No Jobs, No Recovery

[ChromeFoundry]

Published: December 14, 2008

NAFTA and the sweetheart deal given to China and India must be canceled, otherwise the American worker and the financial stability of this nation will never recover. China's population is about six times the population of the United States, as is India's. The wage scale in both China and India is almost that of a shoe shine boy. The different wage scales in past history has required tariffs so as not to destroy the economies of all nations. Tariff is not a dirty word. It has been used to correct disparities in wages for thousands of years.

Outsourcing to the point of where we produce nothing is outrageous. America must re-build its industrial base, heavy industry and all, from the ground up. To agree to re-build our infrastructure and not our industrial base is sheer folly. This re-building must be done only with American products, not foreign.

Our industrial base allowed America to win World War II. We have no industrial base today. The American worker must demand this new administration cancel the trade deal with China and India and cancel NAFTA as its first order of business.

Bailouts cannot solve what our leadership has done to the American worker, starting with the ending of World War II. Lopsided trade deals appeased the greed of the few and have turned the financial world upside down. This problem is not only America's problem but is worldwide. The European Common Market and the creation of global industries, pitting workers worldwide against each other, have opened up a Pandora's Box. It can and is creating social unrest worldwide.

Our ports nationwide are busting at the seams with the products from all over the world, entering our nation duty free from nations whose wage scale is much lower than ours. This is why you have no job or if you are lucky enough to have a job, it does not keep you in your home.

http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2008/dec/14/no-jobs-no-recovery/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. NAFTA must go

as well as any laws or regulations that rewards companies that outsource.

[ihavenobias]

3. Amen. K & R

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

2. K&R

[OhioChick]

4. True.

Can't get any more simple than that...."No Jobs, No Recovery."

[machI]

7. Recovery starts at the bottom. Pouring money in from the top is just window dressing

We folks here in the hourly wage arena need to collect some wages to get the economy going again. Boosting stock prices so that CEOs can collect on their stock options ain't gonna do it.

[Azlady]

5. Agree - it is time for the healing of our country, take care of us first!

[MadMaddie]

6. That's exactly it

America must take care of itself before being able to help any other country.

American must have a manufacturing base, America should be able to sustain itself on goods made in America.

[ixion]

8. want jobs? regulate out-sourcing, or suspend it altogether

and bring the millions of jobs shipped overseas back to the US.

[Gman2]

9. Any product consumed here, must be produced here, no matter the

nationality of the parent corp. Otherwise, they are subject to TARRIFF. Duh. No matter the trade rule. Done. This will open up huge territories to entreprenuers that can more locally and efficiently serve real markets. The scary thing is that all those suits, will be in need of retraining in real work. The entire crash and burn of this country and so the world is their disdain for my profession. I am a moldmaker, process engineer, cad designer. And my real wages have been falling ever since Reagan. With H1B's, outsourcing, just in time staffing for industry, and all the other insults to those that actually DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO something for work, it is a hollow I told you so. I only hope that I can train a new generation to fill this new{old} needs. I have heart failure from Bushes not telling us all about BPA in plastics. Another insult to those like me. And as for product liability limits{250,000}, those must go too. And Bankruptsy must immediately be reverted, not for those like me that go broke from health issues, but so that entreprenuers have mojo. If you have one shot and you are dead forever, who in their right mind will risk perpetual slavery to start a company. No need to regulate or suspend, just tarriff all products so as to remove any advantage for remote positioning for our markets. And PEAK OIL will only drive this quicker.

[Fire1]

10. True. All of the above.

[Karenina]

11. Axiomatic.

:kick:

[sarcasmo]

12. I don't see a recovery for a decade, Michigan is in a violent downward spiral.

[OhioChick]

13. Don't feel alone...

Ohio is right there with you.