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If we reduce our ridiculously high standard of living, develop our local economies, local food and energy production, we can be OK for many decades. We ARE OK even now regardless of what politicians want us to believe.
How is standard of living 'ridiculously high'?
Compared to other wealthy nations, such as in Western Europe, Australia, Canada, etc.
I don't count having big houses or cars, or having a lot of crap.
You may be right on that , but the resurgence of hand made items in the U.S. (on a small scale still)means I'm not the only one that thinks like this. Globalism is a great thing for a corporation, a very good thing if you are part of the developing middle class in a low cost country, and a very bad thing for the U.S. middle class.
And since companies are now global, the no longer care about their former customers, the middle class because they have the world as their customer. That would have been fine, had our government not made it so easy for these companies to just start up operations in those countries. Once again, greed overpowered patriotism. Isn't it a problem when we drop our standard of living to help develop middle classes in other countries ? Our government is already feeling the burn from a shrinking middle class.
That's fine, all things are cyclical and patriotism will rise up again. Hopefully people can ride it out until then.
Sounds like too many people got use to America being the engine of the world and didn't prepare for the new world once a good chunk of the world caught up.
Sounds like too many people got use to America being the engine of the world and didn't prepare for the new world once a good chunk of the world caught up.
The problem is that there's no balance. Companies can go global, non-Americans are given access to both American employers and those in their own country, but Americans are pretty much stranded to the local job market that is quickly deserting them, because other countries generally reserve the job market for their own citizens. So economically, globalism screws middle-class Americans perhaps more than anyone else on earth.
I would support trade deals and globalism if it meant work in other countries was as accessible to Americans as it is for their citizens to work for US-owned companies.
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The problem is that there's no balance. Companies can go global, non-Americans are given access to both American employers and those in their own country, but Americans are pretty stranded to the local job market that is quickly deserting them, because other countries generally reserve the job market for their own citizens. So economically, globalism screws middle-class Americans more than anyone else on earth.
Of course it's not balanced, from labor costs to environmental rules, the developing world has an advantage which will continue to erode as more countries become more wealthy. There are plenty of jobs available to Americans, we simply don't have the skills to do most of them... Especially the 45 and up crowd.
Developed countries' middle class has been hurt the most, it's not just America's as globalism has hurt developed countries the most.
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I would support trade deals and globalism if it meant it was equally easy for Americans to obtain the right to work in other countries as it is for their citizens to work for US-owned companies.
What makes you think it is easy for non-Americans to work here? Compared to other developed nations, we have more red tape.
The problem is that there's no balance. Companies can go global, non-Americans are given access to both American employers and those in their own country, but Americans are pretty much stranded to the local job market that is quickly deserting them, because other countries generally reserve the job market for their own citizens. So economically, globalism screws middle-class Americans perhaps more than anyone else on earth.
I would support trade deals and globalism if it meant work in other countries was as accessible to Americans as it is for their citizens to work for US-owned companies.
Exactly. There is no where on Earth where Americans can get a work permit and go to and make more money there than they can here and bring it home and live like kings, but people from ALL over come here and do just that.
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