The End of America As We Know It. It Is Inevitable As Long As Our Economy Continues To Misleadingly

[mother earth]

The End of America As We Know It. It Is Inevitable As Long As Our Economy Continues To Misleadingly Operate Under “Free Trade”
Our Trade Policies Have Made The United States Nearly Unrecognizable.

We are now forced to live on imports and debt, incapable of producing enough for ourselves and are at the mercy of other nations. It has taken less than two decades for us to decline from superpower status to our recent weak and unproductive state due to “free trade.”

The facts show that this is not just guessing, it is happening right now! “Free trade” forces us to be uncompetitive and jobless, which has spawned the following conditions:

•We are losing an average of 14 factories every day due to factors like “free trade”, which permits other countries to freely engage in predatory mercantilistic trade practices for as little as $4 an hour
•Many of America’s once great cities are now so crime-ridden due to the lack of supportable jobs you can’t safely walk the streets. Just look at Detroit, the South side of Chicago, or East St. Louis for examples
•Despite what the inaccurate government numbers may say, according to Shadow Stats the real unemployment rate in this country is near 23 percent when you include the long-term unemployed who have been out of work for over a year that are taken off the government employment rolls and not counted as unemployed. That means nearly a quarter of all Americans who want to work cannot find jobs to support themselves and their families
•With such a high unemployment rate it should come as no surprise that one in four American families has no net worth, or a negative net worth, due to debt

Some people try to claim that Americans just have to be willing to work for less, but we will never fix these problems by working for the low wages that would be necessary for us to compete under “free trade”. Workers in many of our competitor nations toil in factories for $2 to $4 per hour. To work for those wage rates in the United States to be competitive would be ridiculous. Many couldn’t even cover the cost of getting to work, let alone feeding their families on that income.

We have seen that our “free trade” policies have left our country in shambles, yet our politicians continue to push new agreements on us, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). How many disasters like this will it take before our politicians stop destroying this country with these disastrous agreements?

Our government has become shockingly ineffective. In other countries when things get this bad they hold a vote of no confidence. We have no such system here. Our electoral system is supposed to act to get bad politicians out of our government, but in actuality it ensures that we will only get politicians who are loyal to the lobbies and big donors and not to their electorate.

The people don’t want these foolish “free trade” agreements, but lobbyists do. These lobbyists who work for multinational corporations, Super PACs and other monied interests are the ones that control the agenda in Washington DC and determine our laws. These interests spend selectively on candidates for office to ensure that those who will do their bidding are the ones who can stay in office.http://economyincrisis.org/content/the-end-of-america-as-we-know-it-it-is-inevitable-as-long-as-our-economy-continues-to-operate-under-free-trade

[whathehell]

1. Good post. K&R.

[patrice]

2. K&R

[mother earth]

3. "one in four American families has NO net worth" this is an eye opening shameful fact. nt

[Armstead]

4. K&R.....Thanks to the Third Way Centrists who pushed for this and keep pushing for it

Unfortunately Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are among them

[G_j]

5. K&R

[mother earth]

6. Shamelessly kicking for diversity in topics. nt