Bad news on globalization

[bearfan454]

Mrs bearfan got a part time job at Applied Materials as an on site rep for the co. she works for in Round Rock Tx. Applied is planning on tripling their sales in the next few quarters and almost all of it is overseas ! These big companies are moving everything they can out of the USA. I don't think we will ever get back to where we were under Clinton as for manufacturing jobs. Do you guys ?

[IrateCitizen]

1. Where we were under Clinton???

Clinton was a huge enabler and proponent of just the kind of phenomenon you're describing here. Do you think that this kind of thing just started out under Bush?

NAFTA and the WTO, during the Clinton years, were two of the primary engines behind the global empowerment of corporations. Now they are simply exercising this power, pushing it as far as they can.

Bill Clinton is as much to blame for this current state of affairs as George W. Bush. Betrayal of the American Public through trade policies that respect only corporate citizenship is a wholly bipartisan affair.

[bearfan454]

4. I know he was

He started NAFTA and that was the beginning of globalization. I still don't want all of the jobs going to China, Korea, Pakistan, and anywhere else that the labor is under a dollar an hour.

[mac2]

2. As fast as they can before Bush is put out of office.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

3. And the house of cards collapses under President Kerry

Democrats take the blame. I don't like this one bit.

[bearfan454]

5. I don't either.

Maybe the "power elite" can at least slow it down a little.

[Deja Q]

8. Then we need to tell the "centrists" to...

can't even say it here, it's a bit harsh, and damn well rightfully so...

Clinton was a centrist and puke-enabler. He loved bipartisanship. And the pukes' motto is "no good deed goes unpunished".

THAT is why we need liberals, not the waffling wishy-washy puke-enabling centrists. The pukes are just taking advantage of them and then spinning things to their advantage.

And I'm fuckin' tired of it.

But it is too late...

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Reading and weeping

For those who said globalization was a great benefit to mankind while the rest of us said it was a race to the bottom, read it; the rest of us are weeping.

[bearfan454]

7. I live in the Austin Tx hi tech employment arena.

If I didn't make circuit boards for bombs, I probably wouldn't have a job right now.