You are completely misreading everything I am telling you
as well as why I am telling you what I did say.
India filed a case with the WTO dispute resolution body in 2016. Why don't you read it?
India was founded as a democracy, as was the US.
Neoliberalism was founded on the principle of non-democracy. Its an international cult, whose goal is to roll back the progress of the recent past, capturing the future and its policy for a tiny oligarchy and the corporate special interests they own, at the expense of everybody else. It uses an exceptionally contrived and amoral ideology to do this. .
So my argument really has little to do with India, except as far as their suit in the WTO to force us to modify or end our quotas on Mode Four "non-immigrant" visas.
This is about the situation with GATS and Mode Four.
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/papers/0511table.pdf Its not any one country that has been targeted by the GATS, its the very concepts of public services and a public sphere, and public ownership of the planet.. And by extension, the very concept of a middle class, of people who are paid decently, (and not the absolute minimums possible)
The GATS is the core services agreement, but that connection is being hidden by other more recent laws and policies whose function seems to be to conceal it as the source of all this bad policy.
For example, in the EU the Bolkestein directive or Services Directive on the common european market seems to serve that function in some respects. In the US frustration of national needs is explained away by a almost facically disfunctional "two party system" that is largely based on contrived wedge issues. And a President who occupies precious news space with noise has the function of wasting time while policy space is locked away with trade agreements, irreversibly.
The entire "multilateral trading system" is illegitimate as it attempts to remove people from the governance of the planet, in part by keeping them in a state of stress and poverty, or confusion.
The fact is, nation-states are portrayed by the plutocrats as an anachronism they just keep around for convenience in dividing up their territories. One thing that should give us all pause is the fact that to the new corporate state, all nation-states are equal. The entire concept of right and wrong has been disposed of silently by the web of supranational trade agreements. Thanks to the powers in technology, this is going to have the effect of making democratic changes in any of those countries impossible.
You should know that democracy everywhere is grievously threatened by these private agreements to set aside democracy.
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Also, I would like to state for the record that I like Indian people a lot, and I also like Muslims (the ones that I have met) too. Generally. They are very warm people. There is no country or people one could generalize as being bad (or good) all have their good and bad people.
Also I think (legal) immigration is an extremely good thing for your and my country, generally.
In fact its at the core of what I believe our country stands for. "Out of many, one".
We need flexibility in immigration which is what these trade deals take away.
Which is in a sense why I think these secretive trade deals are so badly thought out, because they try to capture the future and meld it to the policy wishes of multinational corporations, at the expense of everybody except them. So that jobs (and patients in health care) can be traded like poker chips.
GATS is also a huge global voter nullification. They want to replace communities and their core - working people, with other people who are deliberately placed at such an extreme disadvantage that they are powerless.
They are starting (in the US) with high skill professions but their eventual goal is to use these programs to decimate wages. Big mega corporations are behind this agenda, previously, some of them were in trouble for attempting to fix wages in certain fields. That shows what their goal is.
The #1 losers will be good people from all parts of the world. Many of them will be legal immigrants, many others will be citizens of the affected countries. Its mostly about money, getting people to work for a fraction of what they are worth, coercively. And hiding that under a convluted mess of new regulations (which only make sense if you recognize it for what it is, a huge global coup to end democracy except in name only, and replace it with a corporatocracy) Which is what the experts have been telling us is happening, if we would only listen.
But the US media at least, wont, because its in on the scheme.
Its complicated but you can tell something big is going on by the exceptional efforts which are being put into diverting attention from this scheme.
the WTO-GATS is at the heart of the mess, it is a laundry list of bad - very ill advised ideas that all people would reject
if given a chance to vote on them.
We should not eliminate public higher education or help for our own students to go to college. Wages dont need to fall here, wages in the poor countries should come up. We should not fall into the race to the bottom trap they are laying for us. Also we should recognize that there are many public goods which need to be subsidized- like internet access at a decent speed to most - if not all, of the entire country..
We have to be on the alert for so called control fraud.
The GATS agreement is a good example of one. One that has already caused the largest financial mess in most peoples lifetimes, in 2008, costing US taxpayers an estimated $23 trillion dollars, a link they are so eager to conceal that they have not discussed this at all.
A huge number of Americans also have been deprived of health care needlessly because of GATS's really evil ideology.
We have to stand up for the public interest, corporations interests are often diametrically opposed to the public interest.
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