Tapsearch Com EditorGhost office buildings are empty momuments
March 14th 2010 00:43
Bizarre Politics Reports:
- Empty Ghost office buildings are shadows the good times, America once enjoyed. Yet, these best economic models from the past are ignored.
by Ray Tapajna Voices from the good times in the past
Empty - Ghost Office buildings - stand as empty momuments to the good times that once were
If someone told me during the 1950s through to the early 1980s, that I was living in the best of times, I would wonder if they had their head on right. As it turns out the best economic models lasted for fourty years from the end of World War 2 to about 1985 - and then everything seemed to change overnight.
Ghost office buildings are shadows of the past good times. In our city where I once could spend days at a time calling on corporate accounts with many their international corporate headquarters stand as relics of a more prosperous time lost forever. I worked out of downtown office buildings in the 1950s when it was difficult to walk fast due to the masses of people downtown. In the 1970s I managed a regional office for a computer manufacturer. I did not know, that it was the last hurrah for business activity in our city as companies closed down due to free trade and globalization. These were words we never used or thought about when businesses were prospering.
Just in the computer and business machine industry alone, there were thousands employed at branch or regional offices too. And the downtown area was divided into multi- sales territories in just a 2 square mile area. There were also hugh massive data centers downtown full of workers.
The retail industry was still alive for blocks and in the 1950s. there was a large airline community downtown with hundreds of workers.
There were several major advertising agencies and publishers too.
Spreading out from the downtown area were industrial and clothing manufacurers. They are gone too. Many regional offices for many manufacturers surrounded the downtown area. A few years ago I was in one of these locations and was surprised how nice the surroundings were. There were police patrolling the area on bikes and the grass seemed greener from what I remember. And then I noted the major difference. There were no people on the streets that once were full of people.
It as if some mysterious plague came and wiped out the area. It was an economic plague called free trade and globalization. President Roosevelt said economic diseaseas are highly communicable and I think of this as I drive through all the areas where businesses once thrived.
Going into the mid 1980s, businesses began to struggle and the difference was obivously free trade and globlalization. It happened quickly and the speeded up even more during the mid 1990s after President Clinton consumated the free trade agreements that the elder President Bush had iniitiated. Thousands of small computer vendors and systems houses that started up with the coming of the micro computer market, met their fate in the early 1990s. Our region was once a mecca for high technology as I traveled back and forth from the Silicon Valley. From about 1985 to 2000 more than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry . Most reports left these losses untold. We were just told that the industrial complex was gone and we were converting to a service economy. In the beginning of the computer industry we were told that we should get ready for dealing with more leisure. Many have plenty of leisure time these days for sure, but not the kind of leisure that was predicted. Most people do not think being jobless is some part of being at leisure.
The economists talk about business cycles and compare their findings with the past. But, most likely all their reporting is fabricated since it is impossible to compare with the past. All one has to do today, is ask a question about the unemployment reporting linking it with less than 40 percent of all workers qualifying for unemployment insurance. In the past, it would be laughable for a person making only a $ 100 a month be reported as employed. In the 1950s this would be only about $10 a month. Before they talk about economic statisitics further someone should ask where the 60 percent of the workers are who do not qualify for unemployment insurance and how many are really employed in any reasonable common sense manner.
They tell us the office buildings and towers are empty because of overdevelopment leaving out the part about all the corresponding factories that are empty too. But, what can we expect from economists that tell us that the Trade Deficits that have broken records for years are not necessarily a bad thing. Even though, in any common business practice, if you buy much more than you sell, you will not be in business very long. Now the money people are finally finding out that deflating the value of labor and workers impacts the value of paper money too as our economy based on making money instead of making things is burning out.
Explore the lost worlds in the Flat World of the Globalist Free Traders in the great betrayal of American workers and workers everywhere.
Empty - Ghost Office buildings - stand as empty momuments to the good times that once were
If someone told me during the 1950s through to the early 1980s, that I was living in the best of times, I would wonder if they had their head on right. As it turns out the best economic models lasted for fourty years from the end of World War 2 to about 1985 - and then everything seemed to change overnight.
Ghost office buildings are shadows of the past good times. In our city where I once could spend days at a time calling on corporate accounts with many their international corporate headquarters stand as relics of a more prosperous time lost forever. I worked out of downtown office buildings in the 1950s when it was difficult to walk fast due to the masses of people downtown. In the 1970s I managed a regional office for a computer manufacturer. I did not know, that it was the last hurrah for business activity in our city as companies closed down due to free trade and globalization. These were words we never used or thought about when businesses were prospering.
Just in the computer and business machine industry alone, there were thousands employed at branch or regional offices too. And the downtown area was divided into multi- sales territories in just a 2 square mile area. There were also hugh massive data centers downtown full of workers.
The retail industry was still alive for blocks and in the 1950s. there was a large airline community downtown with hundreds of workers.
There were several major advertising agencies and publishers too.
Spreading out from the downtown area were industrial and clothing manufacurers. They are gone too. Many regional offices for many manufacturers surrounded the downtown area. A few years ago I was in one of these locations and was surprised how nice the surroundings were. There were police patrolling the area on bikes and the grass seemed greener from what I remember. And then I noted the major difference. There were no people on the streets that once were full of people.
It as if some mysterious plague came and wiped out the area. It was an economic plague called free trade and globalization. President Roosevelt said economic diseaseas are highly communicable and I think of this as I drive through all the areas where businesses once thrived.
Going into the mid 1980s, businesses began to struggle and the difference was obivously free trade and globlalization. It happened quickly and the speeded up even more during the mid 1990s after President Clinton consumated the free trade agreements that the elder President Bush had iniitiated. Thousands of small computer vendors and systems houses that started up with the coming of the micro computer market, met their fate in the early 1990s. Our region was once a mecca for high technology as I traveled back and forth from the Silicon Valley. From about 1985 to 2000 more than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry . Most reports left these losses untold. We were just told that the industrial complex was gone and we were converting to a service economy. In the beginning of the computer industry we were told that we should get ready for dealing with more leisure. Many have plenty of leisure time these days for sure, but not the kind of leisure that was predicted. Most people do not think being jobless is some part of being at leisure.
The economists talk about business cycles and compare their findings with the past. But, most likely all their reporting is fabricated since it is impossible to compare with the past. All one has to do today, is ask a question about the unemployment reporting linking it with less than 40 percent of all workers qualifying for unemployment insurance. In the past, it would be laughable for a person making only a $ 100 a month be reported as employed. In the 1950s this would be only about $10 a month. Before they talk about economic statisitics further someone should ask where the 60 percent of the workers are who do not qualify for unemployment insurance and how many are really employed in any reasonable common sense manner.
They tell us the office buildings and towers are empty because of overdevelopment leaving out the part about all the corresponding factories that are empty too. But, what can we expect from economists that tell us that the Trade Deficits that have broken records for years are not necessarily a bad thing. Even though, in any common business practice, if you buy much more than you sell, you will not be in business very long. Now the money people are finally finding out that deflating the value of labor and workers impacts the value of paper money too as our economy based on making money instead of making things is burning out.
Explore the lost worlds in the Flat World of the Globalist Free Traders in the great betrayal of American workers and workers everywhere.
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