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The U.S. government is pouring billions into General Motors in hopes of reviving the domestic economy, but when the automaker completes its restructuring plan, many of the company's new jobs will be filled by workers overseas. According to an outline the company has been sharing privately with Washington legislators, the number of cars that GM sells in the United States and builds in Mexico, China and South Korea will roughly double.
how much can the government care about its workers if it is willing to ship the jobs overseas? wages have already decreased in this country due to outsourcing, as well as CHEAP LABOR INSOURCING, yet they expect the taxpayers to fund this outsourcing!
will our government ever address the issues that affect american workers or is the government too removed from the lives of the everyday worker?
Funny how we as a people fought so hard to keep John McCain from serving "George Bush's third term", only to have Barack Obama do precisely that.
McCain would have been Richard Nixon's third term. Not sure if Naomi Klein points out that the global corporations are just that - global entities. Obama's doing what he can but really what can be done about outsourcing? Until India's and China's wages rise enough and ours fall enough, we're stuck in an unpleasant reality.
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it's really easy. it's called buying american. this market flourishes because of hypocrites. people who get mad that jobs are shipped overseas, but enjoy their cheap products made in china.
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McCain would have been Richard Nixon's third term. Not sure if Naomi Klein points out that the global corporations are just that - global entities. Obama's doing what he can but really what can be done about outsourcing? Until India's and China's wages rise enough and ours fall enough, we're stuck in an unpleasant reality.
1. The use of a disaster (hence the name) of natural or man-made origin to allow for the global elites to re-engineer society in ways it would not allow otherwise.
2. Public indemnity of private losses.
3. Transfer of power from elected bodies to corporate ones.
Funny you mention Richard Nixon; his Chilean adventure (1973, Allende) was the first time disaster capitalism was tested in a real world scenario.
Remember Obama's pledges to "reopen NAFTA", and his campaign commericals about "Washington selling workers out" as the factories in Pennsylvania were dismanteled and shipped to China?
That's what got him elected, you know?
There is much Obama can do about out-sourcing. But he is just another corporate putz who won't do anything, as he is by of and for the money over the workers.
Suggest you read:
"The Myth of Free Trade", by Dr. Ravi Batra.
"The Silent Depression", by Dr. Wallace Peterson.
And "The Great U-Turn" by Dr. Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, to understand the process from its inception and how it can be stopped.
Before it stops us.
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it's really easy. it's called buying american. this market flourishes because of hypocrites. people who get mad that jobs are shipped overseas, but enjoy their cheap products made in china.
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I believe it's called "tariffs", the one word that the late George Carlin missed that corporate media won't allow to be said or printed.
But even then it's not a done deal, as the bribes (this is labor racketering, after all) which began under Bush I, and continued under Clinton and Dubya are probably still flowing.
And now we find that GM was going to take the stimulus money to build a new plant in Mexico.
We all need to wake up people, no matter what party or group you belong to we are weak as heck as Americans being divided like this.
We all need to stand together to get our elected officials to stop the massive imports and exporting of our jobs by any means possible.
If we can make it, produce it or grow it here we need to be doing that.
They have lifted tons of tariffs on imported items into our country yet those countries wont allow American goods even in their country.
We should penalize any company that has ever produced something here and moved abroad with huge tariffs on their products if they want to bring it back into the US.
Hershey Chocolate is one of them, they laid of thousands of workers in Pa to make candy in Mexico. We need to nail them with huge tariffs so they will be forced to make them back here again.
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