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Economic salvation needed

We have only one major party in the U.S. and it should be called the Globalist Free Trader Party

......and if you choose to keep doing the same thing over and over, all you will get is the same results.

We must change the things that stole the American Dream away.

What is there to vote for. We have a president who bails out big money
and big corporation and ignores all those who lost everything. Most of all the presidential candidates are globalist free traders who participated in the biggest scam of the century- free trade. The top Republican candidate is a corporate raider who picks up the pieces of a shattered free trade economy.

Free trade is the major cause behind our economic crisis and only a few leaders talk about it. We have a governor who was part of the problem. He pushed the passage of the free trade agreements and later became a money changer after the fact. He made his money in investing in the exporting of American jobs. He now gives millions of taxpayers dollars to large corporation to create jobs that he sent to away to other places in the world.

Nothing is adding up. It is a dough-nut hole economy with the
hole getting larger and larger with workers as consumers continue to shop their way out of their jobs in an endless fashion. It has become a real race to the bottom with no way out of the fall.

The one size fits all global economy does not fit too many people. The funny money bail outs are just stalling the inevitable. Our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out as we wait for the next economic bubble to burst. Yet, voters still trudge to voting booth and vote for the same failed system over and over again.

Real change is needed now. It is the only hope of economic salvation we have.
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Build it and they will come ?

Must occupy all streets with real businesses


Like most cities, my city's future is not only cloudy but it is bleak
if we just keep talking about "top to bottom" solutions. 20 to 30% of our population who are on the top, have proven they can not deliver in a trickle down fashion.

President Reagan's trickle down economy never worked and President Obama is trying to do the same thing by bailing out big money, merging it with big government in a system that is a proven failure.

President Reagan passed the 15 percent payroll tax at the same time which not only acted as a flat tax on the working poor but also put more of an overhead on everything that is Made in the USA.

70 percent of all workers pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes with only about only 38 percent qualifying for unemployment insurance because most do not make enough money or work long enough to get unemployment insurance, this should tell us the story and the story of recovery should start from there. The Democrats were the first to admit the payroll tax is a real negative when it comes to restoring our economy. In a free trade world, the payroll tax is a heavy anchor on our economy.

In the city where I grew up, they talk about attracting upscale shops to attract the upper class to come in and shop. This isn't working because there are not enough of the upper class to do it and they have already have their favorite places to shop where they live.

Major cities like Cleveland have political and city leaders saying " build it and they will come." They are building a new medical center, a new convention center and opening a large casino in the heart of the city. This where many top companies once had their worldwide corporate offices.

The medical mart center will not do that much because it ultimately is based on tax money to support it inherently. The medical industry is only as good as the amount of tax dollars that can be collected.

The convention center will attract various enterprises but not enough to pay the toll. In our global economy, businesses can only attract so many buyers in a local market especially when so many supporting businesses are gone due to free trade. A company has better places to invest their marketing money than going to a convention center in a middle of a dead economy. The general population does not have enough money to support companies who do come to market their products.

New casinos in the heart of the city may look like a good thing economically for awhile but an economy based on casinos is a take away economy after all is said and done.

Cleveland subsidized the pro sports industry on the concept same concept - build it and they will come. They also did the same with The Rock Hall of Fame and the Great Lakes Science Center. These efforts have been around for years with no real signs of restoring the local economy.

It makes big news when a subsidized bio-tech company comes and employs about a hundred workers but this is minute compared to a time when our city was considered to be a high tech center with thousands of workers supporting these efforts. We lost all this too due to free trade with millions of workers losing their jobs in the computer industry nationwide. Now even
high tech and engineering services are outside the USA too.

We read about small businesses being a solution to fill these voids but
at the same time apply a stigma to small family businesses. In the 1990s, about twenty American Arab business owners were killed during robberies in the inner city. In the past in these areas, there were hundreds of larger family super markets that knitted neighborhoods together.

We read about the need to subsidize research and development but ignore
what happens when the production phase of these endeavors go outside
the USA. In the end workers pay taxes to lose more jobs. Just think if
all the small ventures just got $500 each to upgrade their businesses
what could happen. These businesses because of their numbers could
make a massive change for the good with just a little help.

