Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Selling out American Workers 1997 article fits 2008
By Tapsearch Com and Tapart News and Art that Talks Editor and Artist Ray Tapajna
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Making money on money instead of making things is what it is really all about.
The 2008 Money Crisis was easily predictable - See article below that was published in 1997. The same article could be easily published today.
Selling out U.S.workers on the world market
*from Cleve. Plain Dealer 1997 by Ray Tapajna
International trade for the past 25 years has been based on unfair free trade as outlined in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs and the North American Trade Agreement. It is not new, and we have evidence in the closed-down family farms, store-fronts and factories.
It is simple to count the number of jobs lost. All one has to do is note all the food we eat and all the products in our homes that come from other places, and ask oneself where all the workers went who once grew or made those products.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said "Economic diseases are highly communicable." This quote comes from an old history book published in the 1940s from a chapter tititled "Toward a new world order." So none of this is that new. In Mexico, the very same people who are supposed to be helped are losing their only sources of income. The subsidized corn flowing from the New Deal, programs is underselling the subsistence price of the Mexican corn. However, today, the program that was established to protect the family farms here is controlled by giant agriculutural corporations. Meanwhile, top experts in economics and sociology demonstrate how the Zapistas revolt in Mexico causes tremendous problems on the German mark, causing unemployment there, It this the kind of global economy we should promote?
The proponents of uncontrolled free trade should to the walk before they talk - like millions in this country who have lost their jobs and everything they worked their entire life to save. GATT and NAFTA-type programs take tariffs off our products and put tariffs on the American workers who carry the overhead of human dignity and fair play with them.
( This was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1997 and the bail out of big money in 2008 was predictable since then.)
(On Public Television, there was a good program regarding the many "eateries" in small towns in Mexico. What we noted immediately in viewing the program was the food came directly from harvest or slaughter, There was littel need for refrigeration. No long haul refrigerated shipping of any kind was needed. The ecology was not affected in a negative way. Now, most likely with NAFTA, these "eateries" will close down and the processed foods will come in smoking refrigerated trucks from many miles away resulting not only in putting people out of their small business but also will do harm too to the ecology there and over the miles of roads to bring the products.
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Here is another published article from the 1990s which could be published today verbatim.
GLOBAL TRADE PRESENTS OBSTACLES FOR U.S. WORKER
( by Ray Tapajna from Cleveland Plain Dealer about ten years ago) In your Nov 17 editorial titled "A China deal at last," the writer says it is time to end the dangerous farce of excluding China from the World Trade Organization that exists to promote order and discipline in global trade.
The most dangerous farces is the blind acceptance of the WTO as the body to do it. It is like putting the fox to guard the chicken coop. Where does the WTO get its power? Who controls it? It is certainly not based on the vote of workers who have little voice in the transactions.
Traditionally, trade was based on trading things that one nation did not have for things another nation had. Today, the global economy is based on a massive dislocation of workers. The main commodity becomes the workers who are put on a world trading block to compete with 20-cent-an-hour and slave-labor workers. Governments in the global economy become less sovereigh and become power brokers (based on a economy that makes money on money and not things.) in a world of shifting alliances. They can not longer fulfill promises of entitlements because when speculative investments become divorced from production and labor, the financial world develops a logic of its won. Factory production can be moved from one locality to another without considering the socioeconomic costs of the burn-out society left behind. ( This is why the Bail out of big money in 2008 will not work - the real equity of our economy is work and workers and not paper money that has no real value of its own. We have evidence of this today - Talking about the 1990s which now is evident all around us in 2008 -
We have public and private employers who have continued unprecedented dispossession aimed at the heart of the typical American suburban Republic voter: middle age, middle class, college educated men who are irrevlevant to the new world economy . ( in the 1980s, the blue collar workers took the big hit. In the 1990s, the white collar workers got hit too. ) American workers cannot compete with people making only $10 to $45 a week. In the end, a burn-out society is the only thing left. ( And it is now more evident in 2008- no stimulus package will help because the money spent at retail goes to where the products are made and stimulates that economy and not the U.S. economy. )
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(The upper middle class remained untouched for years but they should know that any job what so ever can be outsourced in a global economic arena including those in the financial markets as they are finding out now in 2008 ) See Links for all of Tapsearch Com links
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