Question #2

I guess the political issue I'm most interested in would be how much government should be involved in bussiness. Now I may be coming off as a tad radical but if it were my descision I'd give government all the regulatory power it could have over bussiness. Why you may ask. Well maybe I'm a bit paranoid but I don't really trust corporations and honestly I am tremendously confused with anyone who even has the least bit of trust in them. Now the federal government was established to represent me, you, and the guy down the street and although it may not do the job so well at least it's heart is in the right place. Bussiness on the other hand run themselves like their their own country in that their in it for their own success and that the ends justify the means. Now that doesn't mean that all corporations are like this but the ones that are usally seem to be the biggest ones out there and who are the ones that effect us most. Well if you've read my blog before you would know some of the ways that corporations can screw the people and the country as a whole over such as hiring just enough people to get the job done but not hiring anymore than that to keep profits high. Now my republican readers may be thinking, "But Ryan for corporations to survive and thrive in this economy they need to be competetive, without these strategies we would fall behind in the world." Well they would be right , to survive in this economy one does have to be competeive but why should we be competeive in the first place. Maybe corporations aren't the ones to blame and restrict but the game that these corporations are playing. Capitialism and globalization have done great things for America while we were winning at it but now that developing countries are taking our jobs away and doing them for less we seem to be confused. WAKE UP PEOPLE! The answers right in front of you! Were losing at our own game now because developing countries can treat their people worse then we can treat our people and no the answer to solving this problem isn't to try to treat our people worse then developing countries treat theirs just to stay in the race! The answer is to step out of the race and if this sounds like isolation to you well it kind of is. We've gotten so caught up in winning this race we've forgotten why we entered it in the first place, so that are economy is strong enough so that everyone in our country has food to eat and a bed to sleep on. Now trade will never stop for good but this interdependence that's developed between us and other countries needs to. We need to start depending on ourselves for some of the products that we so desperatly want, even if it means paying a little bit more for them because it's being made by a 40 year old guy in Detroit instead of an 11 year old boy in Taiwan.

As always,
Theurer