Neoliberalism is a form of economic liberalism whose advocates support greater economic liberalization, free trade, open markets, privatization, deregulation, and reductions in government spending in order to enhance the role of the private sector in the economy. This trend is/has had a huge impact on domestic policies in the US. Its crept up on us since the 1930s and now has its fist around Americans throats. Most people dont know what it is or what to call it. We know something about our federal governments foreign policies are wrong, but they dont know exactly what. We hear people complaining about foreign aid in the form of military and other types of assistance to other nations, but people dont understand that this is part of a much larger policy which threatens Americans. Problems with unemployment, outsourcing, the cost of policing the world and modern slavery are part of this. WE stopped legal slavery in the US Civil War, but today, because of outsourcing and tariff free imports, we in the US actually purchase products made in Thailand, Cambodia and the Dominican Republic which are actually produced with slave labor: workers being sold from one ships captain to another, harvesting shrimp, for instance off the coast of Thailand. How about all the products that have been found containing lead and mercury being imported into the US from China? Neoliberalism undermines our labor, environmental and consumer protection laws and they are a knife in the back of the American public. These are policies that both Democrats like Obama and Clinton support and so do Republicans like Dubyah and Mitt Romney. This is the difference between the political world in Washington D.C. and the political world outside of it. There are many conflicts of interest between the US economy and that of the Neoliberal world economy. They stick it to the American economy, and make American workers an endangered species. Although I am a classic liberal, in both social and fiscal sense, Im against neoliberal policies and I know this is one central issue in the working class political stance of many republicans and democrats, who are tired of making sacrifices for the sake of our nation supporting the whole world. I ask What is worse about someone outside the US being poor than someone inside the US being poor? and arent we supposed to help people with needs in our own country FIRST? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:30:11 +0000
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