Why wait till it hits your front door.

The economic misfortunes in the United State has been occuring in a domino effect. The first time I heard of the domino effect was as a child setting up domino to fall in very pretty patterns that did nifty trick. I did not have many dominos for outrageous displays but I did like to make dominoes fall of a table into a bowl. Then their is the house of cards?



Overtime, I learned that the domino effect was a condition that represented the rise of communism. A state, once embracing the ideals of communism, would export those beliefs to neighboring countries and subvert ideals of traditional liberalism. The concept has proven to be true and false. The states created tend to be autonomous and not maintaining a central idea that controlled all communist nations. For example, communism in the former Soviet Union was different to those created in communist China.



The domino effect that I am seeing is the collapse of our economy from the inside of our country. The domino effects hits the the lower classes first then rises to extend into the upper strata of economy. Well the top end of the American economy can take an economi hit. For instance, if you make 5 millions dollars in the previous year and only 2.5 million dollars in the next year, the loss of a 2.5 a million would hurt but not drastically change an individual economic condition. However, If an indidual made 50,000 dollars in one year and 25,000 dollars the next that will surely devastate the person living condition.



The greater the loss of individuals in the lower branch of our economy has a more profound effect on the econmy than those in the upper levels of our economy. It may also be argued that the profits lost by the upper strata of our econmy has a more profound effects on our economy. Nash's equlibrium formula would come in handy to create a balance between the upper and lower.

The collapse of the economy is a domino effect! We see the occurrance in many cities of America. I have seen many abandoned industrial sectors of American communities. The largest I know of is the area known as the "Rust Belt." We are not very neighborly when we begin to see to dominoes fall. In the United States these dominoe fall in areas of class and race. Personal I think we are all humans. The lower a person is on the totem pole the quicker the eradicaition of the section of their economy.

"Am I my brothers keeper?" Am I being neighborly when I see large sections of our econmy begin to collapse and say nothing. Will prayers to God and petitions to the government address this econmic delima. What are we as Americans being taught to replace these sections of the economy that are being replaced.

I notice major cutbacks in education in my home state of California. Can we learn to replace sections of economy without being educated. How can an individual have morals for their fellow man when the Christian faith is being purged from the govermental apparatus the state. Many educated individuals do not need to take ethics and they become the shaker and movers our society.

What happens to the rest of the world if we do get our economy back on track? Will we allow our neighboring countries to have a bad economy while we prosper? The influx of illegal immigrant workers show the problems of letting countries in South American econmies become stagnant and not allow growth. This has been termed Neo-colonialism.

Recently, I have noticed our president attempting to expand trade with India. The exportation of jobs to foriegn countries are killing our economy. People starve and go without for profits to increase revenues for multinational corporations. The Christian businessman becomes an oxymoron in the pursuit of wealth.

How many more jobs will be lost when companies begin to hire the undesirable caste in India. What will they be willing to do to raise their lot in their culture. A doctor that makes 20,000 a year. A doctor mostly prescribes medication. I geuss I will be able to get real cheap prescription from indian doctors. What are the American people willing to surrender to help these individual raise their lot in life. Business people say they are helping these people so it is a good thing to do. Am I a good neighbor, not at the moment. The modern world makes it difficult to be the good neighbor.