A look at how we do business in America, as compared to how we used to do business. Also a look at global markets, who is winning and why? What America must do to catch up!

1. Side Bar One
This circular cyclical of
economics is the one
employed by America during
the 1950’s and 1960’s,
whereby America experienced
its largest rise in GDP and
rise in the standard of living.
Employed consumers had the
money to purchase the goods
and services that were created
by the US economy. This is
exactly what Germany is
doing now, where the unions
are strong and the GDP
continues to rise.
Authored and Design By Joel Drotts J.D.
America the Ecosystem
All great Empires or
civilizations throughout
history follow the pattern of a
prominent rise to power
through mostly military
conquests, followed by the
dominance and expansion of
that prevail civilizations
economic model, trade laws,
and societal culture. However,
every such empire then
follows the pattern and fall
victim to over expansion, a
cultural forgetfulness of the
core values which got the
domination civilization to a
point of leadership, and a
weakening of that dominating
civilizations economic base.
This weakening comes about
as the human desire for goods
or services becomes an
economic or societal need,
and those goods, resources,
or services can only be
found outside the
dominating civilizations
original homeland and
located only in the parts of
its empire which now must
be controlled and protected.
This sustained need for a
forward fighting and
occupying military
apparatus inevitably
becomes too expensive and
costly in moral, global or
regional soft power and
influence, as well as too
great a toll in actual capital
and currency.
The Strategic American
America the Ecosystem
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The Strategic American
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What kind of future are we leaving our children, as
great thinkers get punished, there is little
manufacturing, and our own government spies on
the American people?

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Human history is full of
such examples, for example
the Greeks under Alexander
the Great, the Roman Empire,
the Ottoman Empire, the
British Empire of the 1800’s
and 1900’s, the Soviet Empire
or USSR, and unfortunately
unless we as a country can’t
learn from the mistakes of
others and don’t pay attention
to the past the United States of
America and it’s empire like
powers globally. We have
already fallen victim to two of
or arguably three of the death
blows which strike down all
mighty empires. One, we are
over extended both militarily,
politically, and economically,
where our country itself owes
a great deal of debt to foreign
countries. Two, we have
forgotten our Constitution
and thereby ourselves, which
is reflected in how we are
viewed globally. Globally, we
are now the hypocritical bully
empire, instead of the
forthright purveyor of justice
whose help was often sought.
Other Countries were obliged
and happy where the
American’s came as other
countries knew what we
stood for, as we held
ourselves, government, and
leaders accountable and in-
line with limited power
provisions and laws of the
Constitution. Other Countries
knew they could trade
squarely with the US, as our
core laws did not change.
Three, we are dependent on
oil from the Middle East, and
are forced to maintain
forward capable military
power in order to assert our
will and control assets or
resources which are not found
in sufficient quantity for the
Countries needs inside the
boarders and traditional home
lands of the United States of
America. Four, the cost of the
weight of our huge military
complex is crushing our
economy, coupled with the
continued outsourcing of jobs
to foreign markets where
cheap labor is readily
available to manufacture
goods.
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Side Bar Two
German manufacturing is the largest
in Europe, and the nation that
produces and manufactures are
routinely the nation that has the
largest middle class available to
purchase those manufactured goods.
However, America and American
business knows this, or at least it
used to. Instead the new American
model is to produce overseas dirt
cheap, lay off all domestic
employees, and hope they can sell
the goods cheap enough to an ever
shrinking group of American
consumers able to afford those
goods. It is sheer lunacy to complain
that the American consumers have
no money to buy your goods and
services, when you are the one who
has shipped their job and ability to
earn money overseas. If one
understands and accepts the fact that
economics is a circular cycle and
system, in no matter what form it
takes, then the logic that these greedy
American companies are insisting
will work fails even on paper.

3. Becoming aware of the cycle
and syndrome is merely the
first step towards escaping the
still very avoidable outcome,
which America has currently
charted as a destination. The
reason for this is in fact the
awesome power of the United
States of America. However,
certain steps must be
immediately undertaken and
policies set at the highest
levels of government. First,
we must address our foreign
policy approach, practices,
and in fact way of viewing
other sovereign countries.
First, we must stop and avoid
believing that other countries
are our pons and resources to
exploit at will through
economic and military power
and influence. We must adopt
a partnership based value
added approach to our
foreign policy and diplomatic
relations. To many this will
seem crazy as how can we as
a country bend other
countries to our will and
desires through the approach
which I am proposing. The
fact of the matter is we cannot
impose our will upon other
countries, and more to the
point we need to step away
from the idea that imposing
our will is a possibility either
through military or economic
force. Through this approach
we can and will find our
relations with other countries
much more reasonable and
fruitful in the outcome.
By way of example of
failed and failing diplomatic
policies, which are currently
employed I call attention to
the current state of the world.
