reply to post by Seiko
The other issue is economic sanctions if we "don't play ball".
That is very true, although I sometimes think we would be better off if we closed the borders and stayed home. We have the resources to be self
sufficient. Unfortunately we have already been sold out by the wealthy and powerful.
Industries with over 50% foreign ownership, according to
Source
Watch
* Sound recording industries - 97%
* Commodity contracts dealing and brokerage - 79%
* Motion picture and sound recording industries - 75%
* Metal ore mining - 65%
* Wineries and distilleries - 64%
* Database, directory, Book and other publishers - 63%
* Cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum product - 62%
* Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment - 57%
* Rubber product - 53%
* Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing - 53%
* Plastics and rubber products manufacturing - 52%
* Other insurance related activities - 51%
* Boiler, tank, and shipping container - 50%
* Glass and glass product - 48%
* Coal mining – 48%
A real eye opener isn't it. But it gets worse. The Department of Homeland Security says 80% of our ports are operated by Foreigners and they are
buying and running US bridges and toll roads.
www.alabamaeagle.org...
Statistics (courtesy of Bridgewater) showed in 1990,before WTO was ratified, Foreign ownership of U.S. assets amounted to 33% of U.S. GDP. By 2002
this had increased to over 70% of U.S. GDP.
www.fame.org...
An analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries shows the world's finances are in the hands of a few mutual funds, banks, and
corporations. This is the first report of global concentration of financial power
..
www.insidescience.org...
Thanks to the mortgage fiasco, our homes are being sold to the chinese.
A growing number of Chinese are
joining tours organized especially for investors who want to take advantage of slumping US real estate
The next sellout is our Farmland thanks to Waxman and his
Food Safety Con Job The bill contains crazy
regulations such as
HR 2749: Food
Safety's Scorched Earth Policy and
Strange Martial Law Provisions via Food Control: that effect
everyone not just farmers. The bill containing warrantless search, large fines and jail sentences has already passed the house. No one in his right
mind is going to want to farm under these regulations and red tape except the large Multinational Corporations. The World Trade Organization and its
controlling Ag Cartel actually wrote the bill.
See:
The WTO and the Politics of GMO
And the origin of the food safety bills, there have been several tries starting with
2005 Bill: Safe and Secure Food Act , just after WTO/UN published in January of
2005
The Guide to good farming
practices
While we were not watch Congress sold the US of A out from under our feet.
