global gummint

Isn't global free trade the heart of globalization?  What else do you mean when you speak of globalization?  Well what does anybody mean when they speak of globalization?  We hear it thrown around a lot, generally in a pejorative manner, so that it seems like what it means to Joe Sixpack is all this stuff going on lately that he doesn't like. Well nobody likes this stuff going on lately that they don't like. 

You may have your own definition of globalization, but until you lay it out here i am going to the wiki.

 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge.^[9]

I think nobody likes the International Monetary Fund, it sounds like the guys who are repossessing your house because you forgot one itty bitty payment but let's roll with it. 

1)Trade and transactions, to me this means free trade and no tariffs, like my apple and oranges example of a previous post.  Certainly I am for that. 

2)Capital and investment movements, this sounds like that scene in Network  where Howard Beale is told that there is no USA or USSR or UK, there are only multinational corporations.  I guess I don't like this too much, but it's money, what do you do about the movement of money?  It's like that law that Old Dog claims is the only one he obeys, the law of gravity.  There is nothing much to be done about it.

3)Migration and movement of people.  I'm sure that this is the part that Beagles hates, and I am somewhat loose on it.  Let's leave that one up for debate.

4)Dissemination of knowledge.  Who can be against that?  That's the way that The Institute enlightens its broad panoply of followers.

Okay global government does not appear to be on this list.  I'll admit to ignorance here as to in what way was Brussels a global (or even Euro) government.  I'll leave it to Beagles, or perhaps that up and comer, Old Dog, to explain this.

If anybody can secede anytime they want I don't see how you can have any kind of government at all?  Don't libertarians believe that the government should have an army to defend itself?  How can you do that if you don't even know who you are since any state, city, freehold, or local nut can secede at the drop of a hat?

Most of the people in the US live in what you consider big cities.  You are not the we, I am the we.  If there is any expulsion to be done we (me) will be expelling you.

Well that was a fine mess, we start out calmly discussing an event in a faraway land and the next thing you know we are building walls between us and each of us claims to be the expeller.

I will await Beagles' definition of globalization, and in what way the Sprouts were some kind of government.