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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
How could the Senate turn down help for our own autoworkers after....
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks
The Realities behind the bail out of Big Money and the turning off our American auto industry.
The illusions of the Globalists are still alive. Free Trade is not trade. It is primarily about moving factories from place to place making production portable and mobile based on the cheapest labor possible. At at time when the U.S. economy based on making money on money instead of making things, the tangible values and assets are dwindling away. Labor and workers are one of the last tangible values and assets left and yet the Globalist Free Traders want to keep deflating it. Labor and workers are most likely the last money standard left in the world. We have actually have had deflation when it comes to this value in our economic balances.
700,000 jobs related to the steel industry were the first to go. Then came 400,000 related to the auto industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Following this, more than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry. At the same time many main streets in our cities across our land died.
President Clinton came and consummated Free Trade in the passing of NAFTA and GATT. Soon after NAFTA was passed, President Clinton and the "Contract with America" Republicans rushed $20 Billion dollars to Mexico to bail out the Mexican peso and economy. President Clinton wanted to send more and said he would find a way through the international money fund to send Mexico more money. In turn, the USA was flooded with imports like the PT Cruiser automobile made by $1 an hour workers in Mexico. After something like this, how could anyone be against helping out our own American auto manufacturers. We send billions of dollars to a foreign nation and can not help out our own as cheap imports flood land backed by this bail out.
Then we have state governments with the help of federal money too, pour out $3.6 Billion of of dollars to foreign auto assemblers to build their plants in the USA. One state even paid $40 million dollars for a airplane run way to bring in component parts. Another state gave an order for 2,500 Mercedes Bentz automobiles to bind a $500 million dollar payout to that company.
After this, how can anyone now say that our own American auto manufacturers do not deserve help. The U.S. federal government start funding the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956. This "temporary program" never ended and it grew into so called Free Trade. It is time for our political leaders to tell us who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. Who are these "Benedict Arnolds"? Now we have Big Money being bailed out by Small Money with this all acting as a tariff on workers and labor
For more, see a chronical of events leading up to this betrayal of workers everywhere at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/ http://tapsearch.com/globalization/ http://www:bizarrepolitics.com/greenspan-dancing-in-the-dark http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/ben-says-buy-usa
The Realities behind the bail out of Big Money and the turning off our American auto industry.
The illusions of the Globalists are still alive. Free Trade is not trade. It is primarily about moving factories from place to place making production portable and mobile based on the cheapest labor possible. At at time when the U.S. economy based on making money on money instead of making things, the tangible values and assets are dwindling away. Labor and workers are one of the last tangible values and assets left and yet the Globalist Free Traders want to keep deflating it. Labor and workers are most likely the last money standard left in the world. We have actually have had deflation when it comes to this value in our economic balances.
700,000 jobs related to the steel industry were the first to go. Then came 400,000 related to the auto industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Following this, more than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry. At the same time many main streets in our cities across our land died.
President Clinton came and consummated Free Trade in the passing of NAFTA and GATT. Soon after NAFTA was passed, President Clinton and the "Contract with America" Republicans rushed $20 Billion dollars to Mexico to bail out the Mexican peso and economy. President Clinton wanted to send more and said he would find a way through the international money fund to send Mexico more money. In turn, the USA was flooded with imports like the PT Cruiser automobile made by $1 an hour workers in Mexico. After something like this, how could anyone be against helping out our own American auto manufacturers. We send billions of dollars to a foreign nation and can not help out our own as cheap imports flood land backed by this bail out.
Then we have state governments with the help of federal money too, pour out $3.6 Billion of of dollars to foreign auto assemblers to build their plants in the USA. One state even paid $40 million dollars for a airplane run way to bring in component parts. Another state gave an order for 2,500 Mercedes Bentz automobiles to bind a $500 million dollar payout to that company.
After this, how can anyone now say that our own American auto manufacturers do not deserve help. The U.S. federal government start funding the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956. This "temporary program" never ended and it grew into so called Free Trade. It is time for our political leaders to tell us who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. Who are these "Benedict Arnolds"? Now we have Big Money being bailed out by Small Money with this all acting as a tariff on workers and labor
For more, see a chronical of events leading up to this betrayal of workers everywhere at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/ http://tapsearch.com/globalization/ http://www:bizarrepolitics.com/greenspan-dancing-in-the-dark http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/ben-says-buy-usa
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Open Letter to Congress - Tell America - Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena?
