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July 26th 2008 17:51
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Selling out U.S. workers on the world market
By Ray Tapajna - Cleveland Plain Dealer letter - 11 years ago
Free Traders and Globalists like to keep the discussion of Free Trade in the present tense and always add on the "futures" which never seem to happen. In several posts, we provide the history of Free Trade going back to 1956 when the U.S. Federal Goverment start moving factories outside the USA and later funding the process in several ways.
(The letter below was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer 11 years ago. It could have been written today with most everything in the letter still applicable to our times. As you read it ask yourself why did so many Mexican workers leave their homes and come to the USA after the U.S. moved more than 4000 factories to Mexico ? )
Tariffs taken off products and put on workers
"International trade for the past 25 years has been based on unfair free trade as outlined in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA). It is not new, and we have evidence in the closed-down family farms, storefronts and factories.
It is simple to count the number of jobs lost. All one has to do is note all the foods we eat and all the products in our homes that come from other places, and ask ourself where all the workers went who once grew or made these products.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "Economic diseases are highly communicable." This quote comes from a old college history book published in the 1940s, from a chapter titled, "Toward a new world order." So none of this is new. In Mexico, the very same people who are supposed to be helped are losing their only sources of income. The subsidized corn flowing from the New Deal, programs is underselling the subsistence price of the Mexican corn. However, today, the program that was established to protect the family farms here is controlled by giant acgricultural corporations. Meanwhile , top experts in economics and sociology demonstrate how the Zapatistas revolt in Mexico causes tremendous problems on the German mark, causing unemployment there. Is this the kind of global economy we should promote?
The proponents of uncontrolled free trade should do the walk before they talk - like millions in this country who have lost their jobs and everything they worked their entire lives to save. GATT and NAFTA-type programs take tariffs off our products and put tariffs on the American workers, who carry the overhead of human dignity and fair play with them."
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena with one another for the same jobs? .... and WHY?
Free Traders and Globalists like to keep the discussion of Free Trade in the present tense and always add on the "futures" which never seem to happen. In several posts, we provide the history of Free Trade going back to 1956 when the U.S. Federal Goverment start moving factories outside the USA and later funding the process in several ways.
Tariffs taken off products and put on workers
(The letter below was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer 11 years ago. It could have been written today with most everything in the letter still applicable to our times. As you read it ask yourself why did so many Mexican workers leave their homes and come to the USA after the U.S. moved more than 4000 factories to Mexico ? )
Tariffs taken off products and put on workers
"International trade for the past 25 years has been based on unfair free trade as outlined in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA). It is not new, and we have evidence in the closed-down family farms, storefronts and factories.
It is simple to count the number of jobs lost. All one has to do is note all the foods we eat and all the products in our homes that come from other places, and ask ourself where all the workers went who once grew or made these products.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "Economic diseases are highly communicable." This quote comes from a old college history book published in the 1940s, from a chapter titled, "Toward a new world order." So none of this is new. In Mexico, the very same people who are supposed to be helped are losing their only sources of income. The subsidized corn flowing from the New Deal, programs is underselling the subsistence price of the Mexican corn. However, today, the program that was established to protect the family farms here is controlled by giant acgricultural corporations. Meanwhile , top experts in economics and sociology demonstrate how the Zapatistas revolt in Mexico causes tremendous problems on the German mark, causing unemployment there. Is this the kind of global economy we should promote?
The proponents of uncontrolled free trade should do the walk before they talk - like millions in this country who have lost their jobs and everything they worked their entire lives to save. GATT and NAFTA-type programs take tariffs off our products and put tariffs on the American workers, who carry the overhead of human dignity and fair play with them."
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena with one another for the same jobs? .... and WHY?
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Mull it over. It boils down to the fact that you can not do business with people who do not have money. Like Roosevelt during the second world war, you first have to find a way to provide others with money. Alan Greenspan and other economists do not even bring up the Lend Lease act. It help ramp up the most awesome industrial might the world has ever known and sustain a vast middle class for many years.