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Ray's Journey in the fields of broken dreams in the global economic arena
It's a story behind our news about our economic crisis as we wait for the next big economic bubble to burst.
All the bail outs in the world and economic stimulus packages will not work. Our money on money economies are burning out with none of our political and financial leaders knowing what to do.
Ray Tapajna Chronicles, online since 1998 and an advocate for workers dignity since 1992, predicted the coming of our economic crisis years ago based on several experts in the field. They include Sir James Goldsmith who wrote The Trap and lead populist movements in both England and France during the early 1990s and Manuel Castells who wrote several books on globalization and free trade and more than ten years ago, predicted the "Bewildered New World" as it is today. See Ray Tapajna Chronicles .
Ray's bio at About Ray Tapajna's journey in the fields of broken dreams
In 1992, as a trouble shooter supplyer for several major computer and general manufacturers, Ray picked up a trade magazine and found out about the Maquiladora factory program in Mexico. This led to his advocacy for human dignity in the workday. The Maquiladora factory program was based on free trade. By 1992, more than 2,000 U.S. factories had been moved to Mexico. The U.S. Federal Government first sponsored the moving of factories outside of the country in 1956. It was supposedly a temporary program to test the feasibility of moving production outside the country whereby nations in debt to the international banks and money interest would have a way to pay their debt off or at least be able to continously pay the interest due on the debt. In turn the process would provide cheaper consumer goods for America.
The program never ended and it evolved into the Maquilador factory program that used impoverished Mexican workers for a fraction of the cost of American labor. Many companies also found this was a good way to send their "dirty manufacturing " outside the country and avoid all the ecology standards and regulations . There were many stories about the conditions during this time but nothing much was done about it. For example abnormal births were increasing on both sides of the border where the "dirty manufacturing" was allowed.
Instead of addressing the problems, the elder President Bush forumulated new trade agreements to increase the free trade process of moving production outside of the USA. President Bush lost the election to President Clinton and many thought he would challenge the irrational concept of free trade. Instead, President Clinton actively pushed the passage of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements that President Bush started. People like Rush Limbaugh backed President Clinton plans. At that time Rush Limbaugh had a vast following and was noted as playing a major part in the victory of "Contract with America" Republicans taking control of Congress. President Clinton had already had NAFTA passed with a Democrat controlled congress in command. With the Republicans winning Congress, many thought President Clinton would wait for the Republicans to take office and let them take the heat for passing GATT. Instead, President Clinton forced congress to come back from their Thanksgiving vacation to pass the GATT trade agreements in a lameduck session of Congress.
The Republicans led by Senator Dole and Congressman Newt Gingrich, locked hands with President Clinton and the Democrat controlled congress at the time and passed GATT with Rush Limbaugh in the background telling his vast radio audience that President Clinton was doing the right thing.
After the free trade agreements were passed, the number of factories moved to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4,000. Soon after, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso and the Mexican economy. The first stimulus package went to a foreign nation. Reportedly, President Clinton sent more money to Mexico through international money sources since the Twenty Billion dollars sanctioned by Congress was not enough.
This was the first major evidence of NAFTA failing to do what it was supposed to do. Obviously, it did not stop the tide of Mexican illegal immigrants to American seeking economic survival. President Clinton hid behind the Y2k crisis that pumped billions of dollars into the economy and saved President Clinton economic image. However when 2000 came the facade of so called prosperity vanished. Reality set in. President Bush the second took over and hid the economic problems behind his "shock and awe" wars. Free trade had been proven a faillure but both major parties acted as one in endorsing and pushing more trade agreements.
Mexican bishops and a bishop from Central America called free trade cultural death but our political leaders closed their ears. They did not want to hear about it after the U.S. went through the most massive dislocation of worker in history including the Great Depression with millions of Americans losing their jobs. Millions lost their jobs in the computer and high tech industries as these factories were moved to far away places too.
President Obama took over and ignored the problems of free trade and globalization as he bailed out the financial and banking communities that caused the problems and put them back in charge. He in essence took tariffs off products and put tariffs on workers and future generations as trillions of dollars were pumped into the economy to save the day. In the end our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. The production workers middle class in the USA along with many professionals was smashed. A new working poor class surfaced and do not have money to even buy the cheaper imports. Free trade depends on a large consumer class in the U.S.A to continue the process but millions have lost their jobs. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans also exposed a vast underclass in the U.S. who were and are living in a silent depression.
Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and a columnist for the New York Times says that only 58.2 percent of adults in the U.S.A have a job. About ten years ago, The Getting American Working organization said that only about 50 percent of human resources in America are being used. The unemployment bureau admitted that about six millions workers are not reported as unemployed but are unable to find a job. It is obvious that the six million figure is much less than what is happening in the real world. Youngstown University Center for working class studies show found that the "defacto" unemployment rate is 26.37 percent. Only about 38 percent of all workers in American qualify for unemployment insurances. This means that more than 60 percent of all workers are missing in action from any kind of real reporting. They are living in an economic limbo.
President Roosevelt said - economic diseases are highly communicable. Today they are reaching every corner of our lives not only in America but across the globe. Instead of confronting the problem head on, we now have political leaders who caused the problems calling for fiscal responsibility and austerity programs. However, we are facing a new "Bewildered New World" of disorder while we wait for the next big economic bubble to burst.
Search under Tapsearch.com, Tapart News, Ray Tapajna pages and Arklineart for thousands of more results and references.
