This is really all about you? We are in a crucial time in history  where Corporate Capitalism is consuming the Free Enterprise System.  Some experts say the U.S. has been in a silent depression since the  1970s.

The  Government and the Federal Reserve Bank are running out of ways to  keep things intact.

 

Lech Walesa, Leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland which perhaps played the most major part in the down fall of the Iron Curtain says it all -  He said I am only a consumer. I do not know much about business and economics, but I do know that something is very wrong when 10 percent of the people  owned 100 percent control of the wealth of the world.

 

Globalization and Free Trade have failed.  It is not something new. It dates back to 1956 when the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA which was supposed to be just a temporary program but it never ended.

 

In 2008, the Democrat presidential candidates are trying to quickly change their stands  on NAFTA but NAFTA was not the beginning of Free Trade. It was the consummation of Free Trade. Hillary Clinton wasn't home baking cookies during this period in history. She was deeply involved or remained  silent about the attack on workers across the world.  Here is a published letter providing a time line:

 

Hillary Clinton's convenient turnabout on NAFTA and free trade
Friday, March 07, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters Editorial Page

Voters are shopping their jobs away at places like Wal-Mart and now are vot ing their jobs away by supporting Hillary Clinton. Here is the real timeline behind free trade:

1956 - U.S. government starts moving factories outside the United States.

1970 - 120 factories moved from the United States to Mexico.

1980 - 400 maquiladora factories in Mexico.

1980s - While Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart, about 1,000 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico.

1992 - 2,000 maquiladora factories in Mexico.

1994 - NAFTA is passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton; number of factories moved to Mexico doubles to more than 4,000; reports tell of "dirty manufacturing" in Mexico causing health problems and birth defects.

1995 - President Clinton rushes $20 billion to save the Mexican economy. Then he uses other means to rush even more money to Mexico. ( President asked Congress for $40 billion but they gave him just $20 billion instead- he said he would use other means to get the extra money to bail out the Mexican peso )

1996 - Hillary says NAFTA is good for everyone.

2000 - Hillary, at an economic forum in Switzerland, praises business efforts in supporting NAFTA.

None of the above stopped the flood of Mexican workers to the United States seeking economic survival.

Now, after all of that, Hillary says free trade has to be tweaked at bit.

Ray Tapajna

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Letters Editors
March 7, 2008