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December 20th 2007 21:13
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Greenspan - For whom the bell tolls
You can't blame Alan Greenspan for all of the following turmoil but he was there in the middle of it most of the time. Nothing is told about these things in his book.
For whom the bell tolls ................
In Cleveland Ohio, where thousands once made a middle class living and where the blacks were finally enjoying good paying jobs too, the curtain went down. It was the U.S. Steel Curtain that rusted away. The steel mills are gone. In the gaveyard of the steel mills, now stands a new Wal-Mart in a place called Steel Commons. Most of the steel mills went bankrupt or out of business during Greenspan's time in office at the Federal Reserve Bank. Among them were Republic Steel, J & L Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, LTV and many others. ( We will add a more complete list later. )
The products at Wal-Mart travel thousands of miles to get Steel Commons. Former President Clinton and Wal-Mart have joined to promote energy saving products that use up 8000 miles of energy to get here as the long haul ocean, air, truck, rail shipping consumes the environment. Greenspan applauds the Free Market system that does this. Green Gore hides from his part in it. Now companies employ even children wokers in unsafe and polluting circumstances.
For whom the bell tolls includes all of the above.
However, let me take you to my industry where I spent more than 30 years as a part of every computer generation. More than a million lost their jobs in the computer industry surrounding Greenspan time in office at the Federal Reserve. Here is a list of computer companies that paved the way for us only to die a sudden death.
Once upon a time, we were told to get ready for more leisure time. The computers would take over mundane work. The reverse happened. Many do have more leisure time. Millions are missing in action from any kind of real reporting. They are looking for jobs. We also have a new vast retail working class trying to exist on near minimum wage incomes. They are still told these are just entry level jobs and they need to get into high tech. However, the center of a class room is a computer that costs only about $200 and that is just about the amount of value anyone can get back from these devices. Many workers in fast foods know this. They do not give out much more value than this to the users.
For whom the bell tolls........... Computer Company graveyard includes the following companies .........................
( We fought for the last micro computer made in the USA until the very end .).........
American Computer, Advanced Electronics, ALPS, American Micro, American Systems, Alpha Micro, Applied Data, Altos, Ball, Beehive, Bull, Cado, Centurian, AT&T Micro Computers/NCR PC Computers, Bytec, Megadata, Durango, Kaypro, Northstar, Olivetti, Commodore, Compugraphics, Computer Automations, Computerm, Computone, Condor, Corvus, Dale Systems, Delta Data, Datapoint, Four Phase, Redactron, Remex, Standard Logic, Sykes, Eagle, General Automation, Redcor, Tandy, General Computer, Intertel Data, Itek, Zenith, Unisis Micros, Datatron, Datronix, Franklin, Basic Four, Synon, QDP, Quasar, Star Tech, Tandem, Wang, BTL, Pronto, Rodine, Contel, CTI, Data Decisions, Data Logic, Datatronics, Heath, Interetek, Datatron etc. Your text goes here (This is only a partial list. There are many others in the so called mini-computer category that are not listed here. We will add some of these at a later date.)
In the mainframes alone, more than a million workers lost their jobs with most of the companies now extinct - HIS or Honeywell- GE, Sperry Univac, Burroughs, Control Data, NCR, RCA, Zerox, IBM - cut more than 150,000 workers in the 1990s, DEC, Data General, Wang and more. Most of the manufacturers of Cat Scans ( Techncare and others are gone too.)
In computer media industry. It was ever changing but it was stable for more than a decade during the 1980s and early 1990s.
For whom the bell tolls ----
3M sold out to Imation who then laid off thousands of workers. This way 3M kept a clean reputation about their human relations. BASF Magnetics sold and sent their U.S. factory to Korea. Dysan , Memorex and Verbatim became just brand names with no real factories left behind.
Seagate survived as the top hard disk manufacturer but only 10,000 of 100,000 workers were left in the USA. However, in 1998, they cut 20,000 workers worldwide, when President Clinton and Alan Greenspan were proclaiming prosperity. More than 250,000 in that year alone lost their jobs in high tech.
