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Economic Harmony Distorted

Our economic harmony has been broken for a long time now due to free trade and globalization. See our Mutterings of an economic soul series at
the mutterings of a workers soul part 2
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It haunts us to search ...

Our Economy is like an orchestra without drums ... and orchestra that has no beat.
See ...... - Tapsearch Com
Production workers unions have evaporated. Public workers unions have grown. 18 States use workers from India. 1970 $12000 jobs should now be $50000 ones ...
An economic orchestra without harmony or syncopation

Our governments act as brokers and dealers in a global economic arena. They steer deals that are isolated from the economy of the common people. They divide the spoils of raw capitalism even in Communist China. Workers are just commodities being traded on a global block for the sake of the cheapest labor costs.

Money spent at retail does not stay in this country or any individual country as the money quickly fans out to the places where the products are made and where the investments reside.

It leaves behind crippled economies that have no way to fulfill the needs of the local, state or national communities. Only a sense of what should be is left behind in a economic and political arena that concentrates on money transactions that deals in values that do not really add up or make any sense.

It is like an orchestra without drums with every playing a instrument in random fashion without any common harmony. It is just a combination of distorted noises without any sequence, beginning or end.

It has just dealers and brokers in a global economic arena where only a very few win.

Globalist Casino - The World's News
Bewildered New World continues - Globalist Casino - - Can you hear me now in a new world of disorder. ...
Just a bunch of bits and bytes to no where in the globalist economic casino

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July 29th 2011 @ 16:20

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The Price of Free Trade and hidden tariffs

Ray Tapajna displayed a list of problems about our economy in 1998 on the Federal Trade Commission site. He updated it twice since then with very few changes. The same problems exist today and there are only degrees of differences. See If this is a good economy, I would hate to see a bad one

and Lets make a Deal

Kaleidoscope News Reporting

The Price of Free Trade and the hidden tariffs on products -

What costs are not included when you shop as places like Walmart

Many workers at places like Walmart need government assistance to survive.
In Tennessee, nearly 25 percent of the entire Walmart workforce of 9,617 employees are enrolled in the state's health plan for the poor. The next group of workers qualifying for the state's health plan for the poor are workers at temporary help care companies. The number needing help adds up to about 18,000 employees.

In Texas, Walmart tops the charts there too. Texas school systems and The University of Texas Systems are also high on the list with workers needing state assistance. I wonder how many other colleges have workers who need government or private assistance to survive.

In reviewing other states, there are many companies whose employees who need help. Walmart leads the way but others like McDonalds, Wendys are close behind.

Workers at the following companies receive Medicaid and other state health care assistance, Food Stamps and many other government services in order to survive with a vast new working poor class replacing a middle class of workers due to free trade. Many of these jobs were once considered to be only entry level jobs. Now we see families trying to survive working these jobs.

Some of the other companies with workers receiving government benefits are
Yum Brands which include A&W, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

Bob Evans
Kroger
Burger King
Frisch"s
Manpower
Marathon
Subway
Arby's
Many regional supermarkets nationwide
Hardees
Target
Home Depot
Dunkin' Dognuts
Family Care VNA
Publix
Winn-Dixie
Shaw Industries
Mohawk Industries
Tyson Meats
Many regional dollar stores nationwide
UNICCO Service Corp
U.S. Postal Service
Concord Hospital
Genesis Nursing-Home
Many regional nursing homes
Citizens Financial Group
Dillards
Price Shopper
Many regional community service groups
Del Monte
Several private heath care providers

The list goes on and there are many surprises in the mix including top hospitals.
So when you think you are getting a good deal, think again. With every buy you make you pay extra taxes acting as hidden tarriffs. In many cases you are also shopping your way out of your own job too. And those in the upper classes must realize how much they live off the suffering of others. We ignore the lost of ethics in this part of our lives.

Ref. Corporate Subsidy - hidden taxpayer costs
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July 26th 2011 @ 18:32

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Tom Palaima tells about a different kind of photo journalism

Palaima: Pair hope 31,000 images will help spur social change

Tom Palaima, Regular Contributor , tells about a photographer and an information specialists who have to do something good with their gifts and prompt ordinary people to do the same thing.

Feeling powerless about changing the world for the better and how some people try to do something good in different ways.


On Google or Yahoo images search under Diego Huerta and Daniela Gutierrez


or click on Diego Huerta website here

It is easy to feel powerless about changing the world we live in.

On one day recently, there were news reports that members of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel were arrested for massacring 27 farm workers and their
relatives; in southern Afghanistan, 10 laborers were killed and 28 were wounded by a roadside bomb detonated as they were being driven to a roadwork project; and more deaths from bombs were reported in Pakistan and Iraq.

