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With appreciation, Laurie
Serfdom in Modern America:
Forging Our Own Chains
I am not naive enough
to believe that a year or two will heal over half of century of real damage,
but I am proposing that with a vision of how much stronger we would be as
individuals and families, that we can engineer a great social movement, a
movement to turn our country around and make it safe for women and children
again (as they now suffer the highest poverty rates recorded in those groups in
90 years), make it once again a land of strong families and individuals who are
able to take care of themselves.
Slave Nation is a call to Americans to carefully consider the toxic effects of a terrible social experiment, and to then deliberately choose to return to an infinitely more sustainable lifestyle in which the average family can survive on one income and be reasonably comfortable and safe from the weathers of fortune. Slave Nation is a call particularly to women to honestly evaluate what they have gained, and what they have lost by taking their under-valued productivity into the labor market. I believe that if we do not make these changes we will remain permanently enslaved, in chains we paid to have made, probably with a nearly maxed-out credit card.
Slave Nation is a call to Americans to carefully consider the toxic effects of a terrible social experiment, and to then deliberately choose to return to an infinitely more sustainable lifestyle in which the average family can survive on one income and be reasonably comfortable and safe from the weathers of fortune. Slave Nation is a call particularly to women to honestly evaluate what they have gained, and what they have lost by taking their under-valued productivity into the labor market. I believe that if we do not make these changes we will remain permanently enslaved, in chains we paid to have made, probably with a nearly maxed-out credit card.
I am calling for no
less than a social and political movement that will rival the movements that
demanded suffrage, and civil rights, a movement which I believe has the
potential to return this country to greatness and families to health and stability.
When women entered the market place they left a vacuum which could not be
filled, and never was, and the losses that are attributable to the exodus of
homekeepers into the labor market resonate negatively through every sector of
modern American life. The partnership model was successful for a reason – it is
the best way to raise families and to build strong and safe societies, and it
provided a structural safety net that is gone now that we ‘need’ two incomes to
survive.
Success in reclaiming
the one-earner model for as many families as possible will require that we
educate ourselves and take our civic responsibilities seriously, that we
re-examine and re-articulate what we value, and that we reject a social
experiment that has led to dire poverty for women and children, and to a
shocking loss of wealth and health across the spectrum of American society.
Slave Nation is a
manifesto for men and women who can see for themselves in their own homes and
communities that female employment has been a “trickle up” wealth transfer
system which is destroying family life and impoverishing women and children. Slave Nation is a passionate call for
Americans to change the current two-income earner paradigm, before it is too late.
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