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Neoliberalism is Selling Our
Birthright Down the River
Kurt
Nimmo
Wednesday April 18, 2007
It seems the “free trader,” as in neolib horse trader,
Alan Blinder, a Princeton economist, received a lesson in reality
while at a “business summit” in Davos.
Blinder “was taken aback when… he heard U.S. executives
talk enthusiastically about all the professional jobs they could
outsource to lower-wage countries,” according to an op-ed
published in the Seattle Times. Blinder predicts upward to 40 million
high-skill American jobs will be “outsourced” to “other
countries,” that is to say the multinational slave gulag in
India and China.
“Businesses bemoan the alleged shortage of Americans trained
to do the work,” writes Froma Harrop. “But wait a second—the
law of supply and demand states that a shortage of something causes
its price to rise. Wages in information technology have been flat.”
No kidding. In the late 1990s, as a web designer and programmer,
I earned a decent wage. Now I earn a mere third of that wage, as
“computer programming, bookkeeping, graphic design and other
careers once thought firmly planted in American soil” are
being shipped to India.
“This vision for a competitive America seems to be a few
rich U.S. executives commandeering armies of foreign workers. They
don’t have to train their domestic workforce. They don’t
have to raise pay to American standards.”
Seems to be? More people need to understand the game plan here
is to shrink the American middle class and thus level the slave
labor gulag playing field. People need to stop navel gazing and
watching American idol and do some reading on neoliberalism and
globalism. Short of this, they have nobody to blame but themselves
as they slide toward the level playing field, otherwise known as
the race to the bottom.
“Skilled U.S. workers had better start looking out for their
interests. No one else is,” the Seattle Times concludes.
No, you think?
Once upon a time, Americans didn’t put up with having their
futures stolen out from beneath them. In 1786, Daniel Shays led
an armed uprising against taxes and crushing debt imposed on small
farmers in Massachusetts. Eight years later settlers in Washington,
Pennsylvania, in the Monongahela Valley, staged an insurrection
against the imposition of excise taxes on the production of whiskey.
Now Americans accept with nary a bleat all manner of taxes that
would have driven our ancestors to rebellion.
Sadly, I don’t expect them to resist the theft of jobs and
income, as the average American today is almost completely brainwashed
by non-stop propaganda dispensed by the corporate media.
But then homelessness and hunger have a funny way of motivating
people.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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