Who can make sense of senseless murders? It is no surprise that we retreat into our own little worlds and do nothing.

Commercial photographer Diego Huerta and information specialist Daniela Gutierrez have been doing something. UT psychology professor Ricardo Ainslie, who is now finishing a book on the drug wars in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and his wife, Daphny Ainslie, a psychologist at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, opened their home so we could hear Huerta and Gutierrez describe their project, 31K Portraits for Peace
See : ( 31kproject.com )

What is special about Gutierrez and Huerta is that they are not special. They were not political or social activists, and still do not identify themselves that way. They read reports of big problems in Mexico: hostility against indigenous peoples; the devastation of Hurricane Alex in Monterrey, Nuevo León, a year ago; and 31,000 lives lost in drug-related violence as of last January.

The 31K project and the two projects that led into it use the talents they have to do good for others and to make ordinary people aware of what good they can do.

Huerta showed me an advertising photograph he had taken of a beautiful woman eating a hamburger and said, "I know how to make images that move people to want to do things, even eat a hamburger."

He decided to take photographs of 31,000 ordinary Mexicans in their offices, streets and houses, on beaches and in parks. He and Gutierrez bring a
single dove of peace made of folded paper for them to hold. It is called La Huesteca, after the mountain that Huerta remembers from growing up in
Monterrey.

Hearing about the project and seeing the portraits on the Internet, individuals and whole families have traveled long distances to be photographed holding La Huesteca. Some have come in memory of lost friends, neighbors, family
members; others just to do something that says good people stand against the drug violence. In Oaxaca, one woman holding the dove commented on
how much it weighs, how many lives and prayers for peace it embodies.

The Facebook site for 31K Portraits for Peace now has more than 5,000 fans. Comments come in from around the world every day. Single national doves are circulating with photographers in the United Kingdom, Spain and France

Huerta's first photographic project, "El Pueblo de las Nubes" ("Town of Clouds") was shown at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural
Center in summer 2010. It raised awareness of the culture of the indigenous Huicholes and the need to preserve their traditional ceremonies and
protect their ritual spaces. He and Gutierrez lived with these people in May 2009.

In July 2010, Diego went into Monterrey the day after Hurricane Alex struck. The advertising agency MenosUnoCeroUno facilitated the purchase of 75 of his photographs of men, women and children putting their lives back together. Carta Blanca in turn sold them, raising $243,000 for Un
Techo Para Mi País ("A Roof for My Country") México, an organization like our Habitat for the Humanity. They built 100 houses with the funds.

Huerta and Gutierrez have devoted themselves full-time to the 31K project since early May. They have almost 11,000 photographs now. Eleven thousand human beings have stood up with them and said we are all responsible for stopping the violence. We want to do something good today.
They inspire others to do the same.

In public areas in Ciudad Juárez, Huerta and Gutierrez have put up posters of the portraits with the caption "la paz comienza creyendo," "peace starts with believing." An exhibition is planned for Austin's Mexic-Arte Museum in January.

Eleven years ago, Malcolm Gladwell explained in his book "The Tipping Point" how social change is dependent upon three kinds of "people with a
particular and rare set of social gifts": people who bring people together, people who spread new ideas and people who persuade others to undertake
action.

Sometimes it only takes two people to make us start believing.

Palaima is classics professor at the University
of Texas. He may be reached at
tpalaima@sbcglobal.net.
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July 10th 2011 @ 21:36

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Tarnished and chopped up news

By Ray Tapajna Tapart News

There is only one major newspaper in our city. For many of their articles and reports they use the Associate Press and Bloomberg News services. Many times the article or report is published with no one listed as the writer or author and you have to accept what they write as fact.

Tarnished and chopped up news with questionable branded data

Recently, they did a story about the trade deficit which has broken
records for years. Once in awhile the rate of the deficit declines but
the difference still remains a massive deficit. There has never been a
time when the trade deficit was balanced since the NAFTA, GATT and CAFTA trade agreements were passed. The trade deficit has been massive since 1994. That is a long time to keep losing values. Some sources say
the losses add up to a new moderate price home for every family in the
U.S. The losses continue but very little is done about it.

When the trade deficit breaks a record, the talking heads get busy and
say the trade deficit does not really reflect that much of a loss and the
news services follow up with the same lingo. The economic gurus say the
trade deficit is just an economic measurement and actually it means
values are being increased in some other areas. This is not true. When you pay out more than what comes in, there is a loss. The U.S. has suffered losses that now add up into trillions of dollars.

