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Ray Tapajna published letters from Tapart News and Art that Talks foretold the coming of the economic crisis for the past 15 years. The letters will be posted here at the Ethics Box. / The many posts about exploring personality, character, self-improvement with speaking and writing hints and tips are still available to be viewed here

Tea Party may be brewing the wrong tea

Are the Tea Parties brewing the right tea - Are they ignoring the main causes and effects of our economic crisis?

The so called free market has to be scoped too.

Alan Greenspan followed Ayn Rand and in his book The Age of Turbulence,
he makes a point to tell us about the failure of the New Harmony workers
community and calls utopian attempts not really consistent with human
nature . He seems to conclude that human nature is flawed and only the
free market place can deal with a flawed human nature the right way. Peter Maurin,
co-founder of the Catholics Workers said if people like Greenspan are right we need
more policemen than priests. And the biblical saying of do unto others as you would
have them do you is not practical.

I have also paid close attention to Ron Paul and when he talks, he sounds
like he is right on about the real world but I do not understand how he
connects his conclusions in a survival of the fittest patterns. Anyone
who has been in the business world, knows there must be umpires and
referees just like there are in sports for the game to be played according to
hoyle. Otherwise, the business world is based on an anything goes basis.
And our economies based on making money on money instead of making things
has burned out.

I also have a difficult time with free-traders who use the theories of
Adam Smith to defend their positions. First of all Adam Smith came at a
time before the industrial revolution and was talking about merchants
and marketplaces and not about a global economy based on moving production
from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. But, most
importantly, Adam Smith held labor and workers as something sacred and
as the core of society. It is obvious that this is not the case in our
times.

The Tea Parties have a long way to go. We already have the
Constitution Party which has hit the target for the common good and the
proper connection with human nature for many years now. And I do not
see any Tea Party movement mentioning this fact.

It comes down to this question : Who said we had to compete with each
other for the same jobs in a global economic arena ? We been at since
1992 and online since 1998 and our Tapsearch Com sites have about
200,000 references and results on Google etc. Our most popular topical
artwork has millions related to its title - Clinton Years American Dream
Reversed. See Clinton art and story behind it. pass on
Real World News with questions to ask our political
leaders, educators and news outlets. ( see free email service to send
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A state religion in our schools

Evidently the separation of church and state does not apply to public schools -

It is impossible to separate the state from church in education. Public education implys a state religion. The separation of church and religion people enforce a state religion without even knowing.

The American public schools find their roots in Rousseau and Dewey

Both denied the supernatural order. Public schools havefollowed their concepts for about a century now. Educators tell us that the nature of man is good but it is corrrupted by social institutions ( Society ) with defined religiions included. Aristotle said the form and matter of human beings are always joined. Rousseau and Dewey said no. They denied the supernatural played a part in education. For the first hundred years or so, our schools were based on the supernatural having a rightful place in education and there were external powers outside of the person to guide them in their lives.

Later, things changed. We were taught that somehow in some way all we have to do is to attach ourselves to an inner power within us. Love thyself took on a different dimension.

More than fifty years ago, a history teacher at a public high school failed me because I protested his teaching as being a secular religion. Today, public education has evolved even further in the denial of the existence of a supernatural and a external power to help us on our way. With the growth of home schooling, we see many countering this state religion and hopefully more parents will follow in their footsteps.

We have also lost the chance of having real philosophy taught in our schools. Philosophy is a study of beings as beings but now there is very little of this in high schools and most colleges just have survey courses of past philosophies. Why? Because philosophy opens the door to religion.

In the process, the common good has been fractionalized and almost dismantled in education as being a part of an external power that can not be defined.

If you do not have education including the study of beings as beings you have an abstraction of reality. A child ultimately can not ask in class where have I come from because the answers leads to the supernatural. In the abstraction of all this, it is obvious that state education is a state religion and dictates a distinquishable belief system.
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Economic Conversion Experiences

We previously told you about many of these events behind the global economic crisis but after reviewing many supposedly economic experts conclusions, we wanted to emphasize the severity of our economic situation. We all need to find out why it happened and who is responsible. And we need to clarify the events to each other before our political leaders do their thing and shade the facts.

John Perkins, traveled the world as an economic hit man for the U.S and after having an "economic conversion" wrote the Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Whatever else you do, you should read his book. Afterwards, no matter what you think about the author or his presentation, the core of the story applys to real happenings in our time resulting in the biggest scam of the century- Free Trade.

