Current Crisis in America

Home grown terrorists are brewing here and there. They are trying to make every effort possible to destabilize the system and keep the government busy to clear the mess. The Oklahoma incident is still vivid in the minds of people. People feel that anytime anything can happen and anywhere. A secret plan to cause explosion in the oil pipeline extended to the Kennedy Airport was unearthed recently. Several people were arrested also. It is urgently needed that home-land security is made full-proof to bring faith and confidence in the minds of the people. Otherwise a great damage will be done to the American psyche.

Several millions of illegal immigrants have entered into this country. With them have entered many criminals, smugglers, convicts and anti-socials. They are ‘wanted’ in their own countries. They are now taking shelters to their ‘safe heaven” in America. Huge black-marketing, smuggling were going on across the borders. Millions of dollars worth of life-threatening narcotic drugs were being smuggled into this country. This had become a very lucrative business over the years.

Surprisingly, the Government was silently watching it for the past more than 20 years. No body knows why. Although existing laws, if used judiciously and sincerely, should be enough to prevent or control it in a significant manner, the vested interests were always coming in the way. It has become so strong that even honest border security guards had to face imprisonment , instead of reward, for doing their duties sincerely and as per law. What for they are in the jail now, the ordinary citizens can not explain it any more. What an irony! They carried out their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty and for that they had to face punishment. Such has become the state of affairs in today’s America!

American Education:

Especially after the second world war, American education earned so much respect and reputation that thousands of students used to pour into American Universities for higher education and training. They preferred to come to America than going to Oxford and Cambridge in England.

Situation has changed drastically over the years. In one hand, education has been commercialized extensively and so the cost of higher education has gone beyond the financial capability of many families. Many American families can no longer send their children to college. Furthermore, the standard of education has been deteriorated over the years. Surprisingly, quite a large number of American youths could not Graduate from school this (2007) year. The number of drop-outs have increased. Many young Americans have started thinking that it is wastage of time to go to school as there is no job guarantee any way. They are not finding it challenging any more. The poor students had to search for jobs early because of their pecuniary conditions or due to their lack of interests in obtaining higher education. Clearly, the American citizens are suffering! Their hopes are getting shattered.

Good education is fundamental for the progress and development of any nation. There is now a sharp decline in the number of American Graduates who are good in Science, Mathematics and Engineering. As a result the country has to depend on foreign experts to get their job done. There is an urgent need to look into this matter such that the scenario is changed soon.

American Industry:

At home, jobs are increasingly being slashed down by the large car manufacturers, such as Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. An approximate number of about 150,000 jobs have been eliminated recently. Industrial production rate has sharply gone down to 4.8% even though there was a rise of 2.6% of new jobs this year. Many jobs are going elsewhere or to non-Americans. By April 2007, 6.8 million Americans are jobless according to Bureau of labor Statistics, USA. Some Economists think it is actually about 4.5% of the total registered population of this country. There could be many non-registered jobless workers as well. Among the jobless Americans, 4% are adult men, 3.8% are women, 15.3% are teenagers. Among the Hispanics and Latinos 5.4% are jobless. This figure however is 8.2% among American Citizens of African American descents.

Standard of living:

Under the circumstances, the poor and middle class Americans have become bewildered. They don’t understand what really is going on in America. When the top bosses and CEO’s of various organizations are minting money like anything, and they are getting their salaries and perks in millions, a brilliant College Graduate is employed at a low salary of $ 30,000-40,000 a year. Large number of Americans are jobless. Most of the Agricultural and construction jobs are going to the illegal immigrants. Industrial jobs are being outsourced. Under the present state of affairs, the rich is becoming richer and poor poorer. The politicians are doing their own politics, apparently closing their eyes and bye-passing their duties to address to the fundamental and outstanding problems and issues of the nation. They are scratching only each others’ back!