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Democrat Or Republican -
A Hobson’s Choice In
Sustainable Duplicity



By Si Contino
11-6-12

 

America’s current economic unwinding didn't begin on Wall Street in 2008, as is often reiterated in the corporate media. Instead, its genesis lies in the affluence to poverty trade regiments enacted by President Clinton, beginning in 1993. 

Seduced by assurances that Free Trade would create millions of new high paying jobs within the United States; Democrats, aided by Republican politicos like Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and David Gergen succumbed to K Street coercion, and codified Free Trade into American law.   
 
However, the economic Elysium predicted by backers of Free Trade prior to its passage never developed.  Principally because Free Trade, as a 21st century neo-colonial economic compact, was no longer nation-based.  Rather, this new version was a United Nation’s developed transnational colonialism.  A colonialism designed to benefit a new superclass of cosmopolitan.  Stakeholders bereft of nationalistic sentimentalities, itching to profit from the coming realignment in global prosperity.

Correspondingly, America’s most acute trade-related dilemma today is unemployment.  However, it’s impossible for the United States to address the problem of trade-related dislocations, even modestly, when the entirety of our nation’s trade policy is premised upon the notion that surrendering America’s economy to foreign interests, while simultaneously relocating tens of millions of American jobs offshore, somehow benefits our nation’s competitiveness.

Remembering, it isn’t actually competition when one nation, America, supplies the rest of the world (its economic rivals) with the prerequisites required for their mercantile success.  Including, providing them the education, technology, infrastructure, financing, and jobs needed to dominate every sector of international commerce.  Especially, since it’s been your tax dollars, predominantly, subsidizing the conveyance of these prerequisites offshore.

Clearly the American people have been sacrificed; duped into underwriting their own economic demise by our country’s elected public servants in Washington.

Hence, when Fed Chairman Ben Bernake tells Congress, as he did last February, that unemployment will stay high and that the nation’s recovery would remain slow for years to come; he’s stating the obvious.  As Washington has, since codifying Free Trade, given away millions upon millions of America’s highest paying most sought after jobs, all in pursuit of some Agenda 21 driven catallactics.   

Consequently, no matter which side wins in this upcoming election, Democrat or Republican, it will be impossible for America to ever again create enough jobs, which pay a sufficient wage for ordinary workaday people to flourish.   

Moreover, many Washington technocrats actually think that creating an economically enfeebled America is beneficial for our global maturation.  Believing poverty and depravation will help induce America to relinquish its freedoms and embrace global governance.  Thus, both parties continue to facilitate the Chinaification of thousands of American industries.

Further spotlighting Washington’s affluence to poverty trade stratagem, were media reports from earlier this year, which disclosed that both political parties allowed General Motors and Bank of America to use bailout funds (your tax dollars) to continue to ship American jobs overseas.  All while domestic unemployment soared.

Combine that with equal culpability for institutionalized banking fraud, systemic government corruption, constitutional execration, an ignominious judiciary, bailouts, foreclosures, open borders, Obamacare, endless wars, skyrocketing food prices, soaring energy costs, plummeting living standards; and well, the result was predictable: A dysfunctional nation that is morally, ethically and fiscally bankrupt. 

Bearing in mind, that if Free Trade and global governance meant slashed executive compensation and massive dislocations at the bourse; rather than middle-American decimation; you can rest assure there wouldn’t be a single CEO, Wall Street banker, or Washington bureaucrat in support.  Not even for reasons of “social equality” or “environmental justice”.

Americans, therefore, should face two facts.

First, neither Democrats nor Republicans, both of whom use the opaque communitarian veneer of global sustainability for political cover, will solve America’s economic woes. Inasmuch as both parties agree with the proposition of establishing global governance with all it entails. Including Free Trade and the Agenda 21 goal of a deindustrialized economically flaccid United States. 

Secondly, that the Democrat and Republican parties are the same philosophical organism, working to benefit the same constituency, and that constituency obviously isn’t, you, the American citizen.
 
As literary critic George Steiner once wrote, “There is in every suicide simultaneously apologia and acquiescence.”  The same can be said, in fact, of Washington’s obsession with the unholy trinity of globalization: Free Trade, global governance and Agenda 21.



Annotations, Quotations and Attribution:

1.  3 Years After Taxpayer Bailout, Bank of America Ships Jobs Overseas | Mother Jones:  <http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/bank-of-america-outsourcing-call-center-philippines>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/bank-of-america-outsourcing-call-center-philippines

2.  GM plans to open 600 dealerships in China in 2012 | Detroit Free Press: <http://www.freep.com/article/20120423/BUSINESS0101/120423030/GM-plans-open-600-dealerships-China-2012>http://www.freep.com/article/20120423/BUSINESS0101/120423030/GM-plans-open-600-dealerships-China-2012

3.  Bernanke: Economy, job creation likely to stay sluggish for several years - The Washington Post: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bernanke-economy-job-creation-likely-to-stay-sluggish/2012/02/29/gIQApu9BiR_story.html?wpisrc=al_economy_b>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bernanke-economy-job-creation-likely-to-stay-sluggish/2012/02/29/gIQApu9BiR_story.html?wpisrc=al_economy_b

4. Franz Kafka, “The Trial” (New York: Schocken Books Inc., 1937, 1956, 1964, 1984) (Introduction copyright by George Steiner, 1992), xxi

5.  Agenda 21 Plan to Downsize America - YouTube:<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzwvSM1CiA&feature=player_embedded#>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzwvSM1CiA&feature=player_embedded#!

 

 

 

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