Here’s a piece I did for the online student news source, Next Gen Journal. They’re a great place for students from all over to come and join in a talk involving culture, news, politics and student issues. I’m very excited.
Here’s the link to NGJ’s Tumblr. Follow them, keep up! There’s much potential!
My piece is, essentially, about how the New Deals from the 1930’s would never work today, because of a shift in cultural, international and economic perspective. Despite our yearning for a more self-sufficient, beneficial economic system, we have become so stubborn to the point of no progress.
Here are some excerpts:
“Leaders need to stop eluding citizens into believing that immigrants “steal” jobs, when realistically, they take up the jobs that the American populace has grown to disdain. To be fair, there are Americans that make up a good amount of these humble jobs, and they most assuredly should be proud of their employment. However, the harvest of these disgraced jobs—the mangoes in the local supermarket, the cleanly mowed lawns and trimmed hedges in nearby neighborhoods—are rarely appreciated.”
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“This then introduces a new factor into the equation: America simply cannot create jobs that clearly are not here anymore. The political and economic costliness of bringing jobs back to American soil makes the prospect improbable, although doing so may benefit the country in the long run. The productivity of the early twentieth century still heavily relied on industry work, but as our world fuses and jobs become compromised and moved overseas, the feasibility of an “American America” starts to dwindle.”
