U.S. Submits Revised Offer to WTO to Liberalize Service Industries

[lovuian]

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Published: Jun 1, 2005






GENEVA (AP) - The United States submitted a revised offer to liberalize its service industries to the World Trade Organization in time to meet a May 31 deadline, trade officials said.
The deadline for WTO members to submit revised offers to liberalize services, such as banking, telecommunications and transport, expired late Tuesday.

Negotiations on services are part of the current round of treaty talks, launched in Doha, Qatar, in 2001, which aim to slash subsidies, tariffs and other barriers to global commerce

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WHAT DOES LIBERALIZE MEAN??? especially to a Conservative...

Screw American Workers more???

[Robbien]

1. Liberalize means Neo-Liberalism, in other words privatization

It is what the WTO is forcing on all the world's economies, including ours. Soon Bechtel will be claiming our rainwater is property of their company as they did in Bolivia.

[lovuian]

2. This has gotten Way out of control!!! So how does this work

with our service jobs???

[Robbien]

3. It means our service jobs have to be opened up to global bidding

all of them. Its also one of the reasons BushCo is pushing CAFTA so hard these days because they need the labor pool over there.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. If they get what they want

you will see corporations, both domestic and foreign, running services like city water systems, city garbage, sewage systems, health departments, etc. Many of the federal, state, and local government agencies will become privatized. Think things are bad now? When GATS, FTAA, and CAFTA kick in, people will be fighting over $6.00 an hour Wal Mart jobs.

[MisterP]

5. will there be plans for "resolve"--that is, military suppression of

dissent, opposition, and protest, like in every blazing other privatization and deregulation scheme?
Heil Eisenfrau Thatcher!

[Robbien]

6. Why do you think it was so importantant to get that water cannon

up and running so fast.

In Bolivia today, the protesters shut down LaPaz again. One police division refused to keep order. The police from that regiment had decided, by consensus, to stop going into the streets “to gas our women and our own children.”

By the way, most poor people in Bolivia have electricity and gas, but no running water. They have to buy it from a tanker who sells in in the streets.