Chomsky Profit over People part 1

American politics under the cloak of free trade manipulate others for their own profit, the profits of U.S. investors/corporations. Free trade is a system of trade policy that allows traders to trade across boundaries without interference from the respective governments. This demonstrates how companies/corporations are able to legally increase their profit on the back of other nations. It seems that U.S. companies benefit from desperate leaders in different countries that are willing as far they can make money to trade their labor to an extend that is out of balance. Those countries don’t have much more than labor and that’s what the companies are focusing. They need cheap unregulated labor from other countries that produce the items of a company for the least amount of money.

As we read in Chomsky’s Profit over People, we learn that the free trade agreement came through the view of neoliberals. Neoliberal is a new liberal view, and is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during 1980 – 2008. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neoliberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor get poorer.

first draft of third essay

Corporations like Nike and IBP corrupt the American democratic system. In Fast Food Nation we see that meatpacking companies came together and created a “monopoly” without any votes of others. Corporations like Nike enacted “corporate personhood” without any public vote. How can decisions be made without any legislature or any public votes. For example in unequal protections: No branch of the US government ever formally enacted corporate personhood “rights”: the public never voted on it, it was never enacted into law by any legislature, it was never even stated by a decision after arguments before the Supreme Court (Hartman 11). It is contradictive that a company can be called a person even if they don’t have a body. They benefit from the right “freedom of speech” but the law won’t find a person to sue that violates the law.

 It is even obvious that the system is corrupt, because as we read in crude world, political leaders and company chiefs know and act in favor for each other. As Maas writes: Obiang was guest of honor at a private Washington luncheon organized by the corporate council on Africa, a lobbying group composed of American companies with investments in Africa (Maas 47). The luncheon was held at the Army and Navy Club, and Obiang was seated at the head table with fawning oil executives and senior State Department officials, including Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner (48). Even a dictator like Obiang celebrates together with officials of the corporations to maintain the business. This leads to the conclusion that global business is more important than democracy in our economy.

Through globalization countries are focused on resources to maintain the constant flow of supplies they need. A democratic country like America trades with communistic countries like the Middle East. How can a country keep up the democracy if they follow the demands of communistic leadership? This country is all about consume. Resources Wars example…. (will be continued)