US Hispanic Marketing

No matter what state officials in both political parties tell the people in their states about how things are great, things are getting worse. We know that most of us have not seen a real increase income for decades. We count on a constantly changing way of life where we partner with spouses and domestic partners to make ends meet or advance a little bit. Americans must create and participate in a new American Revolution. Sure others have progressed, but among the poor the voter turnout has usually been low and they do not get their fair share of the pie in a democracy. Those of us who have the economic advantages triumph, because we vote and influence government much more. A new majority has to be formed taking into account the needs of people who have little voice in our nation and the same has to be done in Europe and around the world.

This world did not need a Communist Revolution in Russia, Cuba, and in other parts of the globe. Fidel Castro can point to great accomplishments and he will die believing that he was extremely successful. And then his regime will collapse and where will President Hugo Chavez be then? Capitalism is based on the powerful concept that people want to have more and more and more and more. Capitalism and the US dollar made large contributions to the collapse of communism in Poland and other countries, but the same people are more or less in power controlling countries. We could have avoided all of the problems of the last eighty years, if we had had a plan that benefits more people in our nation and around the world. Life becomes nothing more than a game, like a baseball game, that is played day after day and year after year, in which we are expected to score more than them. We win and they lose.

As we think about what we normally think about, can’t we come up with a better plan? How can we help the victims of Katrina better than ever before? How can we pull more people out of poverty (and there will be much more poverty throughout the South now)? How can we eliminate futile talk about deporting tens of millions of people and give them and their family’s justice? How can we finally eliminate sweatshops in the United States? How can we teach the teachers of Christianity real Christianity? How can we convince the government officials and the American people that Social Security has to have the full backing of the United States government and that future retirees will be protected no matter what happens to their private assets in market fluctuations. My parents protected my grandparents, I will protect my mother, and my family will protect me as I receive Social Security, and their children will help them. It is a logical process and it is emotional, just like No Child Left Behind in education. So if Social Security needs a major bailout at some time in the future by the US government, like Chrysler got, we will provide it. Our government has given trillions of dollars in guarantees to foreign countries in the war on communism and poverty and disease. We can give the same guarantee to our elderly as long as there is a United States. The great destruction caused by Katrina proves that George Bush was wrong about ending Social Security as we know it and now it will take people years to recover. Our people have to be protected no matter what happens to them. Call it relief or welfare, it is the same thing. Americans in power and their most vocal supporters just have to get over the fact that people of color and Hispanics have the same human needs as the people affected by this new disaster and that is why we all have to rebuild America together.

The future stability of our nation depends on a new plan, a new course of action or a revolution in education that reaches the poor in all nations. Pat Robertson’s attack on Hugo Chavez has tremendous support, but the answer is really not to kill Chavez or support him in power. The answer is to help the poor of his country and I think the United States and capitalism can find new ideas, new ways of doing what Chavez wishes to accomplish for his people. There is hardly any communist threat any more in our nation, but we should learn from the history of the rioting and protests of people. We have evolved as a democratic nation and more has to be done. We take our democracy for granted, because of our great stability, but times have changed since the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Republicans supported CAFTA and only 15 Democrats did. CAFTA is needed by Latin America to provide jobs and growth and now even CAFTA may be in doubt as trillions of dollars of investment money will pour into the hurricane devastated South. President Bush wants Mexico and Latin America to have a middle class so the flow of illegal immigrants here will stop. Members of his party want to repatriate all illegal immigrants in five years, which aggravates things and promotes poverty and discontent. Just the opposite of what they voted for in Congress recently. With one hand they give and with the other hand they take. I am sure these people treat their pets better than these human beings who have made great contributions to America. I wonder if President Bush has been promoting this idea too among his fellow Republicans as an alternative to full legalization or his partial legalization of immigrants. The American people are being fooled again. Remember the weapons of mass destruction and influence of Al Qaeda issues? In addition, states that have mandated English as the official language are eliminating Spanish language GED. It was reported to me that North Carolina is one of them. North Carolina is turning back the clock forty years to a time when it promoted prejudice against African Americans and I bet there are African Americans who are turning their backs on the Hispanic newcomers. North Carolina, by the way, has GED policies that hurt all the people of that state, but we should not single out North Carolina and the other states that have not allowed people to take the GED in foreign languages. In Suffolk County where I live, the libraries have only GED programs in English and GED programs offered by BOCES do not help the large Hispanic community here in their native language and this will go on for many more years. The Spanish GED was designed to protect the Puerto Rican people who have been American citizens since 1917. The GED was created to help Americans who joined the Armed Forces in 1943, but it was extended to other Americans in 1952. The elimination of the Spanish and French GED tests is un-American and President Bush must intervene.

In ten years, one half of one percent of the people in our nation will own ninety-nine percent of the wealth instead of one percent. Only a few million people are in that group and hundreds of millions are not. So things are not really improving for most of us and the same is true in other countries. Let us find a new way to help more people with their needs. President Bush has found something that may save his presidency, which has been going downhill or the next three years may open up a wound in this nation that will not heal for decades. The year 2005 will be remembered as the turning point in the War in Iraq and the year of the great American disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. George Bush will be remembered for his work in protecting America from terrorism at home and by rebuilding the South. It is now time for all Americans to address the destruction in the areas of life that I have written about. We have to make peace with people around the world, we have to help the victims and the people devastated by Katrina, we have to give illegal immigrants rights, and we have to allow every American citizen and resident, legal or illegal, the right to complete the GED in the three GED languages established by our nation. Most of these people are taxpayers and they were supposed to have equal protection to services under law and should not have those rights prevented or terminated. The election night memories of blue and red states must end (of a nation divided) and the President must bring us all together now. All of this should be a lesson that we need big business and big government, but they must have a plan, which they do not have. The great stability of the United States is in jeopardy and we do not want the wounds caused by elected officials and Americans who have little or no vision of where this country should go. We must make this a much better country and not just wave the American flag in people’s faces, say my country right or wrong, deport the illegals, kill people before they kill us, and things are great in America. This country has to do much more than win wars and baseball games to be great! It has to make things better!

MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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