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How not to rebuild an economy. A proposed plan that is like having an orchestra without drums or a beat.
An underground economy has to be included in the real world proposals for restoring our economy.
An underground economy has to be included in the real world proposals for restoring our economy.
Our economy is like an orchestra without drums......
Production workers unions have evaporated. Government workers are 50 percent of union. States use workers from India to process welfare checks. 1970 plenty of $12000 jobs - there should now be $50000 ones ... but, we have a new working poor class instead.........
An economy without a beat- a distortion of what an economy should be.
Our response to newspaper editorial board proposals for restoring our economy
No one seems to understand that the money changers tried to create new money products that did not work. And free trade has changed the way business is conducted in other ways too. We have governments acting as dealers and brokers with subsidies thrown into the mix. On the other side of things, we have consumers who are not making enough to even afford the cheaper imports. An underclass and working poor class is in the process of finding new ways to survive. They can not even trust governments to fill the voids. All business models that supported government services are under seige. A competitive system based on free trade is completely out of aligned with real world of the streets.
Searching the keyword term - underground economy which is reported to be about two trillion dollars - you will find close to 2 million results and if you search by -underground economy statistics- you will find about 300,000 results.
If we continue to propose restoring things in any a traditional way, not much will happen. And the long history of free trade failures will continue to decimate our land. I tell the young to stay away from high technology and try to find exceptions to the rule. I tell small business to network with others in a partnership mode by trading expertise and bartering services.
(Related to our city newspaper editorial board mission in helping to restore our
economy prompted me to write this article. )
Before beginning, please review
Communications by Rank Nothing will happen until workers have a voice in the process other than confrontational efforts
especially since unions no longer are the channels of communication for
workers.)
Let's start with this. Adam Smith held labor as something sacred and the core of all society.
In his economic encyclical, Pope Benedict suggest the practice of
subsidiarity. My understanding of this term is the practice of making
all decisions at the lowest possible level. Economic Encylical
Bringing things together as your editorial implys in terms of combining
the efforts of Cleveland and Pittsburgh seems to be outside of the box
of subsidiarity. Forming larger groups does not necessarily
mean something better will happen. This is evident in the growth of
federalism and systems of centralization that have not worked.
Talking about cities combining into one unit may sound good and some of
the process may work in a long drawn out process but it won't help those
suffering in the most massive dislocation of workers in our history. It
happened fast and now it will take generations to heal this economic
cancer.
Getting American Working forum reported that nearly one half of all of
our human resources in American are not being used. Only about 38
percent of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance so that means
about 62 percent are existing in some kind of limbo that is undefined.
This is what I know. I worked at several factories while going to
college. There were plenty of these jobs to be had. I made the
equivalent of $15 to $20 an hour. If these jobs were still available,
thousands would be standing in line to get them including college
graduates. The industrial revolution is not over. We just sent
production phase of it somewhere else in the world. This points directly
at the essential problem of our times.
Design and invention can not be separate functions from the application
process. And production is the application phase for a community to enjoy the eventual rewards of design and invention. It takes alot of money to start something and to send the production phase somewhere else or denying it is part of a whole process does not make sense.
Only value added local ( regional, national ) economies work. For best
results the process should grow as locally as possible from raw product
to the finished stage up through several levels of added value to the
end user or retail level. From there it should be recyled back down
again to the first stages etc.
Behind this all, the first principle of society should guide the process by asking why do we gather together in communities. We gather into communities to support one another. We find that we can not just do
things in a rugged individual manner and expect the community to prosper
for the good of all. This especially must include the producing or growing something as a necessary part of the whole.
The biggest problem of our times is something that is called free trade
that really is not based on trade. This so called free trade is
basically about moving production from place to place for the sake of
cheaper labor. In this process, there is a separation of investments
from production. They take different paths. It takes alot of money to
start something but just by consumming the products does not make any whole process work for the good of all. Chopped up economies do not work is like having a orchestra with out drums or a beat. There is no harmony in any of the final results.
With free trade the investment community thought they could fill the
voids of this separation by creating new money products and services. As
they are bailed out, we find that the process did not work. As an
example, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he thought
equity loans as a money product was a win win situation. This indicates that many in the financial community thought they found ways for money to grow in a perpetual fashion.
Our present Federal Reserve Chairman seemed to have recognized the problems with money products when he told Congress during the first Bush stimulus debate that the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods", noting the action and value of local production. There is no other way. We must to things in a back to the future fashion. We must abstract older economic models that worked better rather than keep trying to create new ways that never have been tested. However, free trade now has a long history of failures and still no one wants to plugged this fact into any discussion.