Who is really on the front lines to impact the general overall economy.
We should concentrated on "bottom to top" solutions as much as we do
the other way. Most workers are just trying to find another $1 or $2
and hour to put in their pockets to spend for their needs. Many just
want a decent full time job. A "top" group made up of a few elite can
not affect much of anything. And they seldom match up with the needs of
the street.

Finally, in all the discussions, nothing is ever said about a value
added economy. We have a model of this approach in our past but all
seem to go out of their way to ignore it. In the past, we had an
economy base on about 5 to 7 levels of added value from raw product to
the finished goods to retail levels. Today, many of these levels are
outside the USA and the a retail level alone can not support an entire
economy.

One of these days, the academics, city planners, federal studies groups
etc. have to sit down with the factory workers, farmers and the real
small business people and ask them what can be done and why do we have
a hybrid Capitalistic system instead of one that comes from real seeds
to seed a real economy. They say to build it and they will come but we
can not win many games when workers do not make enough to come to anything.

I made the equivalent of $15 an hour working in factories while I was
going to college. Today if these jobs were available, we would have
thousands standing in line to get them including many college
graduates. Why did we lose this economy. This should be a model we can
try to copy. we still use most of all the products etc. They have not
become obsolete. The means of production and farming just were moved to
cheaper labor markets outside the USA. Why can't we talk fairs instead
of convention centers or upscale flea markets instead of upscale shops.
What about subsidizing farmers markets. It would not take that much
extra money to do these things. We must start at a point of reality
and not somewhere in the sky. Even the internet is a highway in the
sky leading to nowhere if we do not connect the roads to it. Why not
try to think up some "signature" products we can label Made in
Cleveland and get our heads out of the sky to nowhere.

The private sector union production workers have been virtually gone for years but they still get the blame for the bad economy. It is obvious that we had a much better economy even whey the unions were arrogant. They raised the value of all workers even though they were not in unions.


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Forbes - Gene Mark have Plantation Owner Mentality

" Forbes Types" like top blogger Gene Marks try to tell others how to live. They do the talk without ever doing the walk


Plantation Owner mentality takes over the black issue. President Obama as the first black president bails out the big money communities and put them back in charge of the free trade globalist process. He ignores the suffering of the jobless, the working poor class and the poor blacks in the inner cities.

Meanwhile back at the plantation, the “Forbes Types” tell others how they should live. Gene Mark, a top Forbes blogger says, “If I Were a Poor Black Kid,”... I would try to be at the top of my class, master technology and communications, and attend the best private high school in town. This is what I call Plantation Owner mentality. It is a “ I got mine, why don't you have yours” attitude.

Instead of seeking ways to collaborate with workers in making the proper path from the things as they are to the things as they should be, ( ref. Peter Maurin, Catholic Workers ), the economist, the scholar and those who are in the big money class should become workers so the workers could become what they are. Free trade came and made workers the real commodities being traded. Workers are put on a global block to compete with each other for the same jobs down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor. The “Forbes Types” look down from above while they reap the benefits of impoverished workers. People like Gene Mark support the system that does this instead of crying out , we should occupy all streets.

Sharon Broussard, an associated editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer confronts people like Gene Mark who think they can put others on the right path just by telling them some obvious things like trying to be the best you can be. In my long working career, I found only a few people who did not want to work. It is part of our nature to excel. However, Gene Mark talks about a path where only a few can break out. The same old story as been recited since 1932 about the black minority. In the 1960s, the Civil Rights movement took hold. The liberals embraced it. They did a good job of branding it but were and still unable to unlock the door for millions of impoverished blacks. Reportedly one half of all young blacks living in the inner city are unemployed. The blacks make up one of the largest parts of our prison population which is the largest in the world. They certainly did not choose this destiny in their early years. There must be externals causing this outside the general control of blacks growing up in America. With Civil Rights, a few have been able to break through these barriers but as a rule we still have the same old story that is about eighty years old.