Lets look at my journey again with a our eyes on the present global economic mess and examine the causes and effects behind our economic crisis and who the responsible parties are.

I started by advocacy for human dignity in the work day and fair trade in 1992 after reading a high tech publication telling how the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of U.S. factories outside of the USA in 1956. It was suppose to be a temporary program to test ways to help out the Mexican and Central American economies while providing the American consumers with cheaper goods. The program never ended and evolved into the maquiladora factory programs using impoverished workers to make consumer goods for the USA. Then it evolved into so called free trade which is not really trade at all. By 1992, more than 2,000 factories were moved to Mexico alone. After President Clinton pushed the passing of NAFTA, the number quickly doubled to more than 4,000 factories moved to Mexico. During this time, President Clinton had to rush 20 billion dollars to Mexico and funneled even more to them through international banks to save the peso that was affecting the value of the money products everywhere.

The globalization of money products also came in 1956 after the Suez Canal crisis exposed a terrible money problem flowing from England. From this point on, new funny money products came in a new global monopoloy game. The globalist free traders thought they found a way for a self perpetual supply of money values through the moving of production from place to place for the sake of the cheapest labor possible.

Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our global economic crisis years ago based on many experts in the field including a wonderful journalist in Cliff Barney who wrote for UPSIDE MAGAZINE - UPSIDE featured new high tech venture investing but was unique in presenting the critical side of the global economy. Cliff Barney wrote about an outstanding interview he had with Manuel Castells who wrote several books about globalization and free trade predicting the coming of the "Bewildered New World" we have today. Other experts included Sir James Goldsmith who wrote The Trap predicting similar outcomes. Goldsmith was a corporate raider who was very successful in his craft but had a "economic conversion experience" and became a populist leader in both England and France.

There are more who warned the world like Chuck Harder who hosted the For the People radio program worldwide during the 1990s and who most likely would support John Perkins in all his efforts to re-establishing the common good that has been factured by so called free trade. If you want more to read about all this - see Ray Tapajna Chronicles Forecasts of our economic crisis and The Flat World fables
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About Ray Tapajna in global economic arena

Ray Tapajna has been an advocate for human dignity in the work day and fair trade since 1992 and online since 1998. It is time to tell his story from the beginning :

Ray Tapajna Chronicles history
About Ray Tapajna - online since 1998- advocate for workers dignity and fair trade


His new biographical web page with special links and reference is at Tapsearch Com About Ray Tapajna in the Global Economic Arena

Overviews of his sites by notable authors can be found at Tapsearch Com Communications by Rank

and

Ray Tapajna Summaries

(note: this is a good place where you can also put up a free page with a description and link to your blogs, articles or posts to pass on.)

See also Tapsearcher Summaries - (new social media type link for you too.)

Follow Ray Tapajna as tapsearcher at Twitter Com



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New York Times dysfunctional reporting

New York Times economic writer Louis Uchitelle says the hiring of temps may be a good sign

One of the greatest problem behind our economic crisis is the way unemployment reporting is massaged. This is an economic measurement is based on tricks and there is no real way to compare unemployment with the past. It is flawed measurement used to judge a good or bad economy.

So when Louis Uchtitelle says Surge in hiring of temps may be a good sign , he in effect is writing a cover story hiding the real facts of our times. In the past, primarily only full time jobs were used in reporting unemployment. I do not know when this changed but it did. I have studied the various methods of gathering data they use to gage unemployment for years but it is still a mystery to me.

I do know that in the past the unemployment rate was related to how many people went to the unemployment offices to apply for unemployment payments. (See our Tapart News site . However in our times, only about 40 percent of all workers qualify for unemployment and we write about this at Ethics Box noting economic ethics is dead and hunting for a job in never never land. So, about 60 percent of all workers are in limbo when it comes to real unemployment reporting. And the term underemployment that was once measured and reported has faded away. No one seems to know how to really count the 60 percent in limbo.

I know from the past, temporary jobs were not measured as it they are today - they were calculated for what they are - temporary. About thirty years ago, there were only a few temporary help offices in major cities like Cleveland Ohio and casual labor hiring halls were few. This sector has grown tenfold in the past two decades with no saying much about it.

I also know companies who keep hiring temporary workers for six month trial period and never make it to the seventh month. Workers just go through a revolving door every six months. This is the state of our economy today where even someone making only $50 a week is considered employed.

