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Free Traders Protectionism

by Ray Tapajna Chronicles

Free Trade is a paradox

Paradox is about something that is supposed to be one thing and it is really another.

Free Trade is not trade - Ten Mexican Bishops call it Cultural Death - see NAFTA Muy Malo and free trade is cultural death

The Free Traders and our Cleveland Plain Dealer news editorials keep saying things like
"A wise warning to protectionists" which brings in the other paradox because it is the Free Traders that protect the ransacking of the Free Enterprise system across the globe.

In letters to the editors , several people responded to the above. The paper puts this title above the letters - The problem isn't free trade; it's unfair trade. Ultimately, free trade is not any kind of real trade fair or unfair. The heading should read - The problem isn't free trade;it's the paradox of what trade is as practiced in history. Free trade is primarily based on moving factories and production outside the USA for the sake of cheaper labor. Free trade converts production into a mobile process where it can be moved again and again for the sake of cheaper labor or if the natives get restless as impoverished workers. The closest thing in history to this kind of trade is the slave trade where human beings were traded as commodities.

One of the letter writers provides another description. He says the United Steel Workers oppose "trade" deals like the new Colombia Free Trade Agreement for more reasons than one. Since 1991, more than 2,000 Colombians have been murdered for trying to exercise their rights to have a union, a basic human right. ( by Bob Parker, Steelworker )-Colombia like many other countries where we already have sent factories do the same. Killing of union leaders and workers continued after CAFTA was approved in Guatemala. Many were part of the textile industry and so the clothes you wear have "blood" on them. A Central American Bishop tried to stop the passing of CAFTA telling our U.S. Congress directly that it was cultural death.

In our city, reportedly, a deal was made with a local Congressman in our region to change his vote against CAFTA in exchange for about 1,000 government jobs to stay in Cleveland.

It is obvious who is practicing "protectionism." in these cases. Free trade and the term "protectionism: are both a paradox. History tells a whole different story about "protectionism" and it is a phantom created my the Free Traders and the editorial staff or newspapers like the one in our city.

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March 5th 2010 @ 22:27

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Lost in th Globalist world

by Ray Tapajna

Globalism is over before it was even defined - Free Traders and Globalists are parasites running out of places to feed off.

We explored the lost worlds in the Globalist Free-Traders Flat World of Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, the Clintons, the Bush family with Pres. Obama taking over at Tapsearch Com Flat World mixed with thought provoking Art- that- Talks and now it time to find out what comes next because Globalization and Free Trade are no longer really viable options for societies around the world.

Economic Crisis and the Tangle of Terror - who can untangle the terror Free Trade and Globalization have bred

A must read is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins that reveals how we have arrived at this point in history.

The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is a must read for all workers. It proves workers do not have a voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade. It is a testimony of a man who thought he had it all until he realized how people are sacrficed at the altar of greed. Almost twenty years ago another man came forward too. Sir James Goldsmith wrote The Trap. As a highly successful corporate raider, he was best known for his raiding of BF Goodrich. He would find weak companies and try to take them over for pennies on the dollar. Then one day he realized what he was doing was not a good thing for society. He converted to a Populist Activist. He was active in France and England before he died dedicated to restoring local value added economies in the world. There were others too who predicted the coming of our Global Economic Crisis years ago - calling it the " Bewildered New World."

It is time to prepare for the post-Globalization era. Free Trade is the tool of Globalization. It now has a long history of failures dating back as far as 1956 when the U.S. Federal Goverment first sponsored the moving of production and factories outside the USA. This evolved into the Maquiladora factory programs which now have more than a thirty year history of failures. The Mexican workers are still flocking to the USA seeking economic survival. Since NAFTA was passed the number of factories moved to Mexico have doubled and now NAFTA and GATT trade agreements have more than fourteen years of failures. It is obvious this chaos can not continue.

In the USA a working poor class has replaced a working middle class. Hurricane Katrina exposed a vast underclass in the USA living in a silent depression. These workers do not make enough money to support Globalization and Free Trade and an the upper class in the USA is not large enough to support it either. Pay back time has come with one of the lighting strikes being on home ownership. Foreclosures are breaking all records. Mayor Jackson in Cleveland Ohio is suing more than dozen home mortgage investors and banks. He calls what the did a white collar crime. His actions may prompt a class action suite. We had many warning signs while those in power and small upper class was enjoying the rewards. They have rode the horse of Globalization and Free Trade but now that horse is worn out and will not reach the finish line. It is over.