To this extent if the purpose
of our foreign policy has been
to coerce other nations to do
our bidding or at least adopt
an economic and political
policies and styles more
compatible with our own,
then the foreign policies
employed for the past twenty
to thirty years have failed.
Example number one are the
failed sanctions levied against
North Korea, Iran, and Cuba.
In all but the case of Cuba, the
United States foreign policy
tactics utilized to prevent
these countries from acquiring
nuclear weapons, adopt more
democratic governments, or
exert any form of real control
over these nations has failed.
Instead, we isolate and starve
countries, while creating a
new generation of citizens in
each of these countries who is
ultimately hyper vulnerable to
the anti-American
propaganda produced by the
leaders of these countries.
Furthermore, the sanctions
have gone on so
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Side Bar Three
However, unfortunately it is
not just on paper that they have
undertook this failing
experiment, but on the US
economy for the past two to
three decades, and we are now
beginning to see the effects of
it. We are also able to look to
Germany and the logical model
we used to deploy and witness
its continued fundamental
soundness and everyone wins
profitability. For this reason, I
argue that the US again deploys
the proper measures to begin
anew our dedication to Coca-
Cola Classic American
economics, and cease
immediately with our current
New Coke Formula that is
failing.

4. Part of the problem with
long term economic sanctions
is that the sanctions have gone
on so long that these countries
don’t even realize the
possibilities or capabilities
they’d possess if the sanctions
were lifted. In other words,
eventually these countries get
used to being poor, and forget
that there is a possibility of
something better. In effect,
when employing a carrot and
stick methodology, one must
occasionally allow the rabbit
to catch, keep, and eat the
carrot. The reason for this is
deprived of the carrot for long
enough, the rabbit can and
will forget what carrots taste
like, why the rabbit would
miss a carrot taken away, why
the rabbit even wants the
carrot, and eventually stop
chasing the carrot all together.
At this point all one is left
with is the stick, but
unfortunately over use of the
stick can and will cause the
rabbit to develop thicker skin.
Pretty soon all forms of
possible coercion short of all
out warfare, which profits
very few people if any one,
are lost and along with such
influence America loses any
useful business or trading
capabilities which could and
should had been created with
the sovereign countries like
Iran, North Korea, or Cuba. In
this regard, the United States
of America does lose
opportunities for true
influence and profit to the
new world powers like China
or India, whom are willing to
provide the carrots certain
countries have been so long
denied through sanctions and
international trade embargos.
However, America’s best
chances are to take a hard
look at our own financial
house, and as a nation decide
if we want to sink or swim.
The one thing that America
does have going for her, is the
fact that we are in fact
America. No one, or no
country can beat the United
States of America, but we can
and are most definitely
beating ourselves to the
bottom. How? By forgetting
who we are, what we stand
for, how we operate, by
ignoring the voices from our
forefathers and generations
past, while our nations
competitors and trading
partners are becoming more
profitable, advanced,
educated, and competitive
than we are. How exactly are
our competitors and trading
partners surpassing us? Are
they utilizing some secret
economic recipe if you will,
which America cannot obtain
to bake these perfect goodies
of socio-economic
scrumptiousness? The answer
is no, and what’s even more
frustrating is what no one
wants to admit to themselves
in their greed fueled dreams
of gluttony that would make
even the likes of even King
Midas sheepish with thoughts
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5. of over extravagance and ego
gone too far, is that the me
first, me second, me only, get
rich at the cost of everything
and everyone (except me of
course.), including loyal
employees, the environment,
their fellow countrymen, and
the very country itself is that
the recipe countries like
Germany are using is the old
American economic recipe!
Yes, it is true! As if to
show America and those
utilizing American styled
capitalism in its most recent
embodiment that the “Classic
Economic Coke” recipe is
fundamentally better, better
liked, and better for one’s
country than the New
Economic Coke Recipe we are
currently using, the Germans
are single handedly showing
America what we once
showed Germany. What is
this recipe exactly that allows
Germany to have the highest
GDP, an energy independent
country, strongest dollar (Or
largest say in the EU, or
largest economic pull.), a
healthcare system where any
citizen may walk into a
hospital and receive free care,
a standard of living which
could easily make the poorest
Americans appear to be living
in third world conditions, and
an economic projected and
prospected to remain the front
runner leader of all the
western styled capitalist
countries far into the
foreseeable future? Well, it is
literally nothing less than that
old American recipe for
Classic Economic Coke
(Almost done with recipe
metaphors, I promise.), and
it’s still just as economically
tasty as it was before we
switched to this New
Economic Coke recipe.
So should President
Obama and the Legislature
call Germany to ask for a copy
of the recipe, because we
apparently lost our recipe?
