PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is making a grave error with his plans for the United States.
The US was built on the sweat and toil of many nations – not to downplay the efforts of those of African descent in the sugar and cotton plantations in the south – in the factories, steel mills, and the households of the wealthy. Immigrants from the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, the Far East and South-East Asia all helped in making the nation great.
This is the era for integration of the world’s people and not the sequestration of one nation. It is the time to embrace, not cut off, one country, the United States. This nation has been been deemed a melting pot, but it is also a mosaic. It is the time for widening the global circle.
How is Trump going to bring back jobs to the steel industry in the north-east, an industry long since mothballed by cheap steel imports?
Many of the goods and services obtained in the US were produced by other countries. Outsourced production to gain cheap labour in South-East Asia, China, Mexico and elsewhere, using the same popular brand names, with the resultant super profits by these global US corporations – LA gear and Nike footwear, leather goods, electronic components, to name a few.
This world is at a precarious stage, nations seem headed for a global conflagration, not only militarily but economically.
Sit back and watch the drama as it unfolds. This material and godless civilisation is being folded up. We cannot keep pace with world events.
– PHILIP O. HUNTE
