Monday, April 23, 2007

WORKING FOR CORPORATE AMERICA (CHAPTER NO. 1)

My work experience with different U.S. corporations for the last 4 years has given me a deeper insight on how the monopolization of the economy and globalization is expanding its devastating horizons for humanity. Does this sound familiar to you? Capitalist economy reigning in the world. It's so cynical the way major corporations exploit millions of workers within and outside the country. A high percentage of the workforce for this corporations are immigrants from Latin America living in the United States (and the outside people would be the ones that actually live in Mexico, Central and South America) . That's nothing new nowadays, but I wonder what would happen if this workforce disappeared all of a sudden. To put in other words, isn't that the whole purpose of not allowing "illegal aliens" to have equal rights as every other "citizen" of the United States. I know is something very idealistic to envision and it could only be possible through the actual fact that unless there is a real revolutionary mindset in every single person that belongs to this workforce, there would be hundreds of thousands of available positions waiting to be filled up because the labor that is performed by this workforce is supposed to be an infraction to the immigration law of the country . I know a great amount of people that have the impression that living in the United States of America is all about earning lots of dollars, full of benefits and so on. But let me tell you, that the so called "American Dream" turns out to be a true nightmare. You come to realize that underneath all the actual citizens of the United States there is a working class , that even though it doesn't have the same rights as the rest of the population, are a key ingredient of the economic production of wealth for the country. The "American Dream" is translated in hard and heavy work, low wages and discrimination. Discrimination in the sense that immigrants don't have all the rights and benefits of U.S. citizens, but they take all the jobs that "Americans" don't want to take. Immigrants just want to be part of the system to make it work the way it should be. But obviously is not convenient for the government, because all the taxes that they can't keep if immigrants were part of the system is non profitable each year. This is were we see the focal point of the injustice that year after year I witnessed as being part of this working class that I mentioned earlier.
This is the sad reality of the "illegal aliens" that live in the U.S.A. There is not such a thing as an illegal human being. Illegal are all the violations of human rights, all the oppression and terrorizing activities that the governments exert on human beings worldwide. The abuse of power over people is more illegal than if we tried to be harmonious with each other in this alienating society.
I just basically want to share what my eyes perceive around me, and that there's got to be a solution or immigration reform that will help have a more balanced and stable lifestyle for millions of people that belong to this subsequently assumed inferior "working class" that runs across American society in current times.

1 comment:

leeann raye said...

You have an incredible insight on how the world really functions and that makes you very special. I can tell you there are a lot of ignorant Americans that can live their entire lives oblivious to these injustices. I believe there's a word to describe these types of people... oh yeah, Republicans.