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originally posted by: c0gN1t1v3D1ss0nanC3
a reply to: undo
I like to think of the R in Team R standing for retard...and the D in Team D for douche.
just cause china has a communist government
While foreign direct investment in Mexico led to the creation of 500,000 manufacturing jobs from 1994 to 2002, the country lost at least 1.3 million jobs in the agricultural sector alone, where one-fifth of Mexicans still work, adds the document.
Hence, the influx of cheap illegal labor rushing to the US
The report says that the real wages of most Mexicans today are lower than they were when NAFTA took effect. "Despite predictions to the contrary, Mexican wages have not converged with U.S. wages."
First, it caused the loss of some 700,000 jobs as companies moved their production to Mexico, where labor was cheaper.
Second, NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits.
Third, NAFTA drove several million Mexican workers and their families out of the agriculture and small business sectors, which could not compete with the flood of products—often subsidized—from U.S. producers.
Fourth, and ultimately most importantly, NAFTA created a template for the rules of the emerging global economy, in which the benefits would flow to capital and the costs to labor.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: undo
just cause china has a communist government
My point exactly. China does not have a communist government and they are doing very well because they have "capitalized" on the stupid consumer country that is America.
Everything seems to come from China and that is because they have perfected the capitalist model.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: undo
And that's why we supposedly owe China massive amounts of money as back debt and they are poised to create a new world currency with nations like Russia?
Please...we're going in to la-la land now.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: undo
just cause china has a communist government
My point exactly. China does not have a communist government and they are doing very well because they have "capitalized" on the stupid consumer country that is America.
Everything seems to come from China and that is because they have perfected the capitalist model.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: undo
The Blaze?
Please don't waste my time.
Come back to me when you actually find some informative sources.
originally posted by: jacobe001
a reply to: undo
And get chipped further down the line for our [their] on safety.
They have to keep track of their slaves and any that wish to revolt.
Just turn their chip off
"Until there is a path to get all four bills passed ... we will, certainly most of us, have to vote no," Wyden told reporters after meeting privately with about 10 Democratic senators generally supportive of trade legislation. Among them were Washington Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, has been a key supporter of so-called "fast track" legislation that would lay out the terms for consideration of the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership. That's a 12-nation trade pact favored by most of the business community -- including Intel, Nike and other major employers in Oregon -- but staunchly opposed by organized labor and a number of other left-of-center groups.
The Oregon senator has repeatedly said that the deal he negotiated with Republicans includes a number of provisions that would help protect American workers and improve on previous trade pacts that critics have said helped speed the loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia.
"It's an opportunity to enact fresh, middle-class trade policies that will create high-skill, high-wage jobs in Oregon and across the country," Wyden said in a statement issued after the vote Tuesday. "That opportunity is lost if this package of four bills gets winnowed down to two."
"I don't think it's the end of it at all," said McDonough, calling Tuesday's action a "test vote."
Sen. Ron Wyden took to Wired yesterday to argue that the Fast Track bill he co-sponsored to rush approval for trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will help protect the free and open Internet. Sen. Wyden has long been a staunch defender of the Internet and users' rights, and more recently, he has renewed his efforts to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). We heartily applaud these endeavors—which is why his stance on Fast Track and the TPP is so disappointing.