How the Globalist "Free Trade" mantra is a lie [View All]

[Go2Peace]

Globalist "free trade", despite the propaganda, is reducing the living standards of the majority of people in second world countries. If you haven't been to one of these countries, let me give you some eye witness exprience of what is is like:

A Lot of money is flowing through these countries, but imagine our latest "version" of "capitalism", and then multiply the unequal division of wealth by several factors, and you have the global version of the market system. The vast majority of wealth goes into very few hands. While the rest of the population is left to deal with heavy inflation. While they could survive before on very little. The local goods, which used to be reasonable and priced in local terms, are now all affected by the global market. In a global market, they pay similar prices for goods to you and I.

So, while the average wage has increased from $60/mo. to $150/mo, the price of bread has gone from 50 cents to $2.00, and the price of eggs has gone from 40 cents to $1.50. Cheese has gone from $1 a lb to $3 a lb. Transportation (buses), which used to be free for anyone over 50, are now only showing up twice an hour and are packed to the gills, and the price for those under 50 is now 4x what it was.

Homes, which used to cost about $5000, are now $35,000-$100,000, depending on location, thanks to all of the foreign interests and neuvo rich who buy up "the cheap property" as investments. So places like the former USSR, where, for all the inneficiencies, at least the population were all housed, now have a huge and growing homelessness problem. I mean, can you imagine trying to pay for a $40,000 house on $200 a month?

Since the "Capitalism" our elite class propogate is an ideological version that is close to the Republican nirvana of a semi-libertarian state, they are taught to have an extremely low tax rate, which leaves them without the money to properly fund a very weak and underfunded justice system and law enforcement infrastructure. It turns out that libertarianism is not all it is promised, so the rich and powerful have their way with government officials. If you have money, you may get "justice", but if you don't, well, I know someone who was almost beat to death, a completely peaceful friend, without provocation, but the assailant had lots of money and bought off the justice.

In the new "Globalist dream" developing world sure, some are made rich, some others prosper, but the gross effect to the majority is hunger, stress, trafficing and debasement of women, triumph of money and power over justice, and more severe poverty.

Please, if you are still laboring under the myth that "free market Globalism" is good for humanity, please get out and live in one of these countries and learn the truth first hand. it is not at all as it is being presented.