ShawnChris13
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China has seen a large economic growth over the last few decades, as you well know. Their population centers have been focused on exporting manufacturing goods. The government of China has placed certain zones of China as free market zones where there is less regulation. The Chinese currency has steadily been growing stronger as China slowly opens foreign commercial trade. This growth has led to a rising middle class in China, and as their people gain more money they are seeking more goods and services.
A rising middle class that demands more domestic services and products will eventually lead to less production of manufactured goods. While this will lead to a slowing of GDP growth, it will lead to more citizens obtaining more private property. One thing that is sure: people love their property and they hate anyone else touching it. It is possible that with a rising middle class the world will see a China whose citizens will fight for more individual freedoms. Entrepreneurs will surely call for easier access to sell in an open market. The Chinese government is sure to see changes in social policies in the years to come.
America, of course, was founded by a revolution led by what could arguably be called middle class citizens. The Bill of Rights is proof enough that the average citizen had been heard and their concerns met with legislation drafted by representatives sent to voice their concerns. The freedoms that were written in that document were best enjoyed during the mid 20th century. Cars to take you across the country, guns for sale to anyone who could purchase one, and legal battles fighting for the rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. It wasnt perfect and it still isnt and it may never be, but people knew what they wanted and they fought for it. Who fought these battles and won these rights? The middle class.
The middle class had grown like no other due to the huge economic gains America achieved after WWI and WWII. People bought their cars and went on vacations and bought new houses and wanted their families to enjoy them. There is nothing so important as a strong middle class with the numbers to force their voice to be heard and enjoy the freedoms we all deserve. Technology hadnt quite reached the point where a government could overreach its boundaries and delve into the daily lives of its citizens.
Long ago the rights and freedoms of people everywhere were decided among the dozens of people who held power and ruled governments by decree. The majority of the people were poor and uneducated. They lived to make it through another day not knowing what freedoms awaited if only they knew what to fight for. Their children were left to grow up repeating the same pattern and routine of their fathers and their grandfathers. They had no voice with which to shout for liberty. They were not taught to live for freedom. It is a sad truth that a poor citizen cannot improve her station because a poor citizen is not offered the opportunity.
Today that opportunity exists, and all a citizen has to do is learn! Almost everywhere there is the world wide web to teach us anything we want to know. The internet can show us everything that man has learned over the years and we can find our opportunity with that knowledge. Yet the television set is the most revered of technology today. The television that is controlled by the advertising companies and the political propaganda paid for by donors who wield millions of dollars to deliver a message. The messages that surround us between Jersey Shore and Teen Mom and Who Wants to be a Millionaire discourage us from learning ourselves. Game shows distract us and give us hope for easy money and the dream of never working ever again. The television bought and paid for by advertisers and politicians. Is that how Americans decide their lives?
Public assistance has risen to astronomical levels over the past eight years. Government welfare and subsidies for citizens who either cant (and need it) or wont (and dont deserve it) has driven the country past the financial breaking point. Citizens cannot criticize the government if that is the very entity that provides their house and gives them food. What person with a hope for food tomorrow would bite the hand that feeds them? Is it a coincidence that as more people become dependent on the government the more laws are passed in direct contradiction of the Bill of Rights? Even the Supreme Court has ruled that Miranda Rights, even for citizens who do not know them, must be invoked out loud in order to remain silent.
Educate your family and your friends on what each right endowed by our creator is and how we should be protected by them. It is the middle class who must fight for these rights. The highest in society have their rights bought and paid for. It is us who are forced to remind them that we, too have the right to privacy in our own homes. The phones we pay for are for our conversations. Our computers are for our emails. We buy our cars so that we can know where we are going. No one person should ever have the right to pick any person they want and follow their day to day routine. Our freedom was fought for by our ancestors and that baton has been passed to us. It is time the middle class continued this relatively new tradition of fighting for its own rights.
A rising middle class that demands more domestic services and products will eventually lead to less production of manufactured goods. While this will lead to a slowing of GDP growth, it will lead to more citizens obtaining more private property. One thing that is sure: people love their property and they hate anyone else touching it. It is possible that with a rising middle class the world will see a China whose citizens will fight for more individual freedoms. Entrepreneurs will surely call for easier access to sell in an open market. The Chinese government is sure to see changes in social policies in the years to come.
America, of course, was founded by a revolution led by what could arguably be called middle class citizens. The Bill of Rights is proof enough that the average citizen had been heard and their concerns met with legislation drafted by representatives sent to voice their concerns. The freedoms that were written in that document were best enjoyed during the mid 20th century. Cars to take you across the country, guns for sale to anyone who could purchase one, and legal battles fighting for the rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. It wasnt perfect and it still isnt and it may never be, but people knew what they wanted and they fought for it. Who fought these battles and won these rights? The middle class.
The middle class had grown like no other due to the huge economic gains America achieved after WWI and WWII. People bought their cars and went on vacations and bought new houses and wanted their families to enjoy them. There is nothing so important as a strong middle class with the numbers to force their voice to be heard and enjoy the freedoms we all deserve. Technology hadnt quite reached the point where a government could overreach its boundaries and delve into the daily lives of its citizens.
Long ago the rights and freedoms of people everywhere were decided among the dozens of people who held power and ruled governments by decree. The majority of the people were poor and uneducated. They lived to make it through another day not knowing what freedoms awaited if only they knew what to fight for. Their children were left to grow up repeating the same pattern and routine of their fathers and their grandfathers. They had no voice with which to shout for liberty. They were not taught to live for freedom. It is a sad truth that a poor citizen cannot improve her station because a poor citizen is not offered the opportunity.
Today that opportunity exists, and all a citizen has to do is learn! Almost everywhere there is the world wide web to teach us anything we want to know. The internet can show us everything that man has learned over the years and we can find our opportunity with that knowledge. Yet the television set is the most revered of technology today. The television that is controlled by the advertising companies and the political propaganda paid for by donors who wield millions of dollars to deliver a message. The messages that surround us between Jersey Shore and Teen Mom and Who Wants to be a Millionaire discourage us from learning ourselves. Game shows distract us and give us hope for easy money and the dream of never working ever again. The television bought and paid for by advertisers and politicians. Is that how Americans decide their lives?
Public assistance has risen to astronomical levels over the past eight years. Government welfare and subsidies for citizens who either cant (and need it) or wont (and dont deserve it) has driven the country past the financial breaking point. Citizens cannot criticize the government if that is the very entity that provides their house and gives them food. What person with a hope for food tomorrow would bite the hand that feeds them? Is it a coincidence that as more people become dependent on the government the more laws are passed in direct contradiction of the Bill of Rights? Even the Supreme Court has ruled that Miranda Rights, even for citizens who do not know them, must be invoked out loud in order to remain silent.
Educate your family and your friends on what each right endowed by our creator is and how we should be protected by them. It is the middle class who must fight for these rights. The highest in society have their rights bought and paid for. It is us who are forced to remind them that we, too have the right to privacy in our own homes. The phones we pay for are for our conversations. Our computers are for our emails. We buy our cars so that we can know where we are going. No one person should ever have the right to pick any person they want and follow their day to day routine. Our freedom was fought for by our ancestors and that baton has been passed to us. It is time the middle class continued this relatively new tradition of fighting for its own rights.