Having open borders makes it impossible to protect the worker, because you have an eternal supply of replacement workers. Corporations can take in the unlimited number of workers and build them apartments to live in and then pay them $10/day.
That was what Hillary was going to sign under the Trade Pacific Pact. It was an agreement to commoditize human labour worldwide by offshoring jobs within the country.
As has been pointed out, a genuine free trade agreement is less than one page long. Thousand-page “Partnerships” filled with kickbacks and exceptions for the favored have nothing whatsoever to do with free trade.
Having open borders makes it impossible to protect the worker, because you have an eternal supply of replacement workers. Corporations can take in the unlimited number of workers and build them apartments to live in and then pay them $10/day.
That was what Hillary was going to sign under the Trade Pacific Pact. It was an agreement to commoditize human labour worldwide by offshoring jobs within the country.
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True statement on the global labor supply and corporations.
Those same commercial operations hire management from a global supply of corporate managers.(Foreigners)
They just aren’t as picky about the bottom line and compensation with this group , hence the bloat and unproductive fat that is an albatross throughout corporate global America.
“commoditize human labour worldwide”
Foreigners tend to underestimate the costs of living in the USA and UK. In London, some have lived ten to a house.
They are happy to do so for a few years, but in doing so they will force wages down to a 10 to a house level for Americans and Brits too, trashing the Western way of life for most Westerners.
As Americans age, they need to spend more on healthcare.
A virtually endless supply of healthy foreign young people means Americans can’t cover their own health care costs.