While a global view of our economy would be great in a free world with one government, one culture, and one set of ideals by which we all lived, we live in a real world of many sovereign nations of different cultures and ideals, some with evil people in control.
Unfortunately, there are many Utopian-minded economists and businessmen who are oblivious to the need for sovereignty from other nations and thus don’t understand that conservation of freedom, culture, capability, capital, and access to natural resources are essential to the sustainment of a sovereign nation of free people. These are the one-world government globalists who see borders as an impediment to profits and their own enrichment and place no value in preservation of freedom, culture, or the existing population of a nation. The elite class has an inordinate amount of control over our governance and economy. Through their proxies in the government, the elites have successfully achieved “free trade” and open borders in our own country and have effectively reduced the economic time scales for transition of businesses to foreign shores to months as opposed to years or never in some cases and yet left the economic time scales for affected US workers measured in years and possibly decades (retraining, moving family to a new location, possibly assimilating to a new culture). Unfortunately, the US worker has little understanding of global wage parity and can do little to control work environments that are effectively slavery in other sovereign nations and don’t have the regulatory and security costs associated with working here. With the advent of both “free trade” and open borders as well as the unlevel playing field upon which he is required to compete, the US worker has suddenly priced himself out of the global market for many jobs. This is partially his own doing as unions have pushed for wages that greatly exceeded those in other sovereign nations. Nonetheless, when his government changed the rules for trade and didn’t enforce the borders, the rug was effectively pulled from beneath him. The US worker of this generation will probably never recover and the middle class of this country will soon vanish.
Well at least we agree that the government is at fault.
“Nonetheless, when his government changed the rules for trade and didn’t enforce the borders, the rug was effectively pulled from beneath him.”
International trade means that goods cross borders. It does not mean that people cross borders. It is one thing to compete with a Mexican worker in Mexico, and a very different thing to compete with a Mexican worker across the aisle. The border should be sealed. As clear as that is to me, I am amazed that some would nominate John McCain.