Major Changes Planned By Influential Special Interest Group That Will Completely Destroy American Manufacturing Capabilities

If the Trilateral Commission has their way America will no longer be an independent nation or a major player on the world stage.

No one should doubt that the agenda of such globalist groups as the Trilateral Commission is to replace the traditional Western concept of the nation-state with a transnational financier-corporate superstate. In response, we should look for new means of returning democracy to the economic debate. One way might be through formation of a National Debtors Union.

The globalist agenda was long ago made clear by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1969 book “Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era,” Brzezinski wrote that the "nation-state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."

The Trilateral Commission is the principal organization of the worldwide elite whose self-appointed task is to implement the globalist program. It was founded by David Rockefeller, Brzezinski, and others of a like mind in 1973.

Many of the leading figures in U.S. political and economic affairs since then have been members of the Trilateral Commission, including Presidents Carter, Bush I, and Clinton, as have members in corresponding elite positions from Europe and Asia, particularly Japan.
One of the effects of the globalist program has been to eliminate the U.S. as a major manufacturing nation. This began during the recession of 1979-83, which resulted when the Federal Reserve under Chairman Paul Volker raised interest rates to over twenty percent. U.S. industry was devastated, including the steel industry, where output per capita has declined by fifty percent over the last generation.

1978 had seen the peak of U.S. manufacturing employment at about 19.5 million. By 1983 the number had fallen to 16.8 million, a decline of fourteen percent in five years. The number hovered in that range until the recession of 2001-2002 but fell again and continued plunging even after a recovery had begun. The total dropped to fourteen million in 2004 and is still going down. (Data from the Congressional Budget Office/Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Even more telling is the proportion of manufacturing employment to the entire U.S. workforce. In 1954, thirty-three percent of U.S. employees worked in manufacturing. By 2004 it was eleven percent. The main cause of the decline has been the shipping of U.S. manufacturing jobs overseas to cheaper labor markets.
The political impact of this change has been reflected in the decline of labor union membership and their loss of political power. Union membership fell from a third of the workforce in 1945 to 24.1 percent in 1979 to 12.0 percent in 2006. Many of these belong to government unions with little political clout. Among private sector employees the proportion is now only 7.4 percent.

It had been the unions that were the backbone of the progressive agenda since New Deal days which helped produce such reforms as Social Security, collective bargaining rights, generous pension plans, Medicare, and anti-poverty programs. The wage gains of the labor unions helped push workers squarely into the middle class. Today they are slipping back toward the poverty level.

At one time the unions might have raised a powerful voice against the Trilateral Commission and others in transforming the U.S. economy into a branch of the financier/globalist empire. But not anymore.

The gutting of manufacturing employment has been only one of the changes that have rendered political opposition in the U.S. mute. Others have been stagnation of real family income which has caused breadwinners to work more jobs and longer hours just to survive, increasing fear of jeopardizing one’s employment by being labeled a malcontent or dissenter, and the decline of a free press with competing ideas due to corporate consolidation and conservative editorial policies.
Political progressives in Congress have also become scarce, reduced to a handful in the House and virtually none in the Senate. One of the causes has been the domination of the Democratic Party by such pro-business centrist groups as the Democratic Leadership Council.

Is all this part of a larger globalist plan to eliminate the United States as a source of political opposition? The answer likely is yes.

How then can the abuses of globalism be combated? The obvious answer is that some new common ground must be found to organize opposition and promote solutions. With the decline of organized labor, we need some new common denominator that defines peoples’ economic interests.

Since the result of the growth of global finance affecting Americans today is an out-of-control debt burden on U.S. households, businesses, and government of over $45 trillion and growing, a new National Debtors Union might be an idea whose time has come.

Richard C. Cook is a former NASA and government analyst and author of “Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.” He has worked for the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, the U.S. Civil Service Commission and for more than 20 years at the U.S. Treasury Department, which he retired from in January, 2007. Presently he works as a writer and consultant. His new book, "We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform" will be published in September.

Editors Note: Few are aware of the Trilateral Commission and how it works to reduce American power. Learn more about the Trilateral Commission’s policies, members and recent meetings at their website http://www.trilateral.org/.

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