POVERTY, THE BORDER CRISIS, WARS & AMERICA'S IMPERIAL QUEST! - Invest in poverty reduction in 'U.S. backyard,' & bring back temp work permits!
Vol. 2, No. 6, February 9, 2024: ...Also Inside: Reggae VYBZ Music'
THE ‘BITTA’ TRUTH … HARD TIMES– POVERTY, THE BORDER CRISIS, WARS & AMERICA'S IMPERIAL QUEST!
By Norris McDonald, Publisher & Editor
“The Armageddon is gathering now:
The sign is on every oppressed man’s brow
The whites who think they are ever so smart
Do not know other men can play their part!”
-Marcus Garvey, The Tragedy of White Injustice
Black families in America earn only ten cents to every dollar that white families earn and yet no serious efforts are being made by President Joe ‘Working Man’ Biden to fulfill his 2020 promises to change this deplorable situation.
Getting rid of extreme poverty in the world too, —- especially in the Sub-Saharan region of Africa, is not important as making wars, and killing people. Therefore, it tells us about the moral nature of the political leadership in America and the Western world.
In the 2020 presidential election, Black people turned out in droves to elect Mr Biden.The vile murder of a Black man, George Floyd, on May 25, 2020, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman, led to widespread public outrage.
Biden rose to power riding the crest of public dissatisfaction against Donald Trump, but Black anger against social injustice also helped to put him in office. His political campaign focused on civil and voting rights and poverty related issues.
HARD TIMES
It is truly hard times we are facing, my friends. The world is in the grips of a raging war-induced economic storm that is having a devastating impact on the poor people and the middle class worldwide.
Lack of investment and job creation in Africa, Asia, Latin & Central America fuels extreme poverty and this drives the global immigration crisis.
More directly, there is extreme poverty in America. There is extreme poverty in the Americas right here in the U.S. backyard. Politicians are getting hyped up about “the immigration and border crisis.” But the focus on wars instead of long term economic development strategies will drive a perpetual immigration crises.
Fulminating on draconian short term solutions wont solve the problem.
What is to be done is to see urgent need:
* Concentrate on poverty eradication strategies in the U.S. and the America.
* Regularize the immigration situation by create a path to citizen for immigrants, and;
* Expand the temporary employment programs allowing immigrants to do necessary needed jobs.
Hopelessness is on the rise in America - at home and abroad because there is no concerted economic development strategy!
This is a sad brutal reality facing generation of young Americans.
Hopelessness is shown on their faces. We see it in their eyes. In fact, a recent American survey found that public attitudes towards college has become more negative, with many young people skipping college.
Children of poor people and the middle class are left to fend for themselves. And this is not paternalism, as the wonderful liberal capitalist democracy lovers would want to think.
People can’t live off their basic take-home pay.
A recent study says that only 38 per cent of the jobs created in America barely pay enough to support a middle-class lifestyle. Another report said that only 25 percent of people still believe in the American Dream.
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