My personal view on this issue is that America should pay equal attention to
both domestic and foreign affairs. You cannot just focus on one without the
other because they intermingle into the same issue. For instance, America’s
businesses have branched out all across the world and if those places of
business are not ensured safety then both the economy of that particular country
as well as our own is affected. Adding onto that, America is not a
self-sufficient country. We have to import oil, food, and much of our
merchandise. The days of when Americans worked in sweatshops is long gone, for
we now usually rely on overpopulated and underdeveloped countries to do the
dirty work. Internally, America has a very strange economic system. While some
families own massive amounts of wealth, others barely make enough to get by. The
rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Competitiveness and greed are actually
useful tools in today’s America. The American life has now switched focus from
being a good person to making money. People who do not consume or produce goods
useful to society are viewed as threats to the way that Americans live. These
morality issues of human liberties and rights are blatantly ignored because
we’ve been raised to do so. Instead of the borguise making efforts to assist
the poor, we are trained to think that they must be incompetent of doing
anything, a drug addict, or somehow made the choice to be poor. This helps the
borguise to turn their cheeks more easily and sleep more soundly. In terms of
drugs, America has given the poor, inner city people, no choice but to
contribute to drug trafficking and distribution. Do people actually believe that
somebody can be content with a minimum wage job their whole lives? It’s not a
matter of these people making the right decision, because they don’t have one.
It seems as though the lower classes of people would rise above by working
harder, but why should they be forced to do so? It is my personal beliefs as a
socialist and as a subjective viewer of the dilemmas facing today’s youth that
“tough luck” is not the solution to poverty. Not only have we become
inhumane in our “paper chasing”, but the very spirit of being rich would
turn brother against brother. Yet while we have major problems with somebody
dabbling in drugs, there is no evil in our life’s purpose to “succeed” in
being better than others? Externally, America is now shoving our moral,
economic, and political beliefs down the throats of the world’s countries. To
some extent we should be involved in terms of protecting human rights. Hence the
brutality which we have not interfered with in Afghanistan. Even the Soviet
Union before it’s breakup warned the Afghan’s to cease their medieval
practices. The United States had direct information about the persecution of the
Jewish community in Germany, yet did nothing until we we’re directly involved
in the war. We even regulated Jewish immigration pre-war. When human rights are
violated, America doesn’t care unless it affects the almighty dollar sign.
Which is where the world policing comes into effect. America does not have the
right to tell other countries how to govern their people. For instance, look at
the economic fallout of Russia. Now how exactly have these people been
liberated? I only see an economic and political system that does not function
for this region, being forced upon them. The Soviet Union was not half as
corrupt as we would like to think so. Women we’re given equal rights as men
and all colors and ethnic groups we’re given equality. Now, Russia, because of
our interference, no longer has the means to finish it’s “cleaning up
project” which the U.S.S.R. had planned to make bold new environmental
standards with. On top of that, people now have little, if any, money. In the
end, I believe that it would be in our best interests to weigh out the need of
both domestic and foreign affairs more equally. The main problem that I see is
economics and how the poor are treated inhumanely. Although it would take a
massive governmental altering (revolution) to solve this problem, I believe it
is in the best interests of all people to face this problem now. While the
people are spoon-fed ideals that emphasize individuality, they are constantly
being put under restriction and censorship. In my personal opinion, I believe
that the United States of America is no longer a government, but rather an
economy.