May 12, 2008

Exporting American Jobs!

Hard Times Hit Homeowners and Indiana suffers as good jobs disappear, mortgages balloon, people slip down the ladder and face eviction from their homes by sheriff sales. Unless one is born into wealth, one must work. And the types of jobs people need to be secure for homeowners, are disappearing.

These jobs left Indiana and the nation aboard the “free trade express.” The Clinton - Bush dynasties gave us these poisons in nearly lethal doses. NAFTA, this would merge the three nations United States, Canada, Mexico into one “North America Union”, similar to the “European Union”, with Japan and other Asian countries to establish a parallel “Asian Pacific Union”. This was approved by Bush the Elder, was signed by Bill Clinton and protected by Pres. Bush, who pushed through CAFTA. Congress has aided and abetted the whole process, perhaps believing in the fool’s gold of free trade.

Just as the troubled deal to sell six U.S. ports to a foreign entity began retreating from the front page, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has awarded a Cintra Company of Spain and the McQuarie Bank of Australia firm the right to run a major Indiana toll road through our state for the next 75 years.

All indications are that the lump sum of $3.85 billion, that Indiana has receive, from leasing the toll road - as engineered by Gov. Mitch Daniels on a fast-track, a move afoot to fund a “NAFTA highway” stretching from Mexico by Trans-Texas Corridor 69 (TTC-69) and Indiana 69 to Canada. The TTC-69 of Texas will be operated by a Spanish firm known as Cinta, same as in Indiana. Much of the $3.85 billion would mainly contribute to an extension of Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to Evansville, Indiana. Yet again, all indications would form it into a “NAFTA-CAFTA expressway” for Mexican truckers delivering imports all the way to Port Huron, Michigan, where there is easy access to Canada.

This will usher in an even bigger invasion of Chinese/Asian goods, hauled via Mexican truckers and rail into the U.S., starting at Mexican seaports and heading North - flooding the U.S. with products which will continue to unravel the already critically ill American economy. Tearing asunder what little remains of U.S. manufacturing with the infusion of imports made by ultra-cheap slave labor against which American goods cannot compete. Therefore, more factories will close and move to Mexico and other countries for cheap labor.

There was a time when one could graduate from high school, skip college, go right to a company and work for decades with a decent retirement. America was so productive that surpluses were exported. But, under the bondage of the free traders, we close factories, outsource what used to be American production jobs, to overseas cheap slave labor.

Someday, we the people, must face the reality of the dire situation in which we have allowed ourselves to become enmeshed in exporting American jobs by the bondage of the free traders. But most Americans remain ignorant of the facts, the nation has now suffered a diplomatic Pearl Harbor by the free traders.

Thank you very much. Have a great day. As I see it.
Paul F. Double
Ossian