The issue isn't globalization. The issue is Patriotism.
The people who support moving American jobs overseas and forcing Americans into pittance jobs is merely an indication of the total lack of Patriotism on the part of those who both enable it and support it.
The economic aspects are beginning to make themselves perfectly clear. Now we have the majority of Americans living in substandard conditions working pittance service jobs, where they once had meaningful employment at wages that could get them ahead, rapidly sinking into a whirlpool of credit debt in an attempt to maintain a middle class lifestyle. This has led to a credit epidemic, enabled by a Party that has brought us back to the credit policies of the 1920's, and with all of the New Deal safety netting removed because the Republican Party, led by Trent Lott's Senate Banking Committee in 1995 and onward, which said that such safety nets were antiquitated, and holding businesses back. Word on the street is that the credit bubble the Republican Party has created again in the image of the 1920's will soon burst.
Industries that should have been protected from being exported are now overseas, and this poses a National Security crisis, not just a bad situation at home.
One thing we can be grateful for when the credit bubble bursts, and it will, and if word on the street is anything close to the truth, it will in the near future, is that we do know who made it possible: The Republican Party.
I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and The Republican Party deserves full credit for the coming disaster. Let's not make the mistake our grandparents and great grandparents did in 1932, let's not keep any of them around, after all, they proved that they'll just do it again.
I will add that there is also a minority of Democrats that have helped enable this too, and they'll get theirs too, from within.
If the Republicans don't change their ways soon, and start correcting some of the blowback from their AGENDA, they will find that all they have created is a Permenant Democratic Majority.
President Truman had these Republicans down pat, as did Hillary Clinton.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. We won't even give Republicans a third chance.
Oh, and this new bankruptcy bill in Congress is worded to make sure that when people sink, that they fall all the way to the bottom, while at the same time protecting corporations by allowing them to stash most of their assets in trusts that cannot be touched by the same courts. Word is that Mark Kennedy will vote YES on this, probably by Wednesday.
Oh, and when the bubble bursts, the Revolution will be televised.
The Goldsteins wrote:
Thomas Friedman visits St. Paul. New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman will speak on globalization at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. The talk will be based on his recent book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century.
The talk is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. They will be available beginning April 15 at Whole Foods Stores in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Jules Goldstein Mac-Groveland
On Apr 2, 2005, at 2:35 AM, CRISTY DELACRUZ wrote:
Thomas Friedman writes about globalization in "The Lexus and the Olive Tree," both the positive aspects such as the spread of ideas and innovation, and the negative ones like massive worker displacements and the proliferation of the junk food emporia like McDonalds, etc. The issue is quite complex, of course, but I wish companies would focus more on long-term strategies of developing their own workforces rather than short-term cost savings of outsourcing good jobs.
jim
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"Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today."
United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995
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"The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom..." -- Benito Mussilini, 1932
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/patriot2-hi.pdf -- The GOP agrees
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