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Explore the untold stories behind the news in the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World. It is really all about you in the global economic arena. By Ray Tapajna - Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks - the unnetted journeys.
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Free Trade the Hoax of the century
Free
Trade
Hoax
What is this thing called Free Trade?
We searched history books and dictionaries for the answer.
The best decriptive word that pops out is "exchange".
The dictionaries and history books define trade as an exchange of goods and commodities.
Free Trade is defined as the unrestricted international exchange of goods and commodities.
However, the Free Trade we know today is primarily about moving production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. From that it evolved into the outsourcing and insourcing for the sake of cheaper labor.
Thus the value of labor has become the major commodity being traded.
And labor is about workers who are human beings. Therefore human beings end up as human commodities in Free Trade. What we call Free Trade today is primarily base on the value of labor and not the exchange of goods and commodities. And it is a downward devaluation of workers wages.
The history books tell us about this kind of trade. It was called the slave trade which was defined as the buying and selling of negroes for a profit. Free Trade today is very close to this practice with it seeking the lowest levels of labor down to wage slave and even child labor. Thus , Free Trade is all about putting workers on a global block to compete with each other for the same jobs to the advantage of corporate profits.
So Free Trade is not trade as historically practiced and defined but it is closer to the defintion of the Slave Trade than any other kind of trade.
The first question that follows is this.
1. Did we have to compete like this in a global arena. Our older economic models were based on local value added economies where the value of work was pretty much in balance with the value of goods. There was a surplus value. There was enough value left to help restart the Europe and Japanese economies with the examples of Lend Lease, the Marshall Plan and other assistance programs. The U.S. led the way in humanitarian efforts in the world. The idea was to duplicate success and not isolateit to a few. It was working until something chose to radically altered it.
2. Was there a conspiracy invovled. Most likely there was but we do not need conspiracy theories to know that Free Trade and Globalization did not evolve in any natural economic fashion but were driven and managed by external powers outside the will of the people and it is obvious workers had no voice in the process.
3. How old is Free Trade? Free Trade did not start with the passing of NAFTA, GATT and the WTO. The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of production and factories outside the USA starting in 1956. This supposedly temporary program evolved into the Maquilador Factory program in Mexico. In the 1980s while Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors for Wal-Mart about 1000 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico. By 1992, there were 2000 U.S. factories in Mexico prior to the passing of NAFTA. After President Clinton forced the passage of NAFTA, the number quickly doubled to 4000. Politicians usually use the passing of NAFTA in 1994 as their reference point for Free Trade but It was set in place
much earlier than this.
Free Trade is truly a Hoax which made victims out of the American workers and workers thoughout the world. As noted above - it is not real trade based on exchange but it is all about the discounting of the value of labor for the sake of profits.
Resources: Any dictionary and most history books and see Tapart News and Art that Talks or Explore the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World of Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, the Clintons, the Bush family and Alan Greenspan from The Age of Turbulence - ( see many posts here at Bizarre Politics.COM )
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Not only are American Workers Bitter but they feel betrayed
Workingman's mood? The word is fear
In the presidential debates of 2008, the issue of workers being bitter in small town American was raised. It is clear, that they are more than just bitter and it is not only in small town American. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exposed a vast underclass that was invisible until the storm came. It also demonstrated there is an unreported silent depression residing in the USA with many wearing blinders hiding from the reality. It is apparent our low unemployment rate is not in tune with the streets of USA.
Connie Schultz tells her story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in April 2008. She is a outspoken liberal and her husband is Senator Sherrod Brown who is for workers rights and beat a conservative who wasn't. Even though I am a conservative Populist, I agree with Connie Schultz about the status of workers dignity in the USA. I worked in several factories while going to college at the same time for the equivalent of about $15 to $20 and hour. If these jobs were available today, thousands would be standing in line to get them and even college graduates who would take these jobs too and not only as a means to an end like I did.
Connie Schultz tells about her family being on food stamps and she did not find out about it until she was 40. Her mother admitted it was something she thought she would never do. Today it is not a big deal when you compare it to so many losing their entire life savings and their homes going bankrupt just because they lost their jobs or businesses due to free trade which trade human beings as the main commodities of our times.
Her mother said " You gotta allow a man his pride, Connie," she said . "Sometimes that's all he's got." Her mothers words came rushing back recently, as she watched the presidential candidates bicker over whether working class people are bitter. She recalled that in her dad's day, it was a thing of pride to work with your hands. Men lived large through their labor, building cars, tanks, planes, and appliances. They made union wages that put food on the table, and fueled the dream of a college education for their children.
Today most of the good factory jobs are gone, and pensions and health care left with them. Their wives have to work now, too, just to pay the bills. For so many families, the constant stress of too little is too great. The call for emergency food has broken records for years. The prison population keeps breaking records too. A pastor in a small town in Ohio says, " I try to get them to stop asking 'why' because that doesn't get you anywhere. I tell them the right question is, "Who can provide the help?" He sighed again. " Is this that a valid answer? No. We don't seem to have a lot of help these days."
Hillary Clinton says workers are resilent and will find ways to make a comeback. However for many time has taken its toll and in a local church the bulletin reads - " Success is reaching Social Security age before having to declare bankruptcy". Workers are not bitter any more. Many are defeated. They have no feelings left and are numb. Besides, their main concern is where their main meal is coming from today. As Lech Walesa says, from the Solidarity movement which help bring down the Soviet Empire, - I am only a consumer. I know very little about economics and business but I do know that when 10 percent of 100 percent of the population owns the control of wealth, something is very wrong. And we all know which group both the Clintons and the Bush family belong.
