A New Global Economic
System Is Required
The Existing Global
Economic Policies are Failing the World's Common Citizenry
The existing global economic policy that
fosters widespread exploitation of the masses by the Transnational
Corporations
TNCs must be remedied. This has resulted in 'noncompetitive' production
cost
relationships with increased concentration of wealth and power to the
few.
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 movement's 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.
It is Time to Empower the Economic Opportunities of
Our World's
Citizenry
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 your democracy: This is about
whether We The People are going to rule or these corporations are going
to rule.
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
Buchannan -- they must be in the presidential debates!
Poor George, Vice President Al Gore Is
Talking About Real Human Being Issues—Oh How Unfair!
I'm
very
concerned about those
crocodile tears over supposed class warfare that George is suffering
from? Yes George, no one in high office is ever supposed to mention any
of the "Real Human
Being Political Issues," however, "class differentials in equity of
economic
opportunity policy making is a real quality of life political policy
issue
that must be debated."
The reality is that 95% of the people,
in
fact even the wealthy, should be rejoicing over Vice President Gore's
standing up for a new economic paradigm of win-win verses the present
zero-sum win-lose economic policy making formula.
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 world economy."
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