Henry Ford his $ 5, NAFTA and International Trade

Africa's impoverishment and economic dysfunction isn't due to the lack of International Trade. As a matter of fact a primary cause of Africa's economic malaise is a type of international activity. One that exploits African resources at the expense of Africa's internal development. Add on the bribery and corruption phenomena which is a natural consequence of un-developed Political Economies and you get Africa's economy as model.

It boggles the mind to hear Lackeys and Apologist for this model of International Trade, Fareed Zakaria in his March 10, 2008 Newsweek article is one, which posits that the U.S. must serve, must continue serving the global function of National Economies, babble their idealistic gibberish that a revision of NAFTA is symbiotically catastrophic for the U.S. and the world.

Whatever happened to Nations unilaterally developing their national and internal infrastructure, building roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, railroads, putting their citizens to work. Thereby creating and first and foremost establishing an internal-national economy that will nurture and sustain a fact of national trade before attempting to interact globally. The idea and practice of external sources accrediting valuation to a nations productivity is for political-economies at a certain stage in development. This simply means trade or any honest semblance of it cannot exist between un-equal political-economies only plunder and exploitation will.

Why should Mexico rely on NAFTA to economize itself when three-fourths of the Mexican national infrastructure is non-existent? The only beneficiaries of NAFTA are multi-national speculators who indulge the vagaries of Imperialism and it's misanthropy.

How often do we snicker at the spectacle of so-called Third World Nations and the show case capital city while the towns villages and slums around it are in the stone age---and criticism is supposed to be accepted from Apologist, whose only reason is to maintain such travesty that if only more international markets were opened to the poor Kenyan farmer, Peruvian peasant or Indian street dweller their lives would improve and the laid off analog factory worker in Michigan who couldn't even find Kenya, Peru, or India on a map were their life dependent on it, will be better off!

No! What those Apologist mean is, this paradigm of Colonial Political-Economy that requires the U.S. National Economy serve as the global surrogate for non-existent national economies of the world must continue. The speculator legatee beneficiaries who do not have any reason or incentive to revise, reform and where necessary over haul this paradigm that has 6,000 + Billionaires on a planet of 6 billion+, want it to continue and the dialectics of it, again shows in an un-equal economical relationship what you have is plunder and just as the vagaries of imperialism plunder the un-developed economies of the Third World so is the world exploiting the economically anomalous relationship the U.S. holds with it at the expense of Henry Ford's $5 epiphany.

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