Volume 8, Issue 32
This protocol of impasse is only possible because Congress is immune from any detrimental effects of their inaction. Members get paid every month, without exception. They have become privileged in that they are either detached from the pain felt by the common citizen, or they lack the business experience to relate to the reality of the dire conditions of the employer-employee/ landlord-tenant imbroglio. Yet, none of these Members’ benefits are threatened.
North Carolina is a state where landlords are caught between eviction moratorium orders and bank foreclosure. Government officials have approached the economic crisis piecemeal when comprehensive universal strategies are necessitated. A particular case in hand is a single mother of four teenagers and a dependent, ailing mother under her care. She faces an eviction notice this week with no alternative options for housing. The landlord faces potential bankruptcy.
Many Americans now face the final extent of spent resources for savings, relatives’ support, or public shelters.
Regardless of a person’s decisions that may have contributed to the bleak position in which they find themselves, relief must be provided. Otherwise, we are a nation insensitive to the common bonds that bind us as Americans.
This syndrome of lack of connection between responsibility for an action, and the consequences of the action, is now the prevalent platform of denial on several levels. Teachers demand not to teach in a classroom without due consideration for the harm to students. Rioters break into establishments without accountability resulting in prosecution. A minority of citizens continue to socialize without proper distancing indifferent to the spread of coronavirus. Bloggers continue to spew ignorance, falsehoods, and inaccuracies on the internet, insensitive to the fuel added to the fires of hatred.
Whenever a society lacks the courage to demand truth, unselfish commitment to duty, and reciprocal love for one another, the consequences of impunity become the bane of existence.
The future of the COVID crisis is further exacerbated by the fact that the economic underpinnings of the base of employment are changed forever. Many small businesses will never return. Automation will be accelerated. Commercial real estate will be fundamentally restructured. Primary and college education will be dramatically retooled online. Global trade will be reestablished with new alliances. Travel and tourism will require new standards of security. Healthcare will be administered through new protocols.
It is not just a matter of facilitating the recovery of the economy as usual. New and innovative government programs of training, finance, and marketing will be critical for a successful economic recovery through a transition into a restructured economy.
Resourcing for materials of production will become more regional. The supply chain of manufacturing will forge new partnerships with companies that are streamlined for the demands of the 21st century. Trade will emerge between like-minded businesses that hold themselves to a standard of ethical conduct.
Free enterprise will again be attached to the economic system of capitalism for Christian accountability. A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work will be an absolute governing principle. All labor will carry the respect of adequate remuneration to support a nuclear family. Unit of currency will be consistent with value provided, keeping inflation and other currency disruptions within proper guidelines. An open and inclusive trading platform will be developed to connect ethical businesses.
World debt will be rescheduled. The need to support poorer countries in an international transition will be essential. Global industries will face the need to reevaluate strategically the business model under which they operate.
Achieving this transition with the least amount of societal pain and national conflict will depend upon leadership in government and business. Elected officials and corporate CEOs must hold themselves to the moral standard of economic security in policy and implementation for the family unit of all societies.
In this morality breathes the principle of freedom. A person’s pursuit of happiness is fundamental and foundational to their desired economic security. This pursuit is as unique as the individual. The economic destination does not mean standardization of outcomes. The safe harbor of one’s economic identity is that vocation which fulfills his or her purpose as destined by their Creator. The freedom to choose one’s course in life is paramount in the collective pursuit of all citizens in achieving the ultimate general prosperity.
We are all bound by the impact of our actions on others. We should not be excluded or exempted from the set of circumstances that we create. Congress should be held to the same rules as every citizen for the laws they pass.
Government is responsible for the management of the nation’s currency. The impact of this responsibility is the measure of a salary paid for the support of an individual’s family.
The morality of our beliefs in universal economic egalitarian purpose dictates that, as a nation, we never accept a privileged class: a level of society in the culture that resembles the European legacy of kingdoms from which our Forefathers declared independence. To do otherwise is to tolerate the consequences of impunity.
Self-determination is in the spirit and individuality of one’s soul. It must be nourished and never restricted for ulterior purposes.
Freedom, in itself, is the solution for the challenges facing all governments of society now and in the future.
For freedom is the platform from which one’s free will launches into choices destined by one’s Creator.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?