Ray Tapajna, Editor, Artist and Advocate for human dignity in the workday and fair trade has chronicals of articles, published commentaries, thought provoking art that talks global issues and several blogs relating to the great betrayal of workers in our times. The U.S. has gone through the most massive dislocation of workers in its history with millions losing their jobs and with a new working poor class created in the USA and a impoverished working class created in other lands. It is supported by consumerism but it is not balancing out with the workers making the products in far away places can not even afford to buy the things they make let alone have any money left over to buy the things the more prosperous nations have left to sell.
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. We can start with the U.S. Federal Government which sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956. Since then most of all the adminstrations have funded programs like the Maquiladora factory program in Mexico that use impoverished workers. Free Trade is not new. It just confirms what has been going on for a long time and it is a history of failures.
Ray Tapajna's main site is Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ with his published commentaries, letters and articles mixed with his Art that Talks since 1994.
His review of The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman is a "corker" at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld where he confronts Thomas Friedman from the New York Times based on the streets of USA and real life experiences from the factory production floors to the highest echelons of corporate management.
You can search under tapsearch, tapart news, tapsearcher or arkline art for many more references and sites.
A summary is at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/id40.html which includes http://tapsearch.com/globalization/
Ray's bio can be found at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/id18.html
Ray is also the moderator of Bizarre Politics with untold stories behind the news in the global economic arena at http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/ where he has a series of reviews of Alan Greenspan's book The Age of Turbulence. Again he confronts Alan Greenspan based on the real world of the streets of USA and actual living experiences. For a start , see http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/confessions-for-history/
He is also the moderator at his most popular blog so far at http://www.therationale.com/ which explores the "stepchildren" of philosophy and religion - workers and labor- and the subsequent voids.
At http://www.ethicsbox.com , he explores personality and character in terms of self-improvement in the global economic arena where the "unnetted" are outside looking in at the celebration by the Globalist Free Traders.
His most popular ezine articles is Lend Lease was real Free Trade and Not Chop Liver as in the Globalist Free Trade world is at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=390710/ This is a common sense reality check related to the dysfunctional globalists of our times.
His most popular artwork is Clinton Years American Dream Reversed which is now part of more than 4 million search results referenced at Yahoo and Alta-Vista - searching under the title. You can view it at http://www.graphicsforums.com/public/list.asp?id=1247 where it is rate worldwide or see it along with most of his art at http://arklineart.fotopages.com/ or http://tapsearch.com/id12.html
His American Dream is Burning artwork was featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine and the article can be read at http://tapsnewstory.filetap.com/
Globalization and Free Trade have not evolved in any natural economic fashion but have been driven my powerful forces outside the will of the people. It is obvious now that when a nation that does not make the things they use, they are under the power of the nations that do. It is equally obvious that an economy that is based on making money on money eventually runs out of steam as the U.S. economy is doing now as in the housing and banking crisis today. It is time to prepare for the post - globalizaton era as history tells us - only local value added economies work where value is added from raw product up through several levels to the retail and end-user stage and then recycles back down again. A nation can not chop up their economy and send the parts about the globe. They soon find themselves in a new kind of colonialism where they have to protect their interests around the globe. As we are finding out , the value of oil has replaced the gold standard but in the global economic arena is now oil mixed with bloods.
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