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Greenspan and money products

Ray Tapajna Tapsearcher Real World News

Greenspan Dancing in the Dark


Economic Ethics ignored as Globalist Free Traders tried to create money products out of nothing

Alan Greenspan says, I thought Equity Loans were a good money product.

Now our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. President Obama bailed out the failed system but in time, the bail out money and subsidies will fail too.

First of all Free Trade is not trade as historically practiced and defined. Secondly, the U.S. never had any long period of protectionism.
Free Trade is primarily about moving production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. And when labor and workers values are deflated it affects the money products too. We took tariffs off products and put it on workers and now we are putting tariffs on our money products in a reverse manner. The bail out of big money by small money acts as a tariff on almost every transaction.
Workers were the real commodities being traded . They were put on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs. Workers and labor are really tangible assets and acted as a money standard. The discounting of the value of labor has now spread into our economy that is based on making money on money instead of making things. The printed paper called money needs more backing than just manipulation of values. It needs something tangible.
Through the Lend Lease Program, President Roosevelt found a way to create value in workers and labor. This triggered the most awesome industrial power the world has ever known. Through the Marshall Plan we duplicated this success in Europe and Asia by restoring the local value added economies in balanced geopolitical settings.
With Globalization and Free Trade we chopped up all this success and sent all the parts around the world.
The U.S. Federal Government start doing this in 1956. They sponsored a temporary program that never ended. At first it went slowly with only about a hundred factories moved in about twenty years. Then the Maquiladora factory program came and the number jumped to 2,000 factories being moved to Mexico alone by 1992. After President Clinton, and a Democrat Controlled Congress passed NAFTA, this number quickly doubled to more than 4,000 factories moved to Mexico. Soon after that President Clinton and the Contract with American Republicans rushed 20 billion dollars to Mexico to save the peso and to bail out the Mexican economy. President Clinton said he was going to get more money to them through international money funds too. In exchange , the U.S. was flooded with products like the PT Cruiser automobile that was made by $1 an hour workers and our industrial complex was told to compete with this outrageous arrangement. Of course it did not work and none of this had much to do with either term - Free Trade or Protectionism. It was just a nasty way of making money on money instead of making things. For more info, see Tapsearch Globalization

Greenspan era

The U.S. economy drifted into an economy based on making money on money instead of making things. Many money products were added or enhanced.The free enterprise system was ignored. It is a simple process where someone makes or grows something and adds a margin to enjoy a decent living for themselves and for all they use to enjoy this profit. As far as I can tell, Alan Greenspan did not mention the free enterprise system in his book The Age of Turbulence nor was the term in the index of the book. He went into the money products and said Capitalism and so called Free Market economics accommodated the state of human nature the best.

In his book, The Age of Turbulence he spent a surprising amount of time on the New Harmony communitarian economic experiment and rejected it as a real system. I was also surprised that he belittled the Marshall Plan and did not even mention the Lend Lease program which was actually real free trade. The Marshall Plan was a good example how successful economies could be duplicated an local value added economies where values could be added from raw products up through several levels to the retail or end user stage in balanced with the particular geopolitical setting and the entitlements that augmented these economies. The only real variable in these economies were the cost of labor. Instead of duplicating success, the free market attacked the cost of labor and workers. Free trade became a tool where factories and production were moved from place to place for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor. This proved to be an anti-thesis for the free market system. Labor and workers value was deflated. This is a real tangible value and asset which acts as a money standard backing up printer paper money. Instead of duplicating a successful economy, the U.S. economy was chopped up into pieces and sent around the globe to take advantage of cheaper labor. In the end the value of workers and labor were degraded to a point of no return. The new working poor class in the USA, found it difficult to afford even the cheaper imports at places like Wal-mart and in essence shopped their way out of their jobs. The impoverished workers outside the USA, found it impossible to buy the things they made and worst of all could not afford to buy anything the USA had left to sell. President Roosevelt, established the Lend Lease program to support nations who had no money left to buy the goods they needed for fighting the war against Germany. He said he was not going to let the lack of dollars stand in his way. His actions confirmed the real reason for the Great Depression was about money and not protectionism. Simply, nations did not have any money to back up trade. In essence, he said, you can not do business with someone who does not have any money. You first have to find a way to finance their efforts. Lend Lease exploded U.S. industry into the most awesome power in history. Free Trade came and chopped this power up into parts that were not integrated in any form of growing value. It was just the opposite. For a time, making money on money hid this terminal weakness but not it has hit the wall and we now have Socialist Capitalists trying to find ways to create new internal Lend Lease programs. If are successful as we were with the Lend Lease program, we have to learn how to protect these new values in local value added economies in balanced geopolitical settings. This is the only system that works. After that, we need to duplicate these successes and not break them apart as we have through the free market and free trade that is not really based on trading products. For more see Tapart News online since 1998

http://tapsearch.com/flatworld Greenspan dancing in the dark

Ben Bernanke tells Congress buy "domestically produced goods."

