Tapsearch Com EditorFree Trade really has no history
September 1st 2009 23:45
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History tell us what we should do in the present time. There is always a new wrinkle but usually things do not change that much. However, history really has no record of what is called Free Trade today.
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History tells us what will happen if we ignore causes and effects and call something that does not have a historical connotation like dysfunctional globalist would like you to believe about Free Trade and Globalization
History asks, what is this thing you call Free Trade ?
In the USA, we had the Great Depression which demonstrated the weakness of Capitalism if it is not done right. The Free-traders today claimed the problems were due to tariffs and trade even though the collapse of the stock market was based on something else. Trade was affected due to the lack of money and not tariffs. Trade was a mute issue. The corporations manipulated Capitalism for the sake of value in paper stock and financial investments - not in sound business practices in tune with workers' dignity and social justice. The dysfunctional Globalist now call it the Free Market.
Actually the Great Depression never really ended but Roosevelt sold the economic theory that you do not owe anyone anything if you owe it to yourself.
The Free-traders today point to Congress passing the Smoot Hawley tariff bill in 1930 after the stock market crashed in 1929 as the major cause of the global depression even though the global problems were existent for a long time before this. Nations had no money to trade much of anything. It was an economic crisis and not a trading crisis.
Actually, the Lend Lease program started an artificial recovery with World War 2 boosting it into high gear. Wars do that. It makes me wonder why we have to have wars for this when the same thing can be applied in peace time too. Roosevelt start supplying the allies with free goods to support their war efforts. It jump started local value added economies across America. He told the world he would not let the lack of dollars stand in his way. He just start shipping things to ramp up our economy. This created the most awesome industrial might th world has ever known.
On the other side of the world, the U.S. agreed with Japan they had a Manifest Destiny to their share of the mainland with Japan being just an island nation. However, the U.S. changed their policies and left Japan lost in an economic void. The Japanese felt betrayed and bombed Pearl Harbor. They felt their survival depended on getting more of share of Asia.
In the end, the U.S. dropped the bomb and stopped Japan in their tracks. However, after the war, the U.S. came with the help Japan required to survive. There was no need for the war if the U.S. would have done this in the first place. After World War 1, the Allies locked out Germany from economic survival which brought on Hitler and World War 2 in a similar fashion. ( Pat Buchana says both World Wars never had to be fought. )
Not much has really changed. The value of stocks and investments are manipulated rather than letting the free enterprise system work. Big money isolates the process to themselves with Governments acting as brokers in all kind of money making deals. Our economies are now based on making money on money instead of making things and are burning out. President Obama marries big money to big government ignoring all the workers who have lost thier jobs. ( It should be noted here that the U.S. promised all who lost their jobs due to Free Trade help when they passed the Free Trade bills. )
History can not tell us much about Free Trade because it is something new. Free Trade is not trade as historically defined and practiced. Free Trade involves the moving of production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. It has made production portable with it ready to be moved again and again if the "peasants" get too feisty. Local value added economies have been smashed into pieces and shipped around the world. Free Trade also knocked out subsistent living farmers with giant trans national corporation locking them out of the picture. President Roosevelt farm subsidies from the Great Depression are enjoyed by massive agricultural corporations instead of small farmers
All the entitlements and benefits that took many years to refine are now being tossed out in the process. The imbalances are growing across the globe. A working poor class has been created in the U.S. with an impoverished working class making things they can not afford to buy themselves. It is obvious that you can not do business with people who do not have money. You can only use them for selfish purposes. Now we find ourselves in a fix stealing from Peter to pay Paul in the form of putting tariffs on future generations to pay for what is called Free Trade and Globalization. The bad things in economies that once were controllable under local conditions are now infect the whole world. And what happens to the peso in Mexico can impact the euro immediately.
President Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable and these diseases are more rampant across the globe. You do not need any conspiracy theories to know something is very wrong with elite groupings controlling the show. Economic reforms are being handled by the very same people that caused the problems in the first place. There is no harmony in any of the practices. Our leaders like President Obama ignore the fact that Free Trade and Globalization is the cause of our economic crisis.
