The true state of the union

I have been avoiding the inevitable. I now that one day soon I will have to learn how to speak Chinese, yet I keep putting it off in the hopes that this country will escape becoming the United States of Asia. Now that China owns more than 80 percent of our country's national debt, I have discovered the only logical way to pay the deficit off to the Asian nation is to send our manufacturing jobs in their direction. That is exactly what the Bush Administration has elected to do. By their eventual mass production of all things that used to bear the great "Made in the USA" tags, we should pay off that debt in no time. There will be no need for people to concern themselves with immigration (illegal or not) because who would want to come to a country that has nothing to offer but poverty. We continue to allow the administration to place leniency on large corporations set on making more money by sending our jobs overseas to pay less wages.
I find it a slap in the face for these big businesses to feel as if the jobs we perform on a daily basis are not worthy of the proper compensation. The real issue is the lack of an increase in the minimum wage since 1997. I have yet to hear a realistic approach by senators and congressmen to keep well-deserved manufacturing jobs in this country or provide an increase in wages to supplement the ever-increasing cost of living demands placed on families by places such as day cares.
It really doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that moral issues have become so mainstream that amazingly real issues such as poverty, job loss, health care, education, Social Security and the national debt have become swept under a rug of deceit, lies and misinformation.
Someone once said "If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention." So true. I wonder how to say that in Chinese.