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Why can’t we see things in a new and fresh way? Excessive government spending on expanded entitlement programs is bringing the country ever closer to bankruptcy. There are fewer of us working each month to pay the government’s bills It is little wonder that the number of new applications for jobless claims is coming down so slowly. It should come down because each month fewer of us are working. We need jobs. The government does not have a clue about how to create jobs other than to talk about how it is “small businesses” that create jobs. These small businesses need markets for their goods or services as do all businesses. The government could help by making a concerted effort to open up foreign markets to American exports and insure that our trade agreements with other countries are truly reciprocal. Our government needs to think of the relationship of markets to jobs in all that they do. A case in point is the devastation that hit Haiti as a result of the earthquake that created over 2,000,000 homeless. As the United States always and rightly does, we came to the aid of Haiti at once and to date over $712,000,000 has been sent to Haiti. Why do we send dollars? Are we assured that the dollars reach the intended? With 2,000,000 homeless why don’t we send homes instead of money. The modular home industry, many of whom are in our Valley, could design a practical housing unit that could be shipped to Haiti for assembly. Our government could purchase these units with the dollars that they would send to Haiti. This would create the jobs that we desperately need. It would also create site preparation and assembly jobs in Haiti with the end result being housing for people who desperately need it.
Henry A. Truslow,
Sunbury
