Tapsearch Com EditorFree Trade War is personal
July 16th 2010 20:09
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In our editorial Pearl Harbor attack on workers cartoon, President Bush says in the bombing of workers in the Free Trade War, - It is nothing personal but it is only business.
Our own journey in the Free Trade War
Pres. Bush says the bombing of workers and the Free Enterprise system in the Free Trade War is nothing personal. It only business.
Free Trade is War and it is personal too.
I tell this personal story because millions of casualties like myself in the Free Trade War suffer the same losses. I witnessed thousands of businesses closing down because of Free Trade with thousands losing their jobs and businesses around me.
After more than fifty years in the work world I lost most everything in the Free Trade War. I lost my computer business that I enjoyed for more than thirty years. I had several set backs due to unfair competition but was able to get past these issues. I lost a job and a segment of my business when competitors came and looked like small companies but were owned by giant corporations. They found flourishing markets and joined in the market with companies that sold under costs in order to knock out all competition and capture a market. The one company cost me my job and later another one knock out a major part of my business. Ironically, they joined together and were evidently cut off from the big corporations and were challenged to do business the right way with a markup on products. It did not work and they were forced out of business too.
We have unfair trade laws on the books but they are seldom enforced and usually a small company does not have enough financial power to fight the issue in courts anyway. This is one of the main reason that I do not understand what Liberatarians are all about if they do not find a way to insure a level playing field for all. With Rand Paul telling the jobless to take a job for less and it will help end the economic crisis is juvenile. Glen Beck attacks progressives and seclude the definition of Social Justice to his own view of the world. Both ignore the Free Trade War and the Liberal Democrats are out of touch with the street now with President Obama bailing out big money and Wall Street while ignoring the casualties in the Free Trade War.
However the unfair trade issue became just a side issue when Free Trade came in an anything goes fashion. First of all Free Trade is not even trade. The real commodities being traded are human beings value as workers. Free Trade is about portable production that can be moved again and again for the sake of cheaper labor with the money changers playing a global monopoly game trying to grow values in economies based on making money on money instead of making things. The money changer Globalist Free Traders have no use for any real Free Enterprise system and will surge past it for the sake of profits and investments. Free Trade is actually a wage slave trade not much different from the slave trade of old except workers are used for it no matter where they reside.
In the early 1980's, the computer industry exploded with the acceptance of the IBM compatible PC computer. Thousands of companies were started and the future look good.
However, Free Trade came and knocked out most every way possible for this market to flourish.At one time, Cleveland Ohio was a center of the hi tech revolution as I traveled many times to the Silicon Valley. By 1990, thousands of these new companies folded as the money changers not only sent production to far away place but gave away U.S. technology to foreign corporations free. I sold computers and components directly to China and remanufacturer hard drive to accounts in Canada. However, these exports turned into imports as the U.S. gave their technology away.
I was part of every computer generation and played an unique part
where I was part of many innovations for company and government
accounts. I evovled into a trouble shooter supplyer and helped launched the computer cat scan industry and helped industrial computer accounts with their problems due to the evergrowing foreign competition. Our "zero defects"
manufacturing had grown production engineers who followed no defects manufacturing concepts that were in place for years and they did not know how to deal witht the foreign components that did not follow these standards and left much to be desired for manufacturing the quality they were used to providing.
I was with the top innovator of disk storage which spent more than ten years in creating the best disk storage technology ever. However, our government played a big part in sending perfected technology that took years to develop to other lands and our computer manufacturers did not expect this to happen especially by forces related to governments acting as dealer and brokers in the transfer of technology. President Clinton betrayed American interests during his efforts to promote Free Trade more than any president before him. To me he was a Benedict Arnold in the Free Trade War.
The President of our corporation resisted the avaluange and tried to defend our company as if it was a real war. However, the company was not powerful enough to take on the giant Far East companies and ultimately had to surrender everything that took so many years to create. Production of disk storage quickly went to the cheap labor markets of the world. The main disk storage company ended up having only 10,000 workers in the U.S. and 100,000 outside the country.
I also defended the last American micro computer manufacturer to the end and they finally went out of business completely in the early 1990s. By 1998, the Free Traders won the war and that is when I forecasted the coming economic crisis. Money on money economies will not work if you do away with the middle class and create a new working poor class. Things just can not match up in any given society that is dedicated to serving their members.
Free Trade came. I lost most of my clients who went out of business or closed down major divisions. First the IBM PC compatible came where anyone in the world could make the parts. It suddenly knocked out about computer manufacturers. I fought to the end for the last micro computer made in the USA. When the imported components flowed into our country, all related manufacturing was affected. Component came in with different specs with each new shipment without notification of any revision or a change in product code.
As the American computer manufacturers closed down, the supply channels followed.
The credit lines were affected and new high interest rates were imposed. Good distribution channels that supplied massive amounts of technical information closed down too. And I no longer could afford to support my customers in the same way providing free data on technical mattters.
