Are The Poor Really Better Off?

Free trade is just the old imperialistic hegemony dressed up to look good for the ignorant. Latin America and africa are complete messes as a result of these ongoing policies. Of course, it's not like we, the people, have any say in it anymore; it doesn't matter who you vote for, they will all follow the same policies. Democracy is dead. We are all now just peasants who live under a feudalistic oligarchy.

Actually, the Canadian Action Party is a party worth voting for as a party that will stand up against these practices and globalisation in general so I don't think democracy is dead it's just that we need to vote these parties into power who will actually represent the common person and not corporations who are essentially driving policies of other parties right now towards continuing the insanity.

Costs can not be cut, only transferred on other sectors, the environment and the future. Wealth can not be created, only taken. While the "taking" can be logical and legal for survival, it can also be used by ruling classes to destroy others through the enforcement of criminal ideologies and theories disguised as religions and "science".

Most of us who fought against Mulroney's US-Canada FTA
20 years ago have foreseen and predicted that the FTA will destroy societies and cause widepspread poverty. It did. Here in Canada first, with whole industrial sectors wiped out from day one, and now NAFTA etc. have destroyed Mexico's economy, with daily growing poverty and destruction also in the USA.

The article is accurate, but still fails to mention and explain that this whole mess has been and is being caused by the theory of neoclassical market economics being taught exclusively in our and the world's universities in departments which are virtually owned by corporations to further their insatiable profit demands. Neoclassical economics may have been started as a mistake, but have now become the biggest crime wave in history. As long as they go on, sanctioned by universities and governments, there's no hope for any change, or improvement.

Why is there such reluctance, or fear, to point out this simple fact ?

Add to this the right of our deregulated banks to create unlimited amounts of artificial capital, which can be used as the modern weapons of colonization, depriving societies from the benefit of resources they already own.

I repeat: These horror stories are the direct consequences of neoclassical market economics that justify any cime committed against humanity and the environment, as long as a few make profits and the phoney GDP grows. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Good points Pat, as long as we keep allowing someone else to define a country's quality of life, according to the corporate profit margins, we will keep sinking into poverty.

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