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( By Ray Tapajna , editor and artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks for summary of articles and sites. His sites and articles are really all about you in the global economic arena and ask who said we had to compete like this in the Free Trade world where the real commodities are workers. You can explore the losts worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World of Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, the Clintons and the Bush families. It is the New World Order or is it the New World Dis-Order. See Exploring the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World of the Thomas Friedman from the New York Times newspaper, the Clintons, the Bush Family and Alan Greenspan
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This continues our last post about impoverished city hoist flag of surrender to Free Trade
The Mayor of Cleveland and "trade" brokers have taken the next step in the degradation of the value of labor opening its doors to imports from everywhere after consummating a deal with Costa Rica.
Even Wal-Mart is reporting their clientele are running out of money before the end of the month. The working poor class in the U.S. in having a difficult time even affording the low prices imports from distant places.
Tom Beckenridge, Plain Dealer Reporter, tells us this is only the beginning of " Deal or no Deal" in the world of Free Trade. He cites Thomas Friedman' Flat World theories for a level playing field for industries of all kinds. However this playing field was never level. It now depends discounting the value of labor below the value of goods and the working poor class in now finding out what this is all about. Workers in places like Wal-Mart need government assistance to survive in our ecomony. However , waiting in the wings is a vast population of workers from distant places who know how to survive on subsistent living wages. The moving of 4,000 factories to Mexico did not stop the flood of Mexican workers to the U.S. seeking economic survival.
Now our political leaders take a page from the Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins and decide to get in line with the powers behind the greatest betrayal of workers in history. They join the new "drug deal" of our times - with consumers hooked on cheap imports even though with each purchase the shop their way out of their jobs.
The Costa Rica "trade" deal now makes Cleveland and agent for the distribution for products and goods coming from the underclass workers of the world. The value of work has been discounted down to this common denominator. Free Trade is still dependent on moving production and factories from place to place based on the cheapest labor possible. However, this now will evolve to bringing this cheaper labor closer to the local settings.
As the cost of long haul shipping and packaging climb and the "green" advocates note the added cost to the environment due to this long haul shipping , things will become more local. It does not mean the decent paying jobs will return however. It means, corporations will find ways to bring the main commodity to a more local situation. The supply of cheaper labor will be more direct rather than in some distant place. We already have this with foreign auto makers bringing their assembly plants locally. Now it is just a short jump to bringing the subsistent living wages closer too. Our letter in the previous post seemed to be tongue in cheek when we said why not just go all the way and let the Chinese have direct outlets in our cities and then bring in their own labor to cut the costs even lower. This is the last "flattener" in the The Flat World of Thomas Friedman, the Clintons, the Bush family and Alan Greenspan.
The new Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says to buy domestically made goods with our economic stimulus money to stimulate our economy. Of course this is impossible now but indicates the failures of Free Trade and what is in store for us now.
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City in poverty surrenders to Free Trade
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Cleveland Ohio which was once a center for manufacturing, international corporate offices and high tech now has miles of streets with empty storefronts including the downtown area and empty factories. The only newspaper in town tells about an increase in exports but how can sending parts and components to factories that were once in the USA be called exports
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NAFTA Free Trade sucking sound started just two years after it was passed
NAFTA Free Trade was a failure from the start but no major candidate did anything about it back then and now they are just beginning to raise the question after the fact.
This is from 1997 not 2008. It was a proven failure from the start
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Back to the Future- 1999 not 2008 - hunger
1990s - Low unemployment rate hides the invisible workers needing emergency food - during the Clinton Years, the American Dream was Reversed during the Clinton Years, the American Dream was Reversed. while the Clintons and Alan Greenspan were proclaiming prosperity.
This is from 1999 and not 2008. It is from the Clinton years when prosperity was being proclaimed. Hillary was there and said nothing
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Bitter workers behind bitter lies in the 1990s
Are there bitter workers in 2008? There surely were many in the 1990s. By 1999, more than a milions workers lost their jobs in just the computer industry alone. This was hid behind the loss of jobs in heavy industry where we were told many jobs were outdated and that high tech was taking over.
In 1998, President Clinton and the Congress passed laws to import cheaper labor to fill positions which were supposedly due to shotages in the high tech industry. Those of us from the computer industry knew better
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Hillary says Small Town America is resilent
A current debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama about small town America being bitter about the lost of jobs should be a core debate. It tells the real stories behind the news.
In her statements, Hillary Clinton demonstrates she is in denial about the long lasting economic storm in our times. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exposed a silent depression residing in our land for a long time. Hillary and her husband were part of the cause and effect and the 1990s probably represent the highest point in the most massive dislocation of jobs in the history of the USA.
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The War backdraft backdate - not much has changed
The date line is 2008. The Iraq war continues. The drums of war continue to beat. History told us centuries ago, that the USA will leave and conditions will be no better or most likely worst than before the invasion came. Will it take a strong dictator to balance things out in Iraq again. History also tells us this will be the case.
Even my 1950 U.S. Army Officer's Manual told me we would leave for the Middle East after we intervened because crusades do not work
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