Protests and Trade Agreements

[liberalmike27]

Does anyone else find it interesting that while we're having the biggest protests in decades in New York, and hundreds of other cities, against corporate power, for jobs, hope, and opportunity, unaffiliated with either party, that Washington gives in to corporations, passing three more trade agreements in Panama, Columbia, and S. Korea, that will end up creating more unemployment, driving wages down of the new jobs, and exporting even more jobs, hope, and opportunity, and giving corporations exactly what they want.

And sadly, it's bipartisan. I think the cat is out of the bag on the fact that these trade agreements are doing anything BUT creating jobs in America, at least jobs that one can survive on--they are exactly why we have 20 percent under, unemployed, or partially employed, and that one wage will no longer support a person in America.

It's just sad they passed these agreements in the background of all the protests. What an amazing slap in the face of the American workers, and the protestors. It's like them saying "we don't give a damn what you protestors think."

[iscooterliberally]

1. Washington is full of CRAPTA. n/t

[liberalmike27]

2. I hear that

It's what you call Gall. They've got plenty of gall.

[AngkorWot]

3. "slap in the face of American workers"

The UAW disagrees with your assessment.

[liberalmike27]

4. I Think the UAW

And a lot of other existing (remaining?) unions have drank the Koolaid.

Hey, try looking at anecdotal evidence. Both parties have been selling this crap for decades now, 32 years to be exact. Well, even Carter began buying into the deregulation crap. Without tariffs, it's like trying to keep water in a bucket, when you punch new little "free trade" holes in it. It just keeps leaking out to other countries.

Hell I know there are a lot of shills for the idea of exporting the best American jobs, union and manufacturing jobs. Thomas Friedman is the head-shill, Milton Friedman, RIP, is another who devastated our economy.

But we've been doing these agreements for a long time now, with the idea they'll create more jobs than we lose. But in the process, for very easy to see reasons, we've cut demand, both nationally, and in the world. So all we've gotten is more unemployment, lower wages, and a lowering of the American standard of living. Hell, they did such a good job of screwing private sector workers, they needed another target. Recently they've been working on destroying union jobs, wages, and benefits, or even the right to bargain in the public sector. And unwitting dupes in the private sector are buying into it, probably a lot of the same who have been screwed. You know why? Americans are just that stupid.

I've said it for a while, but it's getting where the worst things our government does, seem to be the ones they do on a bipartisan basis, DOD/Pentagon spending, and globalization.