A wonderful world no more
ROLLY G. REYES
Lastoftwoparts
THE economy is so bad that my neighbor got a pre- declined credit card in the mail, CEO’s are now playing miniature golf, Mormons can afford only one wife, Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America, parents in Beverly Hills had to fire their nannies and starting to learn their children’s names, a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico, Bill and Hillary Clinton travel together, they now have to share a room, The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.
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A friend got so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, savings, Social Security and retirement funds that he called the Suicide Hotline and got a call center in Afghanistan, and when he told them he was suicidal, they got all excited and asked if he could drive a truck or wear a vest.
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Trump accused China of raping the US and that China stole the jobs of the American people. It was the US having the wrong financial priorities and strategies. The US spent a lot of money on warfare instead of infrastructure. Hunting for cheap labor to become more competitive, it was the US who led the industrial exodus to build manufacturing plants in China.
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Trump himself used cheap im
migrant labor to prop up his real estate corporate network. Now the blame is on China. China has presence in Australia and New Zealand while the US is trying to increase tariff with its next-door buddy Canada. China’s big market is Asia and Europe, buoyed by domestic consumption that caters to billion Chinese nationals not to mention neighbors like Japan, Taiwan and Korea that are almost equidistant when it comes to lower shipping costs.
Add to this the DACA effects on its giant corporations like Apple, Google and Amazon who are presently employing IT technos like Japanese, Indian, Koreans, Chinese, Taiwanese and even Baltic and Mediterranean youngsters. The Fil-Am pros like doctors, nurses and caregivers are now being threatened with tight status scrutiny and deportation. Amidst all these, China built a massive network of railways and airports to ease movement of its produce nationwide. Thanks to the US for boosting the morale of American jobseekers who can’t even water their plants and trim their lawns.
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Good work, good deeds and good faith to all.