I spent about fourty years in the computer industry and was part of
every computer generation and practically all the innovations. This part
of my life followed about twenty years in other work experiences
including growing up in a small family business; covering the State of
Ohio in sales and promotions for international passenger and cargo
airlines and working in downtown Cleveland at the largest advertising
art agency which involved calling on all the major advertising agencies
downtown. This was the end result of all the large corporations that
resided in the area. I worked out of three different downtown offices
and experienced the massive business activity, Cleveland once enjoyed.
It was possible to stay downtown and never run out of places to call on
for new business.
The computer revolution was alive and vibrant. The Cleveland and
Pittsburgh area were centers of high technology. It was not just the rust
belt. In traveling to the Silicon Valley, it was evident that many in
the industry knew this. My main endeavors for several major computer
companies were in Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Every location
had a different persona. None were the same. There were many variables.
But, it all added up to success because no one even thought about chopping up the process into pieces and sending them somewhere else
The most important thing to remmember and plug into any new process is
how the computer revolution came about. It really did not start in some
college or think tank. It started on the streets. There were no college
classes yet. For a generation, success came through hands on efforts. I
received my expertise through the corporate class rooms. Computer
corporations back then could afford to launch the computer industry this
way. Many of the top data processing managers rose from the factory
floors and the general office work. They not only gained new skills but
these skills also included the real world where they came from.
A massive population of highly skilled technicians established
computerization. What took an entire generation to achieve was destroyed
suddenly by what is called free trade. As our production was moved to
other places in the world, the design automatically went with it if not
openly gifted by government agencies in their evangelization of free
trade. In the end, for both industrial and computer workers, millions
lost their jobs while a new working poor class was created. Now we have
a process where in new start ups, the design is separated from the
invention or production process. What was once an all-in-one effort was
disolved. The financial community took part in this facture by trying to
create new money products to fill the voids. And now our economy based
on making money on money instead of making or growing things is burning
out.
An economy is like a computer. A computer needs several basic components
for it to work. You need a central processor and traffic controller to
govern the processing events. You need memory to store these events and
peripherals for primarily input, output and storage.
Then if you want to communicate the events to someone else, you need a
modem for communication.
How can an economy be restored if it only has peripherals economic parts
like medical centers, convention centers, retailing centers, casinos,
sports and entertainment. A computer will not work this way nor will any
economy. You need design, invention and application of the products you
used in daily life. Just having one at a time, will not work.
When I graduated from college, it took college grads about ten years to
catch up and pass by the middle class production workers who started
working at about age eighteen. This process paved the way because the
working class had the opportunity to support an upgrading of all
processes and not just one. I have known many people in the highest
echelons of management up to CEOs of massive corporations but the best
person in the my work experience was a shop foreman. It was the foremen
who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn the
young were able to get married, have large families and help their
families get through college. It was a win win situation as a community
effort.
Free trade came knocked away the pillars that held this process up. A
comsumpiton society can only consume. You finish the race with only end
users and retail workers. On top of this you need a vast population of
government workers to support the process with no one left to pay for
them.
Recently, I drove on route 224 which runs across Ohio and into
Pennsylvania. There are literally miles of shopping centers between
Akron and Pittsburgh on this highway. Many of the shopping centers has
empty stores while others looked like they were thriving. ( Workers in places like Walmart need government or private charity assistance to survive.) I wonder how all these retail workers were existing and so I drove down many of the side roads to see. I saw the wave of the future. Apparently the retail
workers were doing everything they could to survive including living off
the land. In Cleveland, we now have about ten farms with people trying
to find ways to survive this way. It is an ugly view of the future and I
pray something will come to change it. I do know we need to get past the
think tanks way up there on top who think they know what they are doing.
We need to revive our common sense approaches to work as an essential
part of the process from beginning to end. Workers need to be part of the process and their voices have to be heard. Apparently unions have failed in communicating workers needs.
Ray Tapajna newsworld(at)fastmail.net
( Our main sites are Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted economic crisis years ago and the Bewildered New World and
Lost in the globalist free traders Flat World
You can now search for thousands of my articles, references and
resources just buy keying in the term tapsearch and add a keyword like arklineart, toonpool arklineart, world, free, workers, page, ray tapajna page, economy, religion, philosophy, communications, trade, globalization, clinton, obama, bush, pearl harbor attack on workers or some similar words or terms)
Search under title of Ray's most popular Arklineart Project artwork for millions of results and Yahoo and thousands of Google- Search under - Clinton Years American Dream Reversed
Click here to view Arklineart Project Gallery with commentaries and links
Click here to view Arklineart Project Toonpool Gallery with commentaries and links Toonpool shows art on German Transit Systems
And......Ray Tapajna Arklineart Project art is certified as International Artmoney in Copenhagen Demark
Production workers unions have evaporated. Government workers are 50 percent of union. States use workers from India to process welfare checks. 1970 plenty of $12000 jobs - there should now be $50000 ones ... but, we have a new working poor class instead.........
