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The Exploitive Corporate Global Cartel Economy
by Darrell Udelhoven
The Real Political Issues are the Issues the Corporate Media Refuse to Cover
Publisher of the Series - The Real Political Issues & People Empowerment
©2000
We have a Global Corporate Cartel Economy that is based on heinous
Exploitation
The immoral unjust and heinous problem we have in the world today is the
extremely Exploitive global economic policy. The existing global economic
policy
fosters corporate exploitation of people and the huge production cost
differentials
between Developed and Developing countries. This has resulted in
'noncompetitive' production cost relationships with increased concentration
of
wealth and power to the corporate exploiters.
The false claim that it substantially reduces the price of manufactured goods
is a
fairy tale told by the establishment mouth pieces. The Transnational
corporations
are not competing against the noncompetitive super low production cost
advantages but rather are merely setting their prices at or slightly under
the prices
of the homeland products that they are competing against for the consumer
dollar.
The TNCs merely keep the huge profit margins they gain through their wholly
unjust and immoral exploitation of a noncompetitive use of human and other
resources. In the short term the corporation wins but in the long run
everyone
will lose including the corporation.
Why should we allow one economic class to exploit all the other economic
classes
including all of the economies of countries and their common citizenry. The
idea
that we have to allow corporations to take advantage of noncompetitive
situations
and that somehow this inhuman exploitation is going to prosper those people
so
they can buy our products is just plain hog wash.
The wealthy corporatists don't understand that they need to broaden the base
of
the demand side of the economy within the Developed countries and the
Developing countries in order to expand and sustain an increase in
consumption.
This is the win-win global economic policy that increases everyone's wealth.
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 movements' 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.
Global Economic Slavery is Comparable to Slavery in the USA South
during the 17-1800's
Read history; the only difference is that the plantation owners' of the South
bought imported slaves from the "Import Slave Trade" and in our global
economy the corporations (are practicing Export Slave Trading) export their
industries to the slave labor of human beings that have few rights and have
few if any better living conditions than the Southern slaves had. Being free
without the means to sustain life at decent levels can not be considered to
meet the Constitutional standard of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness.
From a purely economic standpoint the Southern slaves would have been
worse off had the plantation owners hired them at slave wage levels which
could have resulted in an even lower standard of living. When worker's that
have few if any enforced political or human rights are hired at below slave
labor living standards, from an economic hardship standpoint, they are
worse off than a well kept slave.
We fought a horrible civil war over exploitive slave labor in America and now
the Republicans and some Democrats sanction it for the Transnational
corporations in the name of Free Trade. It is a Trade in Free Slavery that
these elected representatives are sanctioning! You know what I have stated
here is TRUE and that it is THE Global Free Trade REALITY!
Our global economic policies do not improve the general wealth of
Developing countries or Developed countries by indulging in the inhumane
EXPLOITATION of SLAVE LABOR.
Thank God that Ralph Nader speaks to these issues and that Vice President
Gore said he was for FAIR TRADE, not free trade!
A Look Back at the Mid 1800's in America
This "corporate trade cartel" has no valid competition to force it to compete
with homeland domestic
economies that are tiring to compete with total production costs and cost of
living standards that existed in America in the mid 1800's when unskilled
workers only earned 50 to 75 cents a day, Skilled carpenters and blacksmiths
did well to earn a $1.50 a day, of course living costs were very low and due
to high transportation costs foreign imports were not the terrible threat
they
are in the soon beginning of the 21st century, which officially begins in
2001.
When you consider the tremendous changes in transportation
communications and those present advantages in foreign investments you
have a perfect setup for corporate imperialism and colonization of Developing
countries. The present corporate monopolization of global foreign corporate
manufacturing and trade make it possible to rig the global economy in their
favor no matter what it does to the average person within any of the
countries worldwide.
Corporations as a polico-economic and governing class are far more
powerful than any country and have developed the organizations to control
global economic policy making. Whether specific corporations succeed or fail
in the present global economic system has nothing to do with the detrimental
effects of global corporate cartelism and colonialism.
When labor was mistreated in America for many years by industry they
couldn't just arbitrarily quit buying all products and put those industries
out
of business; it took legislation by Democrats in the legislature and in the
Executive Office of the White House to improve their working conditions and
their quality of life!
It is Time to Empower the Economic Opportunities of Our Worlds'
Citizenry
We can develop and must have policies that provide the opportunities toward
that
will empower the economic earnings and purchasing powers of our worlds'
citizenry.George Soros - The Crisis of Global Capitalism
It is critical the the global that the vast majority of its 6 billion
population be
economically empowered so that the demand side of the global economy is
expanded to enrich the citizens of every country.
http://aidc.org.za/archives.html(I just found these Archives of support -
06/02/2000)
NEWS IN REVIEW - QUESTIONABLE ECONOMIES
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
Buchanan -- 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 global economy."
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Updated: 8/28/00
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