The
Exploitive Corporate Global Economy
with
Darrell Udelhoven
The Real Political
Issues are the Issues the Corporate Media Seldom Cover
Publisher of the Series - The Real Political Issues & People
Empowerment
©2000 - 2004
We have a Global Corporate Cartel
Economy
that is
based on Heinous Exploitation
The immoral unjust and heinous problem
we
have in the world today is the extremely Exploitive global economic
policy.
The existing global economic policy fosters corporate exploitation of
people
and the huge production cost differentials between Developed and
Developing
countries. This has resulted in 'noncompetitive' production cost
relationships
with increased concentration of wealth and power to the corporate
exploiters.
The false claim that it
substantially reduces
the price of manufactured goods is a fairy tale told by the
establishment
mouth pieces. The Transnational corporations are not competing against
the noncompetitive super low production cost advantages but rather are
merely setting their prices at or slightly under the prices of the
homeland
products that they are competing against for the consumer dollar.
The TNCs merely keep the huge
profit margins
they gain through their wholly unjust and immoral exploitation of a
noncompetitive
use of human and other resources. In the short term the corporation
wins
but in the long run everyone will lose including the corporation.
Why should we allow one economic
class to exploit
all the other economic classes including all of the economies of
countries
and their common citizenry. The idea that we have to allow corporations
to take advantage of noncompetitive situations and that somehow this
inhuman
exploitation is going to prosper those people so they can buy our
products
is just plain hog wash.
The wealthy corporatists' don't
understand that
they need to broaden the base of the demand side of the economy within
the Developed countries and the Developing countries in order to expand
and sustain an increase in consumption. This is the win-win global
economic
policy that increases everyone's wealth.
More Proofs of the General
Failures of
Global
Economic Policies
The special UN General Assembly
session in
Geneva last week concluded that poverty, inequality and insecurity have
increased in the world since globalism was launched. The number of
people
living in absolute poverty has increased from a billion five years ago
to 1.2 billion. It is the conclusion of a collaborative report prepared
by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization
for
Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations itself.
For more than 30 of the poorest
national economies,
real per capita incomes have been falling for the past 35 years. Asia
is
the only region in which poverty rates decreased during the past five
years.
Economic progress in Latin America
was weakened
by the increase in inequality - a global phenomenon. People in the
industrial
countries now are 74 times richer than those in the poorest. The wealth
of the three richest men in the world is greater than the combined GNP
of all of the least developed countries - 600 million people.
This impoverishment has occurred at
a time
when globalization was supposed to have launched the poor into
sustained
economic growth. It has done nothing of the kind.
Globalism as a phenomenon is the
product of
technological developments that allow integrated global communications
and the possibility of real time financial transactions and globalized
manufacturing. These are politically and socially neutral. How they are
used is what matters.
Globalism as ideology demanded that
these resources
be placed at the service of deregulated markets, and asserted that the
action of the marketplace would bring large social and political
benefits.
The experience of the last few
years has not
been the result of objective forces arising from the nature of the
economy
itself, or of irresistible technological forces. It has resulted from
deliberate
policy choices made by the governments of the advanced economies -
chiefly,
the U.S. government - acting in good faith, but also according to what
they considered their national interests and the particular interests
of
influential political constituencies in their financial and corporate
communities.
The belief that market forces would
naturally
enforce the general interest originated as the sectarian enthusiasm of
a minority of writers and theorists in Britain and the United States
beginning
in the 1970s, and it derives more from their political hostility to
so-called
big government than from economic analysis.
The movements' principal
intellectual progenitor
was Friedrich von Hayek, whose arguments concerning free markets
included
the contention that government regulation in the economic sphere is
connected
in a fundamental way to political tyranny.
Global Economic Slavery is
Comparable to
Slavery
in the USA South during the 17-1800's
Read history; the only
difference
is that the plantation owners' of the South bought imported slaves from
the "Import Slave Trade" and in our global economy the corporations
(are
practicing Export Slave Trading) export their industries to the slave
labor
of human beings that have few rights and have few if any better living
conditions than the Southern slaves had. Being free without the means
to
sustain life at decent levels can not be considered to meet the
Constitutional
standard of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
From a purely economic standpoint
the Southern
slaves would have been worse off had the plantation owners hired them
at
slave wage levels which could have resulted in an even lower standard
of
living. When worker's that have few if any enforced political or human
rights are hired at below slave labor living standards, from an
economic
hardship standpoint, they are worse off than a well kept slave.
We fought a horrible civil war over
exploitive
slave labor in America and now the Republicans and some Democrats
sanction
it for the Transnational corporations in the name of Free Trade. It is
a Trade in Free Slavery that these elected representatives are
sanctioning!
You know what I have stated here is TRUE and that it is THE Global Free
Trade REALITY!
Our global economic policies do not
improve
the general wealth of Developing countries or Developed countries by
indulging
in the inhumane EXPLOITATION of SLAVE LABOR.
Thank God that Ralph Nader speaks
to these
issues and that Vice President Gore said he was for FAIR TRADE, not
free
trade!
A Look Back at the Mid 1800's in
America
This "corporate trade
cartel" has
no valid competition to force it to compete with homeland domestic
economies that are tiring to compete
with
total production costs and cost of living standards that existed in
America
in the mid 1800's when unskilled workers only earned 50 to 75 cents a
day,
Skilled carpenters and blacksmiths did well to earn a $1.50 a day, of
course
living costs were very low and due to high transportation costs foreign
imports were not the terrible threat they are in the soon beginning of
the 21st century, which officially begins in 2001.
