would maybe it's possible that we can crowdsource
some sort of a solution here although I think that the solutions frankly I think
you know and I'll a tomato things in the solutions are fairly straightforward
but I CJ where /url
were a woman wrote a piece that was published in alternate today
look at the stats America resembles a broken Banana Republic
and you know we've talked about a lot others in
in pieces but you know this is basically the consequences
a break now X thirty years a reaganomics
thirty years ago thirty two years ago thirty three years ago
we were number one in the world did pretty much everything
we had the strongest middle class with the strongest economy we exported more
than anybody else we imported
you know finished goods manufactured goods we imported were raw materials
anybody else
we were the world credit or not the world's debtor a before ronald reagan
came into office we were doing really well
unemployment was only three spoiled six-percent in 1980 during that election
it's the reason why I had the
hostages not been taken in Iran in and held up until the day
the Reagan was sworn into office through the election Jimmy Carter would have
been easily reelected
and go back and look at the numbers
but reagan's
you know how to his campaign bill Casey cut a deal
with the iranians in Paris to hold the hostages in the
rains kept their into the deal in wheat it so did we by the way you know they
were there a demonstration for six years after that
up until 1986 when I got exposed and congress you know
stirred it basically made them stop
the rate administration was illegally
giving weapons to Iran selling them spare parts
why I P goes straight in when Impreza without a ring
so anyhow in the in the thirty three years since
reagan became president CJ says America has become a rhino
RINO rich in name only is by every measure we look like a broken Banana
Republic
I i assume he I pay maybe it's she I don't see it
we're not not one of our
cities is included in the top 10 most livable cities in the world on a single
US city
out a hundred top
airports in the world only 10 bars makes the list our roads are falling apart our
bridges are falling are collapse in our schools are
are dick rapid our trains none of them high-speed a running up their tracks
right CJ
30 countries have longer life expectancy in betar infant mortality statistics
than we do now
after 32 years reaganomics 30 countries rate they
rank their students better in math and science and media me were behind
slovenian of these things
so
between you know this the trickle-down economic lol I'd say the is the whole
reaganomics package
soul reagan package followed by the insult love
absolute screaming free trade the i mean you know during the reagan time it was
bilateral agreements most-favored-nation trade status and
and and things like that but then came NAFTA and CAFTA
shaft earn the deputy oh and get all the stuff in the following administration
but this this entire archive time is 33 years
has led us i mean you
we have we have also 50 million Americans lived in poverty
and four hundred people
own more wealth than half the rest of us
four hundred people
the know-how to kam make a comparison exam I'm thinking okay you gotta
kindergarten classroom you go one kid who's got
more than half of all the toys
but how many other kids we had there have to be in the classroom
to share the other half to make their proportionate
I mean 400 versus 320 million shoes
400 which would be forty versus 32 million which would be for just £3
million
you have to have over three million people in the class if you had four kids
who had half a ball
all the toys in the canker care in class we have not seen this level love any
quality this ratio by the way since just before the Great Depression
since 1929 early 1929
our labor has
bins so destroyed we used two big
a high-cost labor market yeah I pay a little more for things made the United
States but a they were good they were doing durable you repair them rather
than her place in them
and be workers were paid enough to be able to afford them
but now we've gone from my me know if if
if transit continued people working on an assembly line right now in
in Detroit would-be making what they make in Germany in a fifty fifty four
dollars an hour
but no new hires are hiring are coming in a fourteen dollars an hour
and we've got
states in the South you know these right to work for less States
they're paid thirty percent less than Michigan and there's no law
against their just sayin a mine down
are minimum wage is a little over seven dollars an hour Sweden's minimum ages
nineteen dollars an hour and people are required to take five weeks a pic
your vacation so companies are organized differently because they know they're
people are gonna have to do this
I mean this this is like or structural stuff
but this is why I kia has set up a factory in Virginia
it's why tennessee has box wagon Honda BMW
Kia Hyundai Toyota
it all set up in the south we become the low-wage countries
we have become a third world nation
I mean I don't know how to describe this homes downright bizarre
and yeah so what do we do about how we'll talk about that right
world