The Danger in Forgetting About American Workers

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/474907/the_danger_in_forgetting_about_american_workers/

“We need better intelligence, the kind that is derived not from intercepting a president’s phone calls to his mistress but from hanging out with the powerless.”

That was one of columnist Nicholas Kristof’s lessons for U.S. foreign policy drawn from Egypt’s revolution. In the New York Times this weekend he pointed out that American journalists and foreign policy experts alike missed the warning signs of what was coming in Egypt in part because they talk to the wrong people. Aha. That’s not exactly a revelation to consumers of independent media.

It’s not just revolutions in far off places that we miss when reporters ignore the everyday working people, though. Another piece in the very same paper on the very same day examined the consequences of this country’s outsourcing-only manufacturing policy. The question raised there was pretty fundamental. It went to the entire justification for globalization.

We’ve been told that going global serves American interests because increased profits produce innovation, creativity, and investment in new improved products. Right?

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1. The voiceless majority that have to work for a living, the unemployed and the

disenfranchised will eventually get PO'ed. Left, Right, Center there is a commonality in eventually feeling ignored. The one that can meld that together will move forward, hopefully it will be for the betterment of mankind.