Absolutely not! What America
must do is dig back into its
time honored, tested, and
proven to be successful recipe
boxes, and change the
formula back to the Classic
American Economic Coke that
the entire world has been
waiting to get a taste of.
Remember after all, it is our
recipe, and no one mixes that
formula quite as well as its
inventor which is the United
States of America! If you can’t
remember the formula don’t
worry, as I have my copy of
the formula right here.
Moreover, I would like very
much to share it with my
readers, so they may in turn
share it with more America
economic coke drinkers.
Where do we start? I thought
you’d never ask?
To begin with all our rights
must be restored, and the
Patriot Acts and all laws and
bills related to it or that are
like it must immediately be
stricken from the books! The
United States of America
must once again become that
bastion of freedom,
democracy, limited
government, and of the rule of
law, even at the cost of the
risk of being less secure. In
fact, especially when the
choice is between safety (Or at
least the illusion of Safety),
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6. and the surrendering of our
rights and freedoms exactly
because freedom has never
been free. “Now, wait a
minute Joel, we were talking
economics, and you jumped
straight to a legal and political
issue! What’s the big idea?”
I’m so glad that you know
how to ask me the
appropriate questions at just
the right time, because to
answer you I say… Exactly!
“Exactly what?” Exactly we
were talking economic policy,
and I hauled off and started
talking about the current
threat to our civil rights! The
reason is what you and most
Americans actually believe is
that those two subjects are not
related, but to the Germans
and other true connoisseur of
the Classic Economic Coke the
two issues are inexplicably
linked!
The first thing that must
happen is America and New
economics Americans need to
stop thinking about business
and economics as a subject or
thing that is isolated, and in
its own sealed bubble away
from being influenced or
influencing anything else
around it. That is one of the
most basic and common ideas
that the American public
complains is an ever growing
problem with companies and
economists, as well as the
hardest motion and idea for
American’s to get over or past
at the same time. American
business likes the idea of
business and economics in a
sealed non-holistic or
interconnected idea, because
it justifies and validates the
current business culture of
“Profits at the cost of
everyone and everything,
except our profits of course!”
In this model or capitalistic
method ideas like
outsourcing, pay reduction,
benefit cutting, environment
pollution, and ethical
corruption are justified and
even encouraged, as no matter
what you do in your quest for
higher profits it can never or
will never affect absolutely
anything else in your
universe. However, as we are
now watching first hand with
a lot of large America
companies, this model and
economic theory just simply
isn’t reality at all. In fact,
what’s turning the heads of
many well respected
economists and business
leaders is the fact that one of
the things that is suffering
more than anything else by
adopting a model of profits
before all else, is in fact
actually turning out to be
their all-important profits!
This has had the effect of
sending many corporations
scrambling to seek out more
sustainable and holistic
approaches and business
methods to mitigate their now
shrinking profits.
“That’s great Joel, but you
still have yet to link for me
America’s economic decline,
German rise as a new
economic power-house, the
Patriot Acts, and the thought
and culture of greed and
profits above all else, which
you claim (And I believe most
people would agree with.) is
the dominant capitalistic
theory and model. I would
love to hear Mr. Big Brain Joel
Drotts Juris Doctorate argue
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7. his way out of the geo-
political and socio-economic
corner he’s now painted
himself into. Please, mystify
us with your genius! Please,
make the connection, which
apparently no one else has
seen or believes to exist!”
Oh… Momma will feed you
baby birds, because I’d never
leave you hungry my little
knowledge hungry doves. I
have three words for you, and
they are Broken Window
Theory. “What does a well-
known psychological
condition from Criminal
Justice and Police Science
have to do with any of what
you are talking about?” I
thought you’d never ask. As
you know in social
psychology and police science
there is a theory known as
Broken Window Theory.
What Broken Window Theory
is is an accepted social-
psychology theory that simply
says by way of example that
when one walks down the
street and notices a broken
window or graffiti on the
walls that humans will
inherently care less about that
particular street or area, based
on the fact that they believe
the residence of that street or
area don’t even care about the
area or street, and may be
shady or scummy people. In
other words what Broken
Window Theory explains is
the beginning of a social
psychological snow ball effect
and existence of a culture of
“Who cares about it, because
it’s already crummy, broken,
or ugly. Therefore no one
wants to be the only one who
cares, less they become the
one idiot whom decided to
attempt to blow against the
wind! However, I believe that
Broken Window Theory can
be extrapolated, spread, and
grown to a national level
much easier than people tend
to understand or believe.
Especially, when the broken
window is affixed to that
brick and mortar house,
which until of late always
shined as an example of how
a pristine, well ordered, and
well-manicured home should
look, which served as THE
example of how a house of
freedom, liberty, justice, and
law should look! I am
speaking of course about the
United States Constitution,
the broken window is the
Patriot Acts and similar laws,
and the culture, mood,
morale, and unethical greedy
behavior which has pervaded
through-out the country,
especially in business where
government regulation in
some form is the norm, has
become ever apparent!
