{"id":1871,"date":"2011-05-25T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2011-05-25T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T15:08:52","slug":"globalism-destroys-america-10-reasons-why-the-world-trade-organization-is-bad-for-the-united-states-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/globalism-destroys-america-10-reasons-why-the-world-trade-organization-is-bad-for-the-united-states-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"Globalism Destroys America: 10 Reasons Why The World Trade Organization Is Bad For The United States Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From: Patriot Action Network
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It’s 2011 now and this article still holds true, in fact it has gotten a lot worse, With the upcoming elections we need a president that will deal with the real issues, if they don’t mention this problem directly by name, WTO and are not even going to attempt to get us off this ride to poverty we don’t need them, we need the real deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2010, education has been so “dumbed down” in America that most Americans don’t even know what the WTO is, and even fewer understand why the WTO is important. The truth is that the World Trade Organization\u00a0is essentially\u00a0a global government for world trade.\u00a0 It is a “contract” that severely\u00a0restricts the ability of member nations to direct their own economies and set their own trade policies.\u00a0\u00a0The United Nations is\u00a0perhaps the only international organization that has more power than the WTO.\u00a0 It was created on January 1st, 1995 as a replacement for GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade).\u00a0 Today,\u00a0153 nations representing more than 97% of total world trade are members of the WTO.\u00a0 It has been largely responsible for the explosion in world trade that we have witnessed over the past several decades.\u00a0 In fact, world trade is now over 15 times larger than it was 50 years ago.\u00a0 But is this a good thing?<\/p>\n

No, it is not.<\/p>\n

The following are 10 reasons why the World Trade Organization is bad for America…..<\/p>\n

1<\/strong> – The WTO is not accountable to the American people or to any other voters around the globe.\u00a0 It is a sprawling bureaucracy that wields an almost unbelievable amount of power that is completely unchecked by democratic processes.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0American people could try to elect a large number of politicians who are in favor of pulling the United States\u00a0out of the WTO, but considering the fact that both major political parties are very much pro-WTO at this point, that is simply not\u00a0going to happen.<\/p>\n

2<\/strong> – The WTO acts as the legislature, the executive and the judiciary in matters of world trade.\u00a0 The WTO has the authority to impose punishments on member nations, and it has not been shy about exercising this authority.\u00a0 In essence, the WTO is the judge, the jury and the executioner and if anyone does not like this it is too bad for them.<\/p>\n

3<\/strong> – Many of the WTO regulations were authored word for word by the big global predator corporations that now dominate the world economy.\u00a0 It is an open secret that the WTO is dominated by international bankers, large international corporations and the most developed nations.\u00a0 Whenever new negotiations are conducted, it almost always seems as though it is the “sharks” that end up winning in the end.<\/p>\n

4<\/strong> – Any nation that attempts to protect itself against the negative effects of globalism and free trade is quickly reprimanded by the WTO.\u00a0 In essence, the WTO is the enforcement arm for the powerful interests who are determined to merge us all into a one world economy.<\/p>\n

5<\/strong> – The WTO allows countries to sue each other.\u00a0 This has been primarily used by the wealthy countries to push around the smaller, less developed nations.<\/p>\n

6<\/strong> – The WTO allows\u00a0global corporations\u00a0to sue countries.\u00a0 Forget about sovereign immunity in matters governed by the WTO.\u00a0 Under the WTO, the monolithic corporations who benefit the most from free trade can easily push around\u00a0the smallest and least\u00a0developed nations.<\/p>\n

7<\/strong> – The WTO is widening the gap between rich and poor.\u00a0 Under the globalized system of free trade we are all living under, all wealth is slowly but surely being transferred into the hands of the very wealthy while the rest of us are left standing around trying to figure out how the game was rigged.<\/p>\n

8<\/strong> – The WTO forces the United States to open its doors to unsafe products.\u00a0 For example, the United States had been very concerned about the safety of Chinese poultry products.\u00a0 But the WTO\u00a0ruled in China’s favor<\/a> and now the U.S. must allow China to import massive amounts of unsanitary chicken.<\/p>\n

9<\/strong> – Under the WTO, labor has become a global commodity.\u00a0 Now American workers have been put in direct competition with the cheapest labor in the world.\u00a0 Millions of American workers have lost their jobs and factories are closing across the United States\u00a0at a staggering pace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

10<\/strong> – The American people are deeply upset about the state of the economy, but they don’t even understand what is going on.\u00a0\u00a0According to a new CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation survey<\/a>, 81% of Americans rate the U.S. economy as “poor”.\u00a0 Americans continue to get angrier and angrier about the economy and they want someone to “fix” it.\u00a0 But what they don’t understand is that under the new global system that we are being merged into, it is intended that the standard of living for the poorer nations will go up while our standard of living goes down.\u00a0\u00a0In the end,\u00a0there is supposed to be “equality” all over the world.<\/p>\n

But what kind of equality will that be?<\/p>\n

If current trends hold up, the top 1% of all income earners will become fabulously wealthy, while the remainder of us will work our lives away for their giant global corporations for near slave labor wages.<\/p>\n

A reader of my column named Joe recently left a comment that does a good job of summarizing the kind of world that we are heading into….<\/p>\n

Watch these two short videos…then be sure to continue to read these rest of this article…<\/em><\/p>\n

It is not just the current Democrat president who wants the New World Order. \u00a0See what the first President George Herbert Bush said. \u00a0It’s not Democrat or Republican, it’s both that want NWO and WTO!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n