What Is Free Trade Really About?

This isn't one of the big trade deals everybody knows about. This one was launched during the glorious Obama years: The (South) Korea Free Trade Agreement. Signed, sealed, and delivered by Obama in 2011 with his assurance that it would create 70,000 American jobs.   His assurance was on the level of his promise that, under Obamacare, you would be able to choose your own doctor. Four years later, in 2016, this was the outcome of the Globalist Korea Free Trade Agreement, as reported by Public Citizen: "...the loss of more than 102,554 American jobs." Oops. Slight miscalculation. "U.S. goods exports to Korea have dropped 10 percent, or $4.5 billion..." Sorry about that. "U.S. imports of goods from Korea have increased 18 percent, or $10.8 billion..." Sorry about that, too. How could this have happened? I'll tell you how. It's simple. Despite claims, these trade deals are written and calculated to torpedo economies. That's what Globalists do. Why? Because an ultimate top-down takeover of populations is easier that way. Here's another example: NAFTA. Remember that trade treaty? It enabled, among other consequences, the export of very cheap corn---massive amounts---from the US to Mexico. Result? 1.5 million Mexican corn farmers were thrown out of business. Boom. Many of them decided to come across the border to the US. Does that sound like an all-around economy-building scenario? Globalism: the wolf in sheep's clothing. No more countries---only elite corporations in control, making markets wherever they can find them... There's just one problem. As these corporations and their Globalist leaders play economic game with countries and their people, the net effect is decreasing the number of customers who can afford to buy the corporations' products. You can't just shift the beneficiaries of trade deals from one nation to another, in an unending shuffle and reshuffle of the deck. Sooner or later, you wind up with more sellers than buyers. You create more overall chaotic conditions. Elite corporations don't want to think about this. They're counting on governments to bail them out with, for example, some form of "universal income" for citizens, which means expanded welfare. That isn't going to cut it. Piddling "new money" isn't going to invent, magically, a billion or two new customers for cars and cell phones and houses. Basically, these corporations are playing Musical Chairs among themselves. Which companies will survive, and which will fall? The corporations are dreaming about a controlled future in which they are more powerful kings. It isn't going to work out. Even mergers and acquisitions won't win the day. Robust economies depend on many, many small and large businesses operating in relative freedom, in stable nations. The fantasy of one global economy is intrinsically a hoax. When you eliminate tariffs (the goal of all trade treaties), you accentuate the differences between various labor forces. Giant corporations shut down factories in countries where labor is expensive and laws against gross polluting are "obstructing profits," and they open up those factories in places where labor is dirt cheap and you can pollute night and day. That isn't free enterprise. That's ongoing crime. Someone eventually pays the piper. Corporations believe they can, with their Globalist partners, keep postponing a day of reckoning indefinitely. They're wrong. The bottom line is the corporations' bottom line: fewer buyers for their products. They can't wriggle out of that one. Free enterprise is the last thing on Globalists' minds. They want a single worldwide planned economy, with central points for production and distribution of goods and services. They want a tighter Surveillance State. They want a single toxic medical cartel to dominate citizens' lives. They want to install many features that add up to massive top-down control. In this atmosphere, elite corporations are going to thrive? The truth is, Globalists are USING corporations, temporarily, to forward their aims. Those corporations don't want to see this. They want to remain blind. They want to dream their dreams. These titans, with all their skills, turn out to be the masters of self-delusion. Stable and separate nations, not Globalism, is the solution staring them in the face. But they keep their eyes closed. ---Look at Europe. Under the aegis of the Globalist European Union (EU), it is the canary in the coal mine. And the canary is bringing back devastating messages. Nations are being disrupted and torn by the EU's forced immigration policy of open borders. Widespread crime, crushing budgets to support the wave of migration, massive unrest. In this atmosphere, European mega-corporations are going to flourish and grow? New customers are going to appear out of nowhere? Dream on. Recall the old term "double cross?" A person allied with one side in a deal secretly betrays the deal and the ally. That's what Globalist elites are doing to giant corporations. They're going back on their promise. They're creating an atmosphere in which corporations can't function beyond a certain point. And worse, they're creating a forced planetary economy in which the corporations will become mere government appendages---functionaries in a slave-based system. These deluded corporations...it only takes a few of them to wake up and see the real game. And then rebel. How about it, boys? Who'll be the first? And now, a clue: in this atmosphere, there is daylight. Small businesses that give real value for value have an opening. A very large opening...