Tapsearch Com EditorUpside down Economy pushed by newspaper
February 8th 2010 17:15
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Saying goodbye to the America I once knew is a very difficult thing to do and now it seems I must also say goodbye to the newspaper I once respected.
What we got here is a chicken before the egg economy
I consider the editorial pages as the heart of a newspaper and a hard copy way that is not
easy to be copied online. Newspapers are suffering an identity crisis and policies seem to be controlled by publishers independent of readers views and I suspect even the views of the editorial staff itself.
The only major newspaper in my city did an editorial Sunday describing the needs of our city and surrounding suburbs.
The first thing listed was to break down the closed doors that feed cynicism and stifle creativity by involving citizens in major civic decisions. This sounds good until you get to the next parts when only a chicken before the egg economy is pronounced. The big thing for many months in our city is to build a medical mart which is supposedly would rock our economic survival. No one yet has told us how something that depends on its own survival on taxpapers who do not have jobs to support the process. The medical industry is something that comes after other things are happening to produce the flow of funds and not before.
The next thing that is brought up is our lakefront. Being near the great lakes, it is an asset waiting to be opened but if it is used to ship in more imports than it exports, we are back to square one in the formation of any real economy. No one reports about the overhead of shipping goods 8000 miles to get to consumers nor do they report about the impact long haul shipping and protective containers and packaging have to the environment let alone to the overall welfare of the people in th city. Years ago I suggested a large mercantile bizarre or upgrade flea market on the lakefront by the downtown airport. Everything is in place including tons of parking. When you do not have the egg to produce a good economy, you need to something with what you have. Consumers could be retailers too. You can start a middle of the road economy from the bottom up with a place open to the public to sell their collectibles and antiques of products that once were made in the USA. It could also be a place for business to busines meetings and sales in an everyday buffet atmosphere at a airport on lake and this is the way you could broadcast it around the world.
What is happening instead. The talk has been endless for years about new technologies but all the creativity and research in the world is worthless if the production cycle goes outside the city, state or country. The surge now is for gambling casinos instead and space related jobs because of our excellent NASA facility in the region. This is a good thing but again ignores where the money comes from. The newspaper also calls for more immigration by opening a welcome center for immigrant investors. I do not know what there is to invest in but I wrote a statirical piece at my Ray Tapajna Chronicles that forecasted our economic crisis years ago. about a China direct facility at the downtown airport. China opened one of its first retail outlets in New York to sell directly to consumers. This could knock out the middlemen like Wal-mart. I suggested we should take it a step further and just bring the Chinese workers here and have some of the old hangars aat the downtown airport that only be retail outlets but places where the Chinese workers could make the things too. To offset their low wages, the city could give them some of the empty homes to live in. We then could enjoy everything at the lowest prices while others in the retail service industry could make it then with addes government assistance as they do now. For many years in Rome, it was better to be a slave than a freeman.
In the last election, voters voted for a new local central county government to rule over all the city and the suburbs but like everything else that is centralized, it becomes a new race between the good and the bad. People tend to forget that when you centralize all that is good you also bring more power to all that is bad too.
The new high tech economy somewhere out there in space but not here on earth
I consider the editorial pages as the heart of a newspaper and a hard copy way that is not
easy to be copied online. Newspapers are suffering an identity crisis and policies seem to be controlled by publishers independent of readers views and I suspect even the views of the editorial staff itself.
The only major newspaper in my city did an editorial Sunday describing the needs of our city and surrounding suburbs.
The first thing listed was to break down the closed doors that feed cynicism and stifle creativity by involving citizens in major civic decisions. This sounds good until you get to the next parts when only a chicken before the egg economy is pronounced. The big thing for many months in our city is to build a medical mart which is supposedly would rock our economic survival. No one yet has told us how something that depends on its own survival on taxpapers who do not have jobs to support the process. The medical industry is something that comes after other things are happening to produce the flow of funds and not before.
The next thing that is brought up is our lakefront. Being near the great lakes, it is an asset waiting to be opened but if it is used to ship in more imports than it exports, we are back to square one in the formation of any real economy. No one reports about the overhead of shipping goods 8000 miles to get to consumers nor do they report about the impact long haul shipping and protective containers and packaging have to the environment let alone to the overall welfare of the people in th city. Years ago I suggested a large mercantile bizarre or upgrade flea market on the lakefront by the downtown airport. Everything is in place including tons of parking. When you do not have the egg to produce a good economy, you need to something with what you have. Consumers could be retailers too. You can start a middle of the road economy from the bottom up with a place open to the public to sell their collectibles and antiques of products that once were made in the USA. It could also be a place for business to busines meetings and sales in an everyday buffet atmosphere at a airport on lake and this is the way you could broadcast it around the world.
What is happening instead. The talk has been endless for years about new technologies but all the creativity and research in the world is worthless if the production cycle goes outside the city, state or country. The surge now is for gambling casinos instead and space related jobs because of our excellent NASA facility in the region. This is a good thing but again ignores where the money comes from. The newspaper also calls for more immigration by opening a welcome center for immigrant investors. I do not know what there is to invest in but I wrote a statirical piece at my Ray Tapajna Chronicles that forecasted our economic crisis years ago. about a China direct facility at the downtown airport. China opened one of its first retail outlets in New York to sell directly to consumers. This could knock out the middlemen like Wal-mart. I suggested we should take it a step further and just bring the Chinese workers here and have some of the old hangars aat the downtown airport that only be retail outlets but places where the Chinese workers could make the things too. To offset their low wages, the city could give them some of the empty homes to live in. We then could enjoy everything at the lowest prices while others in the retail service industry could make it then with addes government assistance as they do now. For many years in Rome, it was better to be a slave than a freeman.
The new high tech economy somewhere out there in space but not here on earth
In the last election, voters voted for a new local central county government to rule over all the city and the suburbs but like everything else that is centralized, it becomes a new race between the good and the bad. People tend to forget that when you centralize all that is good you also bring more power to all that is bad too.
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