[inquest]

This article ignores the real danger from economic globalization: political globalization. As trade barriers come down, multinational corporations will have extra freedom to maneuver away from national regulatory apparatus. Those who think this will result in a new era of competitive deregulation are sadly mistaken. The political class isn't going to just sit by and let things go unregulated. Instead, they're going to demand - and get - international regulatory apparatus.

I mean, just look at the EU.

[GOP_1900AD]

Corporate leaders, with allegience to no one nation - what is do difficult to understand? Globalism is a mental condition suffered by modernist, utopian, liberal managers, who have been brainwashed into thinking that "nationalism" is some sort of malady which affects solely rednecks and fascists. Just yesterday, an exec with which I am profoundly familiar, was bragging about how he is moving to Beijing. What ever happened to corporate leaders with truly conservative values, and who are pillars of the community? Today's ones don't know what a community is - their community is a virtual one, spanning the entire globe. Sick.

[LiteKeeper]

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[Dog Gone]

Great article.

[lelio]

Williams pointed out that since 1970 that industry “lost” eighty percent of its switchboard operators, while now handling ten times the number of long distance calls. As anyone should know, this was done through automation.

Yes, automation brought about by R&D and investing in your company, which in turn produced growth. What investment in this country is there when you just ship jobs overseas as its cheaper to do work there?

Does Williams think that this automation just fell from the sky without Americans working on it?

[e_castillo]

telecommunications. Williams pointed out that since 1970 that industry “lost” eighty percent of its switchboard operators, while now handling ten times the number of long distance calls

VOIP will again force change on whats left of the Telco's but the real problem that Williams and these others refuse to face is unfair and predatory competition from such countries as France. What if the US government decided to aid our Telecommunications companies in ways which would gauranty technological leadership? Pay for R&D help out with Capital... What would China or Mexico do then?

I am so tired of these two dimensional arguments and the simpleton politicians which adhere to them.

[sauropod]

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[Paul Ross]

So much of this panting debate makes me suspect that this is at least in part a last gasp of a dying Marxism, desperate to stick it to the Capitalism that has consigned it to the septic tank of History. The bottom line of the anti-Globalization screed is the notion that the demon Globalization is “exploiting” the sad multitudes of the Third World

Actually, she mistates the issue, and turns it on its head. The REAL Karl Marx and his fellow-travelling Marxists LOVE Free Trade and Globalization, and encourage it as he did in 1848:

"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."

[William Terrell]

Global commerce has to be regulated by global agencies with global powers. Who thinks it can stop there?

It has to grow into a world government over social and cultural sectors, they being so integrated with an economy to support them.

The central question, in my mind, is what kind of law must be used? Surely not the English or American common law, not Islamic law nor any other law of any specific people or homeland.

And what would be the character of that law, people versus the rulers and regulators?

[Quix]

ARTICLE AUTHOR: There is no rational reason why this should be considered an innate evil, yet such is the trend that seduces so many of the fashionably indignant. But does this make any sense?

Evidently the author considers himself more knowledgeable than ALMIGHTY GOD

who warns that the global government taking over after Israel becomes a Nation again in a day--after the dispersion in 70AD . . . will be led by satan and lead to a worse time on earth than ever before or in the future.

I suppose if one is desperate to experience hell on earth, one should work for the global government.