Massive ghetto youth unemployment crisis and Chinese slave labor
Multinationals like Wal-Mart see no point in paying American youth 6 or 7 dollars an hour for critical first work experiences, when they have willing adults in Asian willing to work for less than a dollar an hour to do the same thing. Rich people from rich communities like Princeton see not need to employ inner city children from Trenton when Central and South Americans adults will work for less under the table. Most urban youth would jump at a real job opportunity. Increasing the jobs still remaining in the US economy require skill level beyond the reach of most inner city youth.
The most immediate economic ramification is the fact that America lacks the high school students educated in digital manufacturing and service support jobs to form the basis for the massive transition to virtual manufacturing in the U.S. While Mr. Gates is building a model paperless high school in Philadelphia, the cause Mr. Gates speaks to, would be better served if Microsoft built a dual use Xbox/laptop for 160 dollars, and offered online high school training classes for digital manufacturing and support services. Also, the Xbox could turn itself off during school hours.Virtual reality digitalized manufacturing would necessitate workers able to function in a totally Internet-based computer integrated design and manufacturing environment.
Informational-based educational models emphasizing mathematics, science and critical thinking, would have to replace the assembly line orientation of today’s public school education. Churches and community center must become virtual reality learning centers. Computers must replace Play stations and guns as the tools of choice for ghetto youth. The State, County and city should develop and staff a county based virtual learning program.
The real truth is that there is a deadly slave triangular backdoor sub-assembly trade growing between China, Canada and Mexico in components and sub-assemble and final assemble that ends up in America as cheap imports.
Millions of the youth jobs are lost to this backdoor trade.
Multinationals exporting from China are positioned to both take US market share and flood Central America economies with cheap imports, so long as the dollar keeps falling, and if the small countries are forced by Washington to let their currencies rise. There have been no real talks either in Washington or on Wall Street about major upward adjustments of either Mexico or Canada’s currencies against the dollar to balance the proposed Chinese adjustment. With combined Canadian/Mexican imports into the U.S. of 412 billion, the time is near for a major push by Bush for currency adjustments by Canada and Mexico.
Also, the reorientation of US manufacturing toward Chinese slave labor final assembly has directly impacts on the lack local corporate support for public education. Hundred of billions of dollars for foreign investments, some US pensions, are flowing into Chinese slave labor plantations. This sends a very negative political message to American youth about what American society thinks of their worth.
Since the exponential growth of Chinese led Asia slave labor imports to the United States of over a trillion dollars following 9/11 millions of American jobs have been lost to Asia. As a direct consequence, there has been a 12 percent increase in the number of youth that are both jobless and out-of-school, which translates into a nearly 1.2 million increase in this population during. In 2000, on average there were 4.9 million 16 to 24 year-olds who were both jobless and out of school while in 2001, on average, there were 5.2 million 16 to 24 year-olds who were both jobless and out-of-school. This number has swollen to nearly 5.5 million in 2002 and the write estimates that there is over 7 million youth now jobless.
US multinationals like Wal-Mart have created this massive trade imbalance that is causing growing social and economic problems among America’s young people, especially those with limited schooling and those who reside in high poverty neighborhoods.
Giving inner city youth any hope of effectively dealing requires first telling the real truth of their crisis economic situation. Secondly our youth must be given the advanced educational and spiritual tools to fight in a post-industrial world.
The 70-80 percent unemployment rate for many urban youth amounts to multinationals economic violence against our own children for being nothing more than children.
The direct consequence of this multinational-Bush Administration ruthless Asian slave labor policy only 1 in 5 Black youth between 16-24 are working in many of the hardest hit industrial communities of North America. The so-called media created Bay Bay youth unemployment crisis of over 7 million youths are nothing more than a growing underclass of post-industrial dehumanized and marginalized American children victimized by U.S. multinational foreign trade. The Bush health care policy and mass slave labor trade are leading contributing factors in the collapsing American industrial public school and deepening self-esteem crisis of American youth.
Leading American multinationals like Delphi who is closing ten more U.S. auto parts manufacturing plants in the U.S. Delphi is expanding operations at 13 new modern plants in China and transferring critical core production technologies. Delphi is leveraging the slave labor based of China, against its older US and South American operations platforms. The closures of Delphi reach into the deep fears of Black manufacturers and skill workers in North America.
This Asian slave labor relocation policy by Delphi and other auto parts manufactures is opening the door wide to China auto parts makers to capture increase market share of the 1.3 trillion dollar auto parts industry. At the same time, the door is being closed to increasing numbers of Latin and North America manufacturers and employment of auto parts. The industrial cities hardest hit also have high number of inner city youth and Black churches.
This process is creating thousands of new industrial ghost towns and abandoned churches, many in or near Black communities. This is destroying the critical cash flow necessary to financially sustain local African American church based out reach self-esteem building programs triggering youth and displaced workers.
For many African Americans, their churches are the last lines of resistance to the destructive effect of ruthless globalization. Increasing numbers of churches are at financial risk and are unable to get the loans to sustain or increase out reach services.
The lack of that educational, employment opportunity and community-based mental health service delivery is destroying African American children sense of real self-worth and self-esteem. Increasing numbers of American youth are forces to live in the remains of these abandoned industrial ghost towns, commonly called the ghetto or hood. This is directly impacting on youth spiritual growth.
The employability of African American and Asian youth is being openly compared in the main stream media. The pro-multinational mass media has blamed the so-called dysfunctional African American workforce for the abandonment of the North American industrial economy by multinational corporate for Chinese slave labor. This is particularly difficult given the fact most Black children come from fatherless homes and Chinese from father headed families.
A critical understanding of the political economy and reality of this mental and spiritual crisis faced by American youth is missing for the national debate Chinese slave labor. Multinational are careful to avoid taking any responsibility form the collapse of youth sift-esteem.
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