America and the Uphill battle

  Sometimes I think that the reason America is changing is because of China.  All the terrible things that Americans increasingly observe their government doing are just things that China has always done.  One fact is sure, the American empire is in decline and a vacuum has appeared which seeks to be filled by some other superpower, namely China.  This means that there is now a conflict between the people on the way out and the those on the way in.
   Why is it that Americans have been so silent about the gentle foreign policy between America and China.  If you want to see your country stand, in the future, for what it stood for in the past, demand that your government condemn China.  Demand reforms in China.  That would seriously address the problems in America at the root.
   One other thing to keep in mind is that, while America will have decreasing authority over China, internally, American corporations will increasingly side with and collude with China because that is where all the growth is (supposedly).  This means that the citizens of the United States are in a battle, not only with a maturing fascist state, but with their own corporations.
    You have a serious uphill battle.  Perhaps disintegration of the Union is inevitable, but something tells me that the values for which it stands mean a lot to those who live there.  So much so, that they may be willing to fight for them.
    One other thing to ponder is this.  Is the American government becoming more like China (insofar as it is increasingly infringing on human rights), because it wants to compete in this dog eat dog modern world?  Perhaps it is making this change because of a kind of silent colonization.  The citizens of America are accepting these changes and so goes the government to be more and more like that in China.  Those Americans crippled by debt are now, essentially, just like the 900 million peasant-slaves in China.
   Could one country really hijack the government of another?  Possibly, if the key players in the government are actually the CEOs of corporations which have no allegiance to the country at all and simply seek to maximize growth.  To me it seems just as reasonable that the Bush administration could be seen as making "difficult decisions to protect Americans" as they could be seen as transforming the country into a compliant province of the next super power, namely China.

  peace

Labor laws in the US need to be changed.  Employers want affordable labor, yet paying someone full time is the biggest expense of the company due to minimum wage, income tax, social security, health insurance, vacations, pension and 401K retirement, labor laws preventing young people from working while women, minorities and the disabled are given special privileges. 

There are so many costs with just hiring one person that most companies look for degree holders with several years of experience already- why would they spend extra money hiring an entry level employee and train them over the next few years when entry level employment still has so many extra costs?  Just calculate the yearly wage of an employee and find out how much it costs the company per month, multiplied by the number of employees.  They don't want to pay that much for more people even if it means creating more jobs.  Most of the income would be going towards paying employees, so you either hire less people, or outsource at less than what it costs to pay minimum wage plus benefits.  If you do hire more people just to create more jobs then the company has a high chance of operating at a loss and going bankrupt.  If you're a small business and need to borrow money to pay full time salaries, good luck.  With current employment laws, US business is not sustainable.