But I’m a believer that the U.S. bill for the crisis – now in the trillions for various bailouts and stimulus – should be divided amongst today’s citizens on a pro-rata basis, instead of being passed on to future generations in national debt. That means workers would pitch in some based on the assets they have left / could be deferred over a few years. But the very wealthy, whom I believe remain very wealthy after all devaluations, should be paying the brunt of it – especially after 3 decades of tax holidays they’ve received during the failed Reagan / Bush era.

And we’ve received some hits from India to B/P, so I hope someone with close proximity to the polishing industry may post their remarks.

It is hard to believe a mere industrial shift, wrecks lives to the point of suicidal hopelessness and starvation. Like India, we also lack an adequate social safety net in the U.S. – we let displaced workers and an underclass of some 20 million, languish unemployed – yet still will rarely have people reach those levels of despair and deprivation.

India has been the recipient of some industry moved from the U.S., but
this story shows how global economic currents can shift anywhere at anytime. And I still say it shows how the experiences and economic interests of workers in all parts of the world, are more connected now.

And for Republicans reading, no that does not connote a socialist theory. With new technologies have incredible capacities now in the modern free-market system, to build new layers of prosperity all over the globe given time enough.

But you’ll never get there, leaving those who power the engine – workers – exposed to total ruin every time market forces change. For we are also
the consumers, whom are essential to a growing demand for goods and
services of all kinds. Leave us unprotected, and the wheels come off of
the consumption economy – as we are seeing precisely in this current
worldwide recession.

We have seen many industries lost to the developing world, or gutted by new technologies, etc. But we get very little in the major U.S. media about how these shifts affect real people in other nations. (Owned by wealthy corporate interests, they’ll barely cover domestic hardship circumstances either)

So, these are very important stories to tell – not just for illumination on those hardships, but I think they help us understand our commonalties as workers, wherever we may be stationed in the ever more inter-connected, commercial world.