John Perkins steps forward to tell us his confession as an EHM ( Economic Hit Man ) who thought he was doing everything the right way but found he was being used by powers behind the World Bank. He found he betrayed the common man and the common good and God gave him the power to confess his mistakes. He was sent out as an Economist to set up nations around the world in a scheme of schemes by external powers outside the will of the people in the USA and other countries.

In the preface of his book, he says,
"Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAIS), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new terrifying dimenisions during this time of globalization."
--- " I should know; I was an EHM. " ( Economic Hit Man )
You can get The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man at your public library. Read it before you vote.
Reference Confessions for History and Communications by rank - about the "unnetted" among us.

Ray Tapajna is the editor and artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks at Ray Tapajna Chronicles mobile user friendly summary and http://tapsearch.com/flatworld His sites and articles are really all about you in the global economic arena and asks, who said we had to compete like this in the Free Trade world where the real commodities are workers. You can explore the losts worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World of Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, the Clintons and the Bush families. It is the New World Order or is it the New World Dis-Order.

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February 27th 2010 @ 17:33

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Find something Made in USA is hard to do

by Ray Tapajna

Finding something actually made in the USA is a hard thing to do

Made in the USA is obsolete term as millions of middle class production jobs fade into the past

SEE: Federal Reserve Chairman told Congress that the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced products" -

He should have said - made in the USA - but there's not that much that is. Letter writers to editors in our newspaper keep writing about buying USA but many are confused about what that really defines these days.

There is a good site that has provides good information at Made i USA. org but it also demonstrates how little there is. The letter writer who gave this link said the solution is simple - If you want Americans to be employed, buy from companies that employ Americans. Unfortunately, even those companies do not stand the test of being made in the USA. Many of our products are just assembled in the USA and the description used these days is primarily the term "built in America" which can mean many things . Today it means that products are only assembled in the USA by workers - making about one-half of what their predecessors once made - from parts made in the slave wage labor markets of the world.

One letter writer says to buy a Honda that is only assembled in Ohio. He also mentions the brand new Kia plants in Georgia and a new Nissan plant in Mississippi and adds - I dont' think any of those guys took a bit of bail out money. This is the mentality of consumers in the USA - Almost every foreign auto maker in the USA was subsidized by the taxpayers and the new jobs paid much less the old ones with more than 400,000 auto workers losing their jobs in the U.S. These were middle class jobs that paid the toll for education and other government services. More than 750,000 jobs related to the steel industry have been lost. In Cleveland, a new Wal-Mart super store sits in the graveyard of a steel industry that once employed thousands workers. Individual states have paid billions of dollars to bring in foreign auto makers. The state of Indiana paid Honda $160 million dollars after all is said and done to bring their assembly plant to their state. It employs only 5,000 workers while 20,000 auto parts workers lost their jobs in Indiana. One state even built an airport for BMW to bring in parts for their new assembly plant.

A headline in our local newspaper tells about a French company coming to Youngstown Ohio to build a plant tha willt employ only 350 workers. Youngstown was once a place where more than 50,000 once made a good living in steel production. My sales contact "bible" that I carried for more than twenty years had more than a 100 companies that employed 5,000 or more workers in our region. Companies that employed only 350 or so were considered to be minor prospects. There were thousands of these companies and they never made any big news. They were taken for granted. Both large and small manufacturers are gone now. Many had a more than fifty years of history but it seemed like they were all flushed down the toilet overnight.

Letter writers are now writing about keeping jobs in the U.S. They are about ten years too late. The jobs are gone and nothing will ever replace them. I started my advocacy for keeping jobs and human dignity in the workplace in 1992 and have been online since 1998. An editorial editor recently congratulated me about my thousands of sites and blogs under Tapsearch Com but the sad thing about it, it looks like I have failed. My Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic crisis years ago. And more than ten years later, most of all my blogs and sites are as if they have just been written today. If America was awake, years ago, my blogs and sites would have been obsolete by now.

Sadly the phrase Made in the USA is the thing that is obsolete today.

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February 23rd 2010 @ 20:37

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Free Trade Crisis and Goverment Workers

Ray Tapajna
How can anyone expect economic recovery in any society if the public sector government workers make twice as much as workers in the private sector - How many private sector workers does it take to support one government worker ?

