OPINION:
The abject causes of our immense national divide are coming into focus. Decades ago, the idea of a government policy that advocated shifting our wealth, manufacturing and technology to countries with philosophically diametric dispositions would have been a subject for the House Un-American Activities Committee. The “winners” in these institutionalized, supply-side, subversive policies who own and control almost all the media and most of both major political parties are doing everything in their power to maintain this program, which offers unregulated advantages to foreign manufacturers — against our national interests.
During this time of extreme polarity, blame is invariably trussed upon the opposite political party. The inequity is systematic and not the express property of any recent major political players, who neither created this system nor granted the previous amnesty which served to legitimized criminal trespass in the U.S. However, there has been failure on the part of all subsequent administrations to recognize these problems and take corrective action.
Ultimately, these basic issues of solvency, national security and self-sufficiency return us to the ground of our nation’s inception.
LOUIS L. BOEHM
Orchard Park, N.Y.
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