American Renaissance

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Un enlace interesante donde aparecen los problemas y constrastes entre la pobreza y la riqueza del Pueblo de TAO en New Mexico (USA).

Taos is part of the enchanted circle located in Northern New Mexico. The mountains, gorges and forests there are breath-takingly beautiful. You have Red River, Eagles Nest, Angel Fire and Taos. Tourism is the main industry and lots of wealthy people come there to vacation in the winter and summer.

The class differences between the economic-haves (mainly Anglos) and have-nots (mainly Indians and Hispanics) is blatantly obvious to everyone. You will see here in this area few upwardly mobile occupations that allow hard working people a fighting chance to climb out of poverty. It does strike me and most everyone as grossly unfair but that is just the way it is in this part of the country. What is the solution ? Perhaps a Mercedes Benz manufacturing plant which employs 7000 people like the one outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Welfare is not the answer. Without manufucturing jobs that pay a decent wage say $20 to $25 an hour there are few ways to climb out of poverty. Working at Wall Mart and What-a-Burger when you’re 45 is a lot different from working there at 16 developing your life skills.

I am very pro-american and for the great economic way that our country has developed but one cannot come here and not come away disappointed that there are going to be lots and lots of angry young people with no hope unless we find a way to create a lot of meaningful jobs that pay a decent wage in the future.

It also doesn’t help that New Mexico has a 49 % out-of-wedlock birthrate. There is lots of despair, drug use, alchoholism and suicide in New Mexico.

What is really scary when I vacation here and see the great disparity between the wealthy and the poor people is that I think that this is the overall way our country is headed with all the out-sourcing of manufacturing jobs. We seem to be in general getting away from having jobs that young people can raise a family on.

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