado
REALITY: A NOW SERIES
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”~JRR Tolkien
Flint’s 235-acre complex known as Buick City was in operation from 1904 until 1999. The facility was recently demolished. Photo Credit: Wikipedia
During hard times, even during times of persecution, we must still find a way to experience joy, happiness, laughter, and the celebration of newness. To have little does not make a difference. You must continue to look to your holidays, weddings, and children’s births as wonderful moments. Celebrate these events with family and with friends; just do it with less. Because life is not about stuff, it is about people.
Now is the time when jobs are dwindling. There will come a future period when there may be no work at all. Towns are already shutting down because of little revenue to support infrastructure. That revenue came from gainful employment. We have seen this happening for quite a long time in Michigan–which should have begun looking to the future 35 years ago. Today they have given up homes, laid off firemen and police, shut schools, town governments and even hospitals (one example).
We are now looking at the shut down of states. It’s progressive: homes, towns, cities, states, the USA.
Long ago, Michigan was a thriving state, full of farmers, small businesses and the like. Then came AC Spark Plug, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. The farmers left the “hard life” and went to work in the shops. They became dependent on big companies. What’s left? Two generations of those from that state moved away. Work is scarce. Young people are in debt. Towns are literally dying.
Across the country, large companies which at one time were good for the United States, have gone overseas, by and large. Common sense says that the jobs will NOT be coming back. Part of this is our own fault, as we have demanded cheaply priced goods on a regular basis. Not only are the goods manufactured in foreign countries, by cheaper labor, many of the products we believe we “need” are only made abroad. The costs of raw material for the manufacturing process is high, as are shipping costs.
Soon you will not be able to afford new things. (Frankly, as it is now, you cannot. Most Americans and other Westerners have been living on credit for at least one generation. Do you own your own home? Your car? Is your credit card at zero? No? Then you are in debt.) This includes clothing. Your closets are packed. Most of you do not “need” new apparel, but continue to purchase “stuff” for the sake of keeping up with trends, appeasing your teenager, or you shop out of boredom. Who wins? It’s not you.
Years ago, perhaps only one or two generations past, folks had much less. They wore hand-me-downs, borrowed from a relative or friend, and kept what they had until it wore out. Even then, the material was recycled into another item. In other countries, families have little due to cost and/or space. Refugees and immigrants have escaped persecution with even less–perhaps carrying only a few days’ change of clothing or just surviving initially with the clothes on their backs.
Rebuilding America means looking at what’s already available and using it. Shop at consignment stores, borrow, sew and alter as needed (clothing especially). This is what many already do. There is nothing wrong with this–it is what we have always done until recently. Even go to garage sales. America–the rest of the world barters while you pay full price, much of the time for unreliable and unnecessary goods. Begin to barter, trade, and dicker prices down. (HINT: Ask and you shall receive.) Trade your time, your abilities for what you need. Trade what you don’t need for what you do. Quit wasting money which will be needed for food. Open your eyes–everything that you really need is going up in price. For example, take cotton–its growth has been affected by climate change already.
America, you are being taken advantage of and literally crushed from within purposely. Your leaders are NOT leading by advocating jobs overseas, further spending for stupid projects, etc.. True leaders reduce debt, they do NOT create it.
Your money has been given to useless programs (probably the new train system estimated to cost $65 billion), the United Nations ($100 million–the UN should be closed anyway–they will take your food), and to terrible monarchs which have suppressed their own people (American colonialism). (No one wins when the poor are taken advantage of and we foolishly throw our money away.)
We must do this ourselves. Support your own family and community by using what you have within your town. Create your own job even. Don’t wait for the government to give you a handout or to hand you a job. It won’t happen. And, it’s not worth it. This will eliminate the need for using so much gas; will keep money in your own community; and will keep food in the mouths of your children.
(Also–police and firemen are being laid off. They are crucial to any society. You men and women are some of our most necessary and well trained individuals. MOST of you also still care about others. Find work, but in your spare time, train your own citizens as volunteers.
Towns: go back to the old system of using volunteers as ambulance drivers, citizen watch groups, and volunteer firemen. Everyone has a cell phone. Put them to use. Send an emergency text out to every volunteer when a call comes for help. This will work. We used to use a siren in our small towns to call in volunteer firemen from the fields. And I must also write, that a time will come when cell phones will be too costly for many. Ban together as neighbors, pitching in funds for one phone, even a land line, which all can occasionally use.)
Americans, you are alive now. Do what you must to help yourselves, peacefully. Take back your country by bartering, trading, and recycling within your own community. Waste nothing. Listen to immigrants and your elders. They are the remnants of times past who know what it takes to survive. The time to act is now–YOU are the GREATEST generation which has ever lived–YOU WILL SURVIVE. GOD has said so. But you must wake up and face reality!
The Way Out of death is provided by God to all who would listen. Joblessness, hunger and famine are coming to every country on Earth. NOW is the time when all people, no matter the faith or race or nationality, must recognize that we are from God and that His Law is Love. We are instructed to love each other, as God loves us.
I am a dreamer. God sends me His warning and asks me to do more for the children. I have seen what’s coming. It is famine. Love your children enough to prepare for and feed them because you may be stuck in one place, unable to get food. The children are the future. Call upon God for help. He guides those who ask for direction. I write the Truth.
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Liz Colado resides in the United States. An essayist, and a poet since childhood, her poems reflect the images and premonitions of her subconscious dreams. The writing of poetry has been her escape to a world apart, a dimension of other, a reality considered. The meaning of poetry has helped center her all of her life. She is also the main character of a life exposed, written by an anonymous author. Read the poetry of Liz Colado and consider the interior of her mind to be the discovery of a personal dream journal on the edge. Visit Liz Colado’s Writer’s Page.
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