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Economy prompts cheating

Ray Tapajna Today Super Links Network

" Incentives to cheat are many, but that's no excuse "

By Tom Palaima, Regular Contributor

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"Lawbreakers always lose. Straight shooters always win. It pays to
shoot straight!"

The academic field with the highest incidents of cheating is the computer science -

( Extra Note: The computer generations that started the computer industry came from the factory floors and the office administration staffs. The dynamics of problem solving were closer to the reality back then. Computer corporations had training classes in house and for clients . There were few academic ways for hands on instruction at that time. When computerization centralized the dynamics of local processes were frozen in time. )


My father, born in 1916, quoted these rules of life from Tom Mix's
1930's radio program to my brother and me so often we have never
forgotten them. Yet history also taught us a corollary, "Except when
they don't and when it doesn't!"

Pining for the good old days can be longing for what never existed.

As Joel H. Spring writes in his Images of American Life: A History of
Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Radio and Television, the
moral message of the Mix radio program was prompted by public
concerns in the early 1930's that programs "were causing law-breaking
tendencies among children by the portrayal of likeable villains."

The CBS radio code was adopted in 1935. Thereafter, young listeners
were informed that bad guys were going to lose in the end, no matter
how much fun and excitement they had along the way. They were told a
noble lie.

Perhaps the problem of "rampant cheating" at American colleges and
universities over the last 50 years is just reality belying Tom Mix.
After all, Ted Kennedy prospered despite being expelled from Harvard
for cheating not once but twice.

William H. Chace, former president of two eminent universities,
discusses cheating in higher education in the current issue of The
American Scholar. His article gave me the sense that he has strong
sympathies for students like Kennedy.

A student in a mythology class I am teaching this semester to 230
students at the University of Texas at Austin reported to me other
students who appeared to be cheating.

Policing is ineffective because my lecture hall cannot accommodate
spaces between students during tests and quizzes. Besides, policing
does not change behaviors. If it did, no cars would exceed posted
speed limits and recently fired University of Arkansas football coach
Bobby Petrino would never have been able to hire his mistress,
Jessica Dorrell.

Chace proposes many answers for why students cheat: They are lazy,
indifferent, overworked, excited by the challenge of gaming the
system and even "overwhelmed by an oceanic wash of information" to
the point where they either despair of doing any work of their own or
do not grasp what plagiarism is.

He does not mention the problem of pre-professional education.

Some students in fields such as engineering, biology, marketing,
pre-law and pre-med can be so fixated on doing well in their majors
that they think courses like ancient mythology, where they have to
read, analyze, think and write, are light entertainment.

A low grade on a first test or quiz might make them anxious that a
low grade in an elective will pull down the grade point averages they
need to get ahead. They suddenly have an incentive to cheat.

Chace knows that students are cheating. But he finds it hard to admit
that students cheat, and always have cheated, in order to gain an
unfair advantage over other students.

Instead he spreads extenuating blame as if he were hand-sowing wheat.

T.S. Eliot blurred the definition of plagiarism in 1922 by remarking
that "immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

Prize-winning historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen E. Ambrose
plagiarized and held onto their prizes.

Michel Foucault questioned the very idea that anything can be original.

Professors dislike "the grubby business of prosecuting (cheaters)."
Administrators are too wary of litigation.

I once had a student ask for an extension on missing assignments on
the grounds that he had just found out he was HIV-positive. It turned
out he was lying. But I have never had any students explain away
plagiarism by saying Foucault, Eliot, Ambrose or Kearns Goodwin had
confused or disillusioned them.

The academic field with the highest incidence of cheating is computer science.

Here Chace allows that it is "not irrelevant to consider the
attractive beginning salaries offered to successful computer-science
graduates" among "the incentives to cheat."

But he goes on perversely to argue that computer science students do
not understand why the grades they get as individuals on tests and
assignments should matter.

After all, they will work on projects in teams in their later careers.

Chains are as strong as their links. A team of thinkers is as strong
as the knowledge, ingenuity and problem-solving talents of individual
team members.

One way to make it harder for cheaters to win is to stop apologizing for them.

Palaima teaches classics at the University of Texas at Austin;
tpalaima@sbcglobal.net.
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What's right -What's left debates useless

Ray Tapajna , Tapsearch com and Tapart News Networks -with free message centers


Political debates are a broken record that keeps playing the same old song.