History tells us what will happen if we ignore causes and effects and call something that does not have a historical connotation like dysfunctional globalist would like you to believe about Free Trade and Globalization
History asks, what is this thing you call Free Trade ?
In the USA, we had the Great Depression which demonstrated the weakness of Capitalism if it is not done right. The Free-traders today claimed the problems were due to tariffs and trade even though the collapse of the stock market was based on something else. Trade was affected due to the lack of money and not tariffs. Trade was a mute issue. The corporations manipulated Capitalism for the sake of value in paper stock and financial investments - not in sound business practices in tune with workers' dignity and social justice. The dysfunctional Globalist now call it the Free Market.
Actually the Great Depression never really ended but Roosevelt sold the economic theory that you do not owe anyone anything if you owe it to yourself.
The Free-traders today point to Congress passing the Smoot Hawley tariff bill in 1930 after the stock market crashed in 1929 as the major cause of the global depression even though the global problems were existent for a long time before this. Nations had no money to trade much of anything. It was an economic crisis and not a trading crisis.
Actually, the Lend Lease program started an artificial recovery with World War 2 boosting it into high gear. Wars do that. It makes me wonder why we have to have wars for this when the same thing can be applied in peace time too. Roosevelt start supplying the allies with free goods to support their war efforts. It jump started local value added economies across America. He told the world he would not let the lack of dollars stand in his way. He just start shipping things to ramp up our economy. This created the most awesome industrial might th world has ever known.
On the other side of the world, the U.S. agreed with Japan they had a Manifest Destiny to their share of the mainland with Japan being just an island nation. However, the U.S. changed their policies and left Japan lost in an economic void. The Japanese felt betrayed and bombed Pearl Harbor. They felt their survival depended on getting more of share of Asia.
In the end, the U.S. dropped the bomb and stopped Japan in their tracks. However, after the war, the U.S. came with the help Japan required to survive. There was no need for the war if the U.S. would have done this in the first place. After World War 1, the Allies locked out Germany from economic survival which brought on Hitler and World War 2 in a similar fashion. ( Pat Buchana says both World Wars never had to be fought. )
Not much has really changed. The value of stocks and investments are manipulated rather than letting the free enterprise system work. Big money isolates the process to themselves with Governments acting as brokers in all kind of money making deals. Our economies are now based on making money on money instead of making things and are burning out. President Obama marries big money to big government ignoring all the workers who have lost thier jobs. ( It should be noted here that the U.S. promised all who lost their jobs due to Free Trade help when they passed the Free Trade bills. )
History can not tell us much about Free Trade because it is something new. Free Trade is not trade as historically defined and practiced. Free Trade involves the moving of production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. It has made production portable with it ready to be moved again and again if the "peasants" get too feisty. Local value added economies have been smashed into pieces and shipped around the world. Free Trade also knocked out subsistent living farmers with giant trans national corporation locking them out of the picture. President Roosevelt farm subsidies from the Great Depression are enjoyed by massive agricultural corporations instead of small farmers
All the entitlements and benefits that took many years to refine are now being tossed out in the process. The imbalances are growing across the globe. A working poor class has been created in the U.S. with an impoverished working class making things they can not afford to buy themselves. It is obvious that you can not do business with people who do not have money. You can only use them for selfish purposes. Now we find ourselves in a fix stealing from Peter to pay Paul in the form of putting tariffs on future generations to pay for what is called Free Trade and Globalization. The bad things in economies that once were controllable under local conditions are now infect the whole world. And what happens to the peso in Mexico can impact the euro immediately.
President Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable and these diseases are more rampant across the globe. You do not need any conspiracy theories to know something is very wrong with elite groupings controlling the show. Economic reforms are being handled by the very same people that caused the problems in the first place. There is no harmony in any of the practices. Our leaders like President Obama ignore the fact that Free Trade and Globalization is the cause of our economic crisis.
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