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2004-03-29 19:15 | User Profile
OUTSOURCING: WORST OF CRONY CAPITALISM
By: SARTRE
If you want to understand politics, you better educate yourself about crony capitalism. Free enterprise is the engine of wealth creation, but the merging of an economy into State/Capitalism is the formula for companion elitism. Companions in control is the method of globalism. The goal is uncomplicated. Globalism = no middle class anywhere on the planet . . . Increases in productivity produce affluence, but distributing enhanced profits is seldom shared proportionately. As a principle of private property, ye who owns the gold, makes the rules.
However, is this an absolute standard that best serves your self interest, when the means of earning a living are under a systematic assault? Outsourcing is highly profitable for the select few who manipulate the financial markets. The foremost monopoly is the global system of distorted trade that lines the pockets of cronies that have access to serious capital. They maximize their corporate reach, built upon the lowest cost of production or service costs. Moving the venture to the next futile pasture, means that the next herd of sheep can graze and deplete the grass. The stock price jumps because earnings are sheltered by the unencumbered flow of imports not subject to domestic tariffs.
This falsehood for commerce is certainly not free for the consumers who have lost the means to earn a decent living. The reason that billionaires protect this charade and form a super elite rests upon their ability to penalize the vast majority by draining the life from middle class affluence. You say what else is new! The twist is that the remaining few who still are able to keep their heads above the waves, mostly work for transnational firms, derive funding from these corporations or are government bureaucrats.
Itââ¬â¢s all one big buddy system. Free trade is designed to be anti-competitive for domestic enterprises. Thatââ¬â¢s the entire point of the experiment. Probe the meaning of the inference of the national trade association for the high-tech industry - offshore outsourcing on U.S. joblessness has been exaggerated and that attempts to legislate a solution would backfire because foreign retaliation would curb U.S exports. This AeA trade organization wants to discredit a study by Forrester Research, that concludes that 3.3 million U.S. service jobs will be lost offshore by 2015. What are the exports that the AeA allude? JOBS !!!
If the goal is to swell sales at the lowest possible cost, sure move offshore. However, a business does not possess rights, for a corporation is an artificial invention that lawyers dreamt up to confuse the public and shelter the privileged. Doing business and conducting worthwhile commerce that benefits an entire society is the laudable objective. Most people understand greed, but how many are willing to admit that self-defeating altruism is used to defend outsourcing?
Consider the argument of Kevin Schmiesing, published on the Catholic Exchange, when he cites: ââ¬ÅAmericans, including those temporarily hurt by outsourcing, need to keep their own economic situation in perspective. New Republic writer Gregg Easterbrook in his recent book, The Progress Paradox, calculates that even poor Americans have a better material living standard than 99.4 percent of the estimated 80 billion people who have ever livedââ¬Â. Mr Schmiesing summation reaps of a doctrine of guilt: ââ¬ÅThe impulse to protect American workers is praiseworthy. But such an impulse, if it leads to policies that ignore economic principles and the demands of justice, ends by doing harm, even to those intended to benefitââ¬Â.
What are the economic principles that are being abused? If struggling to eke out a better life is an offense against Christianity, leaving that church proved correct. The distinction between voluntary charity and compelled sacrifice should be self evident, but seems to have been is lost during Mr. Schmiesingââ¬â¢s advanced education.
Economic principles, in order for them to be valid, must stand the test of the real world. Human self interest defines economic transactions. Morality is not abandoned by charging a fair and equable cost for a business deal. However, it is a profound violation of your own self respect to place a burden of fabricated duty in a dress of social justice.
If the policy diminishes the economic opportunity of our own citizens, it runs contrary to the benefit of our nation. This is a standard that builds and maintains a free society. Willingly accepting the consequence of unavoidable poverty from a conscious strategy to outsource is just dumb.
The flack that Lou Dobbs gets for standing up for a strong and self sustaining domestic economy, usually comes from the favored and vested interests of a corrupt corporate/state axis of globalism. These are the facts that Dobbsââ¬â¢ critics refuse to dispute:
Number one: We're not creating jobs in the private sector, and that's never happened before in our history. Our economists and politicians need to be coming up with answers, not dogma.
Number two: We haven't had a trade surplus in this country in more than two decades, and our trade deficit continues to soar.
Number three: We've lost three million jobs in this country over the last three years, and millions more American jobs are at risk of being outsourced to cheap overseas labor markets.
Libertarian purists are intellectually dishonest or caught in a blind spot. Advocacy of a pro American middle class self sufficient populism is based upon sound economics. Avoid debt, retain and save the earnings of honest work and trade with your neighbor so that prosperity can be shared among your community. Charitable efforts to offer a helping hand does not mean you need to cut off your own fist at the wrist, to establish your virtue.
