In my last blog, I described the dangerous circumstances created by outsourcing America’s great manufacturing industries and choosing easy profit over long-term financial stability. It seems we’ve become a nation that imports more than it exports and borrows more than it lends. We arrived in this predicament by allowing government and big business to sell out our economy on the promise that free trade and the global economy would allow us to continue to prosper. Admittedly, some have prospered though not who we believed it would be. How can anyone believe that shipping electronics and software jobs, manufacturing and industrial production, and a whole host of other revenue-rich concerns to other parts of the world would help us? How could anyone believe that we could import $500 billion worth of oil and then burn it without producing hardly anything of value in exchange be good for our economy? This is what we let happen. We sold out or wore out our best divisions of the best businesses that we call American and now we have little left over to sell. So we have but one choice — restructure!

That is what our new leadership in Washington is talking about. I have voted Republican most of my life and when I hear my Republican friends complaining about the debt we are incurring, I ask “What’s the alternative?” At first, I too, was concerned about the plan I heard, but when I recognized the parallels that exist between a failing business and this failing business called America, I realized the correctness of what is being proposed. I am not writing with any political ax to grind and I don’t wish to offend anyone who is concerned about the massive spending that has just begun, but it is clear to me that we were on the wrong track with a flawed business model. If those opposing the new model would consider the USA a business then they would understand what is necessary here. It’s easy to say run the country like a business when you are talking about balancing the national check book, but right now we have to operate like a business that needs reorganization in order to get revenue and commerce moving again and to create new avenues of growth.

I have been selling real estate in Southern Oregon areas of Grants Pass and Medford for many years now. I’ve seen many failed and successful business blueprints, and I see the economic stimulus package as a vision for a new America restructured and competitive, much like a client who has heeded my advice and restructured. We have no other choice. We must bring jobs home and invent new industries. Especially those that allow us to be energy independent rather than codependent. I look at China and see a country hungry for new ideas and with sparkling new infrastructure. If we want to compete in the future, we must and we shall get back to the basics of what made us great, and the blueprints have been drawn by our president. Together, let us begin the building of a new economy because the future looks brighter than you may think.

Michael Masters

A Socially Conscious Real Estate Consultant

     

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