By
2005, the views espoused in 1947 by the Mont Pelerin Society (Free Trade
Globalists) were the mainstream stuff of economic textbooks. The victims of
America’s de-industrialization would now have to face the theory in the
classroom as they returned to school in an effort to prepare for a new career.
A displaced single mom, Alison Murray from a Fostoria, Ohio sparkplug factory,
faced this irony on her return to school. Alison noted in an interview with the
editor of Harper’s Magazine: “So it
was like getting slapped in the face… the very first class I took, the very
first page of the textbook [i][justifies
my layoff].” The destruction of a town or city or even a country is treated as
progress or a shining example of freedom via world capitalism. Alison would
argue with her professor that the theory sounds good to you unless you have to
live its application. Economic theory puts no price on the cost of freedom. Her fellow displaced workers were the sons and
daughters of veterans who had fought for freedom, and their blood in theory has
no economic value. American blood had brought peace and democracy to the world,
not economics. That blood included that spilled in wage battles in our
democracy over centuries. the next meeting of North American trade leaders should be held in Fosteria or downtown Detroit.
SEE Full discussion in The Fall of Rome: Deindustrialization of America by Quentin Skrabec