Causes behind the global economiic crisis - The American Dream is Burning by Ray Tapajna

In the private sector, it takes about $500,000 in sales to provide for one $50,000 a year job.
It then takes about 50 of these workers an average of $1,000 in taxes to pay for one public government sector worker. But, most workers in the inner cities make much less than $25,000 a year and so they are unable to pay for teachers and government workers who make twice as much as they do. So there is no way of resolving the economic crisis without restoring the living wage jobs we once enjoyed in the USA.

None of this is reported. The main cause of our economic crisis is free trade which is not really trade but the "commoditizing" of workers in a global economic arena. There is a vast disparity in the incomes, pensions etc. between public workers and the private workers sector because of it. And the public workers jobs are protected with them being closer to the political powers than private sector workers are.

This disparity can not continue if we ever want to restore our economy. Public workers can not make 2 to 3 times more than the people they serve and expect anything good to come from it. It is also obvious, they more protected against the negative effects of free trade than the private sector workers whose value has been radically deflated. And it is obvious that Obama's cart before the horse economy will never work. Sadly, much of this remains untold. The terms NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA and the WTO that represent everything that is wrong with the Free Traders controlling both parties , are missing from our vocabulary. President Obama bails out Free Trade without revealing the causes of our economic mess. o

It is a "plantation owner" mentality.

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February 17th 2010 @ 16:21

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Ben Bernanke says buy

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy " domestically produced goods" What does this mean ?

Ray Tapajna : He should have used the term Made in the USA as we always used to signify what is best for our economy

Domestically produced goods could be goods that are only

Assembled in the USA
Fabricated in the USA
Crafted in the USA
or the now famous cop out term -
Built in America

Built in America means that parts can be brought in from the wage slave labor markets of the world. The term hides what really is taking place.

A worst case scenario is something like the State of Indiana paying Honda upfront about $60 million dollars for Honda to build an assembly plant in their state and paying out another $100 milion dollars for roads etc to support the project. Only 5000 new jobs were created while 20,000 auto parts workers lost their jobs. The ratio does not add up to much of anything that stimulates an economy. And it will take many years for the state to recoup the investment and most likely the project will never end up in the black. Just think if the state instead gave a million dollars to 160 different enterprises to create new products and markets. How many new jobs would be created and how many new businesses would be activated? There would be many more jobs than only 5000 assembly jobs.

We have an economy without drums - see Tapart News and Art that Talks . It has no economic beat to keep an economy going.

In philosophy, we talk about everything that is started needing a starter. An orchestra needs drums to keep the beat. Imagine going to a concert where there are no drums. If the parts come from outside the USA, it is an economy without drums.

The most important thing to a farmer is seeds and not seed that last for only one season. One harvest does not make another. The seeds do. An economy needs seeds to recycle local value added economies.

A car needs a battery and fuel to run. It can not go anywhere without either. President Obama and the free traders of our times try to drive an economic engine without any power source to keep the economic motor going.

A computer needs a Central Processor Unit and a power source to work. Without them, a computer is only a box to nowhere. In the beginning of computers there were many articles published about the need to prepare for more leisure time with computers taking over the manual operations. Many do have more leisure time but it is because they lost their jobs. In the service sector, thousands of computer system houses closed down because there was no way to compete in the global economic arena. New creative systems that could have been are blocked out of our economy A student is told they need to be computer efficient to get a job. And now, they find it to be true while they work with computers at minimum wages jobs.

See more at Free Market is not Free Enterprise and Economics from the church on the streets This is loaded with resources to forward to friends, educators, students, political leaders, news channels and especially to people like Fed Res Chairman Ben Bernanke

And the above not only applys to the USA but countries everywhere. We need to find out why even subsistent living farmers can not compete in a global economy and why they can only grow a drug crop to survive.

Major causes behind our global economic crisis - the "commodization of workers

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February 16th 2010 @ 19:50

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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

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February 6th 2010 @ 21:22

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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

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January 28th 2010 @ 23:36

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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

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January 13th 2010 @ 23:41

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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 :

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

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January 6th 2010 @ 01:51

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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

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December 21st 2009 @ 22:25

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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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December 14th 2009 @ 19:47

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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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December 6th 2009 @ 01:02

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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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November 29th 2009 @ 23:56

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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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November 11th 2009 @ 23:56

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