Reportedly 47 percent of small business owners maxed out their credit cards for the sake of survival and the rates kept climbing out of any controllable way to do business. Free Trade affected computer supply channels in many ways and not just with prices. The new cut rate way of doing business was not compatible with the way American companies served their customers. I could no longer give the tech support that I once did and make a living at the same time.
We had tailored the building of computers to our customer specs. There were hundreds of computers under our label built this way. We supplied only the very best specs but there was no affordable way to let our prospect base know how much the degradation in quality there was in the industry and rather than ship inferior products, we cut out items one by one.
Accounts receivables also took a hit. Customers were taking up to 120 days to pay their bills and everytime a new customer called us for an order, we first had to find out why they called us out of the blue. Most of them could not get products from their old supplyer due to not paying their bills. Customers and prospects were doing everything possible to survive and some were selling their own products at cost just to keep a cash flow coming in. Some even undersold their markets to bring in cash. They tried to make money off stocks since they were unable to compete with prices of imports.
Every suffering company had a story of its own in attempts to survive. I finally lost my top major accounts including a large tire company and two industrial computers manufacturers with one closing down completely and the other moving their production overseas.
Now people of good will and even American Catholic bishops are calling for support of the illegal immigrants. Many Mexican and Central American bishops call Free Trade cultural death at the same time.
( read what 12 Mexican bishops say about NAFTA and CAFTA
( Illegal Immigration core problemMay 13, 2010 ... By Ray Tapajna - Follow Ray's own journey in the Global Economic Arena ... See NAFTA muy malo and Free Trade Paradox ... )
Free Trade muy malo - Link
The ill informed American advocates ignore the fact that the U.S. sent more than 4,000 factories to Mexico alone and it did not stop the tide of immigrants flocking to the U.S. for survival. It did however, put many Americans out of work with many business owners losing everything it took a lifetime to gain. Many lost their health and not only their businesses and homes.
I finally closed my corporation after being in business since 1976. It took two years to do it with the State of Ohio rejecting the paper work for just small reasons. In the meantime, they tried to collect franchise taxes that were never due. They sent me all kinds of threatening letters until I sent a letter to the governor and attorney general to stop kicking a dead horse and send me proof of what I supposedly owed. The letters finally stopped.
The Democrats are willing to do anything to find revenues while the Republicans still try to find more ways to kill the Free Enterprise system. In the current elections, we have one of each running for governor.
This is just one story and there are millions more about Free Trade being an actual war.
In Free Trade War, workers bombed and Free Enterprise system thrashed
Pres. Bush says the bombing of workers and the Free Enterprise system in the Free Trade War is nothing personal. It only business.
Free Trade is War and it is personal too.
I tell this personal story because millions of casualties like myself in the Free Trade War suffer the same losses. I witnessed thousands of businesses closing down because of Free Trade with thousands losing their jobs and businesses around me.
After more than fifty years in the work world I lost most everything in the Free Trade War. I lost my computer business that I enjoyed for more than thirty years. I had several set backs due to unfair competition but was able to get past these issues. I lost a job and a segment of my business when competitors came and looked like small companies but were owned by giant corporations. They found flourishing markets and joined in the market with companies that sold under costs in order to knock out all competition and capture a market. The one company cost me my job and later another one knock out a major part of my business. Ironically, they joined together and were evidently cut off from the big corporations and were challenged to do business the right way with a markup on products. It did not work and they were forced out of business too.
We have unfair trade laws on the books but they are seldom enforced and usually a small company does not have enough financial power to fight the issue in courts anyway. This is one of the main reason that I do not understand what Liberatarians are all about if they do not find a way to insure a level playing field for all. With Rand Paul telling the jobless to take a job for less and it will help end the economic crisis is juvenile. Glen Beck attacks progressives and seclude the definition of Social Justice to his own view of the world. Both ignore the Free Trade War and the Liberal Democrats are out of touch with the street now with President Obama bailing out big money and Wall Street while ignoring the casualties in the Free Trade War.
However the unfair trade issue became just a side issue when Free Trade came in an anything goes fashion. First of all Free Trade is not even trade. The real commodities being traded are human beings value as workers. Free Trade is about portable production that can be moved again and again for the sake of cheaper labor with the money changers playing a global monopoly game trying to grow values in economies based on making money on money instead of making things. The money changer Globalist Free Traders have no use for any real Free Enterprise system and will surge past it for the sake of profits and investments. Free Trade is actually a wage slave trade not much different from the slave trade of old except workers are used for it no matter where they reside.
In the early 1980's, the computer industry exploded with the acceptance of the IBM compatible PC computer. Thousands of companies were started and the future look good.