I served the last larger family super markets that once were in the inner city. There were many. These stores knitted communities together. Many gave their customers credit for long periods of time with just a simple record in their books. If someone came in asking for food , many times these store keepers would give it to them free. There were obviously some problems with this process but it kept things together for a long time. In our city, the Hough Riots came and many of the stores were burn down with some neighborhoods going down with them . However, it was nothing like what happen after free trade came and devoured neighborhoods across the whole city. Just when the blacks were getting their union cards and the option of making a middle class living, free trade came and closed the factories down. Just when racial barriers were being broken on the factory floors, free trade came and stole this happening away. Now there are miles of major streets across the city, that look like third world countries. The places where I once traveled with ease are now war zones and if you do not know the lay of the land, it mean your life. In the 1970s, about seven supermarket owners lost their lives in robberies. I estimate about 200 larger family owned super markets went out of business prior to the 1990s. In their place, the Arab Americans took over with small family owned stores. I estimate the number to be much smaller than the 200 large family supermarkets. However in the 1990s, about twenty Arab Americans lost their lives during robberies while President Clinton was proclaiming prosperity. In the 1990s, America went through the most massive dislocation of jobs with millions losing their jobs and millions more became part of the new working poor class. Those who find jobs

are working two or three part time jobs at a time and still do not make a living to sustained a natural family environment. The children are home alone raising themselves. The children have more things to worry about than trying to be at the top of their class. A family member who taught in the inner city had to use food as an incentive for students to come for tutoring. And the students had to worry about getting home before dark etc. The had to walk home fearing they may be shot.

I suggest the “Forbes Types” do some of these things themselves before telling others how to live.
I suggest someone like Gene Mark do the walk before they talk.

I could also tell them this. I worked in several factories while going to college and if these jobs were available today there would be millions standing in line to get them across the United States including college graduates who are not able to find jobs in their chosen fields. The “Forbes Types” Globalist Free Traders came and exported these jobs as they worship at the altar of greed. The value of labor and workers have been deflated and degraded just so a few can make billions of dollars this way.

And President Obama, the first black president , came and bailed them out after they even failed themselves. While the jobless, working poor and the blacks are outside looking in at the celebration.

A plantation owner mentality rules the funny money monopoly games and the destinies of impoverished workers in a new kind of slave trade.

Ray Tapajna Pages exploring the lost worlds in the globalist free trader Flat World
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Occupy Ports - Occupy COSCO empty containers

By Ray Tapajna Real World News

Occupying economic insanity

Occupy protests now include Occupy Ports. Protesters block port operations on the West Coast and in Vancouver. News papers tone down the events and report from the viewpoint of the workers who are losing working time due to the blockage. They do not tell why the protesters are blocking the ports and how many jobs were stolen away due to free trade.

In a TV news report about Occupy Ports, I noticed a COSCO truck in the background. COSCO is the giant Chinese shipping company reportedly having 600 ships in operation across the globe. They are also ready to invest in port operations everywhere in the world. They also have a large fleet of trucks moving the imported cargo from place to place. No one wants to talk about the Chinese Liberation Army connection and No talks how long haul ocean, rail and truck shipping is polluting the earth. Perhaps it is because it is about going Red rather than Green.

COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army.

COSCO an arm of the Chinese Liberation Army coming your way


A few years ago, I was waiting at a railroad crossing for a train to pass by and I saw a series of flat cars go by stacked with COSCO shipping containers. The railroad tracks run through the center of the city where I grew up.

This is what it looked liked....

I saw the Chinese Liberation Army rolling by


Just imagine what would happen if this was forty years ago after the Vietnam War and after thousands of American soldiers lost their lives.

Free trade came and took away millions of jobs. President Clinton gave away our technology that took thirty years of innovations to create to China in just a few years. This story never made big headlines.

I did a story related to this recently. See...
Real World News Watch your jobs roll by - even Michael Moore leaves this out in his movie about ...watching the Chinese Liberation Army's COSCO shipping containers rolling by in your neighborhood.


I do not know what they are doing with the empty COSCO containers these days, but I know they once filled acres of land near where we live now. This gave me an idea. Why not start a new Occupy movement and convert these empty containers to homes for the homeless.

