Not everyone is sitting around with glazed eyes glued to Fox News watching intently as their corporate propaganda turn corporations into people and people into commodities while telling us that up is down and down is up like some Orwellian nightmare brought to life on Main Street in the 21st Century.  There are some of us out there who are taking to the streets in a real grassroots movement–unlike the fake Koch brothers John Birch Society corporate-sponsored Tea Party Movement.

From “Our World is Not for Sale“:  “People are joining  protests now against the G20 Summit, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea from November 11 to 12. As you know, the G20, originally formed to respond to the global financial crisis, is attempting to set itself up as the authority responsible for directing the world economy and defining world governance.

While completely excluding most nations from decision-making, the G20 is attempting to make the world ‘safe’ for neo-liberal capitalism by forcing emerging economies to shoulder part of the burden of the crisis, promoting trade and investment liberalization dressed up ‘in new robes’, negotiating weak financial reforms that largely allow financial speculation to go on unchecked, and reviving the ailing IMF and other IFIs. This agenda is being pursued despite the fact that neo-liberal capitalism is clearly a failed model, which only increases poverty and inequality around the globe.”

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YES, THE NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMICS ON WHICH THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM STANDS IS BROKEN TO THE CORE AND DOES NOT WORK EXCEPT FOR A VERY FEW AT THE VERY TOP.

Ever since Ronald Reagan the cheerleaders for the rich (and that includes Bill Clinton as well as Reagan, and both Bushes) have been pushing their neoliberal capitalism on the world.

THE ONLY PEOPLE IT SERVES ARE THE RICH.  And once again, here is that broken platform.  Remember that if you vote for any Republican (and even a few of the Democrats) this is what  you are supporting:

CORNERSTONES OF THE FAILED RIGHT-WING ECONOMIC IDEOLOGY

In addition to the healthcare system another system that is broken is the right-wing conservative economic neo-liberal ideology that includes:

1. THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating “free” enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers’ rights that had been won over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say “an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone.” It’s like Reagan’s “supply-side” and “trickle-down” economics — but somehow the wealth didn’t trickle down very much.
2. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply — again in the name of reducing government’s role. Of course, they don’t oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.
3. DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job.
4. PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.
5. ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF “THE PUBLIC GOOD” or “COMMUNITY” and replacing it with “individual responsibility.” Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves — then blaming them, if they fail, as “lazy.”

Around the world, neo-liberalism has been imposed by powerful financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. It is raging all over Latin America. The first clear example of neo-liberalism at work came in Chile (with thanks to University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman), after the CIA-supported coup against the popularly elected Allende regime in 1973. Other countries followed, with some of the worst effects in Mexico where wages declined 40 to 50% in the first year of NAFTA while the cost of living rose by 80%.

You want to know why we had millions of displaced persons from Mexico to migrate to the USA from 1994 to 2000?  Look no further than NAFTA.  This happens all over the world when unfair trade agreements are enacted.  People migrate in order to survive.  They become displaced persons.  In countries like Colombia, they migrate to the large urban areas of Colombia and become beggars.  Since 2000 until today, however, the population of displaced persons in the USA has declined by slightly over 1 million people due in great part to the worsening economic conditions in our own nation as we slide into position as what we once referred to as a Third World country.

Proclaim the Queen!

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