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November 27th 2007 19:02
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Who said we had to compete with one another like this is a global economic arena like gladiators? Why did the U.S. Federal Government sponsor the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956? How come the programs never ended and political leaders never talk about this Free Trade history?
Ask your political leaders the questions above. Globalization and Free Trade have not evolved in any natural economic way. You do not need any conspiracy theories to know this. The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the country in 1956. It was supposed to be just a temporary program lasting a year or two, but it never ended. It was supposedly set in place to help the Mexican and Central American economies while at the same time provide cheaper goods for the American consumers. The programs were supposed to give the Mexican and Central American a booster shot and then end.
It did not end. It gave a new definition to trade. So called Free Trade turned into the moving of production and factories from place to place anywhere in the world based on the cheapest labor markets of the world. The real commodities were not products but workers. Workers were put on a world trading block to compete with each other down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor.
From 1956 to 1979, 120 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico. U.S. manufaturers not only found a way to enjoy cheap labor, they also found a way to beat the pollution regulations existing in the U.S. By 1989, there were 400 U.S. Factories in Mexico. This evolved into the Maquiladora Factory Programs which paid workers about 62 cents an hour. Good workers were rewarded with empty shipping boxes to use as shelters. Reports start surfacing about birth deformities related to the "dirty" manufacturing. However, nothing changed. The programs just grew faster. A company could have its entire process in Mexico including factory, workers, and machinery for a total of $3.50 to $5.00 an hour. This could include
wages, building, benefits, taxes and insurance. It was a very inviting proposition especially as a way to escape the pollution regulations in the USA just by going over the border.
Massive manufacturing in China was yet to come with labor being about five times cheaper there.
However, prior to 1990s, companies still were concerned about the cost of long haul shipping especially for bulky products. Some of the companies that moved to Mexico (with some coming back from Asia) were Zenith, Pulse Engineering, STB Systems, IBM, Hewlett Packard, SCI and BH Electronics.
By 1992 and prior to the passing of the NAFTA and GATT Free Trade agreements, the number of factories moved to Mexico total more than 2,000 factories. After President Clinton and a Democrat Congress joined with the Republican Free Traders, in the passing of NAFTA and GATT, the number of factories quickly doubled to more than 4,000. Even after all this, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso. A working poor class was created in the USA with the middle class factory and related jobs being exported to other lands. It should be noted that one good paying factory job supported up to ten other support and service jobs. President Bush followed in Clinton's footsteps with China being wide open for more of the same. President Bush handed out tax cuts to the upper middle classes but the extra money did not stay in the USA. The money spent at retail went to the places where the products are made and did not stay in the USA to grow its economy.
President Bush says the Mexican workers flock to the USA to take jobs Americans will not do. He leaves out the part of above and the fact that Mexico reports a low unemployment rate just like the USA does. Apparently, there are jobs in Mexico that Mexican workers will not take. Now many factories are on the move again out of Mexico and go to China where workers will take jobs for pennies a day.
In American today, you can wait at a railroad stop and watch the COSCO shipping containers roll by on our railroads. COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army and their large shipping containers full of imports roll through our cities and towns across the USA.
The USA is being "liberated" one import at a time. At the very same time while Americans are worried about border security.
Who said we had to compete like this and why? Ask your political leaders now.
Tapart News and Art that Talks mobile user friendly summary of articles for more information Explore the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trader Flat World mobile user friendly summary of articles for more information.
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Ask your political leaders the questions above. Globalization and Free Trade have not evolved in any natural economic way. You do not need any conspiracy theories to know this. The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the country in 1956. It was supposed to be just a temporary program lasting a year or two, but it never ended. It was supposedly set in place to help the Mexican and Central American economies while at the same time provide cheaper goods for the American consumers. The programs were supposed to give the Mexican and Central American a booster shot and then end.
It did not end. It gave a new definition to trade. So called Free Trade turned into the moving of production and factories from place to place anywhere in the world based on the cheapest labor markets of the world. The real commodities were not products but workers. Workers were put on a world trading block to compete with each other down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor.
From 1956 to 1979, 120 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico. U.S. manufaturers not only found a way to enjoy cheap labor, they also found a way to beat the pollution regulations existing in the U.S. By 1989, there were 400 U.S. Factories in Mexico. This evolved into the Maquiladora Factory Programs which paid workers about 62 cents an hour. Good workers were rewarded with empty shipping boxes to use as shelters. Reports start surfacing about birth deformities related to the "dirty" manufacturing. However, nothing changed. The programs just grew faster. A company could have its entire process in Mexico including factory, workers, and machinery for a total of $3.50 to $5.00 an hour. This could include
wages, building, benefits, taxes and insurance. It was a very inviting proposition especially as a way to escape the pollution regulations in the USA just by going over the border.
Massive manufacturing in China was yet to come with labor being about five times cheaper there.
However, prior to 1990s, companies still were concerned about the cost of long haul shipping especially for bulky products. Some of the companies that moved to Mexico (with some coming back from Asia) were Zenith, Pulse Engineering, STB Systems, IBM, Hewlett Packard, SCI and BH Electronics.
By 1992 and prior to the passing of the NAFTA and GATT Free Trade agreements, the number of factories moved to Mexico total more than 2,000 factories. After President Clinton and a Democrat Congress joined with the Republican Free Traders, in the passing of NAFTA and GATT, the number of factories quickly doubled to more than 4,000. Even after all this, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso. A working poor class was created in the USA with the middle class factory and related jobs being exported to other lands. It should be noted that one good paying factory job supported up to ten other support and service jobs. President Bush followed in Clinton's footsteps with China being wide open for more of the same. President Bush handed out tax cuts to the upper middle classes but the extra money did not stay in the USA. The money spent at retail went to the places where the products are made and did not stay in the USA to grow its economy.
President Bush says the Mexican workers flock to the USA to take jobs Americans will not do. He leaves out the part of above and the fact that Mexico reports a low unemployment rate just like the USA does. Apparently, there are jobs in Mexico that Mexican workers will not take. Now many factories are on the move again out of Mexico and go to China where workers will take jobs for pennies a day.
In American today, you can wait at a railroad stop and watch the COSCO shipping containers roll by on our railroads. COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army and their large shipping containers full of imports roll through our cities and towns across the USA.
The USA is being "liberated" one import at a time. At the very same time while Americans are worried about border security.
Who said we had to compete like this and why? Ask your political leaders now.
Tapart News and Art that Talks mobile user friendly summary of articles for more information Explore the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trader Flat World mobile user friendly summary of articles for more information.
Read about the unnetted - if you are not part of any network, you do not exist
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