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April 20th 2008 17:18
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Political leaders join the new "drug deals"
This continues our last post about impoverished city hoist flag of surrender to Free Trade
The Mayor of Cleveland and "trade" brokers have taken the next step in the degradation of the value of labor opening its doors to imports from everywhere after consummating a deal with Costa Rica.
Even Wal-Mart is reporting their clientele are running out of money before the end of the month. The working poor class in the U.S. in having a difficult time even affording the low prices imports from distant places.
Tom Beckenridge, Plain Dealer Reporter, tells us this is only the beginning of " Deal or no Deal" in the world of Free Trade. He cites Thomas Friedman' Flat World theories for a level playing field for industries of all kinds. However this playing field was never level. It now depends discounting the value of labor below the value of goods and the working poor class in now finding out what this is all about. Workers in places like Wal-Mart need government assistance to survive in our ecomony. However , waiting in the wings is a vast population of workers from distant places who know how to survive on subsistent living wages. The moving of 4,000 factories to Mexico did not stop the flood of Mexican workers to the U.S. seeking economic survival.
Now our political leaders take a page from the Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins and decide to get in line with the powers behind the greatest betrayal of workers in history. They join the new "drug deal" of our times - with consumers hooked on cheap imports even though with each purchase the shop their way out of their jobs.
The Costa Rica "trade" deal now makes Cleveland and agent for the distribution for products and goods coming from the underclass workers of the world. The value of work has been discounted down to this common denominator. Free Trade is still dependent on moving production and factories from place to place based on the cheapest labor possible. However, this now will evolve to bringing this cheaper labor closer to the local settings.
As the cost of long haul shipping and packaging climb and the "green" advocates note the added cost to the environment due to this long haul shipping , things will become more local. It does not mean the decent paying jobs will return however. It means, corporations will find ways to bring the main commodity to a more local situation. The supply of cheaper labor will be more direct rather than in some distant place. We already have this with foreign auto makers bringing their assembly plants locally. Now it is just a short jump to bringing the subsistent living wages closer too. Our letter in the previous post seemed to be tongue in cheek when we said why not just go all the way and let the Chinese have direct outlets in our cities and then bring in their own labor to cut the costs even lower. This is the last "flattener" in the The Flat World of Thomas Friedman, the Clintons, the Bush family and Alan Greenspan.
The new Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says to buy domestically made goods with our economic stimulus money to stimulate our economy. Of course this is impossible now but indicates the failures of Free Trade and what is in store for us now.
The Mayor of Cleveland and "trade" brokers have taken the next step in the degradation of the value of labor opening its doors to imports from everywhere after consummating a deal with Costa Rica.
Even Wal-Mart is reporting their clientele are running out of money before the end of the month. The working poor class in the U.S. in having a difficult time even affording the low prices imports from distant places.
Tom Beckenridge, Plain Dealer Reporter, tells us this is only the beginning of " Deal or no Deal" in the world of Free Trade. He cites Thomas Friedman' Flat World theories for a level playing field for industries of all kinds. However this playing field was never level. It now depends discounting the value of labor below the value of goods and the working poor class in now finding out what this is all about. Workers in places like Wal-Mart need government assistance to survive in our ecomony. However , waiting in the wings is a vast population of workers from distant places who know how to survive on subsistent living wages. The moving of 4,000 factories to Mexico did not stop the flood of Mexican workers to the U.S. seeking economic survival.
Now our political leaders take a page from the Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins and decide to get in line with the powers behind the greatest betrayal of workers in history. They join the new "drug deal" of our times - with consumers hooked on cheap imports even though with each purchase the shop their way out of their jobs.
The Costa Rica "trade" deal now makes Cleveland and agent for the distribution for products and goods coming from the underclass workers of the world. The value of work has been discounted down to this common denominator. Free Trade is still dependent on moving production and factories from place to place based on the cheapest labor possible. However, this now will evolve to bringing this cheaper labor closer to the local settings.
As the cost of long haul shipping and packaging climb and the "green" advocates note the added cost to the environment due to this long haul shipping , things will become more local. It does not mean the decent paying jobs will return however. It means, corporations will find ways to bring the main commodity to a more local situation. The supply of cheaper labor will be more direct rather than in some distant place. We already have this with foreign auto makers bringing their assembly plants locally. Now it is just a short jump to bringing the subsistent living wages closer too. Our letter in the previous post seemed to be tongue in cheek when we said why not just go all the way and let the Chinese have direct outlets in our cities and then bring in their own labor to cut the costs even lower. This is the last "flattener" in the The Flat World of Thomas Friedman, the Clintons, the Bush family and Alan Greenspan.
The new Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says to buy domestically made goods with our economic stimulus money to stimulate our economy. Of course this is impossible now but indicates the failures of Free Trade and what is in store for us now.
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The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is a must read as an introduction to the global economic arena.