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  • From: Stephen Sherman <spsherm@msn.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Huh!
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:00:15 -0700

Nice happy talk from the old Pres; maybe he even believes it. However history has proven this sales pitch to be nothing more than a load of rubbish.

The end results of NAFTA, free trade with China, and all the other scams which were sold on lines and promises like these, have ended up quite differently. The US and the West has given up their manufacturing jobs and expertise so that large corporations can pocket the wage differences between home and third world work forces. Workers on both sides have seen increased unemployment and declining standards of living. The West when the manufacturing jobs first left. And more recently those workers who first got the jobs as manufacturing moves yet again to cheaper labor markets.

These policies have been a disaster for all. It will take decades to repair the damage done.


On 3/3/2010 6:33 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:
/"The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of
interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get,
the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum
solutions. That is, win--win solutions instead of win--lose
solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on
the whole, we do better when other people do better as well --- so we
have to find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each
other...."

found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum
quoting.....Bill Clinton
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