With no direction home

I've been trying to decide on what direction this blog should take. There are many things I know about and many things I care about, but for now I will concentrate on the American Dream. Personally I believe it should be called the Universal Dream.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

What does that mean today? International corporations search the globe for the lowest cost per unit to maximize profit. Low wages, questionable safety and excessive pollution are acceptable as long as the Consumer only cares about the dollar cost.

We talk about the middle class loosing ground, but we subsidize world poverty by pinching pennies. We complain about immigrants but we don't ask our politicians to set policies that will improve conditions in their home countries. Would so many people cross the border if they could make a decent living back home?

We seem to be caught in a trap. How can our best intentions coexist with the bottom line? When there is barely enough to cover expenses how can we consider charity?

We don't need charity, we need unity. We need to realize that unless the Third World joins us, we will join them. At the turn of the last century men gave their lives to stand together against the robber barons. Now we cower in the break room and whisper that if if we don't do as they say they will move to China.

There has been a lot of bad things said about Unions, and it usually comes from people worried about their hedge funds.

United we stand. Divided we juggle our bills.