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The American Dream is Burning - Workers Dignity Betrayed By Ray Tapajna - with added commentary about - Jobs lost due to Free Trade and Globalization and The Clintons and Greenspan era for whom the bell tolls posts.
This is another review of our times during the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history with the examples below surrounding only one year. See "If this is a good economy, I would hate to see a bad one", an update from the Federal Trade Commission site LINK Free Trade and Globalization has been a festering economic disease for more than a decade. We know both the elder President Bush and President Bush II have strongly supported it, but need to keep in mind that it was a Democrat President and a Democrat controlled Congress that passed both unfair NAFTA and GATT trade agreements in 1993.
Free Trade and Globalization have not evolved in an natural economic way but have been driven by powerful forces inside government coupled with big business. It is a failure. It has betrayed workers for years. The report below may look like 2008 but it is not. Guess what year or years these losses were suffered. They are examples of predatory Capitalism with the Free Enterprise system being ignored. Companies strip out management - moved headquarters to cut local ties - cut workers and use workers outside the USA. This way they also save costs by not paying payroll taxes and evaded the costs of the entitlements, pollution controls and other domestic regulations. The fired workers instead of hiring them to show increases in productivity which increased their stock values. Many focused on gaining a massive cash flow selling products at costs or under costs for the sake of making money on money as the main goal. This all happened while President Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Alan Greespan declared prosperous economy. Note the number of high technology jobs cut. ( More than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs in the 1990s. )
Back to the Future - from News Arhives centering on the year 1998 !
1. Business failures surged 16 percent totaling 83,384 failing businesses.
2. Vermont Job Gap Study shows that 83 percent of single parent families with 2
children do not make a liveable wage.
3. The Feinstein Foundation sends petition to President Clinton noting that 35 million people in
the USA ar going hungry and unsure of when they will eat next. ( Other studies show that
from 28 to 40 million people in the USA are in need of emergency food including millions of
children with places like New York City breaking records for children living in poverty. President Clinton ignores the petition while he proclaims prosperity.
4. Tears flow as lask bike rolls out of Huffy bicycle plant cutting 1000 workers - 60 percent of all
bikes are made outside the USA ( the number is mostly likely even higher today.)
5. Dunlap strips Scott Paper of 11,200 workers and moves headquarters to Florida and later sells Scott to Kimerly-Clark for $9 Billion Dollars netting millions for share holders and tens of
millions for self with the firing of the workers.
6. Fruit of the Loom cuts another 5,000 workers with most of their factories moved outside the
USA. Fruit of the Loom CEO says he did not want to do it but they could no longer afford to
pay workers and average of $8 an hour when workers in other lands will work for only pennies
an hour.
7. Seagate, top hard disk manufacturer in the world annouces a 20 percent cut in their work-
force with only 10,000 workers left in the USA with 100,000 workers in other lands. Seagate
was funded by Dysan Corporation the leading innovator of disk storage and who faded away
trying to stop the shipping of work outside the USA. The lost out to Sony with HP and IBM
letting Sony rule the standards after Dysan spent years developing the technology in USA.
Norm Dion, the President of Dysan fought to the end trying to keep the technology in the USA
but lost this economic battle with the Far East and the company faded away along with
many of the 30 start up companies they initiated. Alan Shugart who made a name for
himself with the start up of the 8" diskette technoloy gave into the forces of Globalization.
8. Intel cut 5 percent of their work-force. Intel is top CPU manufacturer and constantly shifted
and adjusted work-force to evade age-discrimination regulations.
9. Kodak announces another round of layoffs cutting 5,000 more workers while claiming unfair
unfair competition by competitor FUJI.
10. Toro closes plant in Minn. and lays off entire work-force.
11. Well Fargo cuts 2200 workers.
12. Rockwell cuts 3,800 workers who were primarily in automation production.
13. Digital, top computer manufacturer, announces 15,000 workers will lose their jobs when they merge with Compaq. Compaq already has much of their manufacturing in China.
14. Texas Instruments cuts 3,500 jobs.
15. Eaton cuts 200 at its high technology semi-conductor plant.
16. Boeing, GE shutting New England plants, Whirpool, Woolworth, Internatinal Paper,
Goodyear and other major corporations cut more than 70,000 workers in the USA.
