Selling America on the Cheap!
For the first time in collective memory, we have to ask ourselves why America’s leaders who swore an oath to protect America and her citizens, are now so hard at work trying to sell everything they swore to uphold.

It is a question for the ages.

Let’s look at cases. In the last several years, America has entertained the sale of its ports to the Middle East which is more than a little surprising inasmuch as the Middle East seems to be the area, when last checked, that is the major source of the terrorist threat to this country.

It doesn’t seem to matter that whomever runs the ports, knows all of our plans to protect our country.

Prior to that, we were willing to sell our highways, our bridges and our tunnels to other countries so that we could raise revenue to compensate for bad policies and tax breaks for the rich.

Before the Port Authority got into every other business than the bridges and tunnels it was authorized to build and maintain, it used to cost fifty cents to cross the Verazzano.

Today, it costs 18 times that! Maybe the Port Authority should have concentrated on its main business instead of beating up on the driver!...

But the Middle East is at it again!

This time it wants to buy one of our biggest Stock Exchanges and nobody seems to be objecting to it.

What does that tell you?

It tells me that first of all, everything in America is for sale.

We have enemies and “friends” in the world; but that doesn’t seem to overlap with things that we can sell. We can sell to most anybody it would seem—anything for a profit.
We’ve sold our manufacturing assets to countries who used to weave rope or bag tea. Now, we complain that they aren’t building products the right way. Could it be that the truth is that our companies were so anxious to get a deal on building cheap products, they couldn’t care less if they used small, breakable parts or that they used lead paint?

There is nothing more important than making profits! Let’s not forget that.

But the bigger question is do we have the right to sell America’s assets?

Shouldn’t the people have something to say about that?


Morevover, wouldn’t you suspect that anyone willing to sell our country couldn’t possibly have our best interests at heart.

Why would someone who we elect to protect America be so anxious to sell it off? I don’t understand that..

Nor does it seem to end there.

There’s a group of business people from Mexico, Canada and the US who are looking to opening up America’s highways to Mexican trucks. And that’s only the first step of their plans to circumvent the laws of the land…

Right now, at some portals, more than 400 Mexican trucks are lined up. Imagine if they were given carte blanche to drive anywhere in America?.

Wouldn’t people who approved deals like that clearly have another agenda that has nothing to do with protecting our people and our highways. Might it not be that they are blinded by profits? For whom? Surely, not the American people.

All of this is more than a little offensive to me whose entire family became citizens of this great country through the old fashioned way: applying for citizenship and going through all of the work necessary to become a decent and honest citizen of this great land.

I don’t know anyone who has come into this country through legitimate ways who doesn’t love this country more than life itself.

To see that cheapened through the cheap and tawdry methods used today to accommodate the big right wing processing and growing operations, is more than a little sickening.

To think that the greatest country in the world is willing to sell of its assets to any bidder, who is willing to sell its highways, bridges and ports to the highest bidder, and willing to let foreigners control our distribution and supply throughout the lower 48 would have to be an unthinkable anathema to our founding fathers…

And at some point in time, we must begin to ask ourselves are our officials any better than the Russians who have squandered Russia’s great assets or taken them over from those to whom those assets really belong, leaving them to get by as best they can while the aggressive businessmen sell what is not there’s in order to built vast fortunes.

Is this what America is fast becoming?



Have we such little faith in our own assets that all we can think of doing is selling them to some Arab potentate?

Perhaps, we should have never left the protection of England if that’s the case.

Your comments invited!

Les Aaron