Globalism: Enemy of the Middle Class By Phyllis Schlafly February 2007 The majority of countries in the world (e.g., Mexico) have two classes: the rulers who are very, very rich and the rest of the people who are very, very poor. The United States is different; we built a prosperous society with a well-to-do middle class and the chance for anyone, based on merit and hard work, to better himself and live the American dream. Globalism is the enemy of the middle class. Globalism preaches that the world is flat; that nations should have no borders; that labor, capital, goods and services should flow freely between countries. Globalisms mantras are free trade and abolish protectionism. Globalism forces American workers to compete against people who work in other countries for 30 cents an hour without benefits. Competing with such low wages means the end of the American middle class. Americans relish competition, as our national fixation on sports contests proves every day. But global trade is not played on a level playing field — our opponents dont play by the rules and the umpire (the World Trade Organization) is biased against us. Middle-class Americans are waking up to how they have been squeezed out of prosperity by the politicians of both parties who were elected with the political donations and other goodies provided by corporations that reap the rewards of cheap labor through insourcing and outsourcing. Bushs Plan to Bankrupt Social Security The Social Security system has been a safety net for the middle class since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Now, President George W. Bush is trying to burden it with incredible costs by giving millions of illegal aliens Social Security benefits to which they are not entitled. This so-called Totalization plan would bankrupt the system just as our baby-boom generation retires. A 2003 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report warned that the cost to U.S. taxpayers is likely to be vastly higher than official estimates. Bush made this secret plan with Mexico in June 2004, and we know about it now because of a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by TREA Senior Citizens League, a million-member seniors advocacy group. Senator John Ensign (R-NV) and Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY) have introduced a bill to require Totalization agreements to be treated like bilateral trade agreements, and go into effect only if affirmatively passed by both Houses of Congress. Unless this bill passes, the Totalization agreement will automatically become law without congressional action. Totalization is part and parcel of the Council on Foreign Relations five-year plan for the establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community with a common outer security perimeter. The 59-page CFR document (which can claim Bush Administration approval because it is posted on a U.S. State Department website) demands that we implement the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico. dotandcalm/calm-archive/index/t-21251.html
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