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<blockquote data-quote="JimJimmyJames" data-source="post: 498205" data-attributes="member: 11425"><p>I hate that term, the "global economy". It is almost used to imply that a global economy was invented in the last 20 years or so. The global economy is nothing new. Heck, Columbus looking for a faster trade route to India, in yesterdays "global economy", is how the New World had it's birth in the first place. What is new to the U.S. is while in the past, to paraphrase the famous sign over the Delaware river in Trenton, "America makes, the world takes", now the world makes and we take. </p><p> </p><p>And how did that happen? It happened because foreign nations capitilized on America's willingness to trade with nations who do not impose the same safety, environmental, and wage standards we have here in the U.S. Add to that the currency and tax manipulations these foreign countries use to circumvent our "free" trade agreements with them, and you have the condition we find our nation in today.</p><p> </p><p>The only way to compete with third world countries is to turn back the clock on all of the progress the American labor movement has made. Are we Americans willing to do that? </p><p> </p><p>And let's not forget, most of these nations are now growing in wealth not from exclusively improving their own citizens lot in life, but by selling to those who already have comparative wealth, Americans. But as our wealth diminishes as most of our factories move overseas, it most be the hope of these foreign governments that their own citizens will finally possess the wealth to buy the wares they produce because we no longer will be able to.</p><p> </p><p>The ironic part of all of this is that it takes a strong working class to be able to create a nation of consumers that we find essential for the health of the modern capitalist system that we have created. And what force helped create this strong working class in America? Unionism.</p><p> </p><p>It surely wasn't the 19th century robber baron model. If you want to see how that works just look towards Mexico. No wonder the average working class Mexican is so desperate to immigrate to here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JimJimmyJames, post: 498205, member: 11425"] I hate that term, the "global economy". It is almost used to imply that a global economy was invented in the last 20 years or so. The global economy is nothing new. Heck, Columbus looking for a faster trade route to India, in yesterdays "global economy", is how the New World had it's birth in the first place. What is new to the U.S. is while in the past, to paraphrase the famous sign over the Delaware river in Trenton, "America makes, the world takes", now the world makes and we take. And how did that happen? It happened because foreign nations capitilized on America's willingness to trade with nations who do not impose the same safety, environmental, and wage standards we have here in the U.S. Add to that the currency and tax manipulations these foreign countries use to circumvent our "free" trade agreements with them, and you have the condition we find our nation in today. The only way to compete with third world countries is to turn back the clock on all of the progress the American labor movement has made. Are we Americans willing to do that? And let's not forget, most of these nations are now growing in wealth not from exclusively improving their own citizens lot in life, but by selling to those who already have comparative wealth, Americans. But as our wealth diminishes as most of our factories move overseas, it most be the hope of these foreign governments that their own citizens will finally possess the wealth to buy the wares they produce because we no longer will be able to. The ironic part of all of this is that it takes a strong working class to be able to create a nation of consumers that we find essential for the health of the modern capitalist system that we have created. And what force helped create this strong working class in America? Unionism. It surely wasn't the 19th century robber baron model. If you want to see how that works just look towards Mexico. No wonder the average working class Mexican is so desperate to immigrate to here. [/QUOTE]
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