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Free Trade sins and the big lies

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Top Newspaper passes on lies about the trade deficit

The Big Lie

For years economic experts like Larry Kudow who regularly reports on the stock market TV channel, tells us the trade deficit is not a bad thing even when it breaks records. None of these free trader globalists mention how the trade deficit is representative of the rate of jobs losses due to loss industry and production. However, when the exports increase even though the represent a very small portion of the match between the trade deficit, the free traders go out of their way on tell us how many new jobs were created. They never do the same about the trade deficit and tell us how many more jobs were affected by the trade deficit

Are all exports really exports

I never heard any report about how many of these exports are products sent to factories that were once inside the USA. There should be another definition for these products because if the factories were still here in the USA, these items could not be classified as exports.

Today per usual, a column on the editorial page in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is titled Trade report is a healthy sign . The article was taken from an editorial in the Kansas City Star from a McClatchy news synicate. The Plain Dealer and other newspapers use the McClatchy news services frequently and pass on their reports without any local reporter questioning the content.

The editorial report tells us, the U.S. trade deficit was up agan and the deficit was actually good because when imports are rising, the economy is growing. They tell us it displays the vitality needed to draw in goods and services from around the world. They do not tell us how much money is lost when the flow of money induces more spending and that the extra money spent at the retail level does not stay in our country to grow our economy but it goes to where the products are made somewhere else in the world.

Then they tell us, we have a trade surplus with China when it comes to farm products. They tell us the U.S. enjoyed a $4 billion dollar surplus for the first time in four months. A hefty chunk of th farm products are soybeans and most likely corn. Both of these farm products are controlled by massive trans national agricultural corporations based on subsidies that were passed for the sake of small farmers. None of the free traders tell us how these subsidized farm products are mostly from the giant corporate farms and no one tells us how small farmers in China are affected not being able to compete with the subsidized farm products from the U.S.

The McClatchy report says this most recent trade report is an encouraging sign of continued economic health. They have the nerve to say this as millions of workers in the U.S.A can not find jobs and about the job deficit between the number of people looking for work and the number of available job openings is way out of line.

It is bewildering how many are taken in by these big lies and words that really do not make any sense at all. The economic ethics of free traders are non existent. I call it economic free trade sins.

See more evidence about all these contradictions - real world information and resources.
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Economic Ethics in the Free Enterprise System

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Tapart News and Art that Talks Global Free Trade Workers Dignity issues
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Background stories

Prepare for post-globalization era & re-shoring economy -Ben Bernanke says buy USA http://ping.fm/hMEu8

Lebron James, Nike and workers dignity story- James forgets about human dignity too

Reasonable economics – Shop local- and grow jobs ! Stop shopping your way out of your job!
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It's time to circle the wagons - and defend your community as one for all and all for one fashion

All in a community should share in the rewards in a Free Enterprise System

Free Trade and Globalization have devastated the Free Enterprise System with unfair competition driven by a Free Market that is not really free. Massive Transnational Corporations are subsidized by governments with governments acting a brokers and dealers in the transactions. The value of workers has been degraded and the economies based on making money on money instead of making things have hit a wall. Governments worldwide are now manipulating their money processes to avoid disaster. President Obama bails out Wall Street and the financial communities and looks the other way from the suffering of millions who lost their jobs and many losing everything to Free Trade. Free Trade has moved production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor and it is an endless pit of no return.

The Free Enterprise system was put in place so that a society and communities could share in the rewards of the process. It was supposed to be about owners making enough mark up to make a decent living while providing all the workers they use a decent living wage. It was never meant for a few to live off a large working poor class. It was never meant for governments and strange international agents to control the flow of wealth outside the will of the people.

Free Trade and Globalization have triggered the worst in human nature using consumer pricing to control events. Unfortnately, workers as shoppers being converted to a working poor class are forced to seek the lowest prices no matter what the cost is to workers' dignity. Unfortnately, voters as shoppers standing in the cash register line vote more for the kind of society they want to live in than the voting booth.

And a wall has been hit where the working poor and unemployed can no longer afford even the prices of cheaper imports. The fact of the matter is that the prices hid what the real cost of consumer goods are overall . Workers in places like Walmart need government assistance to survive as tax revenues are diminishing to support the negative flows.

President Obama's bail out of big money means that future generations are now going to pay the toll for this terrible economic experiment that has failed with no sign of it ever working. In effect, tariffs have been taken off products and put on human beings instead. Human beings were commoditized and put on a world trading block to compete with each other for the same jobs. This has all backfired now with the global monopoly money game playing out in a endless race to the bottom.

The articles referenced above provide some ways to stall or restore the Free Enterprise System - buying locally and re-shoring manufacturings back to its proper place in local value added geopolitical settings where all in a society benefit.
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One Half of U.S. workers missing in action

Ray Tapajna - tapsearcher - and economic sins

Where have all the workers gone

Virtually one half of all American workers are now unemployed or underemployed . A working poor class has replaced the middle class and nothing is being done about it. Instead, President Obama bails out the big money interests while ignoring the job crisis in the U.S.

In America, we now have dead towns, with miles of boarded up storefronts and empty factories in many of our major cities. The call for emergency food, keeps breaking records. The payroll tax acts as a flat tax on the working poor and no one talks or writes about it. A person making only $10,000 a year in a small business or working as a contractor is paying about 20 percent tax based on the payroll tax, local and state taxes.

Tariffs have been taken off products and put on workers and future generations to come being faced with the hugh bail outs deficits - Wall Street is also bailed out and stocks continue to be based on workers getting fired instead of hired.

Massive transnational corporations continue to move production and factories from one place to another for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor. It is an endless pit to no where .

