Membaca tulisan dibawah John Stossel tidak keliru, Siapapun tahu bahwa konsumen akan selalu membeli dan mencari produk yg optimal dengan harga semurah mungkin, bisa jadi segelintir orang akan tetap membeli produk karena memakai merk. Dan produk tersebut tentunya akan ada segmen pasar tersendiri, sedang umumnya segmen pasar yg paling besar berada di kelas tengah dan bawah.
Bagaimanapun free trade sudah ditanda tangani, semua mau tidak mau menerima kenyataan tsb, ada yg di untung kan dan ada yg di rugi kan, dalam hal ini negara negara yg berpendapatan tinggi akan mengalami kerugian, di satu sisi masyarakat menengah bawah senang ada produk murah dilain sisi jumlah pengangguran bisa bertambah karena pabrikannya tidak kuat utk bersaing. Issue dumping sama halnya dengan issue black market, dimana Indonesia mengalaminya puluhan tahun lalu, bagi pemain black market mereka asyik tidak bayar pajak, pekerja terbatas, sedang perusahaan yg sudah mendapat licency malah terkena cost yg tinggi sehingga harga jual antara black market dengan harga resmi bisa mencapai 25 persen. Dengan segala cara perusahaan semampu mungkin menahan masuknya produk black market, dan sampai kapanpun tidak akan pernah berdaya melawannya. Dengan adanya freetrade halnya black market menjadi berkurang, memang untuk produk tertentu kedodoran, dan pengusaha pun tidak akan tinggal diam, istilah dumping pun di ikuti, mengenai karyawan ?............tinggal hitung hitung an di rumah kan sedang produk tetap ada, apa dibubarkan. Hal nya Amerika dan Negara maju lainnya black market kurang besar eksistensinya, selain data pasar yg sudah ada dengan ketepatan yg bisa mencapai 90 %, membuat perusahan lebih mudah melakukan pengawasannya, juga bagian imigrasi dan dirjen pajak bekerja maksimal, sehingga yg produk black market yg masuk menjadi sulit, ditambah lagi nilai produk ( COGS ) dibandingkan dengan Harga Jual tidak berbeda jauh. Dan solusinya bagi negara maju mengenai free trade sama hal nya dengan John Stossel....no clue. Untuk aku, tetap saja bubarkan negara negara bagian menjadi negara sendiri sendiri seperti halnya USSR, dimana setelah lepas mampu lebih mandiri, dan.........tutup pintu 10 tahun, khusus utk melakukan brainwash ala Mao, karena terbukti setelah pintu tertutup 30 tahun an, begitu terbuka bisa melakukan apa saja karena masyarakatnya mampu bergerak sesuai dengan amanat kongres partai, bisa juga amanat DPR/MPR ( yg sayangnya utk Indonesia sudah di sia sia kan sewaktu 1999-2004 lalu ) sur. ++++ by Dustin Ensinger on November 13, 2011 - 9:00am Conservative windbag and Fox “News” host John Stossel, doesn’t like intervention into his beloved free market. In fact, he dislikes intervention into the free market so much so that he enjoys buying products made in sweatshops and isn’t very fond of domestic manufacturers. In a column titled “The Stupidity of Buy American” at the birther conspiracy touting website World Net Daily, Stossel claims that domestic procurement policies are actually bad for the nation’s economy. "'Buy American' is a dumb idea. It would not only not create prosperity, it would cost jobs and make us all poorer,” he claims. His argument essentially boils down to the fact that products can be made overseas much cheaper, saving consumers money. Without good paying jobs, consumers will not have be able to afford to buy American anymore. And, if everyone thinks like Stossel – and most of the captains of industry do – there would be nothing left to make in America. For the past 10 years, America has lost, on average, 15 manufacturing facilities each day because of free market zeal and greed. Stossel readily acknowledges that the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs often leads to Third World workers producing goods in deplorable conditions for pennies on the dollar. He’s fine with that, too. “I'm for free trade, but trade means you get the lowest price, and that might mean you buy something from what some people call a sweatshop,” he writes. “The name itself conveys abuse.” Stossel says that, yeah, the conditions may be deplorable and workers may be being exploited, but, hey, at least they are working. He doesn’t think sweatshop is a fair term, either. But if little kids are working in some Third World sweatshop so that he can get a cheaper iPad, it’s not his fault. It’s those greedy politicians intervening in the free market that are to blame for the sweatshop. And just in case you thought about using your conscious when making a purchase, if you considered being a caring human being instead of a mindless consumer, Stossel has a warning for you: “If you pay more for coffee, you'll have to buy less, or less of something else. That hurts other workers. We all should heed Henry Hazlitt's famous economics lesson: Look beyond the immediate effects and beneficiaries,” he writes. “You may be accomplishing the opposite of what you intend.” In conclusion, John Stossel is does not have a clue. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
