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JOBS? dear, america is crying his lungs out because they think india is stealing their jobs and they didn't give these jobs away to china or india. they took it simply because nobody in US wants to do a job anymore. everyone just wants to become investment banker or a LAWYER.
no country gives away jobs willingly if it has jobless people at home. THINK.....
.... Small Businesses: Under NAFTA, by 1997, an estimated 28,000 small businesses in Mexico had been destroyed by competition with foreign multinationals and their Mexican partners.
Farmers Demand Suspension: NAFTA market access and anti-subsidy rules for agriculture have forced huge numbers of peasants off the land because they are no longer "competitive." . . .In 1997, 65% of the actual Mexican labor force was either unemployed or underemployed.library.jid.org...
Dan Campeau, a poultry agent with the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service who is based in Pittsboro [NC]
..... "If we have another year or two like this it's going to drive everybody out of business and most of our business is probably going to go south to Mexico or South America," www.charlotteobserver.com...
...Then, in spring 2008, prices just as mysteriously fell back to their previous level. Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calls it “a silent mass murder”, entirely due to “man-made actions.” Through the 1990s, Goldman Sachs and others lobbied hard and the regulations [controlling agricultural futures contracts] were abolished. Suddenly, these contracts were turned into “derivatives” that could be bought and sold among traders who had nothing to do with agriculture. A market in “food speculation” was born. The speculators drove the price through the roof....” www.independent.co.uk...
Originally posted by vikki_nnd
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
... but why would the chinese people really have a beef with us?
I mean, look at all those American companies that gave them jobs.
JOBS? dear, america is crying his lungs out because they think india is stealing their jobs and they didn't give these jobs away to china or india. they took it simply because nobody in US wants to do a job anymore. everyone just wants to become investment banker or a LAWYER.
no country gives away jobs willingly if it has jobless people at home. THINK.....edit on 7-8-2011 by vikki_nnd because: (no reason given)
do u remember all this stuff or you keep it written down somewhere...
Originally posted by vikki_nnd
I stumbled upon this article today and it surprised me to see how far we have gone to witness the bankruptcy of the world's richest nation. This article will shock you to death.
see thisedit on 7-8-2011 by vikki_nnd because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Romekje
I'm amazed at how many people in this thread keep playing a blamegame between individual countries?
I thought we all agreed by now that this system was designed to fail from behind the scenes?edit on 7/8/11 by Romekje because: typo
Originally posted by vikki_nnd
I stumbled upon this article today and it surprised me to see how far we have gone to witness the bankruptcy of the world's richest nation. This article will shock you to death.
see thisedit on 7-8-2011 by vikki_nnd because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
reply to post by vikki_nnd
It is impossible for a country to go bankrupt because a country can print its own money. Unfortunately that causes most of the country's citizens to go bankrupt.
control the food, control the world.
never let a good crisis go to waste
you are too stupid to understand...................