http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=20080405_new_world_order_american_jobs.htm(Best Syndication) If you take the Biblical account of creation seriously, as does this writer, you would see significance behind the fact that before God did anything else with man, he gave him the wherewithal for his basic needs, the Garden of Eden, put him in the midst thereof, then expected him to, “...cultivate and keep it.” Later, after Adam violated the only limit God put upon him, he punished him with the judgment, “Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life....”
From this Biblical account, it seems that God expects us to do something with our minds and bodies to provide for our basic needs. Now that the Masters of the Universe have run the economic system of the Indispensable Nation over a cliff, many of us are faced with finding employment for our minds and bodies to provide for our basic needs—and the fact of the matter is, our needs are going to become much more basic.
Bush Sr. and Chinese Factory
For the past several years, we have been told that we need to embrace immigration so the menial tasks of tending our crops, preening our lawns, painting our houses, fixing our roofs, cooking our food, etc., will be done cheaply as we devote ourselves to the lofty tasks of executive training and fueling the economy with buying the high-tech knick-knacks that make our lives easy. As we were occupying ourselves with learning the skills of managing the global economy, we found that the great businesses we were guiding would become much more valuable if we did not employ expensive American labor and, instead, found cheaper sources from which our knick-knacks could be constructed.
Our discovery of cheap labor sources from which to amass our great wealth did have its down side—that is that members of our communities who did not want to become executives were suddenly competing for wages with third-world serfs around the world and moving into our neighborhoods. Our brave new world devalues those who find joy in planting, tending, building, welding, repairing, maintaining, and using the wages of their labor to care for their families. The American laborer has been dispatched by the new American elite who had a greater design for the citizens of the New World Order's top nation. Their joy effectively amounts to selfishness that only impedes the great design of America's political system and corporate elite of making for them the lives of leisure, wealth, and power.
If the current state of America's economic system has any lesson for us, maybe it is that our work, no matter seemingly menial, is worth something after all. Maybe the national disdain we have been acquiring for the routine tasks of production have—as seen through our desire to find ever cheaper sources to perform them—exposed our sophisticated, materialistic, secular haughtiness as nothing more than spoiled, selfish petulance.
Many of us baby boomers can remember our childhoods when, work that is now offered to an immigrant underclass, was expected of us even when we were in grade school. As I grew up in an Indiana farm town, I remember farmers being allowed to recruit elementary school students to perform such tasks as picking fruit and flowers, de-tassel corn stalks and throw hay bales. My first job was delivering morning papers at 5 am when I was in the third grade. I was in competition with my neighbor and classmate, Jeff Baldwin, who delivered the town's afternoon daily. Jeff inherited his route from his brother, Tim, who got a job working in his father's hardware store when he reached the fifth grade. Tim got the route from his brother Rick, who got it from his brother Allan.
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