Written by Professor Emeritus Pete Bagnolo   

Dear Mr. President, and Congress:
Get some emotion going up there on Capital Hill by passing a bill which taxes Companies which Outsource American Jobs to citizens of other nations, because Outsourcing American Jobs to others, non-citizens, weakens America and is disloyal and treasonous. Tax the Outsourced Corporations Union Scale Plus 15% tax per Outsourced Employee.

Do you think those who have lost their jobs are going to remain loyal if it’s leaders appear disloyal to them by giving away their jobs to the orient, and to scab laborers, non-citizens, from across our southern border undercutting the standard of living of American citizens? After being treated that way people will begin to fall away from loyalty as those in Washington have taught them through the behavior of Congress and the White House, which gave away trillions to the wealthy and little to the middle and lower classes.

The administration has focused on saving energy in the operation of autos, which people drive only a few hours a day, which is fine. However, in so doing it has ignored housing construction. Homes are expending fuel 24/7/365, yet home builders are still offering R-13 Insulation in walls, instead of R-30 and R-24 in ceilings instead of R-50. They are still using Forced Air HVAC and poorly insulated roofs, instead of offering government grants/discounts to switch to Geothermal and metal roofs/solar shingles. Why is that? Who is advising you on energy? Certainly not architects like me.

How do you think our people will react when their families are unable to afford health care protection? Cobra costs more than most people pay for their mortgages or rent. How do you think they would react when lacking a solid income, they see their families sick and dying from things that could be easily treated if they had the money or health care coverage? The real enemy to them will become those who mismanaged the economy, you-all in Washington and the corporations to which you pay homage. Do you not recall that back before FDR was elected the US was close to a revolution because its people were starving, because Big Business was treated with kid gloves while workers were being marginalized.

Corporations and LLC’s are not Humans, they have neither a soul nor a conscience, therefore they should prohibited under a law which makes donations to candidates by Corporations and LLC’s, a felony.

Further, Greed needs to be treated as a felony, as is assault, murder, robbery and rape, because the government is now aiding and abetting corporations in assaulting, murdering, robbing and raping the American Citizen Work Force and the unions that provided for them, under FDR, a higher standard of living. Forget the deficit and concentrate on jobs creation and if you do not know how to do that, I do, so feel free to call on me. PS: Dump Emanuel and Timothy Geithner.

According to Saint Paul and others, God included, we have been taught that, "Love of profits is the root of all Evil," so why does the law allow massive profits at the expense of the American Work Force? Ford Motor Company was singled out as leading the upsurge, but they did so by reducing Union Scale and providing $2.7 Billion in profits for the limited few executives and the few who could afford a large number of shares in Ford stock.

Avarice is the most evil force on the planet, because it destroys the lives of millions, and yet individual crimes are vigorously pursued by the law while the crime Jesus hated, Greed is a considered a virtue. The Congress, President and Corporations are leading America into Sodom, Gomorrah, Nineveh and Tyre. They, out of Greed and fear of the Right, are dooming America while God is watching, and so is every citizen in the world. The world began hating us all over again as much as in the McCarthy Era, Korea, Johnson’s Vietnam and the Nixon Paranoid Era. Once again, for them, but for the first time for Americans, we have become Ugly Americans to our own people. That is the fault of congress, Mr. Bush, and now unfortunately for those of us who voted for him, this president. Want to save some money? Get out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and remove our bases in Colombia, crowding Venezuela and make friends with Chavez, a man who is closer to the New Deal than anyone since FDR. He is no enemy of the Progressives.

Our once hard working people are reduced to the pre-FDR era with the full consent of a Democratic Majority in both Houses. Well, if the jobs don’t start showing up in the millions and tens of millions of positions, there will be no middle class and what will surface are an American people not healthy enough to enter military service to defend our nation, and soon those consumers will be unable to buy autos, Homes, appliances, clothing, food and utilities. The dollar is still far under valued and under such conditions the DOW cannot maintain it's present status. It will fall sharply and soon.

Corporate CEO's now make 550-1100 and some, now in recent years, up to 4,000 times the income of their average Employee. After WWII Corporate CEO's made 25 times the income of their average Employee. That is the rate that CEO’s and other executives are paid by Law in the far more moral Scandinavian countries.

Further, there are not 10% of Americans out of work, as the President stated in his State of The Union speech the other evening. There are more than 27.5% of Americans out of work. We know politicians are no longer counting those who are out of work more than one year and no longer listed at the Unemployment Compensation board, but that is no reason to pretend that these people are invisible. They are ALL unemployed and many are under employed and without health care. The health care costs alone are as much as their mortgages, thus driving even the working into bankruptcy.

If you do not want to see the entire nation turning against its own political establishment, an establishment that every day seems more fascistic than Germany in the 1930's, if you do not want to see starvation, plagues, rebellion, and crime multiplying, fall down on your knees and pray, beg, for guidance and create some jobs. We do not need celebrity congress-people, nor do we need a celebrity president. We need a Man Like FDR in the White House, so Mr. President please try to be THAT MAN! Do that and all America will follow you. I voted for you to lead the nation, not the super wealthy, back to a semblance of our former Standard of living. If you do not do what I ask, I shall NOT vote for you again. By the way, the MSM and you are mistaken about why the vote in Mass. went against the Democrats, I knew how it would go weeks ago from friends who were Democrats, but are frustrated with the present direction, following the Bush administration's plans, rather than ours. Did you learn nothing from Viet Nam and from the Russian experience in Afghanistan?

Stop looking ahead at the dream your life, that of future celebrity as the First Black President, and instead, start making your mark as the Second FDR!