17. Even McDonald fast foods cuts 525 jobs at its U.S. headquarters in Chicago.
18. Stanley Works lay off 5,000 workers.
19. Ameritech cuts 5,000 workers.
20. Ford enjoying a profitable year, announces buyout of 5,000 salaried workers based on only
a year severence pay.
21. Cummins Engine cuts 1,000 salaried workers following the cutting of 2,000 in 1996.
22. First Energy cuts 485 Cleveland Electric Illuminating jobs representing direct repair linemen
and switch to contract workers from other states.
23. Sun Finance Liquidates with 2,800 losing their jobs.
24. MCI WorldCom cuts 2,500 jobs.
25. Raytheon cuts 14,000 jobs.
26. Siemens cuts 20,000 jobs worldwide.
27. Boeing cuts 11,000 engineering jobs.
28. Gateway Computers cuts 300 jobs - was paying only $5.50 an hour in 1994. They built factory in farm land where many farmers lost their farms.
29. Packard Bell Computer cuts 1,000 jobs and later closes down completely.
30. More than 60,000 apparel workers jobs lost in the 1990s and late 1980s.
31. Venator Group closes 570 stores.
32. Eaton, AST, LSI and Pioneer cut 2,000 jobs in high tech fields.
33. Poloroid cuts 700 jobs.
34. Allen Telecom and Entex cut 500 jobs.
35. Nabisco cuts 3,100 jobs
36. Stanley Tools cuts 5,000 jobs.
37. Chase cuts 90 local Cleveland area jobs.
38. LTV closes steel operations forever.
39. Goodrich closes 4 plants.
40. Just Closeouts closes all stores.
41. Scrabble tile factory closes
42. Mr, Gasket eliminates jobs and sends production outside the USA.
43. Lubrizol cuts 150 jobs.
44. Advanced Lighting cuts 220 jobs.
45. Bethlehem Steel cuts 750 jobs.
46. Republic cuts 1,400 jobs.
47. Child Poverty soars in Ohio.
48. Weirton Steel idles blast furnace.
49. BF Goodrich vacates Akron Ohio headquarters.
50. Liz Clairborn cuts 400 jobs.
51. Kellogg cuts 765 jobs.
52. Shell cuts 4,750 jobs.
53. Huntington Bank cuts 1,000 jobs.
54. Heinz cuts 390 jobs.
55. Commins cuts 1,000 jobs.
56. NBC cuts 250 jobs.
57. Carpet Barn closes all stores.
58. CNG cuts 2,600 jobs.
59. Revco Drugs closes down and cuts 1,100 jobs.
60. BP American cuts 1,350 jobs.
61. Sealey , Rubbermaid, Reliance Corporation closes Corporate Offices with more than 1,000 workers losing their jobs.
62. 250,000 jobs lost in 1992 -93 in computer field with IBM cutting 150,000 jobs and AT&T and NCR computers laying off another 100,000 workers.
63. 1994 - Sony Corporation advertises for 22 electronics technicians and gets 1,980 applications.
64. More manufacturers flock to Mexico to take advantage of the Maquiladora factories where workers make only an average of 62 cents an hour .
65. Wang Laboratories lays off 23,000 workers in the early 1990s.
Links that highlight areas of my weblog. For example, I include links to top or the most popular posts, articles and sites.
Tapsearch Com and Tapart News and Art that Talks Top Sites
Tapart News and Art that Talks
Summary of articles and sites by Ray Tapajna
Explore the lost world in the Globalist Flat World of the Clintons, the Bush family and Alan Greenspan
Story about Globalization
Bizarre Politics main links with untold stories behind the news.
Before you vote, consider all of the above and who is responsible for the economic diseases of our times. Not much is new. The assault on workers has been going on for years. The Bush family, The Clintons and Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve have been at it for a long time. Senator McClean and Senator Obama are now on stage and both are dysfunctional Globalist Free Traders. Not much will change if either is elected President. Most likely the economic diseases will spread futher into our lives. Our transformer money toy economy has run out of functions. And wars no longer fill the economic voids as they did in the past.