By Tapsearch Com and Tapart News and Art that Talks Editor and Artist Ray Tapajna
Open letter to Congress - who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. It's time to tell the story with Big Money getting bailed out and Auto Makers needing help in order to survive.
FW: Open letter to Senators George Voinovich, Kit Bond and Carl Levin
From: Ray Tapajna (rtapajna@-------
Sent: Thu 12/11/08 9:12 AM
To: kobrien@plaind.com; bsullivan@plaind.com; forum@plaind.com
To Kevin Obrien - Letters - etc ( Reply to Conservative Editor at Cleveland Plain Dealer who speaks against the U.S. Big Three Auto Makers getting financial support )
Below is a letter, we sent to Senator Voinovich's offices about helping the auto makers. Conservatives can no longer reject deals like this since they are now subsidized too. If they reject this, then they have to give back a portion of their savings, stocks and retirement plans too. The bail out of big money now protect their pocketbook too. We now have a subsidized " Free Market" system with Big Money bailed out by Small Money ( workers )
If they talk against industrial workers unions then, they have to also bring in the public sector government workers unions too who now total about 50 percent of all of the AFL.
They should also respond to the points in the letter below and tell us what position they took when President Clinton rushed 20 Billion dollars to Mexico to back up the Mexican currency after getting NAFTA passed. President Clinton said that was not enough and said he would find more ways to send Mexico even more money through international money funds which really are the same thing as far as the U.S. taxpayers are concerned.
In return, a flood of imports like the PT Cruiser automobile made by $1 an hour workers without any benefit flooded across the border. Reportedly new auto plants in Mexico were built without any need for employee parking lots too. The workers did not need them since they could not afford to buy cars. And the U.S. auto makers were told to compete with this.
With the big money financial bailout in the USA, now all are subsidized in one way or another. No one should reject the bail out of the U.S. auto makers unless they give back their bail out money to the taxpayers since Big Money is being bailed out by Small Money.
From: rtapajna@-------
To: U.S. Senators
Subject: Open letter to Senators George Voinovich, Kit Bond and Carl Levin
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:05:07 -0700
Senator George Voinovich, and copy to Senator Kit Bond and Senator Carl Levin
Thank you for your letter regarding supporting the big 3 auto makers, but we also need to find out why it happened and how we can avoid these problems.
I was a trouble shooter supplyer for industrial computer manufacturers who are now gone from our economic landscape ( more than a million workers in computer manufacturing lost their jobs during this time ) and as such I read many publications related to computer channels of supply.
In 1992, I was stunned by an article that told how the U.S. Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the U.S. starting in 1956. This evolved into the maquiladora factory program in Mexico and the program never ended. It evolved into what is called free trade which really is not trade. It is really about moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor costs - period!
I want to know as someone who lost all their earthly possessions, what happened?
How long did the U.S. fund these programs and how much did they cost and who specifically activated them?
After NAFTA was passed, President Clinton and a Republican Congress sent $20 billion dollars to Mexico supposedly to save the peso. President Clinton said he wanted more and would find a way to send more to Mexico.
As someone who lost all their earthly possessions due to free trade, I want to know what oversights were put into play during this time and did the U.S. get paid back all these funds?
I also want to know more about things like the PT Cruiser automobile that was built by $1 an hour workers in Mexico after this all happened. Was it funded in anyway by the U.S. Government.
The reasons for asking these questions are obviously related to saving our auto industry for the long run. And individual states have paid foreign auto assemblers more than 2 billion dollars to build their plants in the U.S. This all should be brought up in all hearings on the matter dollar by dollar.
Who, what, where, how did this all evolve and who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena? Putting veneer over the problems is not enough.
Open letter to Congress - who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. It's time to tell the story with Big Money getting bailed out and Auto Makers needing help in order to survive.
FW: Open letter to Senators George Voinovich, Kit Bond and Carl Levin
From: Ray Tapajna (rtapajna@-------
Sent: Thu 12/11/08 9:12 AM
To: kobrien@plaind.com; bsullivan@plaind.com; forum@plaind.com
To Kevin Obrien - Letters - etc ( Reply to Conservative Editor at Cleveland Plain Dealer who speaks against the U.S. Big Three Auto Makers getting financial support )
Below is a letter, we sent to Senator Voinovich's offices about helping the auto makers. Conservatives can no longer reject deals like this since they are now subsidized too. If they reject this, then they have to give back a portion of their savings, stocks and retirement plans too. The bail out of big money now protect their pocketbook too. We now have a subsidized " Free Market" system with Big Money bailed out by Small Money ( workers )
If they talk against industrial workers unions then, they have to also bring in the public sector government workers unions too who now total about 50 percent of all of the AFL.
