<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/article/235929849-the-free-ride-for-american-consumers-is-ending" target="_blank">The free ride for American consumers is ending</a>
<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/topics/44-economy" target="_blank">Economy</a>
<strong>Written By: </strong> <a href="/profiles/RPW" target="_blank">RPW</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> Tuesday, April 08 at 12:30<br><br>
<p>For two generations, Americans have imported goods produced ever more cheaply from a succession of low-wage countries — first Japan and Korea, then China, and now increasingly places like Vietnam and India.<br>
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But mounting inflation in the developing world, especially Asia, is threatening that arrangement, and not just in China, where rising energy and labor costs have already made exports to the United States more expensive, but in the lower-cost alternatives to China, too.</p><br><a href="/article/235929849-the-free-ride-for-american-consumers-is-ending">read more >></a>

   

The so called "low costs" of Chinese imports is a lie, used to cover up the reality of the vastly increased, but unaccounted physical costs and reactions caused by the long distance imports and exports of resources and then the finished products, all to make the middlemen filthy rich and in control of the world's economy.

The unaccounted physical costs of those products are some of the biggest contributors to global warming, pollution, resource depletion, the growing poverty and homelessness figures, epidemics , etc.

All unaccounted, because our miseducated economists and braindead politicians are the victims of a sick, faith based theory. Not to mention the waiting directorships.

The biggest fraud and crime wave in history that could easily destroy human civilization and the Earth.

But, of course, that would be the most "competitive" action, so who could argue against it?

Ed Deak.

   

this fit the senerio?


http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/0 ... ilcars.txt
Railcars idle as economy falters
By SUSAN GALLAGHER - Associated Press- 04/04/08

CRAIG — BNSF Railway Co., the nation’s top hauler of container rail freight, is parking miles of railcars in Montana and elsewhere because there isn’t enough freight to keep them rolling.

Cars that often carry 40-foot containers of goods shipped from Asia stand like an iron fence between the Missouri River and this Montana burg known for world-class fly fishing. They stretch as far as Sandee Cardinal can see when she stands outside her home on the river’s west bank between Helena and Great Falls.

‘‘What is that but a symbol of how America is down in the dumps right now?’’ Cardinal asked as she gazed at the cars that haven’t moved for about three months.

The cars parked are the type that haul cargo from ships on the coast to points inland, mainly imported goods — an area that’s starting to slow down due to the weak economy. Analysts say transportation usually is among the first sectors to show signs of a downturn in the economy and with Americans feeling pinched — employers eliminated 63,000 jobs last month amid declining consumer confidence — it could be a while before the idle cars move.

   

In the "Dirty 30's" in hindsight, we had the "romance" of "riding the rails". In the coming depression, are we to be deprived of even this?

   

And here in Central BC, there's a great railcar shortage, since Campbell gave away BC Rail. The lumber industry is in poor shape to begin with, and the shortage of rail cars makes it even worse, because they can't ship even what they could sell.

When we're going to town, the last 16 km. on Hwy 97, we always meet several large trucks on that short stretch, going day and night, taking lumber South to the ports, when it could be taken by rail at a fraction of the oil use and pollution.

Very "efficient". But it drives up the GDP, so economists and politicians are happy.

Ed Deak.

   

Here in ontario we see from time to time vast parks of idle rail car-carriers. This trend seldom reflects anything to do with car sales or production. It reflects more the success or failure of the rail stock owners to secure contracts.

   

We?
You got a rat in your pocket?
We?

I heard the storied of of those riding the rails and being beat by rilyard Bulls

There was no romance ther Bro. ther was hardship the like never seen sinse.
And yes I see your quotation marks
This depression will spawn a crime wave and in fact already has.

Whether there is an abundance of railcars or a shortage you can be certain
there is a manipulation of the so called economy to fatten the coffers of the few at the expence of the many

   

And I heard that the American mills are not even getting this largesse from Canada. The stuff is being sent to factory ships just outside in international waters and cut up there. Rumour? Perhaps.....but the logs are going somewhere.

   

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We?
We?
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The "greater" we..............and you know as well as anyone that "the good ol' days" acquires a kind of rosy glow to the [fade]succeeding generations........[/fade]

   

It makes little difference who gets the raw logs, when Canadian workers are cheated out of jobs, and the towns and rural areas are being depopulated, schools are closed.

Also, the protests against the export of raw logs are worthless, as by NAFTA and WTO rules, once a "commodity" starts crossing borders, nothing can reduce, or stop the volume, even to save lives, let alone jobs.

And that law was negotiated by Canadian economists and signed by Canadian politicians. Now not even the opposition daring to mention that we're cooked, as long as we're in those criminal organizations, designed and set up for legalized theft, as any questioning may reduce our "exports" and the "GDP".

Ed Deak,

   

So, if the Democrats get into power in the fall, will they actually renegotiate NAFTA (thus providing us with the opportunity to correct a few "errors"), or will it be just so much electioneering down there, to be "forgotten" once power is achieved?

   

I wouldn't want to be on the same plane with any, especially US, politician electioneering on an anti NAFTA platform.

Ed Deak.