>> For some odd reason many of your views and concerns are parallel with certain thinking of the British intellectual socialist left <<
could be, but there is nothing socialist about my views. quite the contrary, free trade hastens the onset of socialism. my views are in the conservative tradition.
>> My own "USA conservative" type views I have on several financial matters... <<
as i have said again and again, free trade is not traditional conservative ideology, as much as the liberal neo-conservatives of today would have you believe. i think the problem lies in the fact that these pundits and politicians you see on tv proclaiming themselves to be conservatives are really just a bunch of pseudo conservatives. they are not true conservatives. so i don't consider my economic views to be socialist left and your views to be conservative.
>> In short, when it comes to "opening" our European or Asian markets, the USA is all for free trade. When it comes to anything that might not give the USA an all out advantage, all of a sudden USA national interests have to be considered paramount <<
there is always a divide between trade rhetoric and trade reality. national interests should always be paramount in trade negotiations. the problem is the politicians deciding trade policy here in the USA either don't have a clue as to what is in the best interest of the country, or are powerless to resist the pressures from corporate multinationals.
>> So what are the problems and potential solution?? <<
in my view the problem is the concentration of power in the large corporate multinationals. they are the ones who run america. the politicians are dependant on them to fill their campaign coffers. only when america resolves itself to break up this power cabal will the solution have arrived.
>> - The market is crumbling and the dollar is falling. Where do these problems originate from.... <<
the ups and downs of the dollar are relative. just a while ago everyone was complaining it was too strong. now people have switched to fearing its decline. as for the market crumbling? that is simple. markets go up and markets go down. the markets went up for nearly 20 years so now it's time for them to go down and stagnate for several years. that's always how it worked in the past.
>> ..Dot Com bubble collapse. <<
i think most everyone agrees that it was a house of cards from the get go. never much in the way of lasting business models.
>> ..Accounting scandels. <<
no surprise here either. accounting scandals always accompany speculative bull markets. no one pays attention or cares on the way up. it's only after the whole thing comes crashing down do people start caring about things like accounting.
>> Massive economic advantage over world wide competitors by various methods to ensure the maximum wealth effect for USA business and consumers. <<
well just as karl marx said, free trade "carries antagonism of proletariat and bourgeoisie to the uttermost point."
>> This also results in a trade deficit. Americans don't need to work so hard and can spend more money. <<
well theodore roosevelt did warn us, "In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free-trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre."
>> We are practically stealing the food out of the mouths from people in third world countries. No, we don't stop some black guy in Africa from raking and planting his field by tying him up in his shack. It's done more subtly. We simply deprive him of the ability to sell it at a reasonable local price thus ensuing a spiral downward in wealth until he starves to death. We shrug our shoulders and say "look, how sad... he was poor and died." <<
no question free trade exploits the underclass to the benefit of the upper classes. the powerful elite control the course of trade policy in the united states. of course they want to set up trade policy where they can exploit labor and the environment for their selfish gain. they want to get the government totally out of regulating business so they can get busy with their exploitation.
>> Trouble is closing the UN and the IMF directly is not going to make things any better for anyone imho. <<
the world would be a much better place without the UN and the IMF.
>> It's a matter of seeing what the real problems are and the vast majority agreeing on a fix. <<
vast majority of whom? the world? as an american i don't want a global democracy. i become a minority in that instance. i do wish the vast majority of americans could agree on how to fix what ails this country however. but that is a tall order considering how corporatism has got a stranglehold on america.
>> This means world government too btw <<
oh really? and just how do you plan to set up this world government? who is in charge? is it a true global democracy with one man, one vote? seeing how people of european descent only make up 16% of the world population, that hardly seems an option. so what do you propose?
>> It is not possible to shirk from that conclusion if you realistically want to fix some of these problems <<
global government will never work. i don't know why people are so obsessed with trying. globalism is the cause of many of the problems in the world today, not the solution.
>> By responsible government I am not suggesting a whole load of bureaucrats blabbing at conferences wasting tax payers money with a bunch of perks etc talking crapola to no avail. <<
that's the only thing you're going to get with a global government. i don't know where you get this crazy notion that you can have a benevolent global authority. it not only flies in the face of history, but common sense as well.
>> A solution to many of these trade issues, stock market bubbles, wars, starvations, corporate governance problems, and common human decent relations in business is (imho) get rid of the fiat money supply <<
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency . . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which no one man in a million can diagnose." --John Maynard Keynes
>> Farm subsidies to keep the world supply of food plentiful should exist <<
there is no resource obstacle for sustaining the world's current population. the problem is man. in nearly every instance where you have starvation it is because of some oppressive regime.
>> At the moment tariffs are just a USA bash the rest of world tool <<
this doesn't sound like a well thought out statement. for one thing tariffs are at their lowest point in american history, so by your logic we should hardly be bashing anyone. yet that is not what you claim. so you can't have it both ways. |
