Today on Fox News 2 Detroit, Vicente Fox former president of Mexico and good friend of John McCain’s senior adviser Juan Hernandez tells American workers losing their jobs in Michigan to, “Get over it.”
He also expressed his desire for a North American Union (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) with no borders, a new communist style constitution and a new currency called the Amero.
Ford Motor Company is making plans to lay off 30,000 Americans so they can build a taxpayer subsidized 9.2 billion manufacturing facility in Mexico and hire 150,000 workers at lower wages and few benefits. Huge container ships from Communist China loaded with slave labor parts will unload at Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico for the new Mexican Ford plant funded by a loan from U.S. tax payers and truck the finished vehicles north.
Oddly enough if you do a search for the “Amero” you will see many website calling it a “theory” or “conspiracy” such as in this Boston Globe article by Drake Bennett, who said, “If you haven’t heard of the North American Union, that may be because its plotters have succeeded in keeping it secret. Or more likely, because there is no such thing.” Perhaps someone should tell that to the former Mexican President Vicente Fox and the workers in Michigan losing their jobs!
Or maybe you should email Drake and ask him if the NAU is still a conspiracy? And while your at it ask him if he has seen his credibility lately?
White House backed by big business continue to push for a “New World Order.”
Trade Ambassador Robert Zoellick, is trying to arrange a trade union called the Association of American Free Trade Agreements, a seperate non-government entity that would include North - Central - South America.
This agreement would surrender the sovereignty of The United States.
The DOW fell almost 400 points on Friday (June 6 - D-Day). Unemployment in May hit 5.5%. Oil jumped $11 per barrel in less than 24 hours. All of these are indeed volatile figures, but the trend they follow is demonstrative of eventual economic collapse.
This potential has the pundits positing and the politicians posturing as they provide penny-ante propositions to prevent the people from panicking. Unfortunately, while their pie-in-the-sky plans might pause the pendulum on the timepiece of our precarious fiscal position, the willful neglect of cause and effect will prove calamitous over a protracted period. Allow me to present a prescription.
Whether inadvertent or intentional, for the past 100 years the various governments of these United States have made great strides to halt the wheels of production. From the institution of the income tax, to the establishment of an omnipotent national bank able to produce tender (and thereby dilute its long-term spending power) at will, further to the establishment of “consumer” agencies and negotiation of “free trade” agreements, every machination our wardens dream up eventually has its day in the sun.
In spite of these endeavors and the corporatist parasites clinging to the underbelly of the American dog who euphemistically refer to themselves as “capitalists with social consciences,” real innovators and genuine free marketeers have still advanced technology to the point where a lower-middle-class Joe lives better than Duke Hoity-Toity of Gilderland circa 1850.
In virtually every home today exists refrigeration technology to stave off the heat of summer for those of weaker compositions or to preserve perishable foods and thereby allow consumers to have greater control over market forces. Those interested can see the (filtered) news from anyplace on the globe delivered to their living rooms instantly and for a small monthly fee on their boobus boxes. For the more erudite there is the personal computer through which the gateways of the world are opened to allow access to all the informational riches they desire (or two-girls-one-cup for the other 99.999% of users).
Covering vast distances has never been easier as nearly anybody can go four-times as far in an hour by automobile as they would have 200 years ago on horseback. For those in an even greater hurry and who are willing to sacrifice more funds and now excessively more dignity there is the aeroplane which covers ten-times the span over the same period as the personal motor car.
In absolute terms of commodity and time value every one of these services or technologies has only grown less expensive as the years have passed, contrary to the official standard-bearer of government-issued currency. This is the nature of the market. As a new high-priced widget catches on and sees an increase in demand among the wealthy, more producers of these widgets come out of the woodwork to attempt to catch the flame and hopefully turn a buck. As the market fills with these widgets the demand slows and prices fall until eventually most everyone has the widget.
That is, until government steps in.
Their claims:
To promote a “flexible” money supply so that widget purchasing power isn’t “concentrated” in the hands of a wealthy few as well as to prevent banks from collapsing governments form national banks.
To protect domestic widget manufacturers from foreign widget builders and thereby ensure “full employment” governments institute high tariffs.
To guarantee the safety of both the widget builders and the widget users governments impose heavy regulations.
To promote fair “competition” and to level the playing field for even the neediest of widget producers governments issue subsidies and extract taxes.
All of these prior to thoughtful analysis sound like “necessary evils” used to support the people and control the wilds of an unregulated market. Leaving aside the illogical belief that “necessary evils” are not evil in their own right, that sins of commission supersede “sins” of omission, let us focus on the results of these misguided-at-best actions of the state.
