Response to President Bush's State of the Union Message

1/21/04

by Rabbi David Eidensohn

The President's State of the Union Message announces "Jobs for the 21st Century–more than $500 million for a series of measures to better prepare current and future workers for jobs in the new millennium." This will not improve the job climate in America. And it ignores the real problem.

The problems we have with jobs is that global companies export them to cheaper climates. IBM and INTEL are shifting jobs from Americans to India and China. President Bush thus ignores the real problem, the Global Companies, and emphasizes some effort that has nothing to do with the major problem.

There is now a flood of textiles from China that are destroying the American textile industry. One retail store sells the exact same item with two greatly different prices. The six dollar item is made in China. The ten dollar item is made in America. Who will buy the American item?

China then takes the profits from our pockets, arms our enemies, and we have to spend billions of dollars for defense. We are paying for our own downfall. But Mr. Bush's friends are making big money in China. And they are going to help him in his re-election campaign.

Millions of Americans used to have good jobs in factories producing textiles, steel and other goods. Now, our manufacturing jobs are going overseas. A friend has adopted a child with very limited intelligence. "There was a time," she said, "when such children as my daughter could hope to get a job in a factory, just putting a piece here or there, a real simple job. Today, the factories are gone, and so are our hopes."

A skilled factory laborer used to make very good money. Now, a job that once cost sixty dollars an hour costs six dollars an hour in the slave communities of China. Does Mr. Bush talk about this? Of course not. His backers are the ones who took the factories out of the country.

Next, Mr. Bush notes that "80% of the fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. require higher education and many require math and science skills." If so, a large segment of our population, who are not good with books, are ruined. Why can we not train children in alternate fields from elementary school to become plumbers and electricians, farmers and carpenters? The answer is that our schooling is not designed to promote earning, but to promote brain washing.

The educational system is controlled by people who are convinced that the great enemy of the American child is his father, if he acts like a natural man, and his mother, if she is not politically correct. Any authority figure other than the "brainwasher" who has the "correct" ideas is to be denigrated. We teach hate, not love, destruction of family and not family, and then we spend fortunes to patrol public school with police.

I saw a Teacher's Edition of a book for elementary students in New York State. There was a story about two fishermen, one successful, and one a fool. The old man was a failure, and the young man, who tried new ideas, succeeded. This, said the Teacher's Edition, shows a child to think new things, rather than just accept the old ideas of the family. Would Mr. Bush challenge the anti-family educational establishment? One father is bad, and two fathers are good. We mix children up with our "schooling" and wonder why students come to school and commit mass murder. Let Mr. Bush address that problem, forthrightly.

The president next addresses health care. The Federal Government has been kind enough to show its care for sick Americans by insisting that the states pay huge sums in Medicaid. These costs rose much faster than inflation this year, even while the states are spending less than they did last year. Thus, most states are skating on bankruptcy, powered by health problems. What is the problem? Why is there a crisis in health care? Why can't insurance cover our medical costs just like it used to?

There is a crisis in health care because the gay lobby states do not consider AIDS or HIV an infectious disease under state law, and cannot combat it. Not only that, the gay lobby states pass laws that insurance companies must cover AIDS and HIV even if a person willingly contracted it.

This leads to a crisis in the state because the fastest growing disease sectors are the poorest ones. The states thus have to pay for all of the sick people, incredible costs for babies born with AIDS, and great expenses for those in prison who have HIV and AIDS. Almost bankrupt and with HIV medications costing 15k a year just for the medicine, the states look for help from the Federal Government and get very little relief. Private citizens cannot pay health insurance, because the health insurance must cover AIDS and HIV and other diseases powered by sexual preferences. New York State had to subsidize one insurance company because it no longer was profitable to do business in New York State, because of the radical insurance laws the politicians made to benefit the Gay Lobby.

What does Mr. Bush advise those desperate for medical care? He advises nothing. He suffices with some measure to give people deductions with a fancy name: Tax-Free Health Savings Accounts. Another gimmick is "Association Health Plans "to enable small businesses to provide health coverage to more workers by allowing them to band together and negotiate lower insurance rates." For those millions of Americans who are terrified that disease will consume them and they will not be able to afford the modern medications and health care, these ideas are most unkind.

The proposal to teach children to avoid early sex is marvelous. And it works. The problem, however, is that the effort to save children from drugs and sexual diseases can only flourish in healthy families. Healthy families need an income. American manufacturing and jobs are going out of the country thanks to the global companies and American policies. Our country glorifies "fun" rather than "family." What kind of money will change drug habits and sexual diseases when family is dying? Why not stop drugs and sexual diseases by saving families, and by declaring that certain kinds of "fun" and media must be declared a menace to our children? No, let's just spend money and do the small things. Let's ignore the big problems. Let's not start up with the powerful lobbies in an election year, or any other time.

In short, the problems of this country are doing well.