Global trade is desirable when it conforms to the lost principles that so confuse Mr Schmiesing. Lou Dobbs sets the record straight. ââ¬ÅOur principal trading partners, Canada, China, Japan and the European Union, all typically maintain annual trade surpluses and pursue balanced trade. Why don't my critics call them protectionists? Why not call them economic isolationists?ââ¬Â The Financial Times currently reports: Japan's trade surplus highest in five years, exceeded market forecasts by jumping 51.7. If you are unable to draw the distinction between a free enterprise model and the orchestrated cartel of an impious cabal that shifts the production from Mexico to China and on to India, you better sell all your derivatives. If you believe you are not already invested in such instruments, loosing you own job wonââ¬â¢t hurt; for you are already severely crippled, with economic dementia.
But if your sustenance filters down from a Fortune 500 or you draw a check from some branch of government, why should you care. Kevin Schmiesingââ¬â¢s social justice will outsource your needs and the AeA will keep you entertained with re-educational programs, hard circuited and wired to your brain. As the middle class shrinks, your liberty expires. What is an acceptable substitute for self sufficiency - INTERDEPENDENCE ? If you can live with that alternative, protectionism is moot; America would have expired and you are already a serf in the NWO.
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Published in the March 26, 2004 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright é 1997 - 2004 Ether Zone.
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2004-03-31 17:16 | User Profile
Last night on the drive home I heard my local Clear Channel AM talk radio Israel-First GOP shill talk-show host defend 'outsourcing' from evil Kerry's 'attacks'. He was using some ITAA (?) study showing that for every job lost because of outsourcing, thousands more are eventually recreated from the money saved by the corporation that they could now invest in order to create new and better jobs here in the States. Hence, it's a net positive for our vaunted 'economy'. Same old tired, corporate shill arguments presented -- typewriter factory workers displaced by computer assembly workers, corporations exist to earn profit for shareholders, etc., etc. ad nauseum.
My guess is that the 'ITAA' is some kind of corporate management front group, created specifically to release these kinds of studies. I didn't buy the statistics and I don't buy the argument for outsourcing.
Nice article, SARTRE.
2004-03-31 22:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Last night on the drive home I heard my local Clear Channel AM talk radio Israel-First GOP shill talk-show host defend 'outsourcing' from evil Kerry's 'attacks'. He was using some ITAA (?) study showing that for every job lost because of outsourcing, thousands more are eventually recreated from the money saved by the corporation that they could now invest in order to create new and better jobs here in the States. Hence, it's a net positive for our vaunted 'economy'. Same old tired, corporate shill arguments presented -- typewriter factory workers displaced by computer assembly workers, corporations exist to earn profit for shareholders, etc., etc. ad nauseum.
My guess is that the 'ITAA' is some kind of corporate management front group, created specifically to release these kinds of studies. I didn't buy the statistics and I don't buy the argument for outsourcing.
Nice article, SARTRE.[/QUOTE]
Seconded on Sartre's article.
A look at the ITAA website would do little to dispel your suspicions, Tex. Most of their output is in lockstep with the federal position on globalisation.
According to Bob Cohen, ITAA VP: *The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), the leading trade association for the IT industry, today released The Impact of Offshore IT Software and Services Outsourcing on the U.S. Economy and the IT Industry, a major study conclusively demonstrating that worldwide sourcing of computer software and services increases the number of U.S. jobs, improves real wages for American workers, and by pushing the U.S. economy to perform at a higher level, has many other economic benefits.
Global Insight, a leading economic analysis, forecasting and financial information company, was commissioned by ITAA to conduct the study. The Global Insight research team was led by Global Insight Chief Economist Dr. Nariman Behravesh, who is regularly rated as one of the worldââ¬â¢s most accurate economic forecasters. Nobel Prize winning economist Dr. Lawrence R. Klein, the founder of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA), Inc. and a Global Insight associate, also made significant contributions to the study. *
[IMG]http://www.itaa.org/images/pictures/smiller2.gif[/IMG]
Harris Miller, ITAA President
Sounds like a regular Mayberry RFID...
2004-03-31 22:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]A look at the ITAA website would do little to dispel your suspicions, Tex. Most of their output is in lockstep with the federal position on globalisation. [/QUOTE]
LOL! I didn't even think to check for a website, weisbrot. Nice job.
Couple "Cohen" with "Klein" and that picture of "Miller" and yes, it does look a bit suspicious.