They should also respond to the points in the letter below and tell us what position they took when President Clinton rushed 20 Billion dollars to Mexico to back up the Mexican currency after getting NAFTA passed. President Clinton said that was not enough and said he would find more ways to send Mexico even more money through international money funds which really are the same thing as far as the U.S. taxpayers are concerned.
In return, a flood of imports like the PT Cruiser automobile made by $1 an hour workers without any benefit flooded across the border. Reportedly new auto plants in Mexico were built without any need for employee parking lots too. The workers did not need them since they could not afford to buy cars. And the U.S. auto makers were told to compete with this.
With the big money financial bailout in the USA, now all are subsidized in one way or another. No one should reject the bail out of the U.S. auto makers unless they give back their bail out money to the taxpayers since Big Money is being bailed out by Small Money.
From: rtapajna@-------
To: U.S. Senators
Subject: Open letter to Senators George Voinovich, Kit Bond and Carl Levin
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:05:07 -0700
Senator George Voinovich, and copy to Senator Kit Bond and Senator Carl Levin
Thank you for your letter regarding supporting the big 3 auto makers, but we also need to find out why it happened and how we can avoid these problems.
I was a trouble shooter supplyer for industrial computer manufacturers who are now gone from our economic landscape ( more than a million workers in computer manufacturing lost their jobs during this time ) and as such I read many publications related to computer channels of supply.
In 1992, I was stunned by an article that told how the U.S. Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the U.S. starting in 1956. This evolved into the maquiladora factory program in Mexico and the program never ended. It evolved into what is called free trade which really is not trade. It is really about moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor costs - period!
I want to know as someone who lost all their earthly possessions, what happened?
How long did the U.S. fund these programs and how much did they cost and who specifically activated them?
After NAFTA was passed, President Clinton and a Republican Congress sent $20 billion dollars to Mexico supposedly to save the peso. President Clinton said he wanted more and would find a way to send more to Mexico.
As someone who lost all their earthly possessions due to free trade, I want to know what oversights were put into play during this time and did the U.S. get paid back all these funds?
I also want to know more about things like the PT Cruiser automobile that was built by $1 an hour workers in Mexico after this all happened. Was it funded in anyway by the U.S. Government.
The reasons for asking these questions are obviously related to saving our auto industry for the long run. And individual states have paid foreign auto assemblers more than 2 billion dollars to build their plants in the U.S. This all should be brought up in all hearings on the matter dollar by dollar.
Who, what, where, how did this all evolve and who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena? Putting veneer over the problems is not enough.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
U.S Government betrayed Auto workers for many years
By Tapsearch Com and Tapart News and Art that Talks Editor
Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters
Can American auto industry be resusitated?
Precendents in place for government to help their own as they helped foreign auto assemblers.
By Ray Tapajna
Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks
Lost worlds in the Globalist Flat World
Nov. 23, 2008
Government played a major role in the betrayal of auto workers and other industrial workers for many years...Time to sort out their role in driving Globalization and so called free trade that is really not trade.
Government interventions
There are definite precedents for government to help U.S. automakers. The obvious one is based on the bail out of the financial communities.
Government also funded the moving of production and factories outside the United States starting in 1956. This "temporary program" never ended.
State governments have provided more than a billion dollars ( conservative estimate ) plus tax exemptions to foreign auto assemblers to build their assembly plants in America.
How can anyone say government should not be involved in saving the last U.S. automakers after all this has happened? Government played a major part in the destruction of the U.S. auto industry. It did not happen by itself, nor in any natural economic fashion.
Free trade has been driven by government. It is time to tell it like it is and restore a real tangible asset - the value of labor in our economy.
There are many stories to be told about payments and incentives given directly and indirectly to foreign auto assemblers. A prominent example shows what happens when government does this. The State of Indiana recently paid Honda millions of dollars to build their assembly plant in Indiana. All in all it added up to about $150 million dollars plus long term tax exemptions for Honda. About 5,000 new assembly jobs were created. The return on this investment may never come for the people of Indiana as a whole. On top of this, about 20,000 auto parts manufacturing jobs were lost in the state to making this a complete loser.
