Pose a Question…

What does it really take for a governmental decision to change? Are governments allowed to be wrong? Are the ideas of neo-libralism bad for the global economy? Today, I have an excert from the book Take This Job and Ship It by Senator Byron L. Dorgan:

“While our society is still not perfect, we have since made a lot of progress by developing rules and standards that give workers the power and ability to organize and push for humane standards like reasonable hours, wages, safe workplaces, and child-labor laws.

But that was before the “global economy” made U.S. labor laws obsolete.

In the new world order, if corporations find the labor laws in the United States too stifling, they can just move their operations abroad, where they are not inconvenienced by them.

The clock is being turned back. So much for workers rights.

“Free Trade! Free Trade!” It have become the mantra of the global corporations and their cheerleaders, suggesting all the virtues os freedom. But is this “free trade” a practice that is mislabeled? Is it really about freedom? If so, for whom? And more important, is this free-trade strategy of the United States exporting freedom or misery(p. 51-52)?”