NOW IS A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE UNITED STATES

It seems like the politicians in Washington DC do not realize how much trouble the US is in right now and are not going to do anything about it. We have spent our nation into almost impossible debt, that can never be paid- off, spending on worthless entitlement programs and other boondoggle programs of no lasting value. We have spent trillions on so-called bail outs that have done almost nothing and we still have heavy unemployment. Our balance of trade with foreign nations is ridiculous. We import billions of dollars in cheap goods every year wiping out our own industries and building up the economies of countries that are really enemies of our country. Free trade is killing our industries because our own industries can not compete with the practically slave labor rates of foreign nations. To fix this problem we need FAIR trade instead of free trade. This means taxes or tariffs on goods that are priced below our domestically produced goods or are made with much lower labor rates than ours. Because of so-called free trade, we have lost many industries. As just a few examples, we have lost the textile industry, shoes, consumer electronics, household goods, and other important industries. A few US manufactures that are left have either moved their factories overseas, or are in the process of moving them.  Heavy industries such as steel, machine tools, heavy equipment, aircraft, and shipbuilding, are all in serious straits because of the free trade. Now we let our infrastructure decay but don't have any money left to fix it. Our railroads are antiquated, our roads and bridges are falling apart. We are doing almost no new infrastructure construction which is hurting our labor force and our heavy equipment and steel industries. One of the worst situations is in our energy sector where we are almost entirely dependent on the OPEC robber barons for our oil supplies. There is no way this condition should continue! I could go on but I am sure you get the picture and have known these facts all along. The important point is that our government is doing nothing to correct our situation. Please write and call your Congressmen and make sure they understand your concerns.