2004-04-01 12:25 | User Profile
TD:
This issue draws definite lines. From a lefty site: From the Roots - [url]http://eyeswideoopen.fromtheroots.org/story/2004/3/28/83236/8588[/url]
My post on the BATR Yahoo group: [I]Getting good reviews on a DemocRAT site! Do you folks think there is room for THEM to be re-educated? Or do they just see the problem as a means to apply their foolish solutions?[/I]
SARTRE
Response from Roger Young (strike-the-root)
Why shouldn't they be good. When it comes to economics, conservatives and liberals are both collectivists and share the same view of buggy whip(ped) economics.
RY
My reply back to Roger:
Roger,
The last payroll I had to meet was over seven figures in 1988 dollars. The real world requires margins to produce after expense profits. The Customer can afford to pay more if their taxes were reduced by reducing the size and budgets of all governments functions.
The Velocity of Money is the key to creating prosperity. [url]http://batr.org/mercantile.html[/url]
I passed the Fortune 500 course of economics (cashed out - I'm not stupid). As regretful as the conclusion is, the tyranny of government is the one sure bit you can lay your money on. It's not going to go away because utopians desire it to disappear (Yes I posted today's Butler Shaffer's article on AM) When money turns quickly and the expectation that you can earn it back after it is spent, the economy grows. When you sell at a comfortable margin the salaries to employees can be much more than Mickey D's scale.
The functionality of this economic model stands the test of success. The problems come from the government theft from the producing class. If the Japanese want to sell in the US, let them build a domestic plant. I drive a Subaru and an BMW, both built in the States. Trade is fine (I always favor productive commerce), however, when your community becomes a vast waste land because no one can earn a living, I submit that the only benefit from outsourcing are the deposits made into the bank accounts of the select few corporate controllers.
If you lived in a perfect world of like cultures operating on the same level of ability and costs, the flow of trade would be a two way street. Free Traders and Globalists refuse to explain how Americans benefit from the trade deficit? If you conclude that the price charged to the consumer is the most important element, then you better bend over and hold your ankles, and hope your government check is in the mail.
Velocity of Money is the dynamism, not a second job to replace your primary income.
The U.S. is the market of choice, let the foreign corporation pay to enter that economy. Your bizarre insistence on Free Trade guarantees that our national wealth will be transferred overseas. The debt is piled on America because of the NWO plan to reduce our standard of living.
Now just who has the advance degree in economics?
SARTRE
Now his final response:
Sartre,
You want the self-proclaimed elites (among which you claim membership) in partnership with The State (which is ALWAYS tyrannical) to decide what is best for us lowly serfs, what is most appropriate for are well-being, where we should buy and sell. I, respectfully say, "No thank you." The system you claim to be superior is not operational without State coercion. Again, "No thank you."
You still believe government can solve problems that it created.
Economic command and control has failed miserably wherever practiced- no matter what name you give it, no matter the degree to which it is practiced. You recognize nation-states. I say, "Death to all of them." I owe no one a living just because he inhabits the space next door- nor does he have any obligation. I will buy and sell where I wish. You'll have to shoot me to stop me- which is what command and control ultimately comes down to. Are you ready for that? I believe individuals making decisions in their best interests is the ideal, and the ideal which should be strived for.
Call me "bizzare." I really don't give a flip.
RY
P.S. I greatly respect your success in business. But there are plenty of financially successful people out there who don't have clue about economics. So, from that stand point, your business record does not give weight to your argument.
Here is the point. Libertarians (Lew Rockwell and anacho types) should be our closest allies. Paleoconservatives want limited government, because we understand human nature and history. How can our group exist and achieve Liberty, when the dreamers will only settle for the absence of any organization of society? A true Republic is my goal, secession is the moral method; but purist Libertarian (like RY) reject their own paleo Libertarians.
When liberals see the problems sometimes they are on target. Since their solutions are always more government, they become dupes.
Neither offer serious opposition to the NWO. Always suspected that the BATR message is "blacklisted" by the libertarians, over our Fair Trade advocacy. The reason sees obvious, many are cryptic corporate supporters. Anti-war.com should be a supporter of BATR. Why not? Lew's last correspondences (several years ago) said we must take different roads.
My question is simple. Why are so many Libertarians so conflicted with a Buchanan traditionalist who argues an American First position?
We all know the continued demise of genuine conservative sites. OD is one of the few venues left worthy of daily visits. If many Libertarians conclude we oppose them, where is the common ground? Who are the limited government friends who may be open to our appeal?
Independency for America should be the goal. My community seeks real Americans. Those who don't "get it" seem content living in a daydream.
Open to suggestions!
SARTRE :yawn: :D :saddam: