Tapsearch Com EditorIt's "heyday" time in the local global economic arena
February 17th 2009 17:06
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It's "heyday" time in America. Our top newspaper in Ohio challenges its readers to get with it in the global economic arena
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks
It's "heyday" time in America
This begins a series in response to a challenge given by the Cleveland Plain Dealer , top newspaper in Ohio USA - after they introduced it with an article by Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat
Friedman did not study the same history as I did. His history is conjured up from his own distorted view of the world. He evidently has very little business experience and obviously no experience in factory or production work. He flys above us to places around the world and talks to top political and elite corporate leaders. He flys high above the workers who have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade. Now a top newspaper joins him.
In his article, he talks mostly about raw competition without any knowlege about real commerce. He ignores what the free enterprise system is and how it must be protected.
Like other globalist free traders, he likes to use the term protectionism as something that is always bad. His biggest con however, is comparing Free Trade with protectionism when Free Trade actually can not be compared to much of anything in history. Free Trade is not trade as historically defined and practiced. Free Trade today is something different. It is primarily based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor.
Human beings as workers become the commodities being traded. Workers are put on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor. The closest thing to this in history was the slave trade and bringing in the Chinese to build our railroads.
The Plain Dealer ignores the real world in announcing The Open Door Bailout. The Editor's Note says - In its heyday, Cleveland attracted immigrants like a magnet, If it wants another heyday, Cleveland needs to do it again. That's a message Plain Dealer readers can expect to hear over and over, because we're not going to let it go. Today , we're glad to have Thomas L. Friedman's help in making the point.
This point is made while about 50 percent of all young blacks in the inner city are unemployed. It is made at a time when you can drive down miles of main streets across the city with boarded up empty storefronts and empty factories. These have been relics of the the "heyday" times in Cleveland for many years. Unfair trade and Free Trade have robbed us of our "heyday". Now our prison populations are breaking all records with the blacks representing a larger part of it. ( with many U.S. prisons now using immates as cheap labor.)
We will go into the "heydays" deeper since we were part of the real good times in our city, our nation and internationally too and both my parents were immigrants. But first, let us do the following example to demonstrate how outlandish the Plain Dealer and Friedman's points are.
Thomsas Friedman talks about the wonders of competition and low prices in the Flat World.
Here's a way to make his dreams come true. The Cleveland Plain Dealer could announce it to the world.
China has opened a direct factory retail outlet in New York.
In the Flat World, there is no reason for not having a direct Chinese retail outlet direct from their factories in every city. Let's take this concept a bit further. A city like Cleveland can bring in the Chinese direct outlets - after all Walmart is a middle man and why not go direct. This way you can pass on the savings to the consumers. They will be needing more cheaper prices.
Let's take it a step further in Friedman's Flat World, why not just bring the Chinese factories to places like Cleveland. There are plenty of empty factories to choose from. There are also plenty of empty homes where the Chinese workers can be sheltered at a very low cost.
However, as President Bush said, these are jobs Americans will not take. Since these jobs would not pay enough money for an American worker to survive. ( We already have many in the working poor class who are homeless.), the factor of labor costs plays a big part in making these factories a success. We can bring in the Chinese workers to work for pennies a day and give them shelter in the empty homes. There are plenty of these empty homes to go around. This would indeed drop the prices of products and on top of that we go "green" ala Thomas Friedman by cutting out all the long haul shipping that pollutes the environment.
(You can read about the 8000 mile energy saving light bulb - The dark side of the energy saving light bulb )
The factories most likely will need a security force, because most likely there will be plenty of American workers a bit upset about the process. However, we could also import Chinese police for about the same pay as the factory workers would get. After all, the giant Chinese COSCO shipping company will have to find other sources of revenue if there is no need for long haul shipping. Since COSCO is owned by the Chinese Liberation Army, providing security should not be a problem and not that much of an overhead.
This provides everything Flat World of Friedman dreams about. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can negotiate the whole deal. After all, her husband was deep into negotiating with China too when he gave them most of our high technology that took years to attain.
See also http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and Really Long Link See Explore the lost worlds in the globalist free trader Flat World of Friedman and friends and [LINK=http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/china-direct-retail/]more about China direct factory retail stores.[/LINK
We will continue this series going back to the Great Depression and how absurd the term protectionism is. Trade was never a big part of the Great Depression. However this thing called Free Trade with a history of more than twenty years is the cause of our current economic crisis because it is not really trade and it is really about our economies based on making money on money instead of making things.
It's "heyday" time in America
This begins a series in response to a challenge given by the Cleveland Plain Dealer , top newspaper in Ohio USA - after they introduced it with an article by Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat
Friedman did not study the same history as I did. His history is conjured up from his own distorted view of the world. He evidently has very little business experience and obviously no experience in factory or production work. He flys above us to places around the world and talks to top political and elite corporate leaders. He flys high above the workers who have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade. Now a top newspaper joins him.
In his article, he talks mostly about raw competition without any knowlege about real commerce. He ignores what the free enterprise system is and how it must be protected.
Like other globalist free traders, he likes to use the term protectionism as something that is always bad. His biggest con however, is comparing Free Trade with protectionism when Free Trade actually can not be compared to much of anything in history. Free Trade is not trade as historically defined and practiced. Free Trade today is something different. It is primarily based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor.
Human beings as workers become the commodities being traded. Workers are put on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor. The closest thing to this in history was the slave trade and bringing in the Chinese to build our railroads.
The Plain Dealer ignores the real world in announcing The Open Door Bailout. The Editor's Note says - In its heyday, Cleveland attracted immigrants like a magnet, If it wants another heyday, Cleveland needs to do it again. That's a message Plain Dealer readers can expect to hear over and over, because we're not going to let it go. Today , we're glad to have Thomas L. Friedman's help in making the point.
This point is made while about 50 percent of all young blacks in the inner city are unemployed. It is made at a time when you can drive down miles of main streets across the city with boarded up empty storefronts and empty factories. These have been relics of the the "heyday" times in Cleveland for many years. Unfair trade and Free Trade have robbed us of our "heyday". Now our prison populations are breaking all records with the blacks representing a larger part of it. ( with many U.S. prisons now using immates as cheap labor.)
We will go into the "heydays" deeper since we were part of the real good times in our city, our nation and internationally too and both my parents were immigrants. But first, let us do the following example to demonstrate how outlandish the Plain Dealer and Friedman's points are.
Thomsas Friedman talks about the wonders of competition and low prices in the Flat World.
Here's a way to make his dreams come true. The Cleveland Plain Dealer could announce it to the world.
China has opened a direct factory retail outlet in New York.
In the Flat World, there is no reason for not having a direct Chinese retail outlet direct from their factories in every city. Let's take this concept a bit further. A city like Cleveland can bring in the Chinese direct outlets - after all Walmart is a middle man and why not go direct. This way you can pass on the savings to the consumers. They will be needing more cheaper prices.
Let's take it a step further in Friedman's Flat World, why not just bring the Chinese factories to places like Cleveland. There are plenty of empty factories to choose from. There are also plenty of empty homes where the Chinese workers can be sheltered at a very low cost.
However, as President Bush said, these are jobs Americans will not take. Since these jobs would not pay enough money for an American worker to survive. ( We already have many in the working poor class who are homeless.), the factor of labor costs plays a big part in making these factories a success. We can bring in the Chinese workers to work for pennies a day and give them shelter in the empty homes. There are plenty of these empty homes to go around. This would indeed drop the prices of products and on top of that we go "green" ala Thomas Friedman by cutting out all the long haul shipping that pollutes the environment.
(You can read about the 8000 mile energy saving light bulb - The dark side of the energy saving light bulb )
The factories most likely will need a security force, because most likely there will be plenty of American workers a bit upset about the process. However, we could also import Chinese police for about the same pay as the factory workers would get. After all, the giant Chinese COSCO shipping company will have to find other sources of revenue if there is no need for long haul shipping. Since COSCO is owned by the Chinese Liberation Army, providing security should not be a problem and not that much of an overhead.
This provides everything Flat World of Friedman dreams about. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can negotiate the whole deal. After all, her husband was deep into negotiating with China too when he gave them most of our high technology that took years to attain.
See also http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and Really Long Link See Explore the lost worlds in the globalist free trader Flat World of Friedman and friends and [LINK=http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/china-direct-retail/]more about China direct factory retail stores.[/LINK
We will continue this series going back to the Great Depression and how absurd the term protectionism is. Trade was never a big part of the Great Depression. However this thing called Free Trade with a history of more than twenty years is the cause of our current economic crisis because it is not really trade and it is really about our economies based on making money on money instead of making things.
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