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----- Original Message -----
From:
Vicky Davis
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:17 AM
Subject: International Education - Global Economy -
Free Trade Education and the Global
Economy
Last night, February 27, C-Span replayed a meeting of the National
Governor's Association meeting titled, "Education and the Global Economy".
The purpose of this session was to discuss the plans to restructure American
schools towards International Education. Their reason was to 'prepare
students for the global economy'. So what is the global
economy? To answer that question, one has to understand 'free
trade'.
Free trade is/was the biggest sucker deal the world has ever seen. In
effect, the government/corporate trade negotiator's sell American businesses by
proxy - by selling market share to foreign countries. This is not
the least bit complicated. One must just understand that the trade
agreements were written for the foreign countries and the multinational
corporations - not for our country.
Take a look at the latest U.S. industry to fall... the automakers.
U.S.
Wages $25-30 per hour including benefits & pension
Taxes
Regulations
Deal with China 25% tariffs to import cars to China
China
Wages $1.00 per hour - no benefits, 16 hr days, 7 days a
week
China 'partners'
with foreign businesses 40%?
Regulations - virtually none
Deal with U.S. 2.5% tariffs on imported cars to
U.S.
That is the agreement that the trade negotiators did for the U.S. And
no... it wasn't just a decimal point error in the agreement because all of the
'free trade' agreements are written with the same advantage for foreign
countries and disadvantages for America and American business. And, even
if we dropped our wages to $1.00 per hour - it wouldn't make any
difference. China has a billion and a half people. They could drop
their wages to a bowl of gruel and a mat to sleep on and they
would still get plenty of workers to do the jobs.
Is it any wonder that GM bonds are junk? And that GM
invested about $4 billion in China before they started dismantling
operations here?
So who benefits? Certainly not the U.S. We are
losing the jobs, the tax base and worst of all, the industrial
knowledge. And this has happened with just about any industry you can
name - steel, textiles, technology, manufacturing, automobiles and soon
agriculture.
So... precisely what is it that educators are preparing American
students to do in the 'global economy'? Clearly, if you
understand the global economy and you understand the plans for the schools,
you also understand that 'Education and Global Economy' is as much of a
fraud as 'free trade'. It is a propaganda campaign to reassure
parents that there is hope for their children's future even though there
isn't. It is a way to cannabilize the schools because the plan is to
replace them with technology - virtual schools. There is big money in the
education system and that is about the only U.S. industry left to be
looted.
I just hope that people wake up before it's too late. The children of
today need more than anytime in our history to understand their history
and their rightful legacy of a Constitutional government Of The People, By
The People, and FOR The People because we are closer now to losing it than at
anytime in our history.
"a power over a man's support is a power over his
will" Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 73
Vicky Davis
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am
willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it
~ Patrick
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