We Believe

in shopping without a gun to our heads.

How important is your debt to Uncle Sam and the banks? Important enough that they are now placing armed guards around shopping malls… to make you feel safer.

Now I don’t know about you, but the last time I saw armed guards in a shopping mall, I was in Mexico. And no, they did not make me feel safe. Armed guards mean that there is significant danger around to warrant their presence. So just the sight of an armed guard makes me nervous. And now, America is arming it’s shopping malls as well. Not being entirely stupid I can take the hint: stop shopping.

I thought seeing the armed guards at the local Metro stations was disconcerting. But now the malls? No. That’s enough. I don’t want to live in a police state. This is just (pardon my language) “all fucked up.” People need jobs, to be put back to work, to be able to earn a decent honest living. Then we don’t need guards. The solution is not more police, it’s less criminals. And the way to make less criminals is to make more opportunity for honest work and decent pay. And the way we do that is to cut off free trade with third world labor, to bring our jobs and our wages back home.

Yes. It is. It’s amazing how so many of our problems lead back to China. But it’s true. It’s real. Free trade with dollar-a-day labor causes loss of jobs and income, which cause poverty, crime, misery, and debt. Trade with slaves, and you become a slave.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not against free trade. I’m against free trade with third world countries. But I’m all for free trade with countries that have a similar standard of living.

Pretty soon there won’t be a mall to put guards in. It’ll be an open-air market in the street, just like everywhere else in the third world. Imagine that. And imagine a whole hell of a lot more guards.

Is that what you want for your kids?