We need a conference that will bring together all of the people and organizations that oppose Free Trade. The pro Free Traders have their World Trade Organization (WTO) Conferences and their G20 Summits and the DOHA round of trade talks. Opposition is kept well away to make them look like radical 'protesters' instead of intelligent people with a sensible position on global economics. It's time to bring together the majority of the public that are absolutely against Free Trade.
The following organizations are leaders in the fight against Free Trade. Give them a call and ask them to organize a conference:
Alliance for American Manufacturing 202-393-3430 www.aamfg.org
Or contact your Union and ask them to get a conference organized.
We also need a TV news program that looks at the economy from the worker/consumer viewpoint instead of the Wall Street side. Wall Street makes its money off the Main Street economy but their interests are generally diametrically opposed. Bad news on Main Street like corporate layoffs cause share values to go up and, since it's only Wall Street's interests that are talked about in the media, people tend to think that 'What's good for Wall Street is good for America.' They couldn't be more wrong.
Obama's Bailout Helping GM Move 17 More Plants Offshore
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Written by Mike Griffon
Sunday, 17 May 2009 20:50
OBAMA'S BAILOUT HELPING GM TO MOVE 17 MORE PLANTS OUT OF U.S.
Isn't it nice that our political leaders are using our tax dollars to help multi-national corporations move American jobs offshore? Politicians are really helping the working man... in Mexico. Remember that the next time they ask for your vote.
General Motors is expected to go into bankruptcy in the next few days. The Company has already said that they expect to close more factories and move their production to Mexico and China, and they will use $50 billion of US taxpayer money to do it. We are in the wonderful position of financing our own jobs being sent offshore. And if you think this will 'save' GM, remember that Chinese companies will be exporting their cars to the US by 2010 and they will put every manufacturer in the US out of business, including the Japanese plants in the South.
In the future, when the history of the United States is written, it will be recorded that the Nation fell because of the profound, unbelievable stupidity of its political leaders and the greed and corruption of its corporate leaders. America's economy isn't suffering from an accidental recession; it's being murdered by our leaders. If you want to see the future of America, take a good look at General Motors and the State of Michigan. "As GM goes, so goes America" is as true now as it was in 1958.
Why don't they just come out and tell the American People the truth, that we'll have to lower our wage demands to the level of our competitors in the third world, namely about $3600 per year? That's the absolute result of Free Trade. And don't think that your job will be safe. If the wages of manufacturing workers go down to that level, everyone else's wages will have to drop as well. We'll have to go back to what people earned in the 1950's and 1960's, about $60 per week. Oh, and how will people pay their 30-year mortgages at $1200 per month if their income is only $240 a month? The Bankers haven't thought Free Trade through to its logical conclusion. We shouldn't be surprised considering the profound stupidity they showed in causing the Wall Street crash.
Call your Congressmen and tell them to end Free Trade NOW! (By phone 202-224-3121 or by email www.house.gov and www.senate,gov - and - President Obama 202-456-1414 and www.whitehouse.gov)"
US Chamber of Commerce Exporting America's economy
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Written by Mike Griffon
Monday, 04 May 2009 16:07
US Chamber of Commerce- EXPORTING AMERICA'S ECONOMY, JOB BY JOB
US Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue meets with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China in Beijing, 01/13/2009. Good buddies, conspiring.
Tom Donohue has done more to increase the power of Communist countries like China, Vietnam and Russia than anyone in history including Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Ho Chi Minh. WHAT AN AMERICAN! The American people should force the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to stop using "U.S." in front of their name, especially considering the massive damage they have done to our economy. Donohue probably isn't a registered Communist but he is originally from Hell's Kitchen in New York City where he learned how to be a thug and con artist. If this guy ever gets within six feet of you, keep your hand on your wallet.
The Chamber of Commerce is also leading opposition against President Obama's plan to curb offshore tax havens because the Chamber wants to keep tax breaks for global corporations and the rich and offload the tax burden onto middle class and poor Americans.
To read the GAO report on offshore tax havens, click on the link below
Have you seen this guy on his TV ads against a national health care plan? Look him up on the Internet and you'll find out that he isn't a 'grassroots' activist for patients rights as he claims in his ads, he's actually the former owner of Columbia/HCA Corporation one of the largest operators of for-profit hospitals and also the company that paid the largest fine ever for Medicare fraud. His interest in blocking a national single-payer government health care plan for all Americans is not for protecting patients but actually to maintain the current system that allows business interests to skin the American people for hundreds of billions of dollars every year. When you think about the mess American health care is in, take a good look at this guy, he and his ilk are the source of the problem.
His latest TV ad features comments by Dr. Karol Sikora of Britain and Dr. Brian Day of Canada, each of whom claim that the health care systems in their countries leave patients without proper medical care. Both are the equivalents of Rick Scott, doctors that have made millions from professional medical companies that they run and they want more; they DO NOT want government health care plans to limit their ability to rip-off patients while they are in medical distress.
Rick Scott is funding his TV ads with $40 million of his own money; does that sound like a 'grass-roots' campaign as he claims? These con artists are typical of business interests that make claims that they care about patients or small-business or small-farms or poor little children when actually the are pushing policies that benefit huge corporations; they know that they can't get sympathy for their cause when its for mega-corporations, they need to appeal for 'the poor and downtrodden'. They are the worst of the worst because they betray the fundamental principle of a health democracy, the essential need for informed citizens that can make good decisions about issues that affect our Nation.
Look these clowns up on Google and see the truth for yourselves. In fact, whenever you hear anything in the media that concerns you, check the source of the information. There's a massive industry operating in America whose sole intent is to deceive the public on important issues.
Last question, if the health care systems in Canada, Britain, France, Germany and other countries are as bad as these clowns claim, do you really think that the citizens of those countries wouldn't change their systems? Talk to any Canadian and you'll find that virtually everyone loves their health care system and they wouldn't give it up under any circumstances. The US health care industry is the biggest single business in the United States and the people that are making a fortune off it want to keep their 'gravy train' going; they don't want government to step in and provide an alternate health care plan at reasonable cost for families. If they think their private health care system is so much better, let them compete with a government plan and the public will decide which is best. They already know they would lose that's why the companies want to block the government alternative. Note that Congressman and Senators already have such a plan and NONE of them use private health care plans.
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