Ray's Journey in the fields of broken dreams in the global economic arena
It's a story behind our news about our economic crisis as we wait for the next big economic bubble to burst.
All the bail outs in the world and economic stimulus packages will not work. Our money on money economies are burning out with none of our political and financial leaders knowing what to do.
Ray Tapajna Chronicles, online since 1998 and an advocate for workers dignity since 1992, predicted the coming of our economic crisis years ago based on several experts in the field. They include Sir James Goldsmith who wrote The Trap and lead populist movements in both England and France during the early 1990s and Manuel Castells who wrote several books on globalization and free trade and more than ten years ago, predicted the "Bewildered New World" as it is today. See Ray Tapajna Chronicles .
Ray's bio at About Ray Tapajna's journey in the fields of broken dreams
In 1992, as a trouble shooter supplyer for several major computer and general manufacturers, Ray picked up a trade magazine and found out about the Maquiladora factory program in Mexico. This led to his advocacy for human dignity in the workday. The Maquiladora factory program was based on free trade. By 1992, more than 2,000 U.S. factories had been moved to Mexico. The U.S. Federal Government first sponsored the moving of factories outside of the country in 1956. It was supposedly a temporary program to test the feasibility of moving production outside the country whereby nations in debt to the international banks and money interest would have a way to pay their debt off or at least be able to continously pay the interest due on the debt. In turn the process would provide cheaper consumer goods for America.
The program never ended and it evolved into the Maquilador factory program that used impoverished Mexican workers for a fraction of the cost of American labor. Many companies also found this was a good way to send their "dirty manufacturing " outside the country and avoid all the ecology standards and regulations . There were many stories about the conditions during this time but nothing much was done about it. For example abnormal births were increasing on both sides of the border where the "dirty manufacturing" was allowed.
Instead of addressing the problems, the elder President Bush forumulated new trade agreements to increase the free trade process of moving production outside of the USA. President Bush lost the election to President Clinton and many thought he would challenge the irrational concept of free trade. Instead, President Clinton actively pushed the passage of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements that President Bush started. People like Rush Limbaugh backed President Clinton plans. At that time Rush Limbaugh had a vast following and was noted as playing a major part in the victory of "Contract with America" Republicans taking control of Congress. President Clinton had already had NAFTA passed with a Democrat controlled congress in command. With the Republicans winning Congress, many thought President Clinton would wait for the Republicans to take office and let them take the heat for passing GATT. Instead, President Clinton forced congress to come back from their Thanksgiving vacation to pass the GATT trade agreements in a lameduck session of Congress.
The Republicans led by Senator Dole and Congressman Newt Gingrich, locked hands with President Clinton and the Democrat controlled congress at the time and passed GATT with Rush Limbaugh in the background telling his vast radio audience that President Clinton was doing the right thing.
After the free trade agreements were passed, the number of factories moved to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4,000. Soon after, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso and the Mexican economy. The first stimulus package went to a foreign nation. Reportedly, President Clinton sent more money to Mexico through international money sources since the Twenty Billion dollars sanctioned by Congress was not enough.
This was the first major evidence of NAFTA failing to do what it was supposed to do. Obviously, it did not stop the tide of Mexican illegal immigrants to American seeking economic survival. President Clinton hid behind the Y2k crisis that pumped billions of dollars into the economy and saved President Clinton economic image. However when 2000 came the facade of so called prosperity vanished. Reality set in. President Bush the second took over and hid the economic problems behind his "shock and awe" wars. Free trade had been proven a faillure but both major parties acted as one in endorsing and pushing more trade agreements.
Mexican bishops and a bishop from Central America called free trade cultural death but our political leaders closed their ears. They did not want to hear about it after the U.S. went through the most massive dislocation of worker in history including the Great Depression with millions of Americans losing their jobs. Millions lost their jobs in the computer and high tech industries as these factories were moved to far away places too.
President Obama took over and ignored the problems of free trade and globalization as he bailed out the financial and banking communities that caused the problems and put them back in charge. He in essence took tariffs off products and put tariffs on workers and future generations as trillions of dollars were pumped into the economy to save the day. In the end our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. The production workers middle class in the USA along with many professionals was smashed. A new working poor class surfaced and do not have money to even buy the cheaper imports. Free trade depends on a large consumer class in the U.S.A to continue the process but millions have lost their jobs. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans also exposed a vast underclass in the U.S. who were and are living in a silent depression.
Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and a columnist for the New York Times says that only 58.2 percent of adults in the U.S.A have a job. About ten years ago, The Getting American Working organization said that only about 50 percent of human resources in America are being used. The unemployment bureau admitted that about six millions workers are not reported as unemployed but are unable to find a job. It is obvious that the six million figure is much less than what is happening in the real world. Youngstown University Center for working class studies show found that the "defacto" unemployment rate is 26.37 percent. Only about 38 percent of all workers in American qualify for unemployment insurances. This means that more than 60 percent of all workers are missing in action from any kind of real reporting. They are living in an economic limbo.
President Roosevelt said - economic diseases are highly communicable. Today they are reaching every corner of our lives not only in America but across the globe. Instead of confronting the problem head on, we now have political leaders who caused the problems calling for fiscal responsibility and austerity programs. However, we are facing a new "Bewildered New World" of disorder while we wait for the next big economic bubble to burst.
Search under Tapsearch.com, Tapart News, Ray Tapajna pages and Arklineart for thousands of more results and references.
