Globalization. ahhhh. Sounds so good on paper, don't it. Wake up people. It's a lie. And apparently, nothing is sacred, not even your old blue jeans...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/27/wlevis27.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/27/ixworld.html

I thought the idea was to bring the rest of the world up to our standard of living. Instead the reverse seems to be happening. While the gap between rich and poor ever widens.

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It's not just the manufacturing jobs, folks. Have you called a help line lately?

Even if people had money to buy anything, we don't MAKE anything here anymore!! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/frown.gif" width=15 height=15>

Going to a lecture tonite here at University at Albany: Michael Parenti: "When America Rules the World; Corporate Globalism vs. Democracy".

Sounds really good. I've been looking at
Michael Parenti's Website , and he sounds interesting.

I'll let you know about it later tonite or tomorrow.