Nov 11, 2018 4 min read

National Public Radio was examining environmental issues over the past two weeks as part of its political coverage leading up to the election. It became evident to anyone listening that the root cause of climate change was manmade, and that we must act before it’s too late. Environmental laws, and various global environmental treaties, are crucial to saving the planet. If only someone could convince liberal Wall Street billionaire elites to stop investing in factories in China, India, and Bangladesh, where environmental regulations are almost non-existent. Really.

Curiously, these Wall Street mavens who make millions overseas have historically funded Democratic initiatives for environmental regulation that made it so costly for factories to stay here in the United States, forcing those businesses to go to China. But if these big-city billionaires care about the environment, like the folks at NPR who say global climate change is a threat to our existence, then why don’t they support political demands to bring jobs back from China, where manufacturing-related pollution is causing global climate change at record rates?

For the jobs we do have left, it does not help poorly educated inner-city kids get those jobs when liberals refuse to acknowledge that bleeding heart laissez-faire educational policies have failed. After substituting in multiple inner city schools, I can tell you firsthand that no discipline, and no consequences, and no legal recourse equals no education. Unfortunately, some will tell you a story about how the solution is more social justice, less discrimination, and more equal opportunity for students graduating from their schools as dysfunctional illiterates and into prison.

Of course, as long as we have ghettos, and drug crimes and shootings, the elites on Wall Street will have a social justice and political problem their politicians never plan to fix because the ghettos, the drugs, and crime are due to a lack of jobs and education that profits Wall Street elites economically and politically. It’s a win-win, for them anyway. They win at home with votes for politicians in their pockets, and abroad with slave-labor profits. Elites pushed environmental regulations, and education policies, with an eye on their own economic and political profit.

Our opioid epidemic, with death rates four times that of gun crime, is directly related to poverty. Americans are very aware of how our kids need a high-tech education to survive in the global economy. If kids do not get this education, it makes it impossible to get ahead, because unskilled laborers can no longer find jobs in America. NPR has emphasized this time and again in radio interviews with various experts, yet strangely supports allowing unskilled “undocumented immigrants” into the United States, even though they lack the education to survive and get ahead.

If our own unskilled, poorly educated work force is ending up on the streets involved in a life of drug and gun crime, and if our economy no longer has room for unskilled laborers, then why would globalists support allowing more unskilled, uneducated, desperate people into the United States? And since all of the drugs flooding our streets also come across our southern border, why not put an end to both surplus unskilled labor and opioids by supporting Donald Trump’s wall? Perhaps it’s because the “political capital” these problems provide to a certain leftist element is too precious.

Unfortunately, what NPR and their commentators are more concerned about is the separation of illegal immigrants from their children, just as American citizens are separated from their children when both parents break the law in a manner than results in incarceration. Or do the folks at NPR believe we should let fathers and mothers take their kids with them into lockup? If we don’t do this for our own citizens and families, how do we make exceptions for non-citizens? When American families get busted cooking up crack, guess what happens to the kids? If you guessed our law enforcement agencies separate the kids from the parents, you win a prize.

Finally, if liberals are so concerned about illegal immigrants, drug overdoses and gun crimes involving assault weapons, would any of them like to explain why all those “undocumented immigrants” are so desperate to come here from countries that have banned both drugs and guns, but have plenty of both, and much more violence in their streets? It may be because all of those countries have very corrupt, very leftist socialist governments, but I can’t be certain about that, since we’ve never experimented with trying such a government here in the United States. Yet.

Joseph M. Mazgaj is a substitute teacher from Rogersville.