Global Economy: 21st Century Colonization

I read a post from The Elkhart Project blog on MSNBC website, it was about the federal stimulus program and how the government is spending the money, on what seems to many, frivolously. At the end of the article people wrote their point of view which is expected especially on such a debatable topic. As I was reading the comments I read the following from urcorrect:

 “The stimulus is not going to help with the recession, thank the NAFTA program which has caused at least 20k jobs in El Paso. Ex. Lee, Wrangler and Levis closed there 14 manufacturing facilities in El Paso and moved oversees. Thanks Clinton for NAFTA program”.

 So I naturally had to rely.

 “urcorrect, your not so correct. Thanks to NAFTA we are polluting Mexico and we are killing their people. In the town of Reynosa, Tamaulipas children are being born with deformities thanks to the manufacturing plants that moved there form the US. Not to mention the profit that US companies are making by paying workers there $8 per day and no benefits. The only thing they are getting in return is slave labor and polluted air, water and land. It’s not Clinton you should be mad at, but the good old corporate fat boys and the American people in general. We are now the beneficiary of cleaner air, water and land beside the goods that we are buying for cheaper so we are just as culprit. Don’t throw the rocks then hide your hands. Just because you did not pull the trigger don’t make you and less guilty”.

 If NAFTA benefited someone it was definitely the U.S. why else would the U.S. government agree. Seriously do people like urcorrect think that the U.S. got the short end of the stick and do they really think that once again foreigners are taking over their livelihood. Stop blaming others for our shortcoming and start accepting that no one takes anything away from anyone that did not want it in the first place. Sure I know that the 20k employees that lost their jobs did not directly ask to loss their job. But for years the U.S. government has been pleading with Americans to get educated to start to move towards careers in the sciences and technology they have been telling the American public that the labor intensive jobs would be moving out of the U.S. due to the move towards a global economy. Ignorance is no excuse and just because factory workers where not continuing to educate themselves its not Mexico, India, or China’s fault that they lost their job its their fault for not wanting to better themselves.

Besides, like I responded to urcorrect, our consumerism is polluting the world. Thanks to our demand for giant screen tv’s, gas guzzlers and our so many other demands we are exploiting other countries, their people, their land, their air and water. It seems that the more we move into the future the more we continue to repeat history. A global economy is just another form of colonization just at a larger scale.

Are you prepared for a global economy?