The Americans are presently going to hell in a handbasket. The very thoughts of nationality, freedom, democracy, and individual and family security are all being questioned. Half our continent is on a precipice of bankruptcy, conflict, criminality out of control, universal poverty, and a population with no bright future to be seen. North vs South, in conflict and competition at all times.
Financial stress is visibly seen…
Argentinian wages average @$395.00 Cdn, Chile’s average wage is $1,300.00 Cdn, and Brazil’s average wage is $575.00 Cdn.
Latin America and the Caribbean’s Inflation rate presently is @9.77% The Institute of America’s Economic Strategy suggests the inflation rate will decrease gradually until it reaches 5.66% in 2028. Bold and optimistic forecasting. The very reason many migrants attempt to enter North America is to find better-paying jobs, along with a safer environment. Poverty continues to spread throughout the continent, driving an increase in criminality, violence, and political uncertainty.
Unemployment rates in the Caribbean average 8-9.5%, with regional rates often higher. Full employment rates are down, while “informal employment” is rising monthly. Since the pandemic befell us all, employers have made changes to their employment strategies, centering upon cuts in their costs, particularly their payrolls. Full-time employment often suggests financial frills like health, vacation, and travel benefits. These have been universally set aside with corporate concentration upon the use of part-time employment greater than the usual seasonal work previously offered. While the cost of living continues to rise, employers play unionized vs ununionized employees against each other, with the attitude that a lower-paying job is better than no job at all.
The Americans are a typical example of polar opposites, prosperous vs poor, unsafe communities vs safer ones, stable political environments vs often dictatorships, healthy socio-economic growth vs stagnation and population depletion. There presently exists a grassroots movement within the Southern and Central American Regions to move northward toward a better place to live, work, and exist. This movement was created through the influences of generational poverty, lack of education and healthcare, and living in regions racked by gangland warfare and corruption. The governments in the South are controlled by political and financial influencers with clout capable of overturning an election or a government. Outright corruption and natural disasters force the poor to leave their homelands and go where? NORTH to the promised land.
America spends close to half a trillion dollars on border security(Fox Network), keeping out millions of real financial, political, and social refugees, people who could help build America. While many average Americans can look at these migrants as a financial scourge upon their taxes, there are many millions of job openings not being filled, a staffing crisis these people can help with. Transplanting these people may be difficult at the beginning, but a process can be devised to train and transport these future Americans to places where they are needed. Americans and Canadians are having fewer children, while their aged population continues to grow.
There are three options available that could solve what we all face.
1. Financially, politically, and socially invest in a massive way into our southern neighbor nations. This is not politically likely acceptable to those who rule these nations. Foreign colonialism may become the excuse for this method to not be used.
2. Open Canadian and American Borders and allow mass migration into our lands. Surely security methods will be used but the very costs of keeping these people out and be decreased and redirected towards population transplantation where needed. This is highly unfeasible due to the influences, attitudes, and power struggles found between the Right Wing Republicans and their somewhat progressive opponents the Democrats. In Canada, the Conservative Party would stand against such a method, challenging the humanitarian and right thinking process as unCanadian, and a threat to Canadian Security, with a possibility of Canadian taxes increasing.
The Third Option goes a little like this. China has spent decades creating an Asian Buffer Zone controlled by it through financial trade ties, financial investments, political alliances, and open threats(intimidation). America needed to move in a similar fashion, isolated as a continent, both Southern and Northern America could unite in an alliance similar to the European Union. I favor the Union of Canada, Central, and Latin America with the Caribbean as the largest nation on the planet. Universal suffrage, universal healthcare, universal citizenship, universal money, etc. Free movement within these nations, Canadian-American seniors transplanted to less costly areas, and business associations uniting and working together to build something never seen before, a Huge Democratic Nation. The Monroe Doctrine is just more democratic in its nature and functionality.
People with creative vision need to enter politics. Our present-day leadership is suffering from fatalism and a complete lack of vision, stuck in their alliances and history. The financial, political, and social way, our path needs to be formulated soon.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
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