tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post9165132800916893038..comments2024-03-12T16:31:22.046-03:00Comments on Viable Opposition: Rebuilding America's Job MarketA Political Junkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342345936277964422noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-79937617352942220542016-08-07T07:43:48.803-03:002016-08-07T07:43:48.803-03:00Over the last several years the "stop globali...Over the last several years the "stop globalization" movement has gained support in developed countries across the world. Currently, the forces against globalization are growing stronger, globalization seems to be a magnet pulling blame for many of the problems we see across the planet.<br /><br />This polarizing subject has created some rather strange bedfellows and alliances. A discussion of globalization can include several issues such as, immigration and free trade. Other social concerns also feed into the mix, things like global warming, nationalism, inequality, even population growth. The article below delves into this matter.<br /><br /> http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2016/07/is-stop-globalization-movement-justified.htmlBruce Wildshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10181323607060607040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-85100367929120360892016-08-06T09:06:39.318-03:002016-08-06T09:06:39.318-03:00I like a lot of your articles, but this kind of pr...I like a lot of your articles, but this kind of protectionist thinking is really narrow-minded. Do people in China and India not have a right to a job too? Are we not all citizens of this planet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-86341827409342882482016-08-06T00:05:00.088-03:002016-08-06T00:05:00.088-03:00Mr. Scott is correct on many macro-trade accounts,...Mr. Scott is correct on many macro-trade accounts, but it is obvious when he speaks beyond his witness: His requirements of unions, pay hikes, universal insurance, et al are the source of the madness in the first place. The down-stream cascading effect of such policies is the macro-level trade manipulation. Such policies only make sense if they are self-afforded; they cannot be forced, nor mandated. Force is not trade: it is not agreement, it is debt, and debt to whom for whom? <br /><br />Mr. Scott's minor inclusion of clear beyond-witness points gives the indication he won't like the answer.<br /><br />Off-shoring, currency manipulation, and other "does not make sense" actions must necessarily and sufficiently have, at their origins, an initial local trade of resources, labor, and/or time for currency. This is the first exchange. Manipulation, i.e. forced non-agreement of equivalency in exchange, when it occurs in that first exchange, creates the micro-impetus that accumulates to misplaced macro-motivations to recover the loss (i.e. the differential between forced vs. agreed trade accrues in the will to remedy it by return of force in some attainable/legal way). This first exchange 'debt' is at the heart, and is the heart, of all problems. It is itself forced, and force is sought to solve it. It is itself manipulation, and manipulation is sought to solve it. <br /><br />This first exchange manipulation exists. It originates from the product of differential net total productivity, of which itself is the product of differential net total racial genetic 'ableness'. This differential intrinsic self-ability creates, normally, differential real wealth -- especially over the preferred long-time-frame Mr. Scott is looking at. <br /><br />This effect, by itself, means nothing. But does create two horrifying long-term effects when differential abled exist side-by-side. (1) Perverse incentives to invert reality by the able-less are instinctively created to justify and/or rational-ify theft. The inability to see the color red creates a naturally occurring insanity: a motivation to refute that the color red exists, and refute the ableness to see it exists as well, so as to justify equal first trade for productions which stem from seeing the color red. This equalist compensation insistence -and- refutation of non-equivalence -when- no equality exists is forced first exchange that presumes naivete. (2) Non-equivalent abled groups of people who exist together for enough peroid of time do learn, and learn to lie, to steal, to eat what isn't their ability to produce. With enough time, it can, and does, become part of a racial pre-position to instinctively execute: drama, exaggeration, distortion, mis-rank, mis-attribute, and confabulate, all to hide self-incorrectness and self-incompleteness, with the explicit motivation to parasite off of other groups. <br /><br />While (1) is the very real problem that destroys Mr. Scott's superfluous talking points of universality (where universality explicitly, demonstrably, does not exist), it cannot be stressed enough that (2) is the very real problem that invalidates Mr. Scott's primary points. That is to say, while the currency (sans wage, union, etc) arguments are valid, they rely upon invalidity to confess/accept and commit to the consequent reality that follows execution of such acceptance, which is proven by history to not occur. Those who can-not are almost always so because they are able-not, and able-ness is a pre-requirement. That is, if you can see, then you're not the problem, and you notice sight-lacking-driven under performance in others, and you are valid; whereas if you can't see, then you are the problem, and you can't notice sight-lacking-driven under performance in yourself. And as the provisions of paradise run out, you must lie adamantly to eat, which itself is the reason why paradise runs out.<br /><br />It would be a pleasant fiction if this were not truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-53533808387102212852016-08-05T13:43:59.421-03:002016-08-05T13:43:59.421-03:00Actually, the root problem is the offshoring of jo...Actually, the root problem is the offshoring of jobs by large corporations indigenous to the US(and Europe, Japan as well), with the subsequent importation of final goods for sale to the US from China, etc., that were previously made in the US. This also crushes what most people consider 'trade'-indigenous companies producing (some) goods in their own nation for sale to other nations(to the extent a true Chinese company can do this, they should be on an equal footing with Canadian, etc. firms). The fundamental change that needs to occur is that business enterprises must be held to be part of a specific nation(the one where they began existence and initially grew)and society and they must fundamentally conduct their operations in line with the best general interests of the society they are part of-in employment terms in particular.This is especially true of huge transnational publicly traded firms that have no real outside governor on their actions. And the pain of violating this can't be placed on the 'corporation'(a legal fog) itself, it must be put on the corporocrats at the top and the capital providers to the corporation. Using the Carrier shutdown in Indianapolis as an example, those who hold public equity or debt securities of United Technologies(parent of Carrier) should face an annual tax of 25% on the market value of their holdings, and it should be applied to typically untaxed entities, such as pensions, IRA's, etc. Members of the United Technologies board of directors and, say, the top 10% of employees there in compensation should face a 50% federal income tax surcharge on all ordinary income, and a 150% surtax on any 'incentives'-get a $100K bonus, or stock option gain, $150K in tax liability immediately is created. Cost/benefit calculus of not employing within the corporations indigenous nation suddenly changes significantly.<br />Ort, to sum up the above, the 'global supply chain' must be smashed-and if there is substantial real macro economic fallout, the pain on those who put us in that position, the corporacrats and their political and third party stooges and hench men, should feel intense personal pain.<br />Since Trump hasn't put forth anything close to the above, I'd assume he's really a globalist and corporatist deep down(as opposed to Hillary full blown confirmation). And Mike Pence cleary is, as seen by his lack of any condemnation of Carrier, and his craven caving in to corporocrats, not citizens, in the Religious Freedom bill brou ha ha last year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com