Tapsearch Com EditorImpoverished Cleveland hoists the white flag of surrender to Free Trade (LINK)
April 19th 2008 22:49
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City in poverty surrenders to Free Trade
Free Trade is primarily about moving production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor. When the factories are moved, burn out communities are left behind.
Cleveland Ohio which was once a center for manufacturing, international corporate offices and high tech now has miles of streets with empty storefronts including the downtown area and empty factories. The only newspaper in town tells about an increase in exports but how can sending parts and components to factories that were once in the USA be called exports.
Now the Mayor Jackson of Cleveland has made a deal with a dozen Costa Rica companies to distribute their products to the Midwest through Cleveland. The Central American nation also will open a Midwest " trade" headquarters in Cleveland with the goal of moving 25 percent of imports through Ohio. Adam Wasserman, port authority president and chief executive officer, said the deal dovetails with plans to make the ports of Cleveland, Hamilton, Ontario, as major distribution points for international shippers. Mayor Jackson said he couldn't estimate the value of the "trade" (what trade?), to the region's economy. He acknowleged that the Costa Rican "trade" headquarters and the operations of the 12 companies will create a few jobs to start . He says this as about $3.8 billion of imports flow into the U.S. from Costa Rica. And the largest employer in Cleveland are government agencies starting with the Federal Government as the largest employer.
On April 17, 2008, we responded with a letter to the editors of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Let's let Cleveland surrender all our jobs
It's time to hoist the white flag to free trade with the Costa Rica port deal. The major already surrendered to Wal- Mart. ( Mayor Jackson backed the opening of a Wal-mart outlet in the "cementery" of the steel industry where thousands once made a good middle class living making steel. 6,000 people applied for 300 job openings at this new Wal-mart store where steel was once manufacturered )
Many Central American and Mexican bishops condemn free trade as a serious violation of human dignity in their own countries.
Why not go all the way? China has opened a direct outlet in New York. We can do the same here.
Wal-Mart is really a middle-man, and China (direct) can undercut them directly. Then we can bring in Chinese workrs to assemble products nearby for only pennies an hour.
We could house them cheaply with all the vacant homes nearby. This way we can get even further discounts on goods.
The city would collect to pay for all American workers on welfare, the process the claims cheaply by outsourcing the task to India.
Ray Tapajna
April 17, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Is the above a tongue in cheek letter or is it the future ?
(Coming to a city near you. This is the logical conclusion for any city, state and country in the world. Soon the cost of long haul transportation will prove to be too expensive and a deadly attack on the environment too - the assembly factories will come with cheap labor ---Note that the moving of 4,000 factories to Mexico did not stop the flood of Mexican workers coming to America seeking economic survival. )
Cleveland Ohio which was once a center for manufacturing, international corporate offices and high tech now has miles of streets with empty storefronts including the downtown area and empty factories. The only newspaper in town tells about an increase in exports but how can sending parts and components to factories that were once in the USA be called exports.
Now the Mayor Jackson of Cleveland has made a deal with a dozen Costa Rica companies to distribute their products to the Midwest through Cleveland. The Central American nation also will open a Midwest " trade" headquarters in Cleveland with the goal of moving 25 percent of imports through Ohio. Adam Wasserman, port authority president and chief executive officer, said the deal dovetails with plans to make the ports of Cleveland, Hamilton, Ontario, as major distribution points for international shippers. Mayor Jackson said he couldn't estimate the value of the "trade" (what trade?), to the region's economy. He acknowleged that the Costa Rican "trade" headquarters and the operations of the 12 companies will create a few jobs to start . He says this as about $3.8 billion of imports flow into the U.S. from Costa Rica. And the largest employer in Cleveland are government agencies starting with the Federal Government as the largest employer.
On April 17, 2008, we responded with a letter to the editors of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Let's let Cleveland surrender all our jobs
It's time to hoist the white flag to free trade with the Costa Rica port deal. The major already surrendered to Wal- Mart. ( Mayor Jackson backed the opening of a Wal-mart outlet in the "cementery" of the steel industry where thousands once made a good middle class living making steel. 6,000 people applied for 300 job openings at this new Wal-mart store where steel was once manufacturered )
Many Central American and Mexican bishops condemn free trade as a serious violation of human dignity in their own countries.
Why not go all the way? China has opened a direct outlet in New York. We can do the same here.
Wal-Mart is really a middle-man, and China (direct) can undercut them directly. Then we can bring in Chinese workrs to assemble products nearby for only pennies an hour.
We could house them cheaply with all the vacant homes nearby. This way we can get even further discounts on goods.
The city would collect to pay for all American workers on welfare, the process the claims cheaply by outsourcing the task to India.
Ray Tapajna
April 17, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Is the above a tongue in cheek letter or is it the future ?
(Coming to a city near you. This is the logical conclusion for any city, state and country in the world. Soon the cost of long haul transportation will prove to be too expensive and a deadly attack on the environment too - the assembly factories will come with cheap labor ---Note that the moving of 4,000 factories to Mexico did not stop the flood of Mexican workers coming to America seeking economic survival. )
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