Posted by
T.D.R. on Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:33:58 PM
All these new trade agreements with these other countries are doing is representing the corporations that are based here in america,these agreements are primarily to get around paying the american blue collar workers the wages that has in the past kept thier standard of living where they can have a few benifits and have not arich life but a comfortable living.
My wife has worked for several large furniture manufacturers here in north ms,she has always made her production quotas well and is a very hard worker in the sewing departments.
These foremans who are responible to supervise these operations call department meetings several times a month and if you have any job complaints about working conditions or abusive language from supervisers you are quickly and regularly told if you people dont watch it we will just send the rest of these jobs to china.
Just about all the factories around here have moved part or all thier operations to china.
The clothing industry has been gone from this area for over 20 years.
American workers who want good health care and safe working conditions along with unemployment insurance,company matched retirement plans so you can survive when age takes you down.
THIS is what these corporations hate,makes no differance that they can make large profits while remaining here in the united states ,but because they have to give the american blue collar worker more of thier bottom line ,even thiough that would be more than most of us would see in a lifetime in just one year,they had rather go to countries where there are sub standard working conditions and no benifits,where they are litterally working for food only, selling thier children to be locked in and beaten into labor.
This is also why the so- called consevative media will not support candidates that do no support globaliism,
If you are like me and you think we should take care of the american worker first and that the over 200 billion dollar differance in what china imports into america and what america is allowed to import into china.
china has no problem passing extreme import laws to protect thier economy,but when someone like me advocates protecting our jobs here in america I am labeled by president Bush as a protectionist.
I am a very long admirer and student of study of thomas jeffersons life and his ideas .
He also believed in free trade with all no treaty entanglement with none.
But even he understood we had to control international commerce to also see that things were kept fair enough as to perseve the american economy as even then it was quite fradgile.
I do not advocate that we stop all trade with china but I beieive we must find a way to do it without seeling out american labor so these ceos and giant corporations can bypass the american worker in this so-called global economy.
Everyone in this country even if every adult could go back to school now could not find good paying jobs with these globalized corporation of wich most are operated by foriegn interest and have no need or compasion for the american blue collar workers who will soon be hungry and homeless.
Its because the media and the politicians and these big corporate companies are owned and controled by one and the same then thats why they continue to support treaties like nafta that like trade with china is designed to bypass american labor standards while driving down wage and benifits to blue collar american workers.
Until we here in the united states stand together as a people with a national soveirgn stance or we give in to work with sub standard working conditions ,then we will continue to see less and less operatunities to keep the lifestyles we have come to love and our forefathers worked to create.
We must demand this change for not only us but our childrens future