My Wife Believes American Workers Being Positioned To Accept Lower Living Standard.

[JDPriestly]

17. We need to stop the trade deals while we can. That is the only hope for us to live decently.

If we start descending into a lower cost of living, we will end up with lower health standards, more infant mortality, shorter lifespans and more crime and perhaps worse.

Americans do not understand that loss of our standard of living will mean bad water, worse air, a really deep decline in not just our access to consumer goods but to the very basic resources we need to survive as a nation.

This cavalier acceptance of a decline in our living standard is unacceptable. I don't mind having fewer consumer goods, but there will not be an across-the-board reduction in the availability and affordability of consumer goods to individuals. Some of us will continue to have what the want while most of us will be unable to heat our homes and pay for clean water.

Americans do not understand that we have to rise together or sink together. We need to turn to a new era of national cooperation to maintain a decent standard of living. The cuts to food stamps are an ominous sign of the direction in which America is going. The trend now is to cut the lifeline to those who are most likely to fall into disease and a terrible living standard.

I'm glad your wife is thinking about the future in this way. We can stop this trend but it will take some cooperation on the part of what is left of the middle class and the poor in America.