America is shutting down. Our flawed political system no longer benefits Americans, and our priorities seem to have become completely displaced. In a very short amount of time, we have allowed the U.S. to descend from being a wealthy and productive nation to the state we find ourselves in today: living on imports, selling our companies to foreign competitors and crippled by our ever-increasing debt.

Our decline has been the result of decades of failed policies that are still running rampant:

A lack of restrictions on imports has put many of our companies out of business and caused the wholesale liquidation of our best companies to foreign ownership. With an influx of cheap imports, it is impossible for American manufacturers to compete. No other country allows this unrestricted flow of their competitors’ products into their own country. We must regulate imports and provide incentives and subsidies to homegrown industries.

Our government and its leaders have developed no industrial policies to protect American owned companies. There is no effort to be more instrumental in developing and creating more productive industries in our own country.

A nation’s companies are its wealth producers. If all of our producing abilities are bought out by foreign companies, while foreign companies won’t let us buy them out, it is difficult to imagine America will have the future ability to generate wealth. This is the reason the media highlights thousands of store and factory closings everyday with increasing unemployment. Allowing this systematic depletion of American industries to continue will lead to social disruption, increased crime and poverty.

Our leaders’ priorities are misguided. Our representatives are too preoccupied with running for re-election so their time is consumed with fundraisers. They are too busy trying to keep their jobs to actually fulfill the duties they were initially elected to perform. Following their run as government officials, most ex-officials then turn to the lobbies that funded their campaigns to attain their new careers as lobbyists. They then lobby for the interests of other countries and “free trade” proponents, thus perpetuating the cycle.

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