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"Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Unions are powerless in the face of massive off-shoring. Try again.
>

  I agree.  Unions are useless without a "fair trade" policy.   People don't
seem to realize "free trade" is not fair trade when you are dealing with a
counry like China, which is breaking it's WTO treaty obligations and
devaluing its currency to attract business and foreigners to buy its
exports.  It also helps when you have control over the population viz a viz
human rights abuse.  Then you can make sure a labor movement never starts
and that people will continue to work for slave wages.

  And also, as John Kerry said, it's one thing to allow outsourcing.  It's
anothed to aid and abett it through tax codes and favorable regulations.

> The government has to step in now. That will not happen as we are
currently
> ruled by the "First Church of the Free Market." It would take widespread
> violence to get our current leadership (on BOTH sides of the aisle) to
> understand that market forces are not patriotic, or moral, or even
controllable
> without measured economic activism on the part of the government.
>
> If we don't wake up our leadership, we're fucked.

  Here's what I see as the problem.  The current US government's strategy,
and the US government in general, has been to encourage exports and
investments by devauling our currency, keeping wages low, making our country
attractive to businesses.     The problem is they are doing it in a way that
will attract low-paying jobs.   Rather than invest money in infrastructure,
education, social programs, etc., that will make our country attractive to
high-tech and high quality businesses, we are instead not investing in
infrastructure, cutting social programs and cultural capital, and cutting
taxes on the wealthiest Americans.  Rather than focusing on making a quality
finished products or services, the US government is focusing on raw
materials, components, metal etc., and agricultural products.

   We are going in a downward, not upward spiral, a race to see how fast we
can lower wages to attract employment (and already, our employment is one of
the worlds lowest, yet we have one of the highest poverty rates in the world
in relative terms, and in absolute terms we are in the middle... the problem
is not lack of jobs, it's lack of high paying jobs relative to price
inflation and the overall cost of living.  We also, frankly, have a bloated
government with alot of redundancy).   Talk of unemployment during the
campaign was a red herring- the real issues is the quality of the jobs that
are present, the inccrease in poverty, and the price inflation.    The
endgame analysis seems very simple to me:  the government no longer cares
about the American people's welfare.  They just want to keep wages and our
standard of living low, so corporations can reap profits.

   Is it any coincidence that George W. Bush and the Congress is turning a
blind eye to illegal immigration (especially in the failed 9/11 Comission
bill, which left out a provision to tighten illegal immigration?), most of
it from Mexico and South America?  No coincidence, it's called a "Banana
Republic".