Tapsearch Com EditorWorkers Dignity Degraded
July 3rd 2011 00:56
More thoughts about Pope Benedict's Economic Encylical
Pope Leo stressed human dignity and social justice in Rerum Novarum. It implied workers had a right to come together as an unit to negotiate their workday. In recent years, the essence of Rerum Novarum was diluted with a change regarding human dignity in the workday. Free Trade caused this dilution by a new interpretation of trade to include the moving of factories, production and outsourcing jobs to the cheapest labor markets of the world.
The geopolitical balance was upset. Local value added economies from raw product to retail were attacked. The economic systems that provided a good living for families was lost. The USA went through the most massive dislocation of jobs in its history. In the past it was the shop foremen who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn the young made enough money to get married, raise a family and buy a home. Today millions find this impossible to do. An uncontrolled free market expanded outside the control of the workers.
Now international organizations like the WTO and the World Banks control the workday without the consent of the workers involved. The workers have lost their voice in their destinies.
Prior to Globalism and Free Trade, local value added economies were promoted and the aim was to duplicate the process across the world. Instead, workers became the real commodities in this so called Free Trade. The workers are put on a world trading block to compete with the lowest common denominators down to wage slave labor and even child labor. The working poor class was created in the USA who find it more and more difficult to even afford the cheaper imports. At the same time the destitute workers outside the USA can not afford to buy the very things they make let alone have anything left over to buy anything the USA may have left to sell. And now Globalism as the extension of Free Trade is breeding wars and terror.
See more at
Tapart News, online since 1998, ,
featuring The Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror art by Ray Tapajna asking who will now untangle the terror Globalism and Free Trade have bred.
A must read book - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. See Tapsearch Com Amazon Friends
Pope Leo stressed human dignity and social justice in Rerum Novarum. It implied workers had a right to come together as an unit to negotiate their workday. In recent years, the essence of Rerum Novarum was diluted with a change regarding human dignity in the workday. Free Trade caused this dilution by a new interpretation of trade to include the moving of factories, production and outsourcing jobs to the cheapest labor markets of the world.
The geopolitical balance was upset. Local value added economies from raw product to retail were attacked. The economic systems that provided a good living for families was lost. The USA went through the most massive dislocation of jobs in its history. In the past it was the shop foremen who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn the young made enough money to get married, raise a family and buy a home. Today millions find this impossible to do. An uncontrolled free market expanded outside the control of the workers.
Now international organizations like the WTO and the World Banks control the workday without the consent of the workers involved. The workers have lost their voice in their destinies.
Prior to Globalism and Free Trade, local value added economies were promoted and the aim was to duplicate the process across the world. Instead, workers became the real commodities in this so called Free Trade. The workers are put on a world trading block to compete with the lowest common denominators down to wage slave labor and even child labor. The working poor class was created in the USA who find it more and more difficult to even afford the cheaper imports. At the same time the destitute workers outside the USA can not afford to buy the very things they make let alone have anything left over to buy anything the USA may have left to sell. And now Globalism as the extension of Free Trade is breeding wars and terror.
See more at
Tapart News, online since 1998, ,
featuring The Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror art by Ray Tapajna asking who will now untangle the terror Globalism and Free Trade have bred.
A must read book - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. See Tapsearch Com Amazon Friends
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