{"id":70360,"date":"2008-11-24T17:44:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/24\/patriotisme-economique-le-temps-des-ruptures-y-compris-a-washington\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:44:49","slug":"patriotisme-economique-le-temps-des-ruptures-y-compris-a-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/24\/patriotisme-economique-le-temps-des-ruptures-y-compris-a-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPatriotisme \u00e9conomique\u201d, \u2013 le temps des ruptures, y compris \u00e0 Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>L&rsquo;expression, patriotisme \u00e9conomique, fait surann\u00e9, un tantinet franchouillard Mais il faudrait \u00e9crire faisait. Dans ce domaine, qui implique une politique industrielle, une protection de certaines industries ou bien une protection tout court de son \u00e9conomie (ce qu&rsquo;on nomme \u00e9galement: protectionnisme), il court un m\u00e9chant vent r\u00e9visionniste. Et il nous vient directement des USA d&rsquo;Obama, ce qui implique un commencement de d\u00e9but d&rsquo;une profonde d\u00e9ception de la part des Europ\u00e9ens qui ont montr\u00e9 tant d&rsquo;affection pour le nouveau pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tDivers \u00e9chos montrent qu&rsquo;\u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 d&rsquo;une situation \u00e9conomique en <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-urgence_extraordinaire_et_impuissance_extreme_24_11_2008.html\" class=\"gen\">tr\u00e8s rapide<\/a> d\u00e9gradation, et ceci expliquant cela bien s\u00fbr, se d\u00e9veloppe aux USA l&rsquo;id\u00e9e d&rsquo;une protection accrue de la situation \u00e9conomique, notamment des emplois, directement ou indirectement. L&rsquo;aspect important de la chose est que cette id\u00e9e ne vient pas de milieux extr\u00e9mistes ou traditionnellement protectionnistes, mais de milieux mod\u00e9r\u00e9s et de milieux proches de la nouvelle administration. Un exemple caract\u00e9ristique se trouve dans un texte de ce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/bill_richardson_3\/\" class=\"gen\">24 novembre<\/a>, de Steve Clemons sur son site <em>The Washington Note<\/em>; caract\u00e9ristique parce que Clemons est tout sauf extr\u00e9miste, notamment en cette mati\u00e8re, qu&rsquo;il est influent avec beaucoup de contacts, et habile \u00e0 mettre \u00e0 jour des courants encore cach\u00e9s dans les milieux dirigeants washingtoniens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tClemons s&rsquo;attaque aux situations de d\u00e9localisation des grands groupes US, notamment certains qui demandent aujourd&rsquo;hui une aide d&rsquo;urgence du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. Il trouve choquant que ces entreprises, qui ont pratiqu\u00e9 une politique de totale absence de solidarit\u00e9 nationale pour la seule recherche de gains faciles, demandent aujourd&rsquo;hui l&rsquo;aide du contribuable dont elles ont affaibli la situation, au nom de la solidarit\u00e9 nationale. Ce que r\u00e9clame Clemons n&rsquo;est rien d&rsquo;autre que du patriotisme \u00e9conomique de la part des entreprises US, avec l&rsquo;observation qu&rsquo;une r\u00e9glementation r\u00e9pressive serait utile pour les contraindre \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9prouver. La r\u00e9flexion de Clemons commence \u00e0 partir d&rsquo;une r\u00e9cente rencontre avec une \u00e9quipe de General Motors,  GM, qui demande aujourd&rsquo;hui une aide publique de $25 milliards pour \u00e9viter la faillite<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>GM&rsquo;s tech team was with us  and we learned about a great number of tax-payer supported national security research technological achievements that could prove useful to the auto industry. I asked whether these acquired technologies would be applied differentially to GM&rsquo;s production base in the U.S.  and whether they would be careful of extending such technology in their China operations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The answer was pretty shocking. GM said that it was taking all of the technology it could get its hands on  whether from the labs or elsewhere  and fully deploying it in China. GM felt that this was a way to embed itself deeply in the Chinese economy over the next three decades and would keep the car manufacturer ahead of the more technologically-stingy Japanese firms as well as Daimler and Chrysler which had already had hiccups at that time in their China activities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>In a different realm, Citibank has been a leader in off-shoring, pushing more and more of its financial services support base overseas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Now taxpayers are being asked to bail out these large firms which showed little interest in the economic health of the nation and which engaged in winner-takes-all capitalism where those at the top, like Robert Rubin, became mega-wealthy with little regard to the eroding conditions of America&rsquo;s middle class.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t[]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Then, why isn&rsquo;t anyone asking the question of the CEOs of these firms about what their new social contract with America and working Americans should be after having their companies literally \u00ab\u00a0saved\u00a0\u00bb during this economic crisis? What if we see the funds from the bailouts go to increasing the rapidity of off-shoring to India, China, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia? Will that be the payoff taxpayers are expecting? I don&rsquo;t think so  but few are talking about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Any big loans or bail-out equity acquisitions should come with a fundamental new condition: U.S. job creation and penalties for off-shored positions. That should be the price of dipping into the public coffers  for all firms, whether financial or manufacturing.