A fair price for a settled society

Subject: A fair price for a settled society

What do the agreements on trade, so called "free trade agreements" such as (NAFTA) and the one piloted towards the Europeans (TTIP) or the one aimed at Asia (TPP) provide for the ordinary man in the street, you and me.
These agreements fit into the global strategy whereby the national identity is subsumed in a monolith which is hard to pin down and control. When the future of countries and even continents is decided in an exclusive boardroom by individuals who equate value to what's 'our bottom line' then we are in great danger of letting Wall Street, Canary Wharf, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai be the designers of our future with little or no concern for the social effect.
Donald Trumps claim to bring jobs and industry back to America was openly nationalistic. It was directed at his own people and not the amorphous market so beloved by his European counterparts.
It was a call not heard since the advent of neo capitalism as envisaged by Milton Friedman. As an adviser to Reagan and an advocate of much of what Margret Thatcher stood for, he was tremendously influential. His attitude towards the necessity of unemployment to dampen inflation went contrary to Keynesian belief. His expansion of monitory supply and the promotion of consumerism through debt creation has led us to the chasm between the money in circulation and the huge balances held in banks and other institutions

We are living in a Ponzi scheme nightmare where the only thing holding up the pyramid is the fear that to bring it down would be the end of "finance" as we know it.
People are but pawns in this game of financial agreement. They have no value since the players are not democratically accountable. The Goldman Sachs Banks fingers are in all national government advising on strategy. They decide the format for the next stage of financial embezzlement, for the next stage of national subservience, for a fresh round of pick pocketing a nations back pocket by swindling the national exchequers to pay for the profligate gambling across the financial community.
Donald Trump has just brought on board one of Goldman senior team. How this will accord with his claim to help the American Rust Belt by bringing back manufacturing which had gone abroad to find a cheaper work force is hard to see. Perhaps overly generous tax reimbursements will do the trick as well as another bonfire of regulation which we all know is an anathema to business but provides the worker with a modicum of security and fairness.
The world is aflame in a bonfire of ethical morality. The dollar has bought our soul and we struggle to remember a time when people began to count on the national balance sheet as a source of value, when socialism was not a dirty word and paying taxes assumed to be a fair price for a settled society.