The auto industry in America has worked under a failed system for years. This system is one of believing that they would have a monopoly on the worldwide auto industry forever. As a result company leaders of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made bad decisions that they, up to now, have not been held accountable for. Union leaders have maintained their power base by insisting on unreasonable wages and benefits for their workers. Workers have accepted these wages and never considered that “the chickens might come home to roost” someday. And because the American education system does not teach citizens about money, marketing, the constitution, and many other important issues, the workers just went along, listening to the outrageous nonsense from politicians. And, national  media that maintained their power base by supporting this easily recognizable failure bound system of doing business.

Similarly, the American people have supported or ignored an equally failed system. No, it is not just George Bush, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party that is to blame. It is we, the American citizens. The system we have been supporting has been steadily drifting from Capitalism to Socialism. It is only now that many have begun to recognize this reality.

This did not just happen as a result of the Obama election. The drift has been a steady one going back probably to before the Roosevelt administration in the 1940’s.

Many people (similar to the union auto workers) have embraced politicians that have promised to give them things. The promises have ranged everywhere from welfare to farm subsidies to regulations that strangle business in the name of helping the less fortunate, Politicians have perverted the language, the constitution, and the common sense rules of decency to maintain their power base, while the poor people have just gone along with it. The power base of these politicians has grown, along with the number of people “on the take”. 

What is even worse is that the leaders in our major industries have accepted tax breaks; handouts and subsidies, just like the poor. They too have allowed their greed to override their knowledge of the long-term consequences of such ideas. Many of these leaders should have known better. They should understand that the acceptance of these bribes from Washington were great for their current pocketbooks, but in the long run would destroy the very system (Capitalism) that got them and our country there in the first place.

Small business owners and employees are the most to blame. They have been the engines that have driven this once great country. They, unlike the guys in big business, really understand how Capitalism works. Like the big business leaders, they didn’t learn it in school, because America doesn’t teach it there. The small business leaders learned these principles by doing.  They understand supply and demand,  the market place, meeting payroll, and the like. They had to correct their mistakes along the way or they were out of business. That is capitalism.

The mistake of this large group of people was that they just wanted to be left alone. They did not want to participate in the political system that was creating the crippling legislation, the tax regulations that took their money and redistributed it to others and put in place government programs that assured the growth of bigger and bigger bureaucracies. They left this task to others, unfortunately to their own peril.

So they sat by and didn’t help kill legislation. They didn’t participate in stopping the advance of state income taxes, inventory taxes, inept politicians. They didn’t run for office. They didn’t support candidates that they knew could keep to the constitution. They just went home at night after fighting for their lives and listened to the sound bites of the national media.

As a result of all of this, America slipped quietly and predictably into Socialism, a system that has never worked anywhere in the world…. EVER. This is why we now have had two candidates run for office that are either liberal (socialistic) or “progressive” (Communistic). This is why during hurricane Katrina we saw the welfare state of New Orleans uncovered the result of years of handouts from government). This is why politicians went so far as to force banks to give loans to people who couldn’t afford them., thus destroying the international financial markets.  It has been a failed system from the beginning.

Like the failed American Auto industry, it is now a time for the current American culture to admit bankruptcy and start over again. America, like the auto industry, must realize that it will not be up to Washington to fix our problem. We, the people, must do it or it won’t get done.

These are the things I believe we should do:

1.We must, as a people, recognize the problem. All change must start with this. We as a country, at least those of us who have studied and paid attention, know that the problem is the bastardization of our Democratic Republic (not just a democracy).

It has been this form of government that made us great along with the capitalistic economic system. These are the elements of our society that need to be restored.

2. To do this several things need to happen:

a. We need to pass a law that requires ALL government employees to uphold and defend the Constitution of The United States of America and, if ANY politician or government employee violates this oath, they will be prosecuted. Right now the oath has no accountability.

b. The education system in this country needs to be repaired. Government will not do this. We, as private citizens need to fashion, fund and administer schools in this country to have ever greater populations of Americans understand, REAL American history, Capitalism, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, How money works, How to critically think, etc. These are all areas of learning that are required to maintain and defend a Democratic Republic. None of these are taught today. 

Turkey (the country) has businessmen who are already doing this. Their schools are great, inexpensive, and they have built 1000 schools around the world, all built by businessmen and women.

c. Help promote and put people in office that understand what this country is all about. Promote them with your time, your money and your influence. This will pay big dividends in the long run to you, your family and your neighbors

d. Work to repeal or reduce taxes on all forms of business. Institute a flat tax. Repeal the capital gains tax. Do away with industry handouts, both present and past (you can faze these out). Work to

get rid of many government bureaucracies (the Department of Education, the Commerce Department, the  Bureau of Indian Affairs, etc).

e. Openly boycott mainstream media. Create an organization that publishes to all the business in America the names of the organizations that are undermining our nation. Most people already know this.

f. Don’t look for handouts from government. Don’t fall prey to their bribes. It is not their money. It is our money. Taking government money is the same as stealing from your neighbor. It makes you feel guilty and makes your neighbor angry.

If you are in trouble, look to you neighbor for his or her VOLUNTARY help. And if you see a neighbor in need, help him, if he has been a good neighbor. This will restore relationships between people and restore personal accountability.

These and many more actions are the things we, as Americans, we can do to restore the country we once all loved. All of us who pay attention know exactly how to fix our country. It is only those who don’t want it fixed and ourselves that stand in our way. If we don’t take this opportunity to retool we, like the failing auto industry, will become ancient history very soon.