However, Free Trade came and knocked out most every way possible for this market to flourish.At one time, Cleveland Ohio was a center of the hi tech revolution as I traveled many times to the Silicon Valley. By 1990, thousands of these new companies folded as the money changers not only sent production to far away place but gave away U.S. technology to foreign corporations free. I sold computers and components directly to China and remanufacturer hard drive to accounts in Canada. However, these exports turned into imports as the U.S. gave their technology away.
I was part of every computer generation and played an unique part
where I was part of many innovations for company and government
accounts. I evovled into a trouble shooter supplyer and helped launched the computer cat scan industry and helped industrial computer accounts with their problems due to the evergrowing foreign competition. Our "zero defects"
manufacturing had grown production engineers who followed no defects manufacturing concepts that were in place for years and they did not know how to deal witht the foreign components that did not follow these standards and left much to be desired for manufacturing the quality they were used to providing.
I was with the top innovator of disk storage which spent more than ten years in creating the best disk storage technology ever. However, our government played a big part in sending perfected technology that took years to develop to other lands and our computer manufacturers did not expect this to happen especially by forces related to governments acting as dealer and brokers in the transfer of technology. President Clinton betrayed American interests during his efforts to promote Free Trade more than any president before him. To me he was a Benedict Arnold in the Free Trade War.
The President of our corporation resisted the avaluange and tried to defend our company as if it was a real war. However, the company was not powerful enough to take on the giant Far East companies and ultimately had to surrender everything that took so many years to create. Production of disk storage quickly went to the cheap labor markets of the world. The main disk storage company ended up having only 10,000 workers in the U.S. and 100,000 outside the country.
I also defended the last American micro computer manufacturer to the end and they finally went out of business completely in the early 1990s. By 1998, the Free Traders won the war and that is when I forecasted the coming economic crisis. Money on money economies will not work if you do away with the middle class and create a new working poor class. Things just can not match up in any given society that is dedicated to serving their members.
Free Trade came. I lost most of my clients who went out of business or closed down major divisions. First the IBM PC compatible came where anyone in the world could make the parts. It suddenly knocked out about computer manufacturers. I fought to the end for the last micro computer made in the USA. When the imported components flowed into our country, all related manufacturing was affected. Component came in with different specs with each new shipment without notification of any revision or a change in product code.
As the American computer manufacturers closed down, the supply channels followed.
The credit lines were affected and new high interest rates were imposed. Good distribution channels that supplied massive amounts of technical information closed down too. And I no longer could afford to support my customers in the same way providing free data on technical mattters.
Reportedly 47 percent of small business owners maxed out their credit cards for the sake of survival and the rates kept climbing out of any controllable way to do business. Free Trade affected computer supply channels in many ways and not just with prices. The new cut rate way of doing business was not compatible with the way American companies served their customers. I could no longer give the tech support that I once did and make a living at the same time.
We had tailored the building of computers to our customer specs. There were hundreds of computers under our label built this way. We supplied only the very best specs but there was no affordable way to let our prospect base know how much the degradation in quality there was in the industry and rather than ship inferior products, we cut out items one by one.
Accounts receivables also took a hit. Customers were taking up to 120 days to pay their bills and everytime a new customer called us for an order, we first had to find out why they called us out of the blue. Most of them could not get products from their old supplyer due to not paying their bills. Customers and prospects were doing everything possible to survive and some were selling their own products at cost just to keep a cash flow coming in. Some even undersold their markets to bring in cash. They tried to make money off stocks since they were unable to compete with prices of imports.
Every suffering company had a story of its own in attempts to survive. I finally lost my top major accounts including a large tire company and two industrial computers manufacturers with one closing down completely and the other moving their production overseas.
Now people of good will and even American Catholic bishops are calling for support of the illegal immigrants. Many Mexican and Central American bishops call Free Trade cultural death at the same time.
( read what 12 Mexican bishops say about NAFTA and CAFTA
( Illegal Immigration core problemMay 13, 2010 ... By Ray Tapajna - Follow Ray's own journey in the Global Economic Arena ... See NAFTA muy malo and Free Trade Paradox ... )
Free Trade muy malo - Link
The ill informed American advocates ignore the fact that the U.S. sent more than 4,000 factories to Mexico alone and it did not stop the tide of immigrants flocking to the U.S. for survival. It did however, put many Americans out of work with many business owners losing everything it took a lifetime to gain. Many lost their health and not only their businesses and homes.
I finally closed my corporation after being in business since 1976. It took two years to do it with the State of Ohio rejecting the paper work for just small reasons. In the meantime, they tried to collect franchise taxes that were never due. They sent me all kinds of threatening letters until I sent a letter to the governor and attorney general to stop kicking a dead horse and send me proof of what I supposedly owed. The letters finally stopped.
The Democrats are willing to do anything to find revenues while the Republicans still try to find more ways to kill the Free Enterprise system. In the current elections, we have one of each running for governor.
This is just one story and there are millions more about Free Trade being an actual war.
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