Their results:
Even the wisest and most virtuous of central bankers is incapable of accurately forecasting the requirements of the market. Not only do they lack the intuition of finite human action and reaction resulting from their decisions, they cannot know what new technologies lie around the corner awaiting discovery by great minds.
As a result they regularly generate more currency in a time when less will be required, thus causing inflation. Occasionally they produce less currency in a time when more would be beneficial thus causing destructive deflation. The boom-bust banking cycle is born as investors and producers are left holding the bag. See the current housing crisis for evidence.
High protective tariffs may appear to guard domestic manufacturing and jobs because fewer foreign goods are being purchased. In fact, however, insulation of businesses from market forces contributes to waste and sloth because these businesses end up with fewer competitors.
Additionally, the market-clearing prices are also being dictated by the state and therefore a good which may have cost $100 dollars to purchase from Baklavakia ends up costing $150 after tariffs. Those fifty dollars don’t simply appear out of nowhere; the consumer is now short the additional funds to either invest in capital goods or other consumer goods and instead is forced to waste money supporting a business which isn’t strong enough to stay afloat under its own steam.
The heavy regulations imposed to “protect” workers and consumers in the short run have the reverse effect over time. Because capital must be peeled away from development and production in order to hire support staff versed in legalese and capable of appeasing the regulatory bodies, new machinery goes unpurchased and new labor goes unhired. Thus the workers on production lines are exposed to greater danger caused by antiquated equipment and fewer hands are forced to do more work and thereby face exhaustion and impaired judgment.
Taxes levied to both pay for “public goods” and provide from each according to his ability, to each according to his need have the net effect of diminishing the desire to produce. People are intrinsically selfish, and it isn’t a bad thing that they are, so long as they don’t attempt to provide for their own wants through force or fraud.
The natural exchange in commerce is Person A with a good or service engaging in a transaction with Person B. It is a mutually beneficial transaction so long as there is honest disclosure for any query and no use or threat of violence to achieve a desired outcome.
The interloper in this trade is the state when it insinuates itself between A and B. The state holds no claim to the product of A or B’s efforts as it provided no material or labor on either side of the equation, yet it insists that it is due its portion because A and B were “allowed” to successfully and peaceably transact.
Endorsing this notion that the governed act only with the consent of the government is logically lopsided and a religious absurdity whereby the divine (the state) is entitled to a tithe simply due to its benevolent permission that we exist and perambulate. For those who don’t agree with their dogma a hellish inquisition awaits as they are forced, with death as the ultimate penalty for refusal, to pay tribute to the church of Hobbesian coercion.
It fascinates and amuses this writer to see the scorn heaped upon those who worship a deity or believe in spirits by supposed agnostics who themselves ascribe mystical powers of omnipotence and omniscience to the state and its prophets. These who deny the supernatural (as they are justified in doing) believe that heaven on earth can be achieved through government intervention and coercion. When 4000 years of history demonstrate that the healthiest and most prosperous periods in human existence were those few when state power was at its weakest and the individual’s rights were at their strongest.
My solution to the list of troubles which opened this article is simple:
Dear Washington,
Get the hell out of the way. Eliminate the income tax, repeal the burdensome regulations, stop subsidizing businesses (especially those destined to fail), and open competing currencies to your dollar and see which ones survive. Then and only then will you stave off the destruction looming just over the horizon.
America’s ruling elite and their media stooges want the public to believe that the NAFTA Super Highway is just a conspiracy theory.
Yet the Bush Administration is in secret negotiations right now with Mexico to establish the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement. This comprehensive agreement involves subsidies to fund the transfer of manufacturing from the United States to Mexico. Financed on the back of U. S. tax payers manufactures will be able to construct multibillion dollar facilities in Mexico where they will have access to cheap labor and the ability to import materials from China through ports in Mexico.
In fact Ford Motor Company is making plans to lay off 30,000 Americans so they can build a taxpayer subsidized 9.2 billion manufacturing facility in Mexico and hire 150,000 workers at lower wages and few benefits.
But the crime does not stop there; the highway itself will not be owned or managed by Americans but operated by a Spanish firm Cintra, which amazingly is financed with $430 million in loans from the U.S. government. And once this limited access road is completed Asian shippers will no longer need the ports in California since they can unload huge container ships at Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico and truck them north.Of course this will cause even more harm and unemployment in an already troubled U.S. trucking industry.
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