Obama Walks a Difficult Path with mutlinationals as He Court US Labor

Behind the new debate about North American Free Trade Agreement is stopping the increase of multinational exports to the US from China. Obama is impacting on three trillion dollars of multinational business and profits in order to save American manufactruing jobs. This policy change will change the FDI investment pattren around the world and away from China.

The North American Union may or may not happen, but the doubling of the 300 billion dollars of Chinese reexports into the United States will happen long before 2020. Over 80 percent of these reexports are U.S. and other multinationals manufactures operating slave labor platforms in China.

Myth of the NAU and Chinese exports
The myth is that Bush and evil multinationals are pursing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with Mexico and Canada. Major parts of the United States constitution would also be erased. Secretly, the Bush administration is pursing a policy to expand the North American Trade Agreement politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to physically encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. This new agreement would allow China gut what is left of the North American Computer integrated manufacturing industrial infrastructure and labor force that lay outside the Chinese/American slave labor economy.

The much talked about new US rigorous immigration laws would start at the northern border of Canada and end at the southern border of Mexico. The Great Lakes and Rio Grand River would be no different than the Mississippi or Hudson Rivers, just waterway tens of millions of Mexicans slave labor gangs would freely pass back and forth over cannibalizing the wage structure. The NAU currencies would be de facto tied to the Chinese currency which is tied to the US dollar and slave labor. The issues of passports and national security are to be worked out.

What the evil multinationals really want is the free unimpeded movement of people (and commerce) across borders with China,Mexico and Canada or what some called an economic Super Highway. US multinationals could take advantage of cheaper Chinese, Mexican and Canadian labor markets and manufacturing for reexports into the United States. The next US President and Congress will some how be forced by special interest groups, to abrogate what is left of U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity the President is quietly forming, mush as the Europe Union has formed. Within this new North American Union, US multinationals would have a freer hand to maximize profit, avoid paying U.S. taxes and not have to deal with the checks and balances of a US Congress or a pro-labor United States President trying to limit cheap goods from Chinese flooding American local markets.

The Chinese Nightmare
The reality of the move toward an North American Union, short of another 9/11 national terror crisis the Bush administration, multinationals and the China lobby lack the political muscle and time to create the North American Union before the fall elections. While the idea and debate about the North American Union is real and very dangerous, the immediate implantation is a myth. The real deal North American Union is that multinational manufacturers operating from slave labor platforms in China are increasing the flood of reexports to U.S. via North American disturbers like JC Penny, Wel Mart, Targets, in order to open up the U.S. heart land with massive new amount cheap Chinese imports.

The cost of transportation and delays are negatively impacting on the bottom line of slave labor importers like JC Penny, Wel Mart, Targets to target the inland micro-markets.

Wel Mart and other disturbers have developed micro market business model to take over and control the smaller cities and towns, but have major logiscial challeges get goods to the internior of North America. The NAU would allow direct access, via Mexico by truck; to the interior North American high way transportation system would allow complete penetration of the micro-markets not yet reach by mass market companies like JC Penny, Wel Mart, Targets, Kmart and Home Depot and others. Remaining US manufacturers would be forced to joint the Chinese supply chain as junior partners or going bankrupt. For struggling industries like electronics and auto parts manufacturing, this direct access of cheap Chinese parts would spell terminal death.

The physical infrastructure of the major U.S. ports limits the amount of Chinese goods that could be physically imported into North America. A jumbo cargo ship contains 8,000 TEU. Unloading 8,000 containers from a single ship can take up to 3 days, even with experienced dock workers and state-of-the-art cranes. The West coast ports are overwhelmed with Chinese and other Asians container traffic and are virtually gridlock causing expensive. Over 9 million containers come into the West coast. US inland ports are not reachable by Chinese exports yet, because there is not political infrastructure to deal with the traffic.

To address this physical infrastructure problem, US multinationals(JC Penny, Wel Mart, Targets, Kmart and Home Depot and others )are actively working with their Chinese counter parts are creating backdoors into the American heart land via Mexican front companies using the NAFTA status. Container industry experts expect the cargo traffic from China to double by 2020. China’s giant Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL) is investing millions to expand Mexican deep ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo, Punta Colonet on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Punta Colonet is being converted into a 10 to 20 berth port facility capable of processing some 6 million standard 20-foot-long TEUs containers. The Free Trade Alliance of San Antonio and Kansas City Smartport, both inland ports and members of the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition Inc, are exploring using NAFTA corridor to facilitate the movement from ports 50% to 60% of all containers entering U.S. from China that are destined for delivery in the heart of the US.