However when the trade deficit gap shrinks a bit, we get a different
take. An article from Bloomberg News service with the reporter listed
this time, headline reads Exports help narrow U.S. trade deficit. The
gap was - narrowed - by 6.7 percent. They use the term narrow to tell their story. This branded term influences the interpretation of the real losses involved. The massive trade deficit of $43.7 billion dollars remains massive no matter what term is used and the article should have said just that. The trade deficit is a direct cause of our economic crisis. However instead of approaching the problem directly, President Obama bails out the investment community which caused the problem and puts the same people back in charge of a globalist free trade process that caused much of the losses. Home equity loans may have played a part in the fall of our economy but the funny money surrounding free trade was a massive lost by almost every sector of the economy. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said he thought equity loans were a good money product. He let the cat out of the bag when he said this. This is an admission of the Federal Reserve trying to create money transactions as actual products.

The Bloomberg News report tells us that exports increased 1.3 percent to
$175.6 billion dollars. Nothing is ever said or compared to how many
things are called exports now related to when most of production was in
the U.S. No one questions the use of the term export being used when
components are shipped to factories that once were in the USA. When
NAFTA was passed the number of factories moved to Mexico alone doubled
to more than 4,000 factories. Alot of components are sent to these
factories outside of the USA and they automatically get labeled as an
export.

The stories represent a new kind of journalism where readers are steered
where fiction becomes fact.

Our only major newspaper also is stressing the term global in many ways.
In the 1990s, we kept reading about restoring our economy by creating
high tech jobs. We also were led to believe that the sports industry would
bring back our city as taxpayers paid for new stadiums and arenas. Neither
worked. Now casinos are pushed as a way to grow our economy while the newpaper has many new stories related to globalization. They endorse the new efforts of bringing in foreign workers and foreign companies to get things
going. The reporting never asks what, why, where, when etc about the origin of so many losses of jobs and businesses.

They do not talk about how the Cleveland region was once the core of
high technology innovations but free trade came and as production was
sent out of our country, the years of investment of know how went with it
automatically. I still have print outs and compabibility manuals showing all the
companies and manufacturers were lost due to free trade.

In my own computer business, I have a list of about a 1000 customers and
top prospects that no longer exist. I have a print outs showing 1000s of
computer businesses in a tri-state region that went out of business due to free trade I also have compatibility manuals that show hundreds of computer
manufacturers that were closed down due to free trade. We do not read about any of this in our newspaper and they write as if these things never happened. They never say much about the NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA and other trade agreements that stole so many things from us.

And now it is 1937 all over again. President Roosevelt finally realized that his economic stimulus ideas were not working. He said he was not going to let the lack of dollars stand in his way as he launched the Lend Lease Act that exported products to the allies without the worry of when they would pay for all these items. This seeded a massive production of goods and services. It also opened the door to World War 2. This created the most powerful industrial might the world has ever known.

Now it is 1937 again as President Obama's bail outs of the investment communities. This will prove to be a failure as we wait for the next giant economic bubble to burst. However, this time there is no production left in the USA to ramp up to save the day.

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June 23rd 2011 @ 23:14

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Coupons and the working poor

See also : Bizarre Politics McDonalds food stamp jobs

Newspaper Ombudsman misses real story about the volume of coupons in the newspapers

An Article by Ted Diadiun, The Cleveland Plain Dealer Readers Representative, prompts me to write about the contradictions, newspapers ignore.

Ted Diadiun says the most compelling thing in the Sunday edition is not about news that reporters worked hard to find and report. He says the coupons that come with the paper that saves people money are the most compelling thing. Just using a few of Sunday coupons can more than make up the cost of a whole week on newspapers. The average value amounts to $343 per Sunday. Diadiun goes on to tell what the newspaper does to guard advertisers from readers who take advantage of the system. The paper even limits the number of subscriptions that one person can get and does not release back issues of the paper.

This should tell him something more about the use of coupons in general and all the advertising the newspaper delivers with the news sections. Many times the advertising weighs about three times more than the regular paper.
The advertising also tells a story of its own that all the reporters who work hard to find and report a story, failed to find this one.

There is really nothing free and every coupon used represents a lost for someone else. This is obvious even in the way , the newspaper has to protect their advertisers. Some reporter should also do a story about where the money goes after it is spent at retail. With so many products we use and eat in the USA coming from outside the USA, the money spent at retail quickly fans out to the places where the products are made or grown. It also fans out to the investments in these foreign countries. Cities and towns who have promotions for people to shop locally, tell people that the money spent in local businesses, adds three times more money in the community. It is even more than that if the products or food are from local resources. Local value added economies add about five to seven levels of added value.

