NEW WORLD ORDER MAY JUST BE EVOLUTION. AN APPEAL TO YOUR HEARTS!
THE report, with hundreds of thousands giving up the search for
work, and manufacturing jobs disappearing for the 43rd straight
month, jolted the White House. What was going on?
They’re calling it a “jobless recovery”-- Wrong. Millions of
jobs are being created. They’re just not being created here in the United
States. And if you’re a Buddhist, and wish others well first, that’s a good
thing.
The reasons our manufacturers MOVED can be traced to these four
acronyms: NAFTA, GATT, WTO, PNTR. These are the trade treaties and
global institutions that have permitted the historic substitution of foreign
labor for American labor, to the enrichment of the transnational companies that
look upon the Congress as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Numbers do not lie. In 2003, America exported $1 trillion in
goods and services. Almost 10 percent of GDP. Excellent. By the Clinton-Bush I
rule “ $1 billion in exports creates 20,000 jobs “ that $1 trillion worth of
exports created 20 million jobs. Exports are good for America.
The problem? We imported $1.5 trillion in goods and services.
That created or supported 30 million jobs abroad. But even this understates the
case. For foreign workers can be hired at a fraction of the cost of a U.S.
worker. Our $1.5 trillion in imports is probably supporting 150,000,000 jobs
abroad.
The U.S. trade deficit is the greatest foreign aid and wealth
transfer program in history, and our workers are paying for it by the loss to
their families of the American Dream.
Consider China. With some $150 billion in imports from China
last year, we supported 3 million jobs there. But as China’s wages are a tenth
of U.S. wages, or less, we are probably talking about 30 million or 40 million
jobs in China that are tied to exports to the United States.
For the Bush Republicans, the chickens are coming home to roost.
As Robert Novak reports, North Carolina welcomed Sen. John
Edwards home after his unsuccessful campaign as a hero. Why? At the end,
Edwards was a fiery adversary of the Bush-Clinton trade deals, a denunciator of
NAFTA, a champion of workers. Indeed, just as almost all the Democrats ended up
the campaign sounding like Howard Dean on Iraq, on trade they had all begun to
sound like Dennis Kucinich.
North Carolina may now be in play in November, says Novak. If
so, and Bush loses the Tarheel State, he loses the presidency.
At a weekend conference on immigration and jobs hosted by The
American Cause, which this writer chairs, one speaker blurted out that while he
voted for Bush in 2000, he would never do so again. The room erupted in
applause, though virtually all there were conservatives, and all had once been
Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan Republicans.
The crisis of the Bush dynasty is that, like the Bourbons of
France, they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. They do not understand
that we have entered a new world where the old ways no longer work. They yet
recite the old litanies that lost their relevance in the Reagan decade.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and India abandoned
state socialism, and China threw open its doors, a billion workers were thrown
onto a global job market to compete against Americans who earn 10 and 20 times
their wages.
The trade deals the U.S. government then negotiated, at the
behest of U.S. corporations, were not really trade deals at all, but enabling
acts. U.S. corporations were told: You can now shut your U.S. factories, shed
your U.S. workers, build your new plants in Mexico, China and India, and bring
your finished goods back to the United States, free of charge. Go for it!
As Paul Craig Roberts writes, what is happening is not “free
trade” in the Adam Smith sense where Portugal makes wine and Britain makes
textiles and ships. What is happening is the mass transfer of the “factors of
production” from First World countries to Third World countries.
What is happening in the world is what happened in America after
World War II, when factories moved to the Sun Belt in search of non-union labor
that would work as hard for half of what the high-paid workers in the
industrial heartland demanded and got.
Asia is the new Sun Belt, and America is fated to be the “Rust
Belt” of the world, as China becomes the factory floor of the global economy
and India, through outsourcing, its back office.
Republican free-trade dogma inhibits action to protect U.S.
jobs. The GOP is hogtied and hamstrung by its ideology in dealing with the
crisis. Its only response is to mutter
with Dr. Pangloss that it is all for the best.
The GOP is fortunate its opponent in 2004 is John F. Kerry, who
is as clueless as they are on the new world economy that has been designed, and
is operating, to loot America of her patrimony.”
NOTE: This piece came
from WorldNetDaily.Com
by Patrick J. Buchanan and is true, but hey, isn’t this kind of 3rd
world development eradicating famine and bugs in mosquito infested third world
countries? Sure, it’s coming out of our ribs but we are porky in the extreme.
We can scurry for a new kind of revenue and it doesn’t hurt us. Ex programmers
open art galleries. Or paint paintings.
Ex kindergarten teachers become owners of lucrative escort services.
Some kinds of jobs will always be good.
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