Tapsearch Com EditorSaying Goodbye to the American Dream
August 7th 2008 17:34
Bizarre Politics Reports:
The unnetted Say Goodbye to the American Dream
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks - This post is based on the real world in the streets of USA. It is a composite of actual persons who have lost the American Dream
How many people in the USA does this article reflect? Are you one of them? Are you now one of the "unnetted"? Are you now outside looking in at the celebration of the Globalist Free Traders ?
The largest employers in our region are governments - Federal, State, County and Local. Next comes Boards of Education and the Medical industry. All depend on tax support with the tax base dwindling away as more workers lose their jobs and businesses fade away. This is happening across America. Free Trade is leaving burn out communities as production is moved from place to place anywhere in the world for the sake of cheap labor.
In the fields of broken dreams reportedly about 47 percent of all small business owners have maxed out their credit cards and credit lines. Many lost everything that took a life to save including their long term businesses, their homes, their insurances, their savings and even their burial plot. The church bulletin says " Success is reaching Social Security Age before having to declare bankruptcy". Some did not make it that far.
What Happened?
Are you one of the "unnetted"?
Do you personally relate or recognize any of the people in the following scenarios?
You had a good paying job. The company moved out of the USA and you lost it or, you quit because you were more worried about your salvation relating to the things you were asked to do.
Your employer wanted you to load your customer base with heavy inventory knowing that they would never be able to sell it all - or your employer wanted you to work with distributors who would sell your products at costs or even under costs. The principals involved would pay themselves well for five years or so and then go bankrupt only to start the same scenario over again. Desparate people do desparate things in the global economic arena.
You had a sideline business for several years and after you lose your job or leave your employer for moral reasons, you stake everything on succeeding in your own business venture. You know the risks. You know only about 20 percent of all businesses last longer than five years but you still try. Happily, you survive much longer than this.
Others lose their jobs and try it on their own but do not make it. This happens to about 80 percent of all startups in a five year period. After trying on their own, some finally find another job. They are so happy about it that they work around the clock to keep it. Then a few months later the new employer closes their doors due to foreign competition. ( A major employer states he could not make it in American even if he paid his workers nothing.)
Some start hiding from their friends and for some divorce follows. Some fade away as if they are an old elephant finding a place to die. They seem to vanish from the face of the earth.
After many years of success all of sudden you note that your 1000 customer lists starts fading away. Many long term customers begin to close their doors due to so called Free Trade. It is impossible to compete with foreign competition where workers are paid only pennies a day. However, you conclude that the U.S. consumer is smart enough and will not shop their way out of their jobs. You do your utmost to sell American made products for this reason. However, the shoppers do shop their way out of their jobs and you find yourself a lone ranger in defending the American Dream for all.
You start isolating our time to your major customers for the sake of survival. The time you allowed for finding new business dwindles away as do more small customers who close their doors. You begin to have troubles with your long term business associates who are under the gun too and willing to do things you are not willing to do.
Your major customers are taking longer and longer to pay you. Some invoices are aging 120 days and even more. You now have to devote more time for collection. You can no longer afford a credit manager to do it for you. Then one of your main customer goes out of business. They are a multi-million dollar company that was in business for more than fifty years. Others follow down the same path with hundreds of companies in the computer industry alone quitting business.
Cash is becoming "king". You have a wonderful credit line built up with many vendors but now other vendors are doing business only on a cash basis with a savings of about 5 percent to 10 percent over the vendors that allow you credit. You start using credit cards to purchase products in order to pass on the savings to your major clients. However the major clients are taking longer and longer to pay and the business transactions fail to match up. The more business you get , the more credit you need.
Interest rates climb. They climb over 10 percent than shoot up to 18 percent. You know that this is an impossible process to maintain but all your efforts in finding better ways and better customers. You don't find them. Globalization and Free Trade rule the game.
Then you lose the top customers suddenly. You thought you were safe with them. They were on the cutting edge of the best in high technology and you thought America would never let this home grown research and development get away. You find President Bill Clinton giving the results of heavy public investment in research and development to China. You are stunned.
The interest rates climb to 24 percent and even more. You are caught in a cycle of usury. You find you paid a original balance three times over. --- in essence a 300 percent rate.
You get sick from all the pressure and have to take time off. Some even have a heart attack.
The collectors start coming in a fury. The threatening letters come. Your business lasted more than twenty five years but now your home and everything else is at stake.
The interest rates hit 34 percent and it's over. Bankruptcy follows. You lose your home and all your assets it took a lifetime to achieve.
You did the walk while others talk. You gave it your all . You never spent recklessly , You did not go on lavish vacations. You were hoping the money would come in as it had before during some trying times in the past. You always found a way to beat the odds. This time you did not. The last ten options you tried did not work. You suffer a 100 percent failure rate. This never happened before and who would think the odds were that great in surviving.
Now you watch as others go through the same thing. You watch their desparate attempts and see the fear in their eyes and hope they will not fight the situation as long as you did and give up before the situation destroys their lives. However too many have their backs against the wall because the odds of finding some alternative is almost null. Somehow you are content that you are now on the other side with all of the "unnetted" outside looking in at the celebration of the Globalist Free Traders where the gold standard has been replaced by the oil standard money which now is oil mixed with blood in war and terrorism.
With a tear in your eye you say goodbye to them and goodbye to the American Dream.
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena and why? Even a hundred year old church furniture manufacturer closes their door as many of our churches do the same.