The same old hyperbole in political debates about what's right and what's left is just a noisy gong that hides the real issues of our time. President Obama most likely will win the election. Romney is not that much different. We have only one major party in the U.S. and it should be called the Globalist Free Trader party. Major news channels pass on the economic diseases of this single party. They hide the fact that the major cause behind our economic crisis is free trade and globalization. The free trade process has hit the wall. The value of workers and labor has been deflated and degraded. Big money has been bailed out while suffering workers are ignored. The bail outs, the subsidizing and the tax breaks of major corporations have knocked out any sense of what good business models are. When big corporations get deals like this, it becomes impossible to balance out the economy since the process is not universal and only a few are given deals while everyone else is subject to unfair competition.

Republicans like Romney have taken advantage of every money making scheme possible to take advantage of the situation. He is a corporate raider who destroys jobs and ignores social justice in the process. Once President Obama bailed out big money and investment bankers, there is not much left to sort out. It is an economic and ethics puzzle. It is an economic disease out of control. And when only a few corporations get a financial vaccine there are no real business models to follow. There is no real playing field left. Free trade came and destroyed the free enterprise system and now all we have are business models based on getting special deals. Most businesses now are parasite ventures with no sense of fair play or enterprises dependent on
taxpayers.

Our top employers are now governments and government supported
business ventures. The top employers in our region are federal government , local governments, education, medical and now companies that have been bailed out in some way. It is the ultimate result of free trade sins being ignored for a very long time. The Republicans take advantages of all deals no matter where they come from including the old time New Deal subsidies. This happens while shoppers continue to shop their way out of their jobs.This happens while cities build things like medical and public convention centers with taxpayer money. It happens while Casinos take over as a prime business venture. Nothing is making sense while both major parties play the same game of hide and seek with the real problems of our times.

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Computer Age Hunger Games

Ray Tapajna Today Computer generation chopped off by free trade


I fought to the end for the last computer made in the USA and the "Hunger Games"

A parallel for the future

I am part of several computer generations and enjoyed my own computer business for more than twenty-five years until free trade came and smashed it.Primarily, I was a trouble shooter supplier to major corporations and my business grew as imports replaced American made components. Our clients had a difficult time with components coming from the Far East . For example, an industrial computer manufacturer would test a component in the field for six months and then if it passed this test, the part would then go through destruct testing to see how it would hold out under several different conditions.

I tried to keep these engineer oriented manufacturers going but as all the American made parts disappeared, we had only the imported products left. Up to this time, if there was an revision in the make up of the component , the manufacturer would give it a new product code or at least put an "R" behind the old product code to show something was changed. However, the products that start coming from the Far East were changed constantly with no indication given about any change in the product. So, in our engineering oriented manufacturing the in U.S.A, a product that successfully completed all the testing stages was not the same product after six months. I got a lot of grief for this and I tried to tell all, that they had to change their quality control methods to some kind of statistical testing where things are tested by batches. Whole batches would have to be rejected at a time. This was a very expensive proposition unless the U.S. manufacturers were willing to deal with a 3 to 5 percent rejection rate. They could not do it. And that is another reason so many computer manufacturers went out of business on top of the fact they could not longer compete against Far East manufacturers who paid their workers only pennies a day.

I then made my worst business mistake of my career. I thought the American public would wake up to the fact they were shopping their way our of their jobs and I fought to the end for the last computer made in the USA and I went down with the ship.

Americans and many other workers across the world shopped their way out of their jobs and sadly, they continue to do it. A new working poor class has replaced middle class workers and the poorer class is now hooked on cheaper imports. The free trader tell us there is a balancing point where all of the global competition will level off and have a more positive ending for all workers in the world. They have been telling the same story now for more than twenty-five years with new generations not know how much they were betrayed.

The race to the bottom will continue since there are at least a billion workers in the world who will work for practically nothing. And they are not going away especially with the new global monetary crisis. Instead of trying to keep the failed policies going, the money changers and free traders should count up the losses with the Trade Deficit being the best indicator for these losses. They now amount to the trillions of loss monetary values.

Occupation Wall Street may have come too late. We face a future where like it was once in Rome, when it was better to be a slave than a freeman. Th

You can not eat just paper and expect to survive- The Hunger Games - A parallel for the future
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The decline of hand-writing

" The Wonder of our own handwriting"

The young people call it multitasking when they text while they try to carry on a conversation.

Tom Palaima article about the power of the pen tells us what we are
losing in the age of high tech trinkets. Tom has lectured, written and taught
extensively about ancient culture and decipherment theory as as an important means of social communication. Decipherment provides a extensive way to interrupt the scripted writings from the past for ways we can use it to define our present conditions. History tells not much is new and it has the key in defining our present problems. Being a part of all computer generations, I know the computer and electronic age in many cases are a failure. As the saying goes in an old movie.... What we got here is a lack of communication. And I also call it Communications by Rank And I found the telegraph systems from the 1950s better than many of the computer and high tech devices we use today.

