Arthur, Something like a million Mexicans have proceeded north to get the low wages that Bly reports.
I would ask why? Harry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur wrote: >From > >http://www.newsscan.com/newsscan/newscup.html > >WORTH THINKING ABOUT: GLOBAL DOWNSIDE > > Poet and social commentator Robert Bly's perspective on business >globalization is a dark view indeed: > "Many columnists recently have detailed the rapid decline in citizen >participation, in fraternal orders, church sodalities, precinct caucuses, >parent-teacher associations, and so on. The heat for public welfare is >cooling. > "Some of the feeling of abandonment goes back to the economic fact >that the transnational corporations are abandoning the United States. A >vice-president of Colgate-Palmolive observed: 'The United States does not >have an automatic call on our resources. There is no mindset that puts this >country first.' > "Multinational executives work to enhance the company, not the >country. The market in which the new elites operate is now international in >scope. Their fortunes are tied to enterprises that operate across national >boundaries. Their loyalties are international rather than regional, >national or local. They have more in common with their counterparts in >Brussels or Hong Kong than with the masses of Americans not yet plugged >into the network of global communications... > "The transnational executives don't feel responsibility either, to >any country -- Mexico, for example -- currently being 'developed.' On the >contrary, if wages rise in Mexico, thousands of factories will move >elsewhere. During the last thirty years an industrial force made of more >than thirteen hundred plants has grown all along the Mexican border, >encouraged by low wages and freedom from any social obligations such as >health care or prevention of environmental pollution. Mexico will be >abandoned when cheaper labor turns up elsewhere. Free trade actually means >that the transnational corporations have won their battle to make working >people all over the globe interchangeable. It is no surprise to anyone to >say that business has effectively become our government, and now rules >American life on all levels." > >See >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679781285/newsscancom/ref=nos >im >for Bly's book "The Sibling Society" -- or look for it in your favorite >library. (We donate all revenue from our book or other recommendations to >adult literacy programs.) ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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