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LadyEllen -> RE: What's good about overseas outsourcing? (1/26/2008 4:06:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: domiguy
It's entertaining to watch those which cannot seem to grasp that we do live in a global economy...There is no going back. It's over. You better position yourself to profit from this event....Blame everything on the outsourcing of jobs and illegal immigration. lol. Those are obviously the only two reasons that this country is on the brink of a serious recession.
No, sorry - we can reverse this process and fairly easily, albeit with a significantly painful period of readjustment - but then we have a significantly painful period in adjusting to this brave new world already. The difference is in that by continuing down this present road we can only end up weaker, whilst the suffering of the other road leads us to being stronger.
We do this by insisting that we get out of those trade deals which adversely affect our people, instituting Anti Dumping Duties to level the market for cheap imports of products which we can make ourselves and making trade deals which benefit our people as a whole. But we only get to do that when we reform our electoral systems such that those paying for campaigns are not the very same few who benefit from the situation we are in and moving steadily deeper into.
Now, I expect to be bombarded for saying this, with how much it would affect the standings of our currencies, our GDP and so on. No doubt endless statistics and economic performance figures will rapidly wing their way to show how "damaging" my policy would be. Fair enough - but every last one of such responses will prove only one thing, and that is that supporters of the current situation totally miss the point and the wider consequences of the road we're on.
And the point is multiple, as are the wider consequences. And its all to do with "soft" sociological and psychological aspects of what it means to be a citizen, a society and a nation - things which are difficult to measure, except when it all goes wrong and we have generations of dispossessed and rejected citizens who no longer consider themselves citizens, a society which is anything but social and a nation which is nothing more than a subject of the world economy, and whose wealth has been transferred elsewhere; and as I'll remind readers, wealth is not the same as money. Of money there is plenty and always will be - albeit that it will more and more pass only to those few running the show, but even these happy few will have little wealth if any.
Either we as individuals, we as societies, we as peoples get to decide what is best and what is not for ourselves, and take the power to make sure we can achieve that end, or we submit to the whims and wills of powers that seek only their own benefit with regard for us only for so long as we are of use. And the advice that we cannot beat them, so we'd best join them......... did anyone see that film The 300? Are we really so easily bought?
Our nations exist to provide their peoples with the best collective circumstances. If they do not accomplish this function - if they exist only to benefit a small minority at the total expense of the remainder, then they are failed and due conquest. Such conquest can come from within by way of revolution, but the way things are now the conquest will undoubtedly be from outside - for this campaign is already underway and at the gates. Indeed, our increasing status as vassals of the world market may indicate that the gates are already long since breached.
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