{"id":1776,"date":"2018-08-30T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:14:49","slug":"nafta-202-a-new-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"NAFTA 2… a new perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I write this, Trump’s “NAFTA 2” is in motion. \u00a0Mexico is at the table and Canada is lining up for talks as well. \u00a0There’s multi-dimensions to all this. \u00a0And they need to be well understood before the parties ‘…sign on the dotted line.’ \u00a0In entering into trade talks with Canada, for example, its advisable to understand how Canadian society ticks in regard to the ideological underpinnings of their economic system. \u00a0In the book Canadian Society (A Macro-Analysis)<\/em><\/strong>, it notes: “The dominant ideology in Canadian society has been the liberal model which accepts a stratified society because of its belief in individualism, yet modifies the excesses of the capitalist system by making some provisions for the most disadvantaged. \u00a0Marchak fears that with the increasing concentration of global capital (as multi-national corporations support the shift from competitive capitalism to monopoly capitalism), inequality will become an even more critical problem.” \u00a0<\/strong>After “NAFTA 1,” so to speak, our family toured Juarez, Mexico, where some of these multi-national corporation factories had gone up on the border. Because provisions in the first NAFTA were favorable for this, it created a situation where plant workers were making $3 a shift, not an hour, but a shift<\/em>, in these plants, while living in extreme abject poverty in the slums of Juarez. \u00a0The hierarchy in the multi-nationals were making a lot of money, the, say, American consumers were saving a lot of money on these factory items; but on the lower end of the inequality side, these workers, and their families, were suffering tremendously<\/em>. \u00a0As Marchak notes: “…as these multi-nationals move toward monopoly capitalism, inequality will become a more critical problem.” \u00a0And it has for these Mexican multi-national plant workers. \u00a0This could also happen in Canada this time around, at least to a degree. And our administration would not only be looking out for American interests in NAFTA 2, but we would also be looking out for the interests of the general populace in both Canada and Mexico. \u00a0While this is, indeed, sound spiritual principle, these trade agreements are seldom looked at through this type of paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I write this, Trump’s “NAFTA 2” is in motion. \u00a0Mexico is at the table and Canada is lining up for talks as well. \u00a0There’s multi-dimensions to all this. \u00a0And they need to be well understood before the parties ‘…sign …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}