Quote from kissanmakeup:
thank god someone is asking that question! what is my solution? do you really want to know?
an european union type of a deal. after the collapse of the soviet union, the rich european states HAD to welcome all of the newly, yet bankrupt states (romania, hungary, bulgaria, estonia, lithuania, latvia and others) into their fold. the result was the benefit of everyone. cheap labor, innovations, raw material and geographical size.
and just before you go 'ahuh, i got the wetback', if you think of proposing NAFTA is achieving that, i'll tell you to shove it up your arse.
you are refusing to accept the european union example cause you want to have the cake and eat it too. does not work amigo. your corporation which elected your leadership to IMPOSE NAFTA destroyed my farm and now i am in your back yard. your corporations which elected your leadership to IMPOSE NAFTA imposed Tariffs on me while heavily subsidizing your Tyson corporation to sell their plastic chicken at the fraction of the price that it will cost me to raise a real chicken.
Well at least you're talking like a person now.
I thought NAFTA was supposed to reduce and remove tarriffs? How can they increase?
Your argument is basically the traditional arguments against globalization. You know the people that chant and protest at every WTO meeting and blame the WTO for every problem in the developing world?
So it's NAFTA's fault eh? It's not the corrupt as heck Mexican government's fault, oh no. They're just victims right? That's why foreign investment is just pouring into Mexico. And it's US's fault that there is over population in Mexico?
And the evil US corporations destroying culture all over the world. Yeah right.... man, it's called a freakin natural development process. People, things, tend to grow and develop. Technology and innovations are things that lead to globalization. Things become more efficient.
You can't expect people to slow down just because you can't keep up. It's a problem, yes, when one group advances so fast and other groups can not keep up. The value of the other group goes down and they suffer. So instead of having slums inside one country you have slums as countries.
If people in one country decided, yes we will just be farmers and live in peace. That would be great. Is that reality? Hell no. One of the farmers will want a gas powered tractor so he can produce "more". Then he can sell cheaper than the other farmers. The other farms will need to upgrade or they'll be left behind. So some do compete and others quit and become mechanics to fix the tractors, they start specializing. So on and so forth. Other's they just can't get their act together (for one reason or another) and are left behind.
This is the core problem, no being able to keep up. By organizing a government that works for the people. It's not the fault of big corporations, WTO, NAFTA BS.
This shit has been going on for thousands of years, it's just now it's accelerated at lightening speed.
