America's Recession Risk

First of all, I want to make it very clear to everyone out there that even though the President and the media have been down playing the current state of our economy it is being made clear to all of the citizens who live pay check to pay check that we are definately in a recession. The price of everything has gone up drasticly. For example," food, gas, the cost of housing, utilities such as gas and electric, and basically everything else that is a neccessity to everyone. A main contributor for this recession is the loss of American jobs. Many of the companies are laying of their workers and moving their factories over seas, due to the free trade agreement the government made with countries that we are allied with. The ridiculous thing about this whole thing is that clothes and many other products are being made with next to nothing and then they are being shipped back to the U.S. to be sold by many of the same workers who are now unemployed. How can the government expect us not to be in a recession because of this? It has been going on ever since Ronald Regan was the President. No other President ever thought that there was a need to end this free trade agreement. Now we are all feeling the fall out of this circumstance. President Bush has come up with a short term solution to help impact the end of this situation by issuing all Americans an extra tax break bonus. He will be issuing these checks out as soon as March. Even though it will be appreciated by many of the people who receive these checks there will still be many who do not aquire any money. I will say it loud and clear for everyone out there who reads this post, that we all need to start contacting our congressmans and voicing our opinions about the matter of ending free trade. This is the only way that our jobs will come back to us. This is the only way that we can also properly monitor the products that our being made and sold here. It is becoming a regular fact that the over seas produce, meat and other goods are not being handled properly by the over seas factories. There may also be foul play that may also be the reason for the tainted goods. We all need to keep up with the slogan BUY AMERICAN MADE ONLY! This is hard to do right now because nothing is made in America any more. Go to the mall and start reading the lables, then it will become a reality to all. Please lets all start to stress this issue to our local congressman and most of all the current Presidential candidates.