No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

The New International Elite

Our American leadership is telling us that the export of American jobs is good for the economy. But look at who our leadership consists of.

The Bush family is a set of ~international~ money people They work with wealthy people of all nations. They are people like Henry Kissinger who can't accept an appointment to a US government fact-finding panel because he would have to reveal who his international clients are or like Richard Perle, who has used his position as then chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board to immediately provide information to international investors he was trying to sell his consulting services to.

These are examples of the wealthy elite in our nation who have been provided the major benefits of the tax cuts. This wealthy elite has loyalty to their own wealth and to their wealthy friends of all nations before they have any loyalty to their own nation or the middle class and poor of any nation. They will make a lot of money by exporting jobs from high labor-cost labor areas like the US to lower labor-cost nations. This wealthy elite is an international class which has loyalty only to the money that gives them their identity.

They may well be right. The export of jobs from the high labor-cost areas to lower labor-cost areas of the world may well be good for the economy, but it won't be good for the American economy. It will be good for the world economy and for the world class wealthy elite, at the expense of the American and Western economies. The world-wide wealth created will belong more to the wealthy elite, not to the middle class of the world.
posted by Richard at 12:46 PM