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Date Posted: 03:42:09 09/17/11 Sat
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Post 288 A: Unfair Trade Practices
I HATE wrestling WWF or the political version of it which is now being engaged in by the two political parties within the United States. As is always the case in fake wrestling, the decision as to who wins and who loses has already been decided defore it's ever taken defore the public.
As you have no doubt already seen the high-minded noise Obama made before his election about being against evil programs such as NAFTA; which only greatly enriches the already obscenely rich and cost American working men and women their jobs as they watch them leave for China, India, Peru or South Korea; turned out not be be true!
'In 2008, candidate Barack Obama stated, "I voted against CAFTA, never supported NAFTA, and will not support NAFTA-style trade agreements in the future." President Barack Obama has retreated from that promise, and the administration now backs Bush-era trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. The administration is also negotiating the largest U.S. trade agreement since NAFTA, the so-called TransPacific Partnership (TPP) with a wide range of Pacific nations.' - Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University
At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce victory gala the day the Peru FTA was signed into law, Peruvian President Alan Garcia told the room filled with lobbyist for multinational corporations: "Come and open your factories in my country so we can sell your products back to the U.S." (U.S. Chamber Magazine, December 2007)
Early after WWII Japan and Germany set up trade barriers to foreign goods. It has allowed those two countries to become very prosperous while still trading extensively with the rest of the world, particularly the U.S.A. Japanese companies, backed by a large influx of money from their government, dumped T.V.s and cameras on the U.S. market for less than the price it cost them to make knowing it would run U.S. companies out of business. Then the prices went up when they were the only player in the field.
Greedy American billionaires and corporations sought to profit from the poverty in China, India, South Korea, Peru etc. China had a different idea. they allowed these factories to be built in their country, then changed the rules of the game. They enacted Trade Barriers to foreign goods. Only product made in their country by their workers could be sold in their country.
The U.S. put no trade barriers in place as a response. Indeed, they, the "Free Traders", or as I like to call them the "Free Traitors" made in easier to sell Chinese products in the U.S. by giving very large "donations" to U.S. Senators to have what little restrictions that were in place lessoned greatly or abolished completely.
If you remember the lies that were told during the 1980s and 90s to get Americans to back the passage of NAFTA and GATT. People were told 'Americans would move up to higher management positions. American would become entrepreneurs.' They just didn't bother to tell people it would be on the Unemployment Line! Ross Perot told people "If NAFTA passes you're going to hear a giant sucking sound. That's going to be the sound of jobs leaving the United States."
Two-thirds of all blue collor Americans have lost their jobs due to NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT. There have been huge donation to political campaigns from major corporation probably via the government of China. The buying of U.S. Senators and Congressman by foreign governments has been made legal by the U.S. Supreme Court. Which is the Most Traitors thing I have ever seen to happen to the American Public in my fifty two years of life.
Yesterday Barack Obama changed the Patent Law for the first time since 1952. It now allows those who are sneaky, underhanded and thieving enough to steal the the hard work and hard found discoveries of great minds to claim the work as their own if they get to the Patent Office first and file. Geeze, sneaky, underhanded, sounds like a job for a corporation!
No longer can the original inventor come along and discover his/her invention has been stolen and then lay claim to it. Now it belongs to who files first.
Now, Imagine a major corporation puts a mole in the U.S. Patent office. You file for your patent. But, you find a major corporation has filed one hour ahead of you. What are the odds? About the same as a terrorist attack on a U.S. landmark that just happens to give a corporate flunky of a president total power; America's Riechstag!
Before, in the old days (yesterday) the object the rich, through their considerable donations to politicians, had put into place to keep the common man/woman from filing a patent was the more then $20,000 fee for a title search. Who has that kind of money laying around? Certainly not me! Now it's being said out in the open. 'If you can steal it, you can have it!'
There has recently been a computer program created that can identify plagiarized papers and reports. It was recently used in China at major under-grad colleges. It was found that 35% to 40% of the papers were plagiarized (NPR). For somebody such as myself, I wonder how Obama's new 'Patent Law' will affect copy right law? Will my ideas end up in the books of other without one single mention of myself? Oh, right! you uncovered that, did you! And how long did it take you? Oh, as long as it took you to get to my web page.
There are things which could be enacted that could help slow the great sucking sound that is the U.S. jobs going to China.
1. Allow a tax deduction only when businesses employ and buy American.
Section 162 and 212 of the Internal Revenue code allows a deduction against income for ordinary and necessary business expenses.
Section 167 and 179 allow deprecation for business equipment purchase or purchased.
An Amendment: Any expenditure for goods and services located and or produced outside the United States of America shall not be deductable from corporate taxes.
2. Eliminate the foreign tax credit. Section 27A of the Internal Revenue tax code gives a tax credit for taxes paid to a foreign country. It allows large corporations to avoid U.S. taxes by moving factories out of the U.S.A.
There is only one candidate who is willing to do these very things to save what is left of out nation. That candidate is Buddy Roemer. But, I believe he doesn't stand a chance because he's cutting into their money. Thus they will make sure he gets NO media attention. This, of course, since they own the media. You can bet you ass, only the free traitors will get air time!
It late, 03:11 AM, got to go.
P.S., On Post 287 A: Ruth Jsckson was supposed to be Ruth Jackson. My bad!
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