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Fair Trade, Free Trade, The Economy, And Joe The Plumber

October 16, 2008 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

I believe Obama hit a home run when he said that we need not free trade but we need free and fair trade. Fair trade is the ticket and that is what so many people fail to discuss or address. Unfair trade is exactly why the rule of supply and demand no longer works. Think about this and tell me if you understand the new economy, there is less demand for products, goods, services, and gas and yet these prices continue to rise, why? The current situation we have occurring in the American economy, as well as the global economy, is that we no longer produce and consume in the same country. In relying on below living standard wage countries such as China, India, and parts of Latin America, we have destroyed our own consumer base. If we are not paid to build it then how can we be expected to buy it? Isn’t this what is slowing the economy? I have listened to financial expert after financial expert explain their ideas about our current economic problems and our current economy and I am amazed that they have complicated such an easy situation to understand. The inequality of the global marketplace is now wreaking havoc on Americans as well as the world’s citizens and without fair trade it will never improve. What is effectively occurring is that businesses in developed countries have lost their ability to be competitive by normal means and they are now relying on the hope and ambition that they can find the cheapest labor source to exploit for their own concerns. This is not only unethical but it is stupidity at its finest. However, what would you expect from the same global business leaders who brought us to this point in history. Businesses in the United States, Europe, and all over the world are firing hard working consumers and outsourcing and job sourcing their work to countries where slave wage labor is prevalent. However, what the business leaders of this inept business concept have forgotten is that if you do not pay a living wage to build something then you cannot expect anyone to buy what is built. You can build a car in Asia for salve wage labor prices but then who can buy it? We will experience economic meltdown after meltdown if the world does not only unite to address the credit concerns but even more important is the point Obama made about fair trade concerns. We must also refocus on ethics to consider how we get to the bottom line; we need not only worry about the bottom line but we must focus on how we get there. And in regards to ethics, we speak about being green all the time and yet we support businesses in China and Asia which are thriving in the dirtiest carbon polluting areas of the world, how can this make sense? Maybe we cannot exact change in China and India but we can refuse to buy their products here, maybe that will get their attention, Ya Think? It’s no longer just America and Europe who are producing carbons, China and India are producing much more, and they are not utilizing safeguards like America and Europe are. Let me tell all the Johnny-Come latelely’s something, carbon rises and pollution runs, it does not matter where it comes from, it  all goes to the same place. I also like the fact that Obama states we need to enact global legislation that deals with Chinas currency manipulation, I have not heard McCain say this but if he did I would support him as well. Obama also stated that we need a heavy investment in clean coal technology, that is the right way to go and the voices for clean coal are growing. And many are already saying that the windmills are starting to destroy migratory bird populations, bat populations, and causing other nature effects. It’s time we get on board with fair trade, clean coal, and jobs that are not outsourced, it does not matter which Presidential Candidate does this, and we just need a President who will. And let’s not lose focus on the economy because of some jokes about Joe the Plumber, whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, Joe Wurzelbacher, or Joe the plumber will not have any business at all if the economy does not get back on track and Americans have the money to pay Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher AKA Joe the Plumber for his services. Fair Trade, Free Trade, The Economy, And Joe The Plumber, which one of these does not fit? Yeah, lets nto decide our next Presidetn based on some Plumber jokes.

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