Tom Palaima, Regular Contributor

Reference

The Common Core States Standards Initiative in U.S. education, now
being implemented across the country, does not require the teaching
of handwriting. Many states, including New Mexico, have passed
measures expressly eliminating the teaching of the skill of cursive
writing.

The general reasoning is that other subjects are more important and
people in the future will be communicating via keyboards and screens.
In addition to the unacknowledged socio-economic problems of reaching
this imagined future where everyone has ready access to electronic
communication, learning cursive is important for developing an
individual identity, artistic hand-motor skills, and the analytical
processing required to identify standard forms from a range of
personal variants.

More than that, this educational reform will make the primary
handwritten documents of history inaccessible to all but specialists
and will strip us of a key facet of our individuality. Perhaps you
think that the reform will not make an iota's difference. I ask you
to consider your own lives and what personal handwriting has meant
and still means to you.

One of my earliest memories - given credibility by a black-and-white
photograph that shows me as a toddler pointing in wonder at the
blank, round screen of my parents' first television set, a solid
piece of polished, brown wooden furniture much bigger than I was in
1954 - is of watching a local program in Cleveland called "Captain
Penny." Captain Penny was offering young boys and girls our very own
railroad engineer's hat if we would send our names and addresses into
the address for WJW-TV that appeared on the screen.

As in old movies from the 1930s well into the '50s, anything that
viewers had to read was kept on the screen for what now seems a very
long time. Immigrant Americans and the general population, for whom a
high school education was still an achievement no one took for
granted, needed ample time to read even simple messages. Nonetheless,
for me the time was too short. I had not yet learned to write. I sat
with a pencil and pad each day copying the shapes of the next few
letters or numbers without knowing what they meant. Whether I
eventually got the whole address or my hat as a member of Captain
Penny's funny-fun-fun train I do not remember. But I was introduced
to the magic of writing by hand and to the importance of knowing how
to read, write and use words and numbers.

I hope I am not alone in my fascination. Think of how we value
anything written by people to whom we attach importance. Think of
what their writing styles tell us about them. Among my memorabilia
are autographs from musicians such as Johnny Winter, Pinetop Perkins,
Albert Collins, Willie Nelson, Richard Jessee, Jimmy LaFave, Mike
Flanigin, and even a $20 bill signed by the late, great Clifford
Antone, a fond memory of our first lunch together.

Books on my shelves are signed by Tobias Wolff, Charles Neider,
Wallace Terry, Joe Paterno, Joe Nick Patoski, Bill Broyles, Chuck
Patterson and Paul Woodruff. Their signatures convey strong memories
of who they are or were as human beings and what the books say about
their hearts and minds. In Paterno's case, I remember us talking
about a mutual friend who was an inspirational high school teacher of
Joe Pa's and later a Jesuit colleague of mine at Fordham University:
Father Tom Bermingham, S.J., a truly saintly man, worldly wise.
Holding that book in my hands at the height of the Penn State Jerry
Sandusky scandal that led to Paterno's firing, well ...

Deeper memories are evoked by my mother's first communion prayer book
from 1928, with a holy card praising her signed by a nun who taught
her; by letters from my uncle Joey written to my mother not long
after he fought with the U.S. Marines in the Battle of Iwo Jima; love
letters my dad, in the First Cavalry, sent to my mom from other areas
in the Pacific; and the first Golden Book of Walt Disney's cartoon
chipmunks Chip and Dale. On the inside cover, my name is written in
blue ink in my mother's beautiful looping cursive script. She signed
the Golden Book for me about the time I was pointing at our family's
first TV set.

Still not convinced that handwriting is a big deal? Imagine a world
in which a future Mack Brown or Darrell K. Royal cannot sign a
football.

Palaima is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin;
Palaima@sbcglobal.net.

Note: Communications by Rank
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Sara comes home

In our time, many young people can not find work and have to return home to live with their family. The opposite is true too with many older adults having to go live with their children. Usually, the compression leads to a variety of problems. Economically it affects all of us in one way or another since there is less money in circulation for communities to grow the way they did in the past.

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A Broker 's conversion experience

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Unemployment funny statistics

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Rep Marcy Kaptur wins even conservative support

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Representative Marci Kaptur wins support from unusual places.
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A city without economic ethics

Economic Ethics Ignored

Cleveland like many other major cities in the U.S. are in economic ruins. The mayor has surrendered to globalization and free trade. Our only major newspaper has too. They just talk about small token projects in restoring the city but do not challenge free trade as the major cause of our economic devastation. The recent example of this misguided policy was an editorial article by editorial writer Sharon Boussard. She says companies are looking for blue collar experts in production. Hiring a few workers to run robotics or automation, will not make much of a difference. We need to re-shore our factories quickly or the race to bottom is over. The industrial revolution is not over, it was just moved to other parts of the world


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