For more info - See lists of companies close downs and jobs lost in 1998 or see related post here at Bizarre Politics.
For whom the bell tolls ................
In Cleveland Ohio, where thousands once made a middle class living and where the blacks were finally enjoying good paying jobs too, the curtain went down. It was the U.S. Steel Curtain that rusted away. The steel mills are gone. In the gaveyard of the steel mills, now stands a new Wal-Mart in a place called Steel Commons. Most of the steel mills went bankrupt or out of business during Greenspan's time in office at the Federal Reserve Bank. Among them were Republic Steel, J & L Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, LTV and many others. ( We will add a more complete list later. )
The products at Wal-Mart travel thousands of miles to get Steel Commons. Former President Clinton and Wal-Mart have joined to promote energy saving products that use up 8000 miles of energy to get here as the long haul ocean, air, truck, rail shipping consumes the environment. Greenspan applauds the Free Market system that does this. Green Gore hides from his part in it. Now companies employ even children wokers in unsafe and polluting circumstances.
For whom the bell tolls includes all of the above.
However, let me take you to my industry where I spent more than 30 years as a part of every computer generation. More than a million lost their jobs in the computer industry surrounding Greenspan time in office at the Federal Reserve. Here is a list of computer companies that paved the way for us only to die a sudden death.
Once upon a time, we were told to get ready for more leisure time. The computers would take over mundane work. The reverse happened. Many do have more leisure time. Millions are missing in action from any kind of real reporting. They are looking for jobs. We also have a new vast retail working class trying to exist on near minimum wage incomes. They are still told these are just entry level jobs and they need to get into high tech. However, the center of a class room is a computer that costs only about $200 and that is just about the amount of value anyone can get back from these devices. Many workers in fast foods know this. They do not give out much more value than this to the users.
For whom the bell tolls........... Computer Company graveyard includes the following companies .........................
( We fought for the last micro computer made in the USA until the very end .).........
American Computer, Advanced Electronics, ALPS, American Micro, American Systems, Alpha Micro, Applied Data, Altos, Ball, Beehive, Bull, Cado, Centurian, AT&T Micro Computers/NCR PC Computers, Bytec, Megadata, Durango, Kaypro, Northstar, Olivetti, Commodore, Compugraphics, Computer Automations, Computerm, Computone, Condor, Corvus, Dale Systems, Delta Data, Datapoint, Four Phase, Redactron, Remex, Standard Logic, Sykes, Eagle, General Automation, Redcor, Tandy, General Computer, Intertel Data, Itek, Zenith, Unisis Micros, Datatron, Datronix, Franklin, Basic Four, Synon, QDP, Quasar, Star Tech, Tandem, Wang, BTL, Pronto, Rodine, Contel, CTI, Data Decisions, Data Logic, Datatronics, Heath, Interetek, Datatron etc. Your text goes here (This is only a partial list. There are many others in the so called mini-computer category that are not listed here. We will add some of these at a later date.)
In the mainframes alone, more than a million workers lost their jobs with most of the companies now extinct - HIS or Honeywell- GE, Sperry Univac, Burroughs, Control Data, NCR, RCA, Zerox, IBM - cut more than 150,000 workers in the 1990s, DEC, Data General, Wang and more. Most of the manufacturers of Cat Scans ( Techncare and others are gone too.)
In computer media industry. It was ever changing but it was stable for more than a decade during the 1980s and early 1990s.
For whom the bell tolls ----
3M sold out to Imation who then laid off thousands of workers. This way 3M kept a clean reputation about their human relations. BASF Magnetics sold and sent their U.S. factory to Korea. Dysan , Memorex and Verbatim became just brand names with no real factories left behind.
Seagate survived as the top hard disk manufacturer but only 10,000 of 100,000 workers were left in the USA. However, in 1998, they cut 20,000 workers worldwide, when President Clinton and Alan Greenspan were proclaiming prosperity. More than 250,000 in that year alone lost their jobs in high tech.
For more info - See lists of companies close downs and jobs lost in 1998 or see related post here at Bizarre Politics.
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