An economy without a beat- a distortion of what an economy should be.
Free Trade and Globalization the major cause of our economic crisis
Financial Community was not the only cause of our economic crisis. Behind it all is free trade and globalization
Our response to newspaper editorial board proposals for restoring our economy
No one seems to understand that the money changers tried to create new money products that did not work. And free trade has changed the way business is conducted in other ways too. We have governments acting as dealers and brokers with subsidies thrown into the mix. On the other side of things, we have consumers who are not making enough to even afford the cheaper imports. An underclass and working poor class is in the process of finding new ways to survive. They can not even trust governments to fill the voids. All business models that supported government services are under seige. A competitive system based on free trade is completely out of aligned with real world of the streets.
Searching the keyword term - underground economy which is reported to be about two trillion dollars - you will find close to 2 million results and if you search by -underground economy statistics- you will find about 300,000 results.
If we continue to propose restoring things in any a traditional way, not much will happen. And the long history of free trade failures will continue to decimate our land. I tell the young to stay away from high technology and try to find exceptions to the rule. I tell small business to network with others in a partnership mode by trading expertise and bartering services.
(Related to our city newspaper editorial board mission in helping to restore our
economy prompted me to write this article. )
Before beginning, please review
Communications by Rank Nothing will happen until workers have a voice in the process other than confrontational efforts
especially since unions no longer are the channels of communication for
workers.)
Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror - Who can untangle the economic terror- Free Trade and Globalization have bred
Let's start with this. Adam Smith held labor as something sacred and the core of all society.
In his economic encyclical, Pope Benedict suggest the practice of
subsidiarity. My understanding of this term is the practice of making
all decisions at the lowest possible level. Economic Encylical
Bringing things together as your editorial implys in terms of combining
the efforts of Cleveland and Pittsburgh seems to be outside of the box
of subsidiarity. Forming larger groups does not necessarily
mean something better will happen. This is evident in the growth of
federalism and systems of centralization that have not worked.
Talking about cities combining into one unit may sound good and some of
the process may work in a long drawn out process but it won't help those
suffering in the most massive dislocation of workers in our history. It
happened fast and now it will take generations to heal this economic
cancer.
Getting American Working forum reported that nearly one half of all of
our human resources in American are not being used. Only about 38
percent of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance so that means
about 62 percent are existing in some kind of limbo that is undefined.
This is what I know. I worked at several factories while going to
college. There were plenty of these jobs to be had. I made the
equivalent of $15 to $20 an hour. If these jobs were still available,
thousands would be standing in line to get them including college
graduates. The industrial revolution is not over. We just sent
production phase of it somewhere else in the world. This points directly
at the essential problem of our times.
Design and invention can not be separate functions from the application
process. And production is the application phase for a community to enjoy the eventual rewards of design and invention. It takes alot of money to start something and to send the production phase somewhere else or denying it is part of a whole process does not make sense.
Only value added local ( regional, national ) economies work. For best
results the process should grow as locally as possible from raw product
to the finished stage up through several levels of added value to the
end user or retail level. From there it should be recyled back down
again to the first stages etc.
Behind this all, the first principle of society should guide the process by asking why do we gather together in communities. We gather into communities to support one another. We find that we can not just do
things in a rugged individual manner and expect the community to prosper
for the good of all. This especially must include the producing or growing something as a necessary part of the whole.
The biggest problem of our times is something that is called free trade
that really is not based on trade. This so called free trade is
basically about moving production from place to place for the sake of
cheaper labor. In this process, there is a separation of investments
from production. They take different paths. It takes alot of money to
start something but just by consumming the products does not make any whole process work for the good of all. Chopped up economies do not work is like having a orchestra with out drums or a beat. There is no harmony in any of the final results.
With free trade the investment community thought they could fill the
voids of this separation by creating new money products and services. As
they are bailed out, we find that the process did not work. As an
example, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he thought
equity loans as a money product was a win win situation. This indicates that many in the financial community thought they found ways for money to grow in a perpetual fashion.
Our present Federal Reserve Chairman seemed to have recognized the problems with money products when he told Congress during the first Bush stimulus debate that the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods", noting the action and value of local production. There is no other way. We must to things in a back to the future fashion. We must abstract older economic models that worked better rather than keep trying to create new ways that never have been tested. However, free trade now has a long history of failures and still no one wants to plugged this fact into any discussion.
