Lou Dobbs Goes Ballistic !

I agree when people say corporations should pay their fair share of taxes, but it seems sometimes that some people who are against globalization or nationalist like Lou Dobbs may not care what happens to other nations besides their own. For example the way he talks about illegal immigrants. I think one good thing about globalization is that the jobs and wealth are spread more evenly around as opposed to being in North America. And I don't agree that we should not boycott products which are produced in US or anywhere other than Canada. The only thing it will accomplish is lay off third-world country workers who need that money desperately. I think Canadian nationalism shouldn't just be to improve lives of Canadians but all peoples of the world.

Anonymous,

I absolutly agree that the G7 countries need to give something up so that the developing countries can improve their standard of living yet, is the way we live really an improvement? And are these companies making this move out of the "goodness" of their hearts? Could it be that we need to adopt the 3rd world's back to a simple way of life to even sustain life on the planet? The G7 are all corporate run governments and my concern for the 3rd world is that the interference by these corporations will be more harmful to their existance than beneficial.

I have no idea who Lou Dobbs is, I've never seen his show, I'm just responding to your statement.

It's a proven fact: Whenever the US, the WTO or the World Bank gets involved in another country, they ruin their economy.

Bolivia had a corporation that took over their drinking water system, and they had to pay through the nose for their water after that.

This included: (are you ready ?) They could not collect rainwater, it belonged to the COMPANY.

Venezuela is on the US hit list. Venezuela has made noises about cutting off the oil supply to the US. How long do you think Chavez will still be alive ? He's asking for a US controlled overthrow of his government. The same would happen if Canada stopped shipping oil to the US, they would be here within 24 hours.

They have ruined the economy of Argentina. They were involved in the removal of the Haitian president, who was democratically elected, but when he became corrupt, the US said "Time to go".

One more thing: when Haiti elected Aristide the WTO went in and set the tone for US sales of rice to the country.

Heavily subsidized rice flowed into the country and put all the rice farmers in Haiti out of business.

Sorry, the US is corporate-owned and that is bottom line only.

It seems to be changing with the people in different countries becoming wise to these tactics, but I'm going to wait a while before I declare globalization is dead.



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

4Canada, I am sure you would survive without knowing who Lou Dobbs is...but thought I'd let you know he is a host on CNN, he is very aggressive when he believes something is one way, I noticed during the war, he would cut people off if they didn't agree with the 'pro-war' stance, but then he started to question things again. Must have had a glitch in his wiring, now he is on about the Free Trade sucking all the jobs out of the U.S. in favour of third world wages; also he is concerned, very concerned about immigrants coming in and taking jobs. The question I always ask is why are Mexican's trying to get in to the U.S., if the Trade Deals over many years hadn't destoyed their economy maybe they wouldn't be in such a dire situation.

If anyone is to think that these corporations move jobs to third world countries out of the goodness of their hearts, must be very naive.

If there was a rule set in advance where the companies opening over seas had to pay the same wages as they currently do in their own country. Had to obey to the same enviromental rules. I wonder if we would still be having this discussion. Would these jobs have moved? I highly, highly dought it.

Kevin

4canada, don't feel bad I've never heard of Lou Dobbs either. I don't have CNN on my bell express vu so I guess I won't be able to watch his show. Ah well I guess I'll just stick to CBC. They have allot of revealing of information type of shows that I like.

Kevin

You have to know something is wrong when Maytag moves from the US at $15 per hour to Mexico for LESS THAN $1.00 per hour.

You won't see any reduction in the price of the appliances, but until Mexico improves their monetary system, the Mexicans are always going to flood into the US. I believe they de-valued their currency almost the same day they signed NAFTA. Makes you wonder why they even signed the agreement, doesn't it ?

BTW, they have more auto manufacturing plants than the US now, so I wonder why that is ?



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

Jim,

From what I understand the same "behind doors" negociations in 1988 with Mulroney and the U.S also happen in Mexico with their elected leader Salinas.

90% of the population believed that Salinas had not been elected. There was the U.S and big business behind Salinas. Its the same thing with Mulroney.

So the same question goes for Canada. Why did we sign the agreement? Its quite clear to some of us here that we the majority of Canadians didn't sign that agreement. A few right wing politicians (and right wing supporters), the U.S and big business. They signed it here in Canada just as they signed it in Mexico.

Kevin

Jim,

If you have the David Orchard book "The Fight For Canada" you can find some more information on this on page 235-236. There's more explenations there on this issue.

Kevin

I don't have the book, but I will look for it online.

Sounds interesting, but I also heard Orchard's history in the book is not that accurate.

Not to worry, I am always interested in reading about politics written by politicians.

Always a surprise or two. If only they knew how to tell the truth in 1000 words or less. They can and do dance around the issues.

One of the reasons I hate watching Question Period, they always spin the answer into something unintelligible.

I think Williams from PEI just thinks his voice is dandy, and he sure has a sharp tongue. When he gets started, I just turn it off.

BTW, if you want to go to the Toronto meeting on March 30, drive down to my place, we'll go together, and you can stay overnight before the drive back. Lend me Orchard's book and I'll get it back to you.



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

Sorry Whelan Coston,

I missed this post with your information about Lou. I guess that's why I don't know him I choose not to purchase any mainstream American networks on my dish. So no U.S. news. I figure I get enough even on our so called Canadian networks.

Kevin,
No American networks for me either.
I've heard we're also lucky not to have O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and I know there's more I just don't hear their names as often.