Coupons play a big part of this process. Coupons mainly come from large corporations who can guide shoppers to buy their products and are also used to block out smaller competition. We live in a lost leader economy, where large companies can sell under costs for a long time to capture a market and keep out smaller competition that do not have the money to defend themselves. Massive trans national companies play a game that the smaller businesses can not play.

I grew up in a family food business. There were four other food stores, a bakery, a hardware store and a drug store all one just one block. Similar situations were on every block in our city. As a young teenager, I figured out that a small store can make it working at a 27 to 30 percent gross and still come out with about a 20 percent net profit. The larger chain stores as they were called in those days worked at a 35 percent gross and were only able to make a net profit of about 5 to 7 percent. The ads from those days show that prices would be cheaper today if the small vendors were not put out of business by larger ventures who could sell under costs for long periods of time to gain volume while capturing a market. After the larger company captured more of a market, they raised their prices.

This is the real story about coupons and newspaper advertising. Once the classified pages had many pages of help wanted ads. Now there are just one or two help wanted pages. Many main streets in our cities are full of empty stores and empty factories. Many look like they are in a third world country.

It makes no sense for a newspaper to talk one way about restoring our economy while all this is going on. They put on certain image in the news sections but support a lost leader economy in the other sections and promote shoppers to shop their way out of their jobs. Things like coupons means someone wins but more in the end lose. Some reporter should make a connect the dots and tell us why 43 million are on food stamps and 41 percent of those 24 to 34 are now in the working poor class.

The news sections are dwindling away in the process with the Monday edition that follows the Sunday coupon day, not worth buying.

For more resources searcher under tapsearcher, tapsearch.com, tapart news, Ray Tapajna or arklineart.
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May 30th 2011 @ 17:51

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$7.50 per hour is the magic word

A Ray Tapajna Chronicles Tapsearch Com Top Pick article

Free trade came and destroyed the middle class production worker class in the USA. A new working poor class has been created. It still is taking hold


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May 15th 2011 @ 19:24

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Less we forget - free trade history

Today's economic crisis is linked to the past. We need to remind ourselves that free trade now has a long history of failures. Click here to view Ray Tapajna's artwork ( that has millions of results on Yahoo and Bing ) and its ratings at this worldwide graphics forum -

The Clinton Years American Dream Reversed
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April 29th 2011 @ 00:29

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Trade was not the cause of the Depression

By Ray Tapajna from Trade Traps

Why do our economists and major news channels keep saying protectionism was the cause of the Great Depression. Why do they advoid talking about free trade today as the major cause of our economic crisis. It is an major economic ethics problem of our times


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April 17th 2011 @ 20:01

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Economic Ethics ignored

This follow articles about unions in the USA and why government workers should not be surprised that they are next in line to take an hit due to free trade.... Government Workers Zapped

The globalist free traders political leaders and the media are now focusing on cutting the wages and benefits of government workers in the USA. They say the cost of government must go down in order to balance the budget. They ignore how much free trade has destroyed the value of workers and labor in the U.S.A. that caused the imbalances


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April 13th 2011 @ 23:31

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Winds of War now divide us

This follows Thomas Palaima' s book review of the .... Consequences of Wars... at The Rationale Winds of War Book Review by Tom Palaima

Below is a copy of Congressman Dennis Kucinich's address to Congress today regarding President Obama's mitlitay intervention in Libya. Although I can not vote for Congressman Kucinich since he is not for Right to Life on all levels of life. His support for abortion contradicts his stand on war. I also have problems with many of his other far left concepts. However, his stand against free trade and wars are sound and should he should be heard. He challenged President Clinton about free trade and President Obama, members of his own Democrat party, about wars.
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March 31st 2011 @ 20:21

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Working poor class was ignored

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The plight of the private sector production workers and retail service workers were ignored and now public sector government workers feel the pain


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March 18th 2011 @ 21:33

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Economic crisis not new - a story behind the news

Ray Tapajna Chronicles book reviews ... links to Amazon selections and Kindle

President Roosevelt said, economic diseases are highly communicable
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March 7th 2011 @ 18:38

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Living in an Economic Parallel Universe

By Ray Tapajna at 1000s of Tapsearch Com sites

Are we living in a Economic Parallel Universe - Most in politics and in the news media have evidently put on blinders when they go out the door.
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February 23rd 2011 @ 17:44

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Elite even fool themselves

Budget woes and our misguided priorities
Tom Palaima, Regular Contributor Austin American-Statesman

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February 15th 2011 @ 22:35

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