To that end, our leaders in
Washington and their
creditability, leadership, and
attempts to set both culture
and policy will be
continuously undermined by
the hypocrisy of a
government that demands its
people to obey the laws and
policy, but flagrantly
disregards the rule of law
itself by enacting, pursuing,
and trying to enforce illegal
and unconstitutional laws like
the Patriot Acts. The window
that is broken is far too
apparent to the citizens of this
country and to the rest of the
world. It’s like that joke that
came out recently where,
“President Obama calls the
President of China and
demands that China stop
spying on American citizens,
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8. to whom the President of
China replies ‘You, stop
first!’” In business it’s called
corporate culture, which is the
policies, attitude, personality
(Yes a business can have a
personality, which is derived
from the collective attitude
and personality of those
whom work there.), and the
intangible je ne ce’ quo which
can and often does either
make or break a company.
Well, when it’s the United
States Government and her
citizens, as opposed to a
company, we just call it
culture. However, that doesn’t
make it any less important,
real, recognizable, or concrete
while staying ever illusive.
However, one fundamental
principle of all leadership will
always remain true and the
same and that is leaders
always lead by example! Even
if they don’t want to, care to,
or mean to! Even if by the
sheer nature of being the
leader who people look to for
guidance and direction,
nothing will speak more to
those whom a leader leads
then the leaders’ actions. This
is why generals that fight on
the front lines with their
soldiers are always admired
through-out the history of
warfare. Therefore, when the
United States Government
states obey the law, while
blatantly violating the most
sacred of our laws itself a
culture of “who cares, “yeah
right,” “You obey first,” and
subconscious passive
aggressiveness towards the
government does and will
continue to be present until
such time as the United States
Government leads correctly
again, obeys the constitutional
boundaries which makes it a
government of limited power,
and restores the rights and
protects the privacy of her
citizens instead of being the
number one violator of our
rights and privacy can the
nation ever return to the
Classic Coke Formula. The
reason being is freedom, the
rule of law, and a
fundamental trust in the
government and its agents to
obey those laws, is some of
the most important
ingredients to the classic
American economic coke
formula.
It is through this lens,
and with this understanding
of not only the power but the
value and importance of the
collective thought of a group
of people or country, or their
culture and from where it is
derived originally, can one
begin to understand how and
why I began with the current
culture of politics and the
United States Governments
interactions with its citizens,
in order to explain why there
is a culture of “screw the
country” and “I am out for
only myself and my profits”
that is currently running
America in first place in the
race to the bottom! Even if
they don’t realize it, business
and business leaders have
been and are greatly affected
by this culture. The reason
being, if they are not, then
they gets put out of business.
However, in Germany they
have a much stronger sense of
national pride, togetherness,
and social responsibility to
country and countryman. This
is made apparent in the
structuring and ownership of
German companies, whereby
most if not all employees own
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9. stock in the companies at
which they are employed. In
so doing what the Germans
have done is give their
employees a personal stake in
the company, as well as say in
the course, direction, and in
some cases the leadership of
the company. This has proven
extraordinarily valuable as an
employee retention, work
output, and feeling about the
companies they work at. More
importantly it prevents
egotistical CEO’s and
corporate officers from
extracting from German
companies undeservedly
outrageous payment
packages, while practically
starving out the low level
employees. This still unequal,
but fair pay system has born
great fruit in the German
economy as German
employees can actually afford
to purchase the goods and
services that their employers
have to offer.
The idea of fair pay or
even good pay is not a novel
one, and as the German
economy is proving is the
absolute best way to ensure
the continued profitability of
even the largest corporations,
as a company could have no
more loyal a shopper or
consumer then its own
employees, their family, and
their friends. However,
American employers need to
rediscover their Henry Ford,
who said of his employees
“Every one of my employees
can afford to purchase one of
the cars that they are making,
on the salary I pay them
alone.” When one
extrapolates this out
nationally then all of a sudden
foreign markets and even
foreign manufacturing
becomes less of an issue, as or
if the disposable income of
American workers raised
significantly then American
companies could do two
things. The first is safely rely
on the fact that they have an
extraordinarily strong
domestic market full of well
moneyed workers that not
only want to purchase their
goods and services, but would
then in turn have the buying
power to do so. Secondly, as
the standard of living and
median income rises in the
United States then American
companies would no longer
have to seek foreign cheap
labor sources in order to
remain profitable. Yes, the
cost of their goods and
services would rise in cost,
but the buying power of the
domestic markets would be
there to afford the new slight
rise in prices. Why? Because
as American factories began
to come back home, and
began to pay well its
American workers, the
average purchasing power of
the American worker would
not only rise but multiply as
well as their would be more
employed American workers
with paychecks to spend.
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