This whole thing about free trade....and globalisation....

They're making it appear as the US is the "victim" when in fact
its the American PEOPLE that are the victims. American CORPORATIONS
are reaping tremendous benefits from taking the jobs overseas.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/US/freetrade_031107_csm.html

Over and over again, I read these articles and notice the spin. They
hardly ever drive home the point that American companies could care
less about the American worker...except when it comes to buying their
products.

Where's the outrage? Companies such as Wal-Mart, who hire illegal
immigrant workers and pay them dirt, are front and center of this
issue yet everybody keeps on buying there. Why? Because Americans
are IN DEBT! Americans are up to their eye-balls in debt, with
outrageous mortgage payments...car costs, credit card over-indulgence,
etc ad nauseum. So they go to places like Wal-Mart and could care
less where or how these products get to the shelves...

Companies are getting away with murder because American are INDIFFERENT.
Even when they lose their jobs, Americans continue to be good
consumers... :eyes:
The US within the next 50 years will be a forgotten third-world
nation...or maybe a collection of city-states...

twice..i use regional shopping chains.. quality is better and walmart sucks... I do go to sams club tho...

and will NEVER go back.
I have a great disdain for this company because of their treatment
of women, elderly folks, and mentally challenged employees. Wal-Mart
represents the most evil aspects of capitalism.

Let's not even go to where they get their products from...

If you give a big corporation a tax break they may create jobs, but not in the USA. The way it is being set up is for workers to compete with workers for jobs rather than companies compete with companies fro profit.

If some English, German or French person had risen to superpower status and revoked local, state, and national laws in order to promote pilfering conquered territories there would be shouts of tyranny and colonization.

Imagine not being able to protect the environment in Wisconsin because an international corporation finds Wisconsin laws a barrier to global trade as represented by profitable gold mining. Or imagine the City of Milwaukee sued for its "monopoly" on the "market" for freshwater by a Swiss seller of bottled water.

In addition to facilitating the migration of jobs to regions of low protection for workers and the environment, Globalization threatens democracy.

Corporations have no interest in nations, much less being citizens of states. That is the obvious truth as well as the received ideology of The Party. Thus the lack of outrage. Rather it is being applauded. Which would all be acceptable to me if they admitted that corporations are not to be seen legally as persons or to pretend that corporations are American in any sense, particularly in the sense of citizens.


They strive and get to have it both ways.