permaculture

[Stephen Sherman <spsherm@msn.com>]

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
> ...........................................................................................................
> /"The best defense against hard times is a well-fed neighbor."
> <http://www.wellfedneighbor.com/>
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