We are left with a "parasite" level of so called service jobs where workers need government assistance to survive.

I worked in several factories while going to college full time. If these jobs were available today, there would be thousands standing in line to get them including college graduates. This is the state of our real economy. The news outlets and government still ignore these dreadful conditions while national leaders meet at global summits deciding about things to come outside of any real democratic process.

Free trade also represents dirty manufacturing and long haul ocean, air, rail and truck shipping that is radically affecting the environment. The ecology is being hit hard but the ecologists leave out this part of the story.

It looks like it will take history to show how many workers were invisible with our ecology being affected. Major news sources and government knowingly hide from this reality.
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Economic Ethics in small towns

Summary of articles from Ray Tapajna Chronicles news and info sites

When is competition no longer fair - More towns try to keep chain stores out

Is it human nature to shop for the lowest price no matter what the cost is to the community you live in.

Is Human Nature on Trial ?
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks - Summary of Articles Human Nature on Trial ! Is Human Nature on Trial ...
The real cost of doing business in our society

Human nature sacrficed at altar of greed
Human Nature still on trial in the global economic arena ... By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks ...
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Dignity sacrificed at the altar of greed


The anti-chain store movement is growing in towns across the USA with towns like McCall, Idaho; Port Townsend, Washington, Ogunquite, Maine and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, passing laws that restrict chain stores and mass merchandizing. In the areas of Cape Cod and nearyby islands, Nantucket restricted chain stores in its downtown in 2006 with other nearby towns doing the same thing. (Resource: Plain Dealer Sunday June 13, 2010 story )

People say their towns would not be the same if Home Depot, McDonalds and Walmart would come in. And they are right. Walmart has closed down many small towns and every time free trade shuts down a factory or farm, it leaves behind burn out communities. And in our major cities there are miles of main streets full of empty stores and factories. Many streets look like a third world country. Outside of Youngstown Ohio, there are miles of shopping centers with many now having many empty stores while inside Youngstown impoverished communities try to survive.

Liberatarians say all this will eventually work out and you can not stifle competition but as we have experienced the devastation of small business for years, we know that there is no end to it as long as some of the common rules of the free enterprise system are not observed. Personally, I have lived through several situations with the business or company having the most money selling their products under costs until they put out as much surrounding competition as possible and then raise the prices to survive.
I was with one company when a new company came backed by a giant corporation cut us out of the market. Then a few years later, in my own business , another company who were also backed by a giant corporation cut us out of the market. After they seemingly had control of the market, the found that doing business with a proper markup was impossible for there is always another company in the making to put them out of business. The two companies merged to survive but still could not make it on their own trying to do business in a legitimate way.

I also saw many companies who were just in business to manipulate their stock values by selling under costs to increase sales and growth just to increase the value of their stock.

Then free trade came where the value of workers and labor was attacked which added to internal mess by foreign intervention where all kinds of funny money and subsidies control the game.

One of the biggest problems behind all this is people who assume that competition is based on fair practices but obviously raw Capitalism is out of control and those who do not want big government to interfere or partake as brokers and dealers are many who say let the free market rule the game.
It won't work. We relish our sports on all levels but every sport has rules, referees and umpires to insure a level playing field. However the sport of commerce has very little of this and free trade has exploded all level playing fields. Free trade and globalization have brought us only fields of broken dreams with the rich and diminishing middle class living off the poor.

And our economies based on making money on money instead of making or farming things are burning out with the Free Traders pouring money on the fire to put it out. It is an endless road to no where.
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Economic ethics shows up

By Ray Tapajna - Mobile user friendly articles and resource

It's-really-about-re-cycling- multi-level-economic-ethics


City finally stops a bad free trade deal

Sunpu LED lighting deal

Cleveland Ohio's Mayor Jackson tried to get an exclusive no bid ten year contract with Chinese company to bring a headquarters office to the city to supply LED street lighting. The main factory center and investments were to remain in China. It was a backdoor free trade deal that was out of order from tthe start. There are thousands of foreign company ready to do the same while more and more Americans lose their jobs. The Chinese already have direct factory outlets in New York. They even cut out their middle man distributor - Wal-Mart - this way. The next thing is to just bring the Chinese workers directly here who will work for much less than American workers and take over the vacant inner city houses.

Economic insanity

The Cleveland Plain Dealer and city leaders are calling for more immigration
to help restore the economy. Free trade is now following the pattern above and attempting to legalize the illegal immigrants from Mexico. American workers at places like Wal-Mart now need government assistance to survive. The number of Americans using food stamps is breaking all records. Some states are using workers in India to process welfare payments. This is all happening while city and national planners call for more of the same.

See more background stories :

U.S. impoverished city surrenders to Free TradeApr 19, 2008 ... Impoverished Cleveland hoists the white flag of surrender to Free Trade - US impoverished city surrenders to Free Trade - Stories behind ...
City surrenders to free trade -

dying cities goes wrong wayMay 17, 2010 ... Like our city leaders of our immpoverished city, surrenders to free trade and passes on confusing history of what our city accomplished in ...
Dying cities go wrong way

The saga of dirty energy and the dark side of free trade continues. The saga of the dark side of energy saving devices continues as impoverished city continues to surrender to free trade - while still ignoring the cause and ...
Dirty Energy Story continues -

It seems no one is left in government and the media that knows how to restore our cities. Only local value added economies that add value from raw product up through about 5 levels to the retail and end user stage You can call it multi-level economics. Then when the money is spent at the retail level, the money stays in the same economic setting to recyle it rather than quickly fanning out to where the products are made and where the financial investments are.

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