I spent about fourty years in the computer industry and was part of
every computer generation and practically all the innovations. This part
of my life followed about twenty years in other work experiences
including growing up in a small family business; covering the State of
Ohio in sales and promotions for international passenger and cargo
airlines and working in downtown Cleveland at the largest advertising
art agency which involved calling on all the major advertising agencies
downtown. This was the end result of all the large corporations that
resided in the area. I worked out of three different downtown offices
and experienced the massive business activity, Cleveland once enjoyed.
It was possible to stay downtown and never run out of places to call on
for new business.
The computer revolution was alive and vibrant. The Cleveland and
Pittsburgh area were centers of high technology. It was not just the rust
belt. In traveling to the Silicon Valley, it was evident that many in
the industry knew this. My main endeavors for several major computer
companies were in Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Every location
had a different persona. None were the same. There were many variables.
But, it all added up to success because no one even thought about chopping up the process into pieces and sending them somewhere else
The most important thing to remmember and plug into any new process is
how the computer revolution came about. It really did not start in some
college or think tank. It started on the streets. There were no college
classes yet. For a generation, success came through hands on efforts. I
received my expertise through the corporate class rooms. Computer
corporations back then could afford to launch the computer industry this
way. Many of the top data processing managers rose from the factory
floors and the general office work. They not only gained new skills but
these skills also included the real world where they came from.
A massive population of highly skilled technicians established
computerization. What took an entire generation to achieve was destroyed
suddenly by what is called free trade. As our production was moved to
other places in the world, the design automatically went with it if not
openly gifted by government agencies in their evangelization of free
trade. In the end, for both industrial and computer workers, millions
lost their jobs while a new working poor class was created. Now we have
a process where in new start ups, the design is separated from the
invention or production process. What was once an all-in-one effort was
disolved. The financial community took part in this facture by trying to
create new money products to fill the voids. And now our economy based
on making money on money instead of making or growing things is burning
out.
An economy is like a computer. A computer needs several basic components
for it to work. You need a central processor and traffic controller to
govern the processing events. You need memory to store these events and
peripherals for primarily input, output and storage.
Then if you want to communicate the events to someone else, you need a
modem for communication.
How can an economy be restored if it only has peripherals economic parts
like medical centers, convention centers, retailing centers, casinos,
sports and entertainment. A computer will not work this way nor will any
economy. You need design, invention and application of the products you
used in daily life. Just having one at a time, will not work.
When I graduated from college, it took college grads about ten years to
catch up and pass by the middle class production workers who started
working at about age eighteen. This process paved the way because the
working class had the opportunity to support an upgrading of all
processes and not just one. I have known many people in the highest
echelons of management up to CEOs of massive corporations but the best
person in the my work experience was a shop foreman. It was the foremen
who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn the
young were able to get married, have large families and help their
families get through college. It was a win win situation as a community
effort.
Free trade came knocked away the pillars that held this process up. A
comsumpiton society can only consume. You finish the race with only end
users and retail workers. On top of this you need a vast population of
government workers to support the process with no one left to pay for
them.
Recently, I drove on route 224 which runs across Ohio and into
Pennsylvania. There are literally miles of shopping centers between
Akron and Pittsburgh on this highway. Many of the shopping centers has
empty stores while others looked like they were thriving. ( Workers in places like Walmart need government or private charity assistance to survive.) I wonder how all these retail workers were existing and so I drove down many of the side roads to see. I saw the wave of the future. Apparently the retail
workers were doing everything they could to survive including living off
the land. In Cleveland, we now have about ten farms with people trying
to find ways to survive this way. It is an ugly view of the future and I
pray something will come to change it. I do know we need to get past the
think tanks way up there on top who think they know what they are doing.
We need to revive our common sense approaches to work as an essential
part of the process from beginning to end. Workers need to be part of the process and their voices have to be heard. Apparently unions have failed in communicating workers needs.
Ray Tapajna newsworld(at)fastmail.net
( Our main sites are Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted economic crisis years ago and the Bewildered New World and
Lost in the globalist free traders Flat World
You can now search for thousands of my articles, references and
resources just buy keying in the term tapsearch and add a keyword like arklineart, toonpool arklineart, world, free, workers, page, ray tapajna page, economy, religion, philosophy, communications, trade, globalization, clinton, obama, bush, pearl harbor attack on workers or some similar words or terms)
Search under title of Ray's most popular Arklineart Project artwork for millions of results and Yahoo and thousands of Google- Search under - Clinton Years American Dream Reversed
Click here to view Arklineart Project Gallery with commentaries and links
Click here to view Arklineart Project Toonpool Gallery with commentaries and links Toonpool shows art on German Transit Systems
And......Ray Tapajna Arklineart Project art is certified as International Artmoney in Copenhagen Demark
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