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Free Trade breaks the supply / Demand Balance |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 00:46 |
Free Trade Breaks the Supply / Demand BalanceThe most fundamental rule of any economy is the need for a balance between supply and demand. Free Trade has broken that balance. The supply-side has been making war on the demand-side for 40 years and now our economic system has completely broken down. They used Free Trade to undermine American workers and drive down their wages. More and more wealth has piled up on the supply side and workers on the demand-side no longer have money to consume the products and services offered by the supply-side. All over the world, consumers aren't buying, small business owners aren't investing (because they have no customers) and global corporations are paying such lousy wages in third world countries that workers there have no money for anything beyond their basic survival. This isn't a just a Recession- it's a 'race to the bottom' that is hurting everyone. And it has to be stopped! |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:48 |
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New Rules for Trading Nations |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Saturday, 09 January 2010 22:41 |
New Rules for Trading NationsThe top obligation for political and government leaders should be to create the conditions necessary for all citizens to be able to earn a living and support their families at a level that rewards their labor and incentivizes them to want to work. Minimum wage DOES NOT adequately reward a worker, especially when menial labor generally requires the most effort in the worst conditions. Any politician that fails to secure economic opportunity should be immediately kicked out of office. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 10 January 2010 14:03 |
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The State of the U.S. Economy- 2010 |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 17:22 |
The State of the U.S. Economy- 201015 million long-term unemployed, an additional 6 million under-employed and millions more that have given up looking for work or gone into early retirement.12 million American families are losing their homes.The government is running up trillions of dollars in debt trying to keep the economy from completely collapsing. And government and business leaders are talking about the situation as if they were discussing baseball scores. They have broken the fundamental laws of economics and then they wonder why the economy isn't working. No other Nation has leaders that are as profoundly ignorant as the political and corporate leaders in the United States.What are you going to do about it? |
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Last Updated on Friday, 08 January 2010 01:47 |
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Past Presidents Against Free Trade |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 15:59 |
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PAST PRESIDENTS AGAINST FREE TRADE: President Lincoln was a "Protectionist" and a proponent of High Tariffs, even with all the other responsibilities of the Civil War. Lincoln prevented the U.S. Railroad companies from purchasing less expensive railroad cars and engines from England, so the U.S. could develop large scale manufacturing capabilities in steel and other necessary products. Lincoln is quoted: "the abandonment of a protective trade policy must result in increase of both useless labour, and idleness; and so, in proportion, must produce want and ruin among our people." [The ultimate most efficient world wide Free Trade process is the use of Slave Labor as it was prior to the Civil War.] President Teddy Roosevelt said in 1895; "Thank God I am not a Free-Trader, In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber. Every class of our people is benefited by the Protective Tariff." President William McKinley besides calling it "national looting" stated it in the finest logical detail: "Free Trade in the United States (among the states) is founded upon a community of equalities and reciprocities. It is like the obligations of a family. But the foreign producer had no right or claim to equality with our own. He is not amenable to our laws. He pays no taxes. He performs no civil duties. He contributes nothing to the support, the progress, and glory of the nation. Free foreign trade results in giving our money, our manufacturers, and our markets to other nations, to the injury of our labor, our trades people, and our farmers". |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 16:01 |
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Why Does the Media Ignore Free Trade? |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 23:29 |
Why Does the Media Ignore Free Trade?Ever wonder why the most important change in our economic system has been virtually ignored by the media? Free Trade has devastated communities all across America. Millions of Americans have seen their jobs shipped offshore and almost ever worker has been told they can't have a raise because their employer has to compete with companies that have cheap foreign labor and yet, the newspapers and TV news rarely mention Free Trade. If they do say anything about it, they express strong support and ridicule 'protectionists.' The reason that they support Free Trade is because most of their advertising revenue comes from retailers that want Free Trade and illegal immigrants for cheap labor. If the media doesn't play along, the retailers threaten to pull their ads. Of course they're complete morons because they're the first businesses to suffer when consumers don't have money to spend. But don't expect any intelligence from these Philiistines. Just don't buy anything from the bastards. Let 'em go broke. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:09 |
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Strategically-managed Trade |
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Written by Karl Sturz
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:43 |
We Need Strategically-Managed TradeFree Trade does not work. It must be replaced by "Strategically Managed Trade", that benefits all U.S. Citizens and efficiently ends World Poverty. U.S. Socio-Economic Democracy is being gravely threatened as a result of making our country non-competitive in World and our own U.S. Markets due to WTO and FTA regulatory restrictions and will put an end to "Made In the U.S.A." ! Citizens for Strategically Managed Trade Policies
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Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:10 |
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Wages Going Down and Cost of Living Still Going Up |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 22:38 |
They Drive Down Our Wages And Then Raise Our TaxesFor the entire history of the United States wages have consistently gone up. Politicians, governments and corporations got into the habit of automatically raising taxes and prices year after year. The fundamentals have changed so that wages have been flat or declining since Reagan started screwing workers back in the 1980's. Free Trade will force incomes down in the United States and Europe until they are equalized with China so we can expect a declining economy for many years to come. It's time for us to slap the politicians and corporate parasites 'upside the head' and teach them the new rules. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 31 December 2009 03:31 |
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Fixing the Economy- Employing EVERY American |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Sunday, 29 November 2009 17:24 |
Fixing the Economy- Employing EVERY AmericanAll of the experts are now predicting that it will take YEARS for unemployment to come down to a reasonable level. They make these comments as if they are talking about mathematical equations rather than the lives of millions of Americans that are losing their homes and their life savings and their prospects for the future. How can they get away with this? Because they've done it before. They wrote off Black workers in America's cities in the 1960's and 1970's. They wrote off the shoe factories, and the steel mills, and the textile manufacturers and the furniture makers and we let them get away with it. And they'll keep doing it until we make them pay a price for their betrayal. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 29 November 2009 19:05 |
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