It's not our war!
So do we really want American workers to wage a "competitive" war against the workers of Asia?
That's what Wall Street and corporate American wants and that's what it really means!
What we really need now is international labor solidarity and cooperation in order to defeat the international globalist attack on the living standards and economic/political rights of ALL workers in the United States, Asia, Europe and the entire world, not super nationalistic warfare between the workers of different lands.
A real world-wide war is going on right now .... against us .... by the ruling rich. And they are winning!
But, President Obama said nothing about that in his speech.
We didn't expect him to.
And as Jack Rasmus pointed out President Obama said:
Nothing about how to help the more than 7 million homeowners who have, or the additional 4 million who will soon, face foreclosures and evictions. Absolute silence about the dozens of states and hundreds of local governments in deepening fiscal crisis and approaching bankruptcy-and the hundreds of thousands of public employees who will pay for that bankruptcy with their jobs, wages, pensions, and health benefits. OK, some vague references to infrastructure and alternative energy jobs-over the next 25 years. Paid for by Obama's explicit reference to cut Medicare and Medicaid benefits for tens of millions.
But the most disturbing element of Obama's State of the Union address last Tuesday night was his firm commitment to cut corporate taxes even further, and thereafter to move on to ‘simplify' the US tax code in general-i.e. a code word in policy circles for further reducing top tax brackets which always results in tax cuts for the wealthiest households.
What Obama proposed in his address on Tuesday was a classic continuation of a supply side, ideological program focusing on business tax reduction, supplemented by various other measures to reduce business costs at the expense of consumers, workers, and others.
The problem in the US economy, now experiencing the most lopsided (and weakest) economic ‘recovery' from any recession since 1947, is not too high business costs or insufficient supply side (business tax) stimulus. The problem is demand side-i.e. not enough income for the 90 million middle and working class households. That insufficient income means first and foremost not enough jobs. And Obama last Tuesday night said nothing of substance about how to create jobs today or even in the next one to two years. Job creation was relegated to the distant future, stretched out over the next 25 years.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/26 (he failed to mention that little fact in his SOTU)
and his favorite companies like General Electric have invested more money and created more jobs in China than in the United States! So he wants us to compete against his "free trade" pals in China, South Korea and India?
Nonsense.
Well, many of us understand what President Obama and Wall Streets plan is for "competing" with those "Asians".
President Obama and his Wall Street/Corporate friends will try to implement a bold austerity plan that will drastically cut the wages, benefits, pensions and government social programs for working people at home!
That will cheapen American labor and "make" American workers more competitive with "Asians" thereby making businesses even more profitable.
What's not to like about that forward looking plan .... if you're a corporate CEO?
The bottom line is that Wall Street and corporate America are clearly proposing a world-wide competitive race to the bottom by working people here against the workers in other nations.
And in that "race" we along with those "foreign" workers will be the biggest losers.
Only the world-wide rich can win that competition.
I don't want any part of that war against my brothers and sisters around the world.
Didn't that sort of thing help lead to World War I?
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