Hug-an-industrialist Day

I used to think that in the days of NAFTA and the beginnings of the WTO, that wealthy industrialists were trying to screw regular folk out of their jobs, by shipping factories overseas so as to get millions more in short-term profits.

Well, this is true.

However, these rather rich industrialists were merely the footsoldiers for the bankers.

Industry did the hard work, and the moneybags bankers and stock brokers merely asked the WTO for the freeing up of international capital flows.

Why not? What could be wrong with that?
The whole planet could benefit from US-style deregulation!
Woops! Speculators like Soros ran wild, swallowing up smaller countries.

Industrialists didn't mind. In fact, it made it easier for them to do their off-shoring business.

Now, however, these industrialists, the few brave who are left in the West, are being royally screwed by the financial crisis, which is worldwide, instead of just in the US,

BECAUSE OF THE WTO.

Loss of credit, loss of markets, loss of consumers

So, after you screwed the unions which were the first and last line of defense for your workers, and customers, I just wanted to say,

I feel your pain

and I'd like to double it, please.

-Costick67 ~(8^P