We chopped up the golden goose that laid golden eggs. Why do we have to make it happen? Who said you have to compete in the global economic arena? The Marshall Plan helped restore the local value added economies in Europe and Asia after the 2nd World War II. This was based on indusrial awesome power of the United States who won the second World War II. We gave the golden eggs from our golden goose, holding others to share. We did not send the Golden Goose herself. Now we have chopped up the Golden Goose and sent the pieces throughout the world. Now we must defend our interests in the world wars.
What is this thing called free trade? It is not trade. It is based on moving production and factories from place to place based on the cheapest labor markets in the world to the wage level of slaves, and even child labor. Workers are the real goods on free trade. They put on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs. They really have no voice in the process of globalization which is driven by elite groupings within and outside the government.
Teddy Roosevelt, said his worst fear for America was a big government getting in bed with big business. That is what free trade is all about. Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly infectious. Today, the epidemic out of control.
value of the shares are now based on people getting fired instead of hired. There was a time when companies assign more shareholder value by how many people can be employed while still making a decent profit for investors. After all, the work is the core of every society. Labor is the key to a good society, socially and economically. If the company falters, everyone loses. Free trade was demoted and made of something sinister. working poor class has emerged in the U.S. and the poor working class outside the U.S.. It is no wonder that most of South America, radical protest globalization. Natural living workers lose their jobs, farms and small businesses, because of free trade.
Even if everyone on the planet has been provided that a good education, high-tech and computer skills, it would be absurd that everyone has to compete for the same jobs. It is also absurd that the taxpayers fund research and development, if the process of production goes abroad. In the end, taxpayers pay their way out of their jobs.
Productivity is a good thing, but when it is based on the deflation of wages, nothing good happens.
In the U.S., we have beaten the common good, while there is nothing left of it.
We put the individual libertarianism before the welfare of our society in the economic arena, anything goes. Free Traders keep saying this is a good thing. Why do we have to take them over.
The new "ism" has quietly taken the form of globalism. This new "isms" Fuse with all other "isms" for power and money for a few. It makes a mockery of the free enterprise system and the dignity of workers.
I worked at four different factories, while attending college in 1950. I made eqivalent of $ 15 to $ 20 an hour. Jobs are plentiful. If these jobs were available today, thousands would be standing in line to get them. industrial revolution is not over. We still use the products. The only difference is these products are made outside the U.S..
Later, I was super market town wide. There have been many. I traveled in all parts of the city without problems. However, in the course of about eight years, about five store owners were killed during a robbery, but the worst is yet started.
During the Clinton years, about 20 were killed only a fraction of trading left. Now, as I travel to all these areas is not much left. There are miles of empty shops in the city.
I experienced the Hough riots in Cleveland, first hand and saw the block trade to burn now, but nothing compared to what I perceive mile street looks like a third world country. Hurricane Katrina exposed Silent depression after being hit New Orleans. It is exposed to a vast underclass not only live in New Orleans, but throughout our country.
I've traveled through the city to go to college. There are a number of highways, but now is the fastest way to go through the center of town is now bypassing all the highways. It is almost impossible to do so during the 1950s. These streets were full of life and busy work. The gap has replaced all of these activities. Recently, I was traveling in an area near downtown Cleveland. To my surprise, everything, everything seemed to be cleaner. There were two police officers riding their bikes patrolling the area.
Everything seemed to be better until I realized that something was missing. There were people on the streets during the day, where once the streets were full of life and business.
south of this area, I had business commitments and could not find a place. I wondered if I should walk the streets to locate the place. I did not feel safe so I went to the nearest large big box store and asked a guard at the entrance, if it is safe enough to walk down certain streets. He said he would not do it.
We had a small factory in the inner city too. I worked in factories for years, and at the end of the block, I ate lunch at a small restaurant bar. Just a few years later the entire area are changing rapidly with most of the empty factories and restaurants closed. The owner was shot to death in a robbery.
What follows all this. First of all, the unemployment rate was produced in relation to the past. Only about 38% of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance in America. Office of unemployment changed their reporting methods to adapt to this fact. Since 1985 the growth of industry had been working in temporary offices, contract and agency workers the day, pay day loan stores, credit card industry with usuary rates to 30% or more, and food banks, feeding the hungry.
prison population leads to breaking records. Apparently, the U.S. has more people in prison than any other country on the basis of the total population. Prisons have become one of our major industries.
Get America Working Forum reports that 50% of human resources in the U.S. are not used.
Millions are missing in action and not part of any kind of reporting.
There are more than 40 million Americans who need food with about a third are children. About the same number of people without health insurance. We have excellent American Idol TV program for charity drive to implement this. Many of the homeless are working families who do not make enough money to pay for shelter. Apparently, Walmart and other types of employers say their workers to seek government assistance. the largest employers in most major cities are the government, and then with both medical depending on the tax base, which is dwindling. At the same time public workers make much more than the people they serve. How can anyone expect this to work.
Why do we chop Golden Goose like this? Who led the way? The United States Government under the auspices of moving factories outside the United States starting in 1956 and this program was never completed. American workers have lost their second World War II, more than fifty years later. We need to restore domestic production for local consumption. new working poor class in the U.S. is finding it difficult to even afford the cheaper imports, while workers outside the U.S. do not make enough to buy what they make is very much less have anthing left over to buy what the U.S. has left to sell. Money spent on retail do not stay in place to increase local value added economy, but it quickly fan out to places where the products are made.
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