American Dream continues to burn away- another chronical of our times
This is another review of our times during the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history with the examples below surrounding only one year. See "If this is a good economy, I would hate to see a bad one", an update from the Federal Trade Commission site LINK Free Trade and Globalization has been a festering economic disease for more than a decade. We know both the elder President Bush and President Bush II have strongly supported it, but need to keep in mind that it was a Democrat President and a Democrat controlled Congress that passed both unfair NAFTA and GATT trade agreements in 1993.
Free Trade and Globalization have not evolved in an natural economic way but have been driven by powerful forces inside government coupled with big business. It is a failure. It has betrayed workers for years. The report below may look like 2008 but it is not. Guess what year or years these losses were suffered. They are examples of predatory Capitalism with the Free Enterprise system being ignored. Companies strip out management - moved headquarters to cut local ties - cut workers and use workers outside the USA. This way they also save costs by not paying payroll taxes and evaded the costs of the entitlements, pollution controls and other domestic regulations. The fired workers instead of hiring them to show increases in productivity which increased their stock values. Many focused on gaining a massive cash flow selling products at costs or under costs for the sake of making money on money as the main goal. This all happened while President Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Alan Greespan declared prosperous economy. Note the number of high technology jobs cut. ( More than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs in the 1990s. )
Back to the Future - from News Arhives centering on the year 1998 !
1. Business failures surged 16 percent totaling 83,384 failing businesses.
2. Vermont Job Gap Study shows that 83 percent of single parent families with 2
children do not make a liveable wage.
3. The Feinstein Foundation sends petition to President Clinton noting that 35 million people in
the USA ar going hungry and unsure of when they will eat next. ( Other studies show that
from 28 to 40 million people in the USA are in need of emergency food including millions of
children with places like New York City breaking records for children living in poverty. President Clinton ignores the petition while he proclaims prosperity.
4. Tears flow as lask bike rolls out of Huffy bicycle plant cutting 1000 workers - 60 percent of all
bikes are made outside the USA ( the number is mostly likely even higher today.)
5. Dunlap strips Scott Paper of 11,200 workers and moves headquarters to Florida and later sells Scott to Kimerly-Clark for $9 Billion Dollars netting millions for share holders and tens of
millions for self with the firing of the workers.
6. Fruit of the Loom cuts another 5,000 workers with most of their factories moved outside the
USA. Fruit of the Loom CEO says he did not want to do it but they could no longer afford to
pay workers and average of $8 an hour when workers in other lands will work for only pennies
an hour.
7. Seagate, top hard disk manufacturer in the world annouces a 20 percent cut in their work-
force with only 10,000 workers left in the USA with 100,000 workers in other lands. Seagate
was funded by Dysan Corporation the leading innovator of disk storage and who faded away
trying to stop the shipping of work outside the USA. The lost out to Sony with HP and IBM
letting Sony rule the standards after Dysan spent years developing the technology in USA.
Norm Dion, the President of Dysan fought to the end trying to keep the technology in the USA
but lost this economic battle with the Far East and the company faded away along with
many of the 30 start up companies they initiated. Alan Shugart who made a name for
himself with the start up of the 8" diskette technoloy gave into the forces of Globalization.
8. Intel cut 5 percent of their work-force. Intel is top CPU manufacturer and constantly shifted
and adjusted work-force to evade age-discrimination regulations.
9. Kodak announces another round of layoffs cutting 5,000 more workers while claiming unfair
unfair competition by competitor FUJI.
10. Toro closes plant in Minn. and lays off entire work-force.
11. Well Fargo cuts 2200 workers.
12. Rockwell cuts 3,800 workers who were primarily in automation production.
13. Digital, top computer manufacturer, announces 15,000 workers will lose their jobs when they merge with Compaq. Compaq already has much of their manufacturing in China.
14. Texas Instruments cuts 3,500 jobs.
15. Eaton cuts 200 at its high technology semi-conductor plant.
16. Boeing, GE shutting New England plants, Whirpool, Woolworth, Internatinal Paper,
Goodyear and other major corporations cut more than 70,000 workers in the USA.
