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In reply to the discussion: Pres. Obama tells Dems, on TTP: "Get informed, not by reading the Huffington Post" [View all]Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Obama is to make more.
The real root cause here is that Americans want cheap labor to make cheap stuff so they can flock to Walmart to buy said cheap stuff. Cheap stuff is an American birth right, fuck the workers and their labor exploitation by capital!
Consumers in America have been conditioned to believe their incredibly cheap food and consumer goods and trinkets are God-given rights, they are unconcerned or unaware of the price being paid by others half a world away or toiling on California farms or even in the very haunts of the Walmart Shopper consumer paradise.
The price for a nation whose economy is hooked on consumer spending is low wage workers everywhere, from production to transport to retail sales. Until the protests are led by the Walmart shopper, all resistance is futile or meaningless incremental gain.
American consumers are not concerned about low wages overseas at all, they just want cheap stuff.
Higher wages at home and abroad means soaring prices at home. Like the drug war where the American consumer is the root cause of the imbalance and human misery, the root cause of world human misery due to low wages is the America and Western consumer.
How will TPP make any difference one way or the other?
The only reason America can run massive trade deficits year after year for forever is it has the world reserve currency it uses to purchase unlimited amounts of cheap stuff to stock the warehouses for the demanding, addicted Citizens United in wanting cheap stuff.