In the 1990s, a low point was hit in places like Silicon Valley where top technical publication reported high tech workers would go on strike if they had the chance because companies like Microsoft were firing full time workers and going to contract and temps. White collar strikes did not come because so many were clutching on any job they could find. There were also reports lawyers for workers who were being fired because of age said workers more than 40 who lost their jobs in the computer industry most likely would never find another one close to the one they lost. It was also reported that one third of workers age 55 or older who lost their jobs never found another job. There were others who reported that 50 percent of all young blacks in the inner city were unemployed.

So when someone like Louis Uchitelle from the New York Times who knows better, writes how temp jobs will lead to permanent ones is something that is an indeed ethically dead judgement of the real world of hiring and firing. Worst yet it covers for all the tricky statistics that hide the real problems of our times.

Trick or Treat job reporting in the silent depression of our times

And this is the part that amazes me - Utchitelle says The rising employment of temp workers is not all bad. However uncertain their status , they count in government statistics as wage-earning workers adding to the employment rolls and helping bring down the monthly jobs loss to just 11,000 in November What does this mean? I guess if someone finds that $50 per week job, they are considered a regular employed person.
In the 1950's when unemployment rates were based on primarily full time workers with benefits, a temp job that pays $50 per week would only add up to $5 a week back then. Baby sitters made that much and I guarantee you , they were not part of any unemployment rates or reporting. In the past, this would be a bad joke and political leaders would have taken it as a very serious violation of ethics in economic reporting.

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US housing or shelter costs two and half times minimum wage

The major news channels keep reporting the mortgage crisis was caused by people buying homes they can not afford and leave out the critical story about the massive job losses and economic downsizing for millions of families in the USA.

As reported at the Ethics Box in prior posts and as noted at The Worlds News Net - Job reporting is flawed there is a terrible discrepancy about unemployment in the U.S


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Job hunting in never, never land

The hunt for jobs in never never land. President Obama, the new president in never never land, bails out the financial community that caused the economic mess. Our economy based on making money on money instead of making things has burned out. Those who lost their jobs due to investors making money instead of making things are outside looking in at a new economy which does not include them. Companies are employing lesser and lesser workers. They make money by exporting jobs to other lands.

Free Trade is good - Just have to put a tariff on the future
Free trade is good - We just have to put tariffs on future generations

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NAFTA came and stole their lives from them

Article is based on Associated Press story by Mark Stevenson, 12/28/2007 related to our article U.S. Catholic Bishops being blind about the causes and effects behin illegal immigration see The Worlds News Net

It's time to curse the darkness rather than light one little candle
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Economic ethics no longer exist

Years ago, an organization called GETTING AMERICA WORKING, published a report saying that 50 percent of human resources in the U.S.A were not being used.

Today, it is reported that the U.S. is suffering the worst unemployment in 25 years. This is a flawed comparison since most jobs in the past that were involved with employment statistics were full time 40 an hour a week jobs. Today, someone making only a $100 a month is considered employed. I do not know where they now get the new statistic of more than 17 percent are unemployed if part time workers are counted. They have been counted for years. Today many workers have up to four part time jobs at a time and so it is also questionable how current reporting covers four jobs for one worker. The unemployment bureau finally did report a few years ago that there are 4 million workers who are not listed as unemployed since they stop looking for work. It is obvious that number is much greater than 4 million. If the reporting was really based on comparisons from the past, the U.S. would show at least more than 25 percent unemployment. The statistic that is most alarming is the low percentage of workers who are receiving unemployment insurance payments. Only about 38 percent of all workers in the USA, qualify for unemployment insurance. About 62 percent, do not work long enough on one job or make enough money on any job to qualify. This statistic in itself demonstrates how contradictory current unemployment rates are. No one in Congress, questions any of the obvious contradictions. President Obama ignores these contradictions too. Even worst, new reports show that 50 percent of all children in the U.S.A. will be on food stamps at one time or another. This demonstrates how poor the new working poor class really is


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What about ethics in manufacturing

The headlines report - Manufacturing has a new face , locally, nationwide and globally- or does it? And is there ethics in manufacturing and the so called gross national product ?

An economic professor once told me that there is no such thing as a good or bad economics. Economics is just a matter of measurements of processes and not really capable of reporting what is a good or bad economy relating to what is really good for a society


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