Globalization is the gateway drug to poor people +++++

Having established globalization; our world is filled with its pro's and con's mostly concerning the lower and middle class. "Globalization is simply about the free movement of goods, capital, people, and ideas around the world and across borders", the article "What Globalization isn't" by Michael Tanner explains. My focus for this blog is how this effects the price of goods in the United States, human response, and job decline. 

The average income for those in poverty around the world was $1.90 per day, this was 37 percent of the world's population; a pretty big chunk. But due to globalization that percentage shrunk to 9.6 percent, the majority of these jobs not in the United States.

Globalization helped lower prices on many items in America because the manufacturer is and was foreign but do not get me wrong the consumer rates rose through the roof increasing by 29 percent. This was of course due to the now unemployed and not wealthy portion of America. Although the prices of goods may be more agreeable is it really worth all the jobs that were lost. According to Mattew Klein in his article, "How many US manufacturing jobs were lost to globalization," the total lost jobs was over 2 million; over 2 million well-paying "American jobs". These newly unemployed people now having to depend on welfare and pretty much redirect themselves completely, career wise. This ties into our 18 trillion dollar budget in which very little of it pays for those on welfare but still gives our well-earned money to those whom "can make it themselves" but don't fault them for they know not what the system has done. Globalization has created a cycle of unemployment, foreign manufacturers, cheaper goods, and lazier people.                

A friend of the family suffered the effects of globalization. He had devoted all his life savings to a trade school and learned a unique skill of programming and CGI; one that paid excellently, he even got to work on the hit movie Tron. Due to how well he and others with this specific skill were paid; the job was shipped overseas where profits would rise but these American jobs would be lost. So he is now (like many others in his situation) restarting by going back to school and forcing himself into something that is not so much his passion but a job that only America can provide.

Globalization is a blessing only because it helps bring our countries together; forming a good relationship and communication but tends to lead to trouble when it comes to the lower and middle-class people of America. The only profit made is with the wealthy making more by paying less for services by people who do not necessarily have the background. "Buy low, sell high", my grandpa always says and that's exactly what globalization does, making money at the cost of American jobs.