17. Even McDonald fast foods cuts 525 jobs at its U.S. headquarters in Chicago.
18. Stanley Works lay off 5,000 workers.
19. Ameritech cuts 5,000 workers.
20. Ford enjoying a profitable year, announces buyout of 5,000 salaried workers based on only
a year severence pay.
21. Cummins Engine cuts 1,000 salaried workers following the cutting of 2,000 in 1996.
22. First Energy cuts 485 Cleveland Electric Illuminating jobs representing direct repair linemen
and switch to contract workers from other states.
23. Sun Finance Liquidates with 2,800 losing their jobs.
24. MCI WorldCom cuts 2,500 jobs.
25. Raytheon cuts 14,000 jobs.
26. Siemens cuts 20,000 jobs worldwide.
27. Boeing cuts 11,000 engineering jobs.
28. Gateway Computers cuts 300 jobs - was paying only $5.50 an hour in 1994. They built factory in farm land where many farmers lost their farms.
29. Packard Bell Computer cuts 1,000 jobs and later closes down completely.
30. More than 60,000 apparel workers jobs lost in the 1990s and late 1980s.
31. Venator Group closes 570 stores.
32. Eaton, AST, LSI and Pioneer cut 2,000 jobs in high tech fields.
33. Poloroid cuts 700 jobs.
34. Allen Telecom and Entex cut 500 jobs.
35. Nabisco cuts 3,100 jobs
36. Stanley Tools cuts 5,000 jobs.
37. Chase cuts 90 local Cleveland area jobs.
38. LTV closes steel operations forever.
39. Goodrich closes 4 plants.
40. Just Closeouts closes all stores.
41. Scrabble tile factory closes
42. Mr, Gasket eliminates jobs and sends production outside the USA.
43. Lubrizol cuts 150 jobs.
44. Advanced Lighting cuts 220 jobs.
45. Bethlehem Steel cuts 750 jobs.
46. Republic cuts 1,400 jobs.
47. Child Poverty soars in Ohio.
48. Weirton Steel idles blast furnace.
49. BF Goodrich vacates Akron Ohio headquarters.
50. Liz Clairborn cuts 400 jobs.
51. Kellogg cuts 765 jobs.
52. Shell cuts 4,750 jobs.
53. Huntington Bank cuts 1,000 jobs.
54. Heinz cuts 390 jobs.
55. Commins cuts 1,000 jobs.
56. NBC cuts 250 jobs.
57. Carpet Barn closes all stores.
58. CNG cuts 2,600 jobs.
59. Revco Drugs closes down and cuts 1,100 jobs.
60. BP American cuts 1,350 jobs.
61. Sealey , Rubbermaid, Reliance Corporation closes Corporate Offices with more than 1,000 workers losing their jobs.
62. 250,000 jobs lost in 1992 -93 in computer field with IBM cutting 150,000 jobs and AT&T and NCR computers laying off another 100,000 workers.
63. 1994 - Sony Corporation advertises for 22 electronics technicians and gets 1,980 applications.
64. More manufacturers flock to Mexico to take advantage of the Maquiladora factories where workers make only an average of 62 cents an hour .
65. Wang Laboratories lays off 23,000 workers in the early 1990s.
Links that highlight areas of my weblog. For example, I include links to top or the most popular posts, articles and sites.
Tapsearch Com and Tapart News and Art that Talks Top Sites
Tapart News and Art that Talks
Summary of articles and sites by Ray Tapajna
Explore the lost world in the Globalist Flat World of the Clintons, the Bush family and Alan Greenspan
Story about Globalization
Bizarre Politics main links with untold stories behind the news.
Before you vote, consider all of the above and who is responsible for the economic diseases of our times. Not much is new. The assault on workers has been going on for years. The Bush family, The Clintons and Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve have been at it for a long time. Senator McClean and Senator Obama are now on stage and both are dysfunctional Globalist Free Traders. Not much will change if either is elected President. Most likely the economic diseases will spread futher into our lives. Our transformer money toy economy has run out of functions. And wars no longer fill the economic voids as they did in the past.
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