We could literally call it OCCUPY COSCO Empty Containers

Today, our newspaper had an article about a new pilot program to give
away vacant homes to refugees to fix up and live in. There are about 15,000 vacant homes in our county. No one asks what caused this and at the same time the homeless are ignored. I guess it is because they do not have a refugee status and even though many of them most likely were handy men, carpenters and things like that. There were many comments after the story was published online. Several people said they wish they could have a home to fix but they are only taxpaying Americans.

The two stories - one about Occupy Ports and the other about giving homes to refugees gave me this idea related to the empty COSCO shipping containers. Why not give the containers to the homeless or to a homeless agency to convert into shelters. You can call it literally Occupy COSCO
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Occupying the right order of things

By Ray Tapajna - The American Dream Reversed - Journey in the fields of broken dreams.

Occupy Wall Street Protests need a better compass

Occupying the road to nowhere

Free trade is the main issue. It is the major cause of our economic and money crisis.


Even while the Occupy Wall Street protests were at its peak, Pres. Obama passed 3 free trade bills with the protesters ignoring the event


If we keep leaving the issue of free trade out of the picture, we will get nowhere. Both parties have endorsed it. It devalues and degrades the value of workers and labor. This value represents a massive lost of money. Trillions of dollars are missing in any equation behind most issues of our times.

Also all of our tax codes are obsolete because of these massive losses with the value of labor and workers being a better money standard than the contrived paper value transactions. The payroll tax is obsolete. It acts as a tariff on work in a global economy. Competitors don't have to deal with it. We shop our way out of our jobs if we ignore ih. The tax is used like any other tax in the general fund. It is not something by itself. It is actually a flat tax on the working poor with about 70 percent of all workers paying more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes. We need to find a way to fund the same program in a different way. We suggest Taps instead of Taxes on all transactions with needed exceptions decided by a vote. The Taps on all imports should be twice the amount of a Tap on products made in the USA. See Real Tax Reform


As far as unemployment insurance is concerned, it is no longer real thing since only about 38 percent of all American workers qualify for it. In extending any further payments, only a fraction of workers will get it and it comes out of everyones pocket including a single mother who is making only a $100 a month and who is considered employed. More than 60 percent of all workers are in some sort of limbo missing in action from any kind of real reporting or support. Some workers have three part time jobs at the same time. I wonder how many of these jobs are reported as three workers instead of just one.


See Communications by Rank Workers have no voice in the process of free trade and globalization. Co-opting the lesser of two evils is not only wrong but it leads us down another detour. Occupy Wall Street must find the straight road according to set priorities

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Occupy Wall Street defines itself

Occupy Wall Street Protests goals calls for Bottom-Up solutions - emphasizing all decisions should be made at the lowest level possible.

By Ray Tapajna


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Economic Ethics - Reshore Industrial Base

Have we lost World War 2 after the fact. Lets bring back our industrial base that won World War 2.

Robert L Smith, Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter, has a good article about the need to start "making things" in the U.S. However, we need to do much more than that. We need to reshore our manufacturing now. We need to bring our industrial base back home. Just adding assembly jobs does not add up to making things. The Plain Dealer and other media channels need


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Globalist Plantation economy

Human Capital has lost much of its value due to free trade. Money Capital products were supposed to make up for this loss, but the only value paper money has is the manipulation of transactions as our economies based on making money instead of making things is burning out.

Free trade was never really about trade. It was primarily about making production portable ready to be moved again and again for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor. The common denominator is down to wage slave and even child labor. It became a globalist plantation where the money changers made a big mistake. When Human Capital is discounted with human beings "commoditized" and put on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs, real valuable assets are lost including money values


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Ray Tapajna on ireport CNN about The Sacrilege

Ray Tapajna had his article published on ireport CNN about The Sacrilege relating this story to the Occupy Wall Street protests across America.

Attention Occupy Wall Street Activists - View The Sacrilege- Walmart built in grave yard of the steel industry ... The cnn ireport about the Sacrilege
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Flawed Single-sex education study flawed

This is an excellent article by Tom Palaima about a single-sex education study being flawed.

Tom Palaima confronts a study about single-sex education
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