Obama Visits Brazil
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goal of increasing trade between the 2 countries. And today,
President Obama is in Brazil, with the plan of doubling trade with
that country.
Increasing trade is actually the best way to create jobs. We increase
the strength of our economy by increasing trade with other economies.
We go to other countries, and we ask them to buy our products.
Inevitably, they will reply that they want us to buy their products.
Then we have a win-win deal, where jobs are created here (in America),
as we make stuff here and sell to them over there (in Brazil). By the
same token, they create jobs there (in Brazil), as they make stuff to
sell to us here (in America). Yes, government CAN solve problems
(create jobs), and this is a perfect example of it.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.gorets/msg/214bf544cdeaca52?hl=en
American exports, just to Brazil and Chile alone, account for more
than 300,000 American jobs in manufacturing, high technology,
chemicals, military equipment and clean-energy products. And now
there will be even more American jobs created as we help them develop
their recently discovered deepwater oil reserves, off the coast of
Brazil.
Brazil has the world's largest iron ore reserves, and wants to export
more of their goods to us, especially steel, beef, sugar, produce, and
petroleum products.
Barack Obama, as the first black U.S. President, is immensely popular
in Brazil. Brazil shares a history of slavery with America. Ms.
Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla, is the newly elected
President of Brazil, having served only 3 months. Obama, as the first
African American President, is meeting with the first female Brazilian
President; this marks a period of time in history where both nations
have managed to overcome major political barriers. Brazil's newly
elected President, Dilma Rousseff said this recently:
"Which country in the world has the oil reserves that Brazil has, that
is not at war, that does not have an ethnic conflict, which respects
contracts, has clear democratic principles and vision, is generous and
in favor of peace?"
Brazil has a multi-party democratic system, where voting is
compulsory.
In the early 2000's, after electing a liberal leftist President, Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva (aka "Lula"), who then proceeded to lift tens of
millions of people out of poverty, by instituting what can only be
described as "trickle up economics", which puts an emphasis on helping
the poor get a leg up (as opposed to the "trickle down economics" that
Republicans espouse, which deliberately screws the poor). Lula's
policies transformed Brazil from a mere 3rd world country, into what
it is today, the world's 7th largest economy.
Brazil has a large labor pool, combined with a large and well
developed economy in the agricultural, mining, manufacturing and
service sectors. As Brazilian exports keep booming, a new generation
of tycoons have been created. Brazil has become a major power house,
largely escaping the global recession.
Brazil has a population of about 200 million people, making it the
world's 5th largest country (both by geographical area and by
population). The average Brazilian makes well over $10,000 a year, as
they have increased their purchase of American made goods. Compare
Brazil's economy to China's, where the average Chinese citizen would
be lucky to make even a few hundred dollars a year. Lula's "trickle
up economics" is responsible bor Brazil's fast growing economy and
burgeoning middle class. Brazil is now America's 8th largest trading
partner, where we have a significant trade surplus with that country,
because a prospering middle class there buys a lot of American made
products. As a result, we export 3 times more goods and services to
Brazil than we do to China. We have a significant trade deficit with
China. Simply put, due to a repressive "pro capitalist" government in
China, which suppresses trade unions, the people in China are
condemned to being too poor to afford to buy any American
products.
President Obama is planning to lend U.S. companies $1 billion, so they
can work on improving Brazilian infrastructures, which will have the
effect of improving Brazil's economy even more, in a country, where an
improved economy means an increased standard of living for the average
Brazilian. Contrast that to China, where an "improved economy" means
that only the government of China is getting richer, not the people.
Brazil's status in the international community has been so elevated
that they were awarded the chance to host the Summer Olympics of 2016,
this is the first time that the games will be held in South America.
Read more about President Lula here, a former union organizer, and
Brazil's most popular President ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lula
Obama's very important and historic trip to Brazil is being
overshadowed by 2 major crisis unfolding now, in Japan and the Middle
East.
President Obama also plans to visit Mexico, but he is hampered by the
Republicans who have complicated America's relationship with Mexico
too, as they have blocked immigration reform, and they have blocked
all attempts to stop the flow of American made assault weapons and
guns that have ended up in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels,
fueling much of the violence there.
Republicans have also complicated America's relationship with Chile
too. Chile, just like Brazil, is also resource rich, with the world's
largest copper reserves. It was Republican President Richard Nixon
who used our CIA to overthrow a democratically elected government in
Chile, back in September 11 of 1973, and in his place, Nixon put a
viscious wing-nut fascist dictator who then proceeded to torture to
death tens of thousands of people. Republicans hate any one , any
where in the world, who likes to help the poor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_pinochet
And in El Salvador, in the 1980's, Republican President Ronald Reagan
financially and militarily propped up a genocidal wing-nut government
there that tortured to death more than a hundred thousand El
Salvadorans, but now, the political descendents of the rebels who
fought against that government have come to power in El Salvador, via
the ballot box, and Obama will try (but is not likely to succeed) to
reach out to them too.
And the Republicans have also caused huge problems for America in
Venezuela, when, in 2002, Bush tried to overthrow a democratically
elected government there too. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez also
believed in "trickle up economics", which helped lift people out of
poverty, but it also almost led to Hugo Chavez being killed and
overthrown:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/21/usa.venezuela
What is it about helping the poor that makes those Republican Devils
so angry?
Obama's goal is to increase jobs for Americans by working on
increasing the export of our products to other countries (most notably
to India and Brazil). Compare Obama's policies to Republican
policies. Instead of exporting American products, Republicans
policies seek to export our entire manufacturing base altogether, all
of our industries, whole sale, to other countries, and thereby
eliminating all American jobs in the process, this is the Republican
policy which the American Chamber of Commerce describes as a "business
friendly" policy.
In the mean time, who is doing the people's business? Certainly not
the Republicans.
http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/09/28/some-dems-join-gop-outsourcing-filibuster/
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