Quote from ShoeshineBoy:
What are you trying to wake India and China up to? "Hey, India and China, I'm sorry you've got a new middle class with tens of millions of young entrepreneurs and engineers! Hey, India and China, I'm sorry you now have hundreds of millions lifted out of poverty! Wake up people! Wake up!"
Poverty they were put into their own corrupt leaders manipulated by Western interests. It's your own history, and you do not even know it. Now they are throwing you a bone at the expense of US workers & product quality. Sorry, but the work produced by your entrepreneurs is dog sh*t, and the cost savings disspear into CEO pockets. And did you even know that some of the offshoring trade between US & India violates SEC regulation and Security laws? How about activists from your own communities who are fighting this because they see their communities fall apart and become nothing more than corporate controlled resources?
Meanwhile China is becoming number one human rights abuser of the world and a total environmental mess. The majority have stepped up from meager substinence to sweatshop slaves.
Why don't you go look up Free Trade agreements and try to explain how your own country's law against patenting life, drug, seeds & genes was overrun by WTO.
Better yet, how about Europe's law against Bovine growth hormone meat was overrun the same way. People saying they do not want steroided beef in their supermarkets or restaurants, a very legit request that has no bias toward any country, was overrun. How is that for free trade?
Or the best one yet, Guatemala's UNICEF debacle, do some research on that. It's great, babies dying of diarhea, but hey, it's the cost of free trade because in the end, we all benefit, we just don't know it.
These examples are not the exception, they are the standard.
But hey, if you actually wanted to exercise the so rare human trait of critical thinking, you might, just might, actually read some of these free trade agreements & WTO guidelines. Because of the almost 20 parts that they usually consist of, only one or two actually have to do with trade. Everything else is focused on corporate protectionism, such patents on genes, life, seeds, controls over social laws, environmental laws, human rights, how tax revenue is spent, etc. Interesting take on "Free Trade" huh?
You might also try to join the WTO as a small businessman or entrepreneur, but then, they won't even consider your request. It's not an open forum, it's only meant for large corporations. Yeah, that's some real free trade.
So while you rationalize this away as "mistakes" & "little problems", more sweatshops will be established with corporate protectionisms. And while you focus on the "emerging middle class", a much larger middle class will be dying off here, along with product quality. It's ok though, globalism is about making it uniform throughout the world, so I'm pretty sure we are all destined for a nice surprise of riches beyond our wildest dreams. The whole trend of a growing disparaity between 5% of the population & everyone else is just an anomaly.
Honestly, a debate is nice, but at some point it's obvious that one side is not willing to let go of an ideal, especially when money is involved on their side of relatives & friends. A man will fight to the death that "2+2=5" if his paycheck depends on it. The info is out, it's in print. Free Trade, a concept that originated in 17th or 18th century England, is not what WTO, NAFTA or current Free Trade Agreements are about. If you ever take the time to research & read, instead of relying on media rhetoric, maybe you will see what goes on behind the veil.
Regardless, the masses will get what they deserve and have only themselves to blame.
, and when they cannot pay back they just hand it over? much better than taking it no? Get this, we bribe the nigerian minister into inflating the price of his sweet crude, which is standard for oil since it is so light it needs no refining. The price of oil skyrockets. Then we go to the saudis with our new "price" and tell them since they will be making all of this new free money, to invest it on our shores, in our companies, creating an "economic boom" driving our markets to astronomical highs. We take their money put it into "holding companies" and then have the these companies lend their money (the saudis) to the third world nations of south and central america. When they go into default and cannot pay back the companies then become insolvent and presto. We now own all of their natural resources and when the saudis come looking for their money we just appologize with the ole, shit happens. Dont take my word for it I heard it from this guy who used to do this for a living.