The good ol' capitalist system using mercantilism for low local consumption....wealthy people and corporations don't give a shit about the average Joe, unless it's a whey to lower labor cost.Vying for the same shit? Yep.During the later 1970's and into the 1980's farmers were losing farms at a record pace..What with the grain embargo and fuel prices rising....The old WWII vets would boycott or mass complain about a policy and it was changed.....Now, both parties are vying for all theProbably back when small farmers weren't being bankrupted by Monsanto, people still had a say in government, and Corporations weren't 'people'.It wasn't that whey when I worked at a warehouse in Bentonville when Sam, was alive....back then they wouldn't give folks food stamps...so you worked 2 or three jobs to make ends meet....Walmart wouldn't exist without 'welfare for work' and government subsidies and food stamps that prop up its existence.Not really, there is a few things from East Europe....and the Americas, you know, that stuff they call food......?
Link: How McDonald s and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens - Bloomberg View
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private sector employer, is also the biggest consumer of taxpayer supported aid. According to Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, in many states, Wal-Mart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients. They are also the single biggest group of food stamp recipients. Wal-mart's "associates" arepaid so little, according to Grayson, that they receive $1,000 on average in public assistance. These amount to massive taxpayer subsidies for private companies.
Anyways, if Americans vote for sell outs, then they get sold out.
Wonder if Americans will protest the TPP once it is signed, or just sink into complacency as they have for the past few decades - till we are back to European feudalism.