The same has gone on for years in other states. BMW was paid millions to build their plant in South Carolina in the early 1990s. The state even paid $40 billion dollars to build a runway for BMW planes. They only pay $1 a year lease for a $36 million dollars worth of real estate. They have enjoyed 43 to 62 percent less taxes than established old businesses in South Carolina.
In other states, reportedly, foreign auto assemblers come in an offer full time jobs but later these jobs degrade to contract workers and then to temporary workers.
Southern states in the U.S. have paid out more than a billion dollars recently to KIA, Toyota and Volkswagon to build assembly plants. This vast betrayal of labor in the United States grows and grows. The U.S. has actually experienced deflation when it comes to workers and labor. Labor is a real tangible asset. Its value is more real than money that is just images printed on paper needing some financial manipulation to add value to it. How can the investment community deny this. Making money on money economies have burn out. It was a sand castle built on sand.
Once the stock market rewarded companies by the number of workers they could employ at a decent wage with added value to their stocks. Then came free trade where jobs cuts were called an increase in productivity while in reality if was deflation in the value of workers and labor. Adam Smith held workers and labor as something "sacred" and the core of all societies. World War 2 was ultimately won by the awesome power of American industries. Our automakers played a large part in this victory quickly adjusting their whole operations for the war effort. This may never be posssible again. Now much of this value has been lost forever, while government plays a dangerous game of give away for the sake of greed. It is game of insane greed and it has snapped.
Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters
Can American auto industry be resusitated?
Precendents in place for government to help their own as they helped foreign auto assemblers.
By Ray Tapajna
Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks
Lost worlds in the Globalist Flat World
Nov. 23, 2008
Government played a major role in the betrayal of auto workers and other industrial workers for many years...Time to sort out their role in driving Globalization and so called free trade that is really not trade.
Government interventions
There are definite precedents for government to help U.S. automakers. The obvious one is based on the bail out of the financial communities.
Government also funded the moving of production and factories outside the United States starting in 1956. This "temporary program" never ended.
State governments have provided more than a billion dollars ( conservative estimate ) plus tax exemptions to foreign auto assemblers to build their assembly plants in America.
How can anyone say government should not be involved in saving the last U.S. automakers after all this has happened? Government played a major part in the destruction of the U.S. auto industry. It did not happen by itself, nor in any natural economic fashion.
Free trade has been driven by government. It is time to tell it like it is and restore a real tangible asset - the value of labor in our economy.
There are many stories to be told about payments and incentives given directly and indirectly to foreign auto assemblers. A prominent example shows what happens when government does this. The State of Indiana recently paid Honda millions of dollars to build their assembly plant in Indiana. All in all it added up to about $150 million dollars plus long term tax exemptions for Honda. About 5,000 new assembly jobs were created. The return on this investment may never come for the people of Indiana as a whole. On top of this, about 20,000 auto parts manufacturing jobs were lost in the state to making this a complete loser.
The same has gone on for years in other states. BMW was paid millions to build their plant in South Carolina in the early 1990s. The state even paid $40 billion dollars to build a runway for BMW planes. They only pay $1 a year lease for a $36 million dollars worth of real estate. They have enjoyed 43 to 62 percent less taxes than established old businesses in South Carolina.
In other states, reportedly, foreign auto assemblers come in an offer full time jobs but later these jobs degrade to contract workers and then to temporary workers.
Southern states in the U.S. have paid out more than a billion dollars recently to KIA, Toyota and Volkswagon to build assembly plants. This vast betrayal of labor in the United States grows and grows. The U.S. has actually experienced deflation when it comes to workers and labor. Labor is a real tangible asset. Its value is more real than money that is just images printed on paper needing some financial manipulation to add value to it. How can the investment community deny this. Making money on money economies have burn out. It was a sand castle built on sand.
Once the stock market rewarded companies by the number of workers they could employ at a decent wage with added value to their stocks. Then came free trade where jobs cuts were called an increase in productivity while in reality if was deflation in the value of workers and labor. Adam Smith held workers and labor as something "sacred" and the core of all societies. World War 2 was ultimately won by the awesome power of American industries. Our automakers played a large part in this victory quickly adjusting their whole operations for the war effort. This may never be posssible again. Now much of this value has been lost forever, while government plays a dangerous game of give away for the sake of greed. It is game of insane greed and it has snapped.
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