When you consider the tremendous
changes in
transportation communications and those present advantages in foreign
investments
you have a perfect setup for corporate imperialism and colonization of
Developing countries. The present corporate monopolization of global
foreign
corporate manufacturing and trade make it possible to rig the global
economy
in their favor no matter what it does to the average person within any
of the countries worldwide.
Corporations as a polico-economic
and governing
class are far more powerful than any country and have developed the
organizations
to control global economic policy making. Whether specific corporations
succeed or fail in the present global economic system has nothing to do
with the detrimental effects of global corporate cartelism and
colonialism.
When labor was mistreated in
America for many
years by industry they couldn't just arbitrarily quit buying all
products
and put those industries out of business; it took legislation by
Democrats
in the legislature and in the Executive Office of the White House to
improve
their working conditions and their quality of life!
Subject: Globalization vs. corporate
globalization
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:03:50 -0700
From: Richard Clark
It is Time to Empower the Economic
Opportunities
of Our Worlds' Citizenry
We can develop and must have policies
that
provide the opportunities toward that will empower the economic
earnings
and purchasing powers of our worlds' citizenry. George
Soros - The Crisis of Global Capitalism
It is critical, that the vast
majority of our world's 6 billion population be economically empowered
so that
the Demand-Side of the global economy is expanded sufficiently to
enrich the citizens
of every country.
Unprincipled Standards that Promote
the
Creation
of Noncompetitive Relationships in every Arena of Production Costs must
not be allowed
Worldwide sustainable economic growth
requires
a balance between economic communities and will also require that
renewable
energy sources be used for all economic development. This will save
lives
and preserve the land air and environment while saving tremendous
amounts
of money which will lead to mutual prosperity and quality of life.
These New Global
Economic Policy
Decision Making Standards will balance trade among countries and
produce
broad based worldwide sustainable -- stable economic growth
Trade deficits are being created due
to the
untenable noncompetitive production costs between countries with
disparate;
regulations, labor, land, taxes, and other costs. This production cost
advantages are not acquired by a mere country of origin so called
"comparative
advantage," but rather are "noncompetitive" structural stage of
development
and dictatorial regime exploitation of the masses that we should not
allow
corporations to exploit any further.
All of the citizens within each
country should
have the opportunity to vote on those persons they want to represent
them.
The Democratic Sovereignty of
Countries and
their
Citizenry's is at Stake
It appears that these policy making
organizations
are brought into existence and function in the interest of TNCs. Of the
136 member countries of the World Trade Organization WTO, the Quad
countries
which consist of the U.S., European Union, Japan, and Canada can and do
meet behind closed doors and influence rulings, and those decision
maker's
are primarily working for corporate interests.
The WTO permits countries
(primarily on behalf
of corporation interests) to challenge each other's laws and
regulations
as violations of WTO rules. These challenge cases are heard by a three
member trade bureaucratic tribunal, which are usually corporate
interest
lawyers.
My point is that, these policies
are deal directly
with your fundamental constitutional rights which ought to be
sovereign.
It's about your jobs, it's about your environment, it's about your
communities;
fundamentally it's about democracy and self governance: This is about
whether
We The People are going to govern or these corporations are going to
govern
and rule supreme over us. That is nothing more than tyranny by a
corporate
ruling dictatorship
The WTO and all Global Economic
Policy
Making Organizations
should be the Central Issue of all Elections World-wide
Your vote should turn on - where each
candidate
stands in respect to the WTO issues and your democratic sovereignty!
This
is the only way there will be any in-depth media coverage of this
critical
issue to every world citizen's future. Remember The Green Party and
Ralph
Nader; and The Reform Party and Pat Buchanan -- they need be in all the
presidential debates!
It is Time to be Talking about
genuine
Human Well
Being Issues
No elected representative in
high
office is ever supposed to mention any of the "The Real Human Political
Issues," however, "class differentials in the equity of economic
opportunity
policy making is a real quality of life political policy issue that
must
be a major part of our public media dialogue."
The reality is that 95% of the
people, in fact
even the wealthy, should be rejoicing when our elected representatives
stand up for an economic paradigm of win-win verses the present
zero-sum,
--win-lose economic policy making dogma.
The increasing concentration of
wealth now
has it that 1% of American's own 49% of this countries wealth and it is
getting worse under present global economic policy making principles.
The
present and past economic policy making contain no "high order
principles
of economic equity of opportunity across economic class lines."
I want everyone in America, and all
around
the world, to think about this wholly immoral public policy debacle. If
America's leaders do not take the lead in the resolution of this
economic
equity of opportunity problem, there will be too many revolutions and
wars
fought for economic justice to ever begin to deal with.
Now, this message to America's and
the World
press! Within these issues lies the ultimate life and death destiny of
hundreds of millions of human beings. We have a six billion world
population
that have human economic and biological needs to be met through the
making
of a rightly principled global economic policy making agenda.
This economic policy making agenda
must include
incentives to promote the worldwide use of renewable energy coupled
with
recycling of precious metals and other materials so that real per
capita
incomes can be raised on a worldwide basis without poisoning our
sources
of life.
"Yes, we can have a win-win
principle based
global economy."
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