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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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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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Submitted by tapsearcher on January 4, 2008 -
Open Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates :
The American Dream is Burning not only in the USA but across the globe. If this is a good economy, I would hate to see a bad one.
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exposed a vast underclass living in a silent depression. The same applys for most of our major cities and towns across the land.
Why did 46,000 people apply for only about a 1000 jobs at 3 new Wal-Mart stores in Cleveland, Ohio and in Chicago suburbs ? ( These are only near minimum wage jobs with limited benefits - Reportedly, many workers at Wal-Mart have to seek government help to survive. )
Why is human dignity in the work day under such an attack ?
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena?
Did Globalization and Free Trade evolve in a natural economic way or have they been driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people?
Why did the federal government sponsor the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956? It was supposed to be just a temporary program. Why did it continued for so many years evolving into so called Free Trade?
With more than 4,000 U.S. factories moved to Mexico, why do so many Mexican workers migrate to the USA seeking economic survival ?
When did the historical definition of Free Trade change to include the moving of production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor?
Why was labor made a major commodity in Free Trade? Isn't trade supposed to be about trading products and not workers?
Why did we chop up our local value added economies and send the pieces to far away places around the world? With our industrial power, we were able to restore local value economies in Asia and Europe. Shouldn't economic success be based on duplication and not
monopolization ?
How can the overhead of long haul ocean, air, rail, trucking shipping and packaging compete with local value added economies? ( As noted in the Dark Side of Energy Saving Light Bulbs posts here a Phillyfuture org, it takes 8000 miles of energy for these light bulbs to get to the USA from China where they are made under questionable dirty manufacturing conditions - all we hear about his the lead coated toys. ) ( Gore was VP during the consummation of Free Trade. Is he really "green" ? )
Doesn't this mean, we have to protect our interests on a global basis now creating a new kind of colonialism which inherently breeds wars and terrorism ?
Alan Greenspan in his book The Age of Turbulence, uses Adam Smith to defend Globalization and Free Trade. Adam Smith held labor as something sacred and the core of societies. Why do Globalist Free Traders leave this part out when they use Adam Smith's essays ?
Alan Greenspan does not have the term "Free Enterprise" in the index of his book - The Age of Turbulence - perhaps the turbulence is due to the denial of the "Free Enterprise" system. He writes only about the Free Market. However, the Free Market stops at the door of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve is just a master bank acting as a monopoly in control of the flow of money. How is this possible in a so called Free Market? Shouldn't the flow of money be competitive too?
History tells us the USA will leave Iraq just like all the other outside nations have in the past. Most likely the situation will be worst than it what it was before we went in. Why not save time and lives and just withdraw in an orderly manner?
Why did the USA change from a nation ready to provide humanitarian help to nations in conflict instead of getting involved in the conflicts?
Why do the Free Traders keep talking about future success when we have a long history of failures with generations of workers being sacrificed at the altar of greed?
Why do Democrats ignore the fact that it was President Bill Clinton and a Democrat controlled Congress who passed the unfair NAFTA and GATT trade agreements, consummating Free Trade and Globalization?
Why are the Republicans the war party now? In the past, they emphasized the balance of power before resorting to war?
Finally, why is there a communication by rank? Why are so many people in the USA and other countries outside looking in at the celebration by the Globalists and Free Traders ?
Why do workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade? And we repeat - who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena ?
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