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Serfdom in Modern America:
Forging Our Own Chains
There are more reasons
I will develop further for why we need women to stay home (or men, if their wives earn more - there is no gender angle here except for the absolute fact that women earn less money than men and families should plan accordingly to maximize their efforts), and why there needs
to be a revival movement for homekeeping in the United States. One incredibly
important reason is the economy, and I will lay out my arguments and suggestions
for reversing the two income earner per family trend to the single living wage
model, in a conscious, volunteer, social policy implementation at a grass-roots' level. This grass-roots effort would help to stabilize the financial crises
that we have suffered through for so many years now by strengthening individual
family finances with the end goal being to achieve true sustainability, which
cannot be achieved when it actually costs women to more to work than they
truthfully bring back to their families.
For the last several
years, as we moved further and further into the Second Great Depression which
has gripped our economy, the talking heads have assured us that more jobs and more employment are the answers to all problems – the more people
we can get earning paychecks, the better! Then we can keep the ball rolling by
spending! Higher employment and consumption will save us! I say: nonsense. We need fewer workers, who make more pay and consume fewer things. We need as many people to
leave the workforce as possible, leaving more opportunities for those who stay
to be able to earn the lost, illusive, living wage that once existed, courtesy
of our old friends, Supply and Demand. As mentioned before, this would decrease
the amount of taxes available to government agencies, which would have the
additional benefit of shrinking government.
What the United States
needs is not more jobs, but fewer people competing for those jobs in the labor
market. It is time for the country that is famous for “rugged individualism” to
quit being so sheepishly obedient to their corporate masters, to reject the
philosophy of consumerism, and to carve their own good life out of the morass
that the politicians and the businessmen have created.
My final thought for
this introduction is to remind my reader that in the United States, the number
one predictor that a woman will have to declare bankruptcy at some point in her
life is that she has children, so what does that say? This kind of degrading poverty was unknown prior to women
entering the work force, and is one of the primary reasons they should reject
it for the evil, soul-sucking trap that it is. In short, I disagree with, or
would at least amend what Dostoyevsky said about judging a civilization: “The
degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” I
think the degree of our civilization can be judged by our female and child
poverty rates, by our broken families, by our 41% illegitimacy rate and by our
abandoned elders.
In the following pages
I will outline and prove how the loss of our homekeepers is crippling us, and
then I will present my plans for a strategic female withdrawal from the
workforce. This manifesto is a call to families and communities to return to
the lifestyle and the quality of life that lifestyle afforded when we had
designated homekeepers. That lifestyle has been taken from us to enrich others
at our great expense, and it is time to stand up for ourselves by refusing to
participate in our own enslavement any longer.
