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Neoliberalism is Selling Our Birthright Down the River Kurt
Nimmo It seems the “free trader,” as in neolib horse trader, Alan Blinder, a Princeton economist, received a lesson in reality while at a “business summit” in Davos. Blinder “was taken aback when… he heard U.S. executives talk enthusiastically about all the professional jobs they could outsource to lower-wage countries,” according to an op-ed published in the Seattle Times. Blinder predicts upward to 40 million high-skill American jobs will be “outsourced” to “other countries,” that is to say the multinational slave gulag in India and China. “Businesses bemoan the alleged shortage of Americans trained to do the work,” writes Froma Harrop. “But wait a second—the law of supply and demand states that a shortage of something causes its price to rise. Wages in information technology have been flat.” No kidding. In the late 1990s, as a web designer and programmer, I earned a decent wage. Now I earn a mere third of that wage, as “computer programming, bookkeeping, graphic design and other careers once thought firmly planted in American soil” are being shipped to India. “This vision for a competitive America seems to be a few rich U.S. executives commandeering armies of foreign workers. They don’t have to train their domestic workforce. They don’t have to raise pay to American standards.” Seems to be? More people need to understand the game plan here is to shrink the American middle class and thus level the slave labor gulag playing field. People need to stop navel gazing and watching American idol and do some reading on neoliberalism and globalism. Short of this, they have nobody to blame but themselves as they slide toward the level playing field, otherwise known as the race to the bottom. “Skilled U.S. workers had better start looking out for their interests. No one else is,” the Seattle Times concludes. No, you think? Once upon a time, Americans didn’t put up with having their futures stolen out from beneath them. In 1786, Daniel Shays led an armed uprising against taxes and crushing debt imposed on small farmers in Massachusetts. Eight years later settlers in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the Monongahela Valley, staged an insurrection against the imposition of excise taxes on the production of whiskey. Now Americans accept with nary a bleat all manner of taxes that would have driven our ancestors to rebellion. Sadly, I don’t expect them to resist the theft of jobs and income, as the average American today is almost completely brainwashed by non-stop propaganda dispensed by the corporate media. But then homelessness and hunger have a funny way of motivating people. ---------------------------------------------------
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