The North American Union may or may not happen, but the doubling of Chinese trade imports will happen long before 2020. Chinese imports are projected to reach in real terms, 300 billion dollars with another 200 billions backdoor Chinese reexports flowing into the US from Canada and Mexico. These multinational imports are killing what remains of U.S. manufacturing employment for the next generation of American youth.

Black American dream of ever being employed is ending
A generation of African Americans are already caught in a economic time warp between advanced Computer intergrated manufacturing and industrial Chinese slavery. Almost 10 million African Americans are not unemployable in either mode of productions. Between 6-7 million American workers 16-24 years of age are officially either out of school and or the workforce. In some local markets, Black youth unemployment is almost 80 percent. The increase in American youth unemployment is directly a function of the increase in Chinese manufacturing exports reaching US home markets. Almost 500,000 American at-risk youth are being forced out of the labor market each year for lack of employment oppoutnites, 71 percent of these are from inner city industrial families or Black youth.China at the same time is creating new slave labor jobs for 20 million young workers every year with the active help of US multinationals.

According to the Financial Times of London, there is growing political concern in Communist China that rate of expansion of job creation may slow for Chinese youth as state controlled industries are forced to downsize and mutlinationals take a larger share of Chinese production, current at 80 perecent of all exports. Historically Chinese employment expands at a rate 1-2 per cent every year or 40 million jobs.The globalization of manufacturing, led by US multinationals that have created massive Chinese centered industrial slave plantations that product over two trillion dollars of goods and services. These industrial slave labor plantations have replaced, destroyed and transferred tens of millions of advanced manufacturing sector jobs in or near the inner cities. The public school educational system have collasped to the point that less 30 perecnt of the young workers get the critical industrial skills to tranistion into the industrial workfore.Most of these youth workers are women, not men. In too many cases, American youth do not get the critical opportunity to develop any industrial based sense of self –worth and human potential.

Many African Americans are hopelessly structurally unemployable in the inner city post-industrial economies of North America.Now stripped of their industrial persona of cheap labor, these Africa American and young white workers are reduced to useless mouths in a emerging paperless service economy that appears to have no place for them. Their identity and self-worth no longer a refection of their labor power and critical thinking, but their distorted understanding faith and the larger white society handouts.

In a move that had yet to stir national political controversy, major North American teacher’s Union pension funds announced the start massive multibillion dollar investments in Chinese slave labor industrial plantations. These investments will aid in the destruction of the entry level manufacturing jobs, American youth need to transitation from high school to the world of work. The Bush Administration has de facto abandoned any serious attempts to fight Chinese slaver labor growth or constrain China trade now projected to reach a record 300 billion dollars. The situation remains fluid and unpredictable, Chinese labor exports have leapfrogged to other parts of the US industrial economy.

The myth of American post-Civil Rights and French social model, which emphasizes social integration, generous social benefits and social equality for all of its citizens, is not only being called into question, but destabilized by new North American Union. The concerns of the American youth must be addressed based on a new and very different social model. With the emergence of the two trillion Chinese slave economy and defenseless borders, the American social model emphasis on integration into main stream white society now serves as a cultural smokescreen to deny ethnic and racial minorities legitimate forms of self expression.As a consequence of post-industrial Chinese industrial slavery, The once powerful African American industrial national identity - is being replaced with a degraded hip hop lumpenized identity void of critical thinking unable to grasp the politcial economy and condition of the their existence in spite of and because of the presence(and destructive) conditions pushing African Americans toward political and social fragmentation.

The lack of indsutrial investments in the inner and political education limits their critical thinking power to confront the prinipalities and power that are obscuring their interconnection and fundamental relational to the mainstream society.However, African America is not alone as this is a problem echoed throughout North American white industrial workers and Europe. In the United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany - only to a name a few – segments of white youth and young worker face similar obstacles as they negotiate the treacherous divide between what remains of their national modern capitalism infastrastructure and the emerging black hole of Chinese and Eastern European industrial slavery.

The North American Union is the myth, 300 billion dollars of Chinese imports are the reality. The Free Trade Alliance of San Antonio and Kansas City Smartport, both inland ports and members of the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition Inc, are exploring using NAFTA corridor to facilitate the movement from ports 50% to 60% of all containers entering U.S. from China that are destined for delivery in the heart of the US.

The North American Union may or may not happen, but the doubling of Chinese trade imports will happen long before 2020.