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tMalgr\u00e9 les r\u00e9criminations de Clemons sur le manque d&rsquo;action de la part des dirigeants des USA pour pousser les entreprises \u00e0 un peu plus de patriotisme \u00e9conomique, ou d&rsquo;un contrat social patriotique, il semble que la perception des Europ\u00e9ens soit au contraire domin\u00e9e par la crainte que l&rsquo;administration Obama soit d&rsquo;ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 engag\u00e9e dans le sens g\u00e9n\u00e9ral d&rsquo;un plus grand protectionnisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tUne analyse de <em>CNN.News<\/em>, dat\u00e9e du <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/24\/obama.protectionism.oakley\/index.html\" class=\"gen\">23 novembre<\/a>, \u00e0 Londres (c&rsquo;est \u00e0 noter), se fait l&rsquo;\u00e9cho des inqui\u00e9tudes des Europ\u00e9ens. Le texte reste volontairement vague sur l&rsquo;identification de ces Europ\u00e9ens mais il est manifeste que le Premier ministre britannique Gordon Brown est le premier sur la liste, et de loin, dans les hypoth\u00e8ses qu&rsquo;on peut faire. De fa\u00e7on assez caract\u00e9ristique de la globalit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;appr\u00e9ciation, l&rsquo;analyse part d&rsquo;une critique des interventions de Bush au sommet de Washington (15 novembre) contre l&rsquo;interventionnisme, puis se d\u00e9veloppe selon la perception de ces m\u00eames Europ\u00e9ens que l&rsquo;administration Obama leur para\u00eet peu inclin\u00e9e au multilat\u00e9ralisme, notamment \u00e0 cause de son soutien \u00e0 une \u00e9ventuelle action interventionniste gouvernemental en faveur de l&rsquo;industrie automobile. Dans ce cas, c&rsquo;est surtout l&rsquo;aspect unilat\u00e9raliste de ces mesures \u00e9ventuelles qui est d\u00e9nonc\u00e9, et le soup\u00e7on tr\u00e8s fortement appuy\u00e9 de protectionnisme que cela fait na\u00eetre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Some of<\/em> [<em>European leaders<\/em>] <em>had hoped for face time with Obama, perhaps even a dinner, at the recent Washington economic summit. They were disappointed not to see him and even more that there was no counter from the president-elect to President Bush&rsquo;s pre-summit lecture on the need for governments to interfere in economic matters as little as possible. That is not the current European view at all, and they had hoped it was not Obama&rsquo;s view either. They have also been disappointed by strong hints from the Obama team that he is none too keen either on multi-lateral regulatory reforms.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The biggest fear for Europeans now scrabbling for clues on his economic intentions is that he will give way to growing pressures in Democratic circles for a more protectionist America. European governments had duly noted that in his acceptance speech to the Democratic convention, a speech designed to reach out to those in blue collar America who had originally seen a stronger appeal in Hillary Clinton, Senator Obama declared: Unlike John McCain I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The Europeans would like a little more clarity on trade questions. During the primaries Obama frequently sounded cool on the idea of free trade, perhaps because President George W.Bush has been a keen advocate. The Europeans don&rsquo;t really know whether Obama&rsquo;s coolness came from the soul or whether it was a tactic dictated by his need to reassure working class voters, especially given he has since declared that free trade is a cause I believe in.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>What has tended to increase the doubts in their minds is President-elect Obama&rsquo;s backing for the bail-out scheme for America&rsquo;s biggest motor manufacturers like GM and Chrysler. Europeans looking to Mr Obama for a more multilateralist approach to the world&rsquo;s problems have not been heartened by that.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa situation pourrait para\u00eetre singuli\u00e8re puisque les critiques concernent des attitudes pour l&rsquo;instant hypoth\u00e9tiques. Mais il semble qu&rsquo;elles sont d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es selon des indications pr\u00e9cises re\u00e7ues par les Britanniques,  car c&rsquo;est bien d&rsquo;eux qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit,  apr\u00e8s des approches \u00e9galement pr\u00e9cises de leur part de l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe Obama. Sous l&rsquo;impulsion de Brown, les Britanniques veulent un interventionnisme puissant mais coordonn\u00e9 selon une approche multilat\u00e9rale, et un refus de tout protectionnisme. Sur trous ces points, ils semblerait qu&rsquo;ils soient en opposition avec l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe Obama telle qu&rsquo;elle appara\u00eet dans le contexte de l&rsquo;atmosph\u00e8re de crise aux USA: interventionnisme certes, mais strictement dans un cadre national, \u00e9ventuellement resserrement de mesures protectionnistes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 24 novembre 2008 \u00e0 17H49<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&rsquo;expression, patriotisme \u00e9conomique, fait surann\u00e9, un tantinet franchouillard Mais il faudrait \u00e9crire faisait. Dans ce domaine, qui implique une politique industrielle, une protection de certaines industries ou bien une protection tout court de son \u00e9conomie (ce qu&rsquo;on nomme \u00e9galement: protectionnisme), il court un m\u00e9chant vent r\u00e9visionniste. Et il nous vient directement des USA d&rsquo;Obama, ce&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4038,5544,3490,6208,1097,2758,3596],"class_list":["post-70360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-brown","tag-critiques","tag-interventionnisme","tag-obama","tag-protectionnisme","tag-uk","tag-unilateralisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}