See our The Rationale Blog , where we approach labor and workers as the "step children" of philosophy and religion.
How many people in the USA does this article reflect? Are you one of them? Are you now one of the "unnetted"? Are you now outside looking in at the celebration of the Globalist Free Traders ?
The "unnetted
The largest employers in our region are governments - Federal, State, County and Local. Next comes Boards of Education and the Medical industry. All depend on tax support with the tax base dwindling away as more workers lose their jobs and businesses fade away. This is happening across America. Free Trade is leaving burn out communities as production is moved from place to place anywhere in the world for the sake of cheap labor.
In the fields of broken dreams reportedly about 47 percent of all small business owners have maxed out their credit cards and credit lines. Many lost everything that took a life to save including their long term businesses, their homes, their insurances, their savings and even their burial plot. The church bulletin says " Success is reaching Social Security Age before having to declare bankruptcy". Some did not make it that far.
What Happened?
Are you one of the "unnetted"?
Do you personally relate or recognize any of the people in the following scenarios?
You had a good paying job. The company moved out of the USA and you lost it or, you quit because you were more worried about your salvation relating to the things you were asked to do.
Your employer wanted you to load your customer base with heavy inventory knowing that they would never be able to sell it all - or your employer wanted you to work with distributors who would sell your products at costs or even under costs. The principals involved would pay themselves well for five years or so and then go bankrupt only to start the same scenario over again. Desparate people do desparate things in the global economic arena.
You had a sideline business for several years and after you lose your job or leave your employer for moral reasons, you stake everything on succeeding in your own business venture. You know the risks. You know only about 20 percent of all businesses last longer than five years but you still try. Happily, you survive much longer than this.
Others lose their jobs and try it on their own but do not make it. This happens to about 80 percent of all startups in a five year period. After trying on their own, some finally find another job. They are so happy about it that they work around the clock to keep it. Then a few months later the new employer closes their doors due to foreign competition. ( A major employer states he could not make it in American even if he paid his workers nothing.)
Some start hiding from their friends and for some divorce follows. Some fade away as if they are an old elephant finding a place to die. They seem to vanish from the face of the earth.
After many years of success all of sudden you note that your 1000 customer lists starts fading away. Many long term customers begin to close their doors due to so called Free Trade. It is impossible to compete with foreign competition where workers are paid only pennies a day. However, you conclude that the U.S. consumer is smart enough and will not shop their way out of their jobs. You do your utmost to sell American made products for this reason. However, the shoppers do shop their way out of their jobs and you find yourself a lone ranger in defending the American Dream for all.
You start isolating our time to your major customers for the sake of survival. The time you allowed for finding new business dwindles away as do more small customers who close their doors. You begin to have troubles with your long term business associates who are under the gun too and willing to do things you are not willing to do.
Your major customers are taking longer and longer to pay you. Some invoices are aging 120 days and even more. You now have to devote more time for collection. You can no longer afford a credit manager to do it for you. Then one of your main customer goes out of business. They are a multi-million dollar company that was in business for more than fifty years. Others follow down the same path with hundreds of companies in the computer industry alone quitting business.
Cash is becoming "king". You have a wonderful credit line built up with many vendors but now other vendors are doing business only on a cash basis with a savings of about 5 percent to 10 percent over the vendors that allow you credit. You start using credit cards to purchase products in order to pass on the savings to your major clients. However the major clients are taking longer and longer to pay and the business transactions fail to match up. The more business you get , the more credit you need.
Interest rates climb. They climb over 10 percent than shoot up to 18 percent. You know that this is an impossible process to maintain but all your efforts in finding better ways and better customers. You don't find them. Globalization and Free Trade rule the game.
Then you lose the top customers suddenly. You thought you were safe with them. They were on the cutting edge of the best in high technology and you thought America would never let this home grown research and development get away. You find President Bill Clinton giving the results of heavy public investment in research and development to China. You are stunned.
The interest rates climb to 24 percent and even more. You are caught in a cycle of usury. You find you paid a original balance three times over. --- in essence a 300 percent rate.
You get sick from all the pressure and have to take time off. Some even have a heart attack.
The collectors start coming in a fury. The threatening letters come. Your business lasted more than twenty five years but now your home and everything else is at stake.
The interest rates hit 34 percent and it's over. Bankruptcy follows. You lose your home and all your assets it took a lifetime to achieve.
You did the walk while others talk. You gave it your all . You never spent recklessly , You did not go on lavish vacations. You were hoping the money would come in as it had before during some trying times in the past. You always found a way to beat the odds. This time you did not. The last ten options you tried did not work. You suffer a 100 percent failure rate. This never happened before and who would think the odds were that great in surviving.
Now you watch as others go through the same thing. You watch their desparate attempts and see the fear in their eyes and hope they will not fight the situation as long as you did and give up before the situation destroys their lives. However too many have their backs against the wall because the odds of finding some alternative is almost null. Somehow you are content that you are now on the other side with all of the "unnetted" outside looking in at the celebration of the Globalist Free Traders where the gold standard has been replaced by the oil standard money which now is oil mixed with blood in war and terrorism.
With a tear in your eye you say goodbye to them and goodbye to the American Dream.
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena and why? Even a hundred year old church furniture manufacturer closes their door as many of our churches do the same.
See our The Rationale Blog , where we approach labor and workers as the "step children" of philosophy and religion.
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