Tapsearch Com EditorIt's 1992. The 2008-09 economic crisis is foretold
The published letters by Ray Tapajna since 1992 that foretold the coming of the global economic crisis- first in a series with many more to follow
The published letters fortelling the coming of the 2008-09 economic crisis
It's 1992. I received a 9 page letter from the elder President Bush's office in response to my letter to the President about the economy and free trade that caused the lost of thousands of computer companies. In just a tri-state area of Ohio, Pennslyvania and Michigan, I had a data file of about a 1,000 computer businesses going out of business. Hundreds of computer manufacturers already had closed down across the USA.
I fought to the end for the last micro computers and most of the last industrial computers made in the USA. This came after being part of every computer generation and part of many innovations for the previous thirty years. In the late 1980s and during the 1990s, more than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs. This turned out to be the major cause of the Y2k crisis with not enough workers left to maintain computers systems.
I had been with the top innovator of disk storage technology for ten years. Dysan led the way in this technology and also seeded 30 other companies. All of this rapidly came to a close when a "standards" meeting in Toyko, ruled in favor of Sony "standards". Sony did not invest in the research and development stage but were new comers in the field. Both IBM and HP ruled in favor of Sony. IBM was doing all that they could to protect their mainframe computer business. They made their micro computer hardware compatible wherein any manufacturer in the world could copy the hardware. They gifted Microsoft the right to the operating system. It was called DOS and Microsoft took exclusive property to the software side of things locking out everyone else.
One of the companies Dysan started was Seagate who took over the market in hard disk technology. Seagate ended up with about a 100,000 workers with about 90,000 workers in Malaysia and Asia. Only about 10,000 were left in the USA. U.S. domestic production came to an end.
The generation of americans who dedicated their lives to the computer industry lost their jobs and no one seem to care. Sir James Goldsmith did. He was a former corporate raider who changed to being an advocate for workers everywhere. He wrote the book - The Trap which foretold the coming economic crisis if nations pursued free trade based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. He was a prominent political leader in both England and France. He ran for Prime Minister in England before he died.
In 1992, I read a report about the Maguiladora factory program in Mexico. Since 1956, the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories to Mexico. By 1992, more than 2,000 factories were moved from the USA to Mexico causing the lost of millions of jobs. This was before the NAFTA trade agreement was passed in 1993.
These were the reasons for my letter to the elder President Bush.
His 9 page response did not have anything in it about the issues as described above. He had some good sounding ideas but also pushed for the passage on NAFTA and more free trade acts. His response was contradictory.
The elder President Bush said that 1 in 6 U.S. manufacturing jobs were directly tied to exporting - ( he did not mention the fact that the factories were being exported. )
He said the U.S. must be an export superhouse - ( it ended up with a super exporting of production and not goods. )
He said Capitalism grows from the bottom up, not from top down. Capitalism begins on Main Street and extends to Wall Street, not the other way around. ( Obviously, everything was being set up to work the other way.)
He said U.S. industry is moving from old-style hierarchical organization to "flattened" and "decentralized" structure. ( Obviously the vast trans-national corporations were taking over and small businesses were being decimated by free trade and Globalization. )
He said 1 out of every 3 acres produces crops for sale abroad. (He said this as farms were closing down due to free trade.)
The elder President Bush set the stage for the implementation of NAFTA. President Clinton who never mentioned free trade that much during this run for president, took the baton from Bush and pushed the passage of both NAFTA and GATT trade agreenments.
We had the following letter published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer after Rush Limbaugh joined Clinton in the betrayal of American workers. I did a post about this at Really Long Link
President Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Senator Dole and Congressman Gingrich walked hand in hand down the path of Globalization and Free Trade that led to the global economic crisis.
Unfair competition breeds not only job losses but when businesses can not pay the toll of Free Trade, Wall Street and the banks suffer the consequences too.
Gingrich, Limbaugh and Dole lock hands with Pres Clinton
(Art by J. Suits - 12/11/94 - Cleve Plain Dealer)
(The following published 1994 letter by Ray Tapajna still applys. The passing of NAFTA and GATT betrayed the American workers and now we have more than a 15 years history of Free Trade failures - )
FROM THE DIVINE TO THE DEFICIT_______From 1994
Can Gingrich and the Republicans keep their promises- and should they?
By Ray Tapajna, Cleve Plain Dealer 12/11/94
As a Conservative, I apologize to the American worker (for Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh (Limbaugh was instrumental in the elections of the new Contract with America Republicans.) Soon they will be promising a chicken for every pot and telling us to be happy. Maybe Gingrich will add it to the "contract".
What they don't understand is that many of us came out of the woodwork (to vote) because the option of being "Clintonized" was too much to handle. We were against the new GATT because we were against the old GATT that exported our jobs and industries. Anyone who has dealth with this end of things knows that our American idea if fair play doesn't happen in many foreign countries.Anyone who has been on either side of a strike line knows nothing gets resolved by moving the jobs outside the USA. It seem both Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh have a problem in defining what human dignity is all about
Those who feel Limbaugh betrayed them by hiding his real feelings about the GATT trade agreement until after the election should drop a note to his sponsors and the radiio station to tell them to boycott their products. Then we conservatives would like to reach out to the workers of America and offer an alliance of solidarity until this terrible "Big Money" thing stops stealing the Ameriacn Dream from us. In the meantime, the Republicans can stuff their 'Contract with America'. GATT should have been part of it.
(President Clinton and a Democrat controlled Congress passed both NAFTA and GATT. GATT was passed in a Lameduck session even though the Republicans had won the House- Clinton joined hands with Dole and Gingrich Republicans in betraying the American workers. The number of factories moved from the U.S. to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4,000 -- President Bush followed in 2000 and passed Fast Track which in effect made the Executive Branch of the US , the new CEO of the world economy .-- This has no basis in our Constitution or history.)
We will continue our journey since then as we post many more published letters that foretold the coming of the economic crisis.
Today, there is a stress test for banks. It is based on banks and the financial communities being able to sustain more closedowns of companies with big debts. It's is really about free trade and globalization deflating the value of work. It is really about an economy that is based on making money on money instead of making things burning out. It is really about taking tariffs off goods and putting it on work. It is really about putting tariffs on coming generations with the bail out of big money with the free traders and globalists refusing to take the blame.
The published letters fortelling the coming of the 2008-09 economic crisis
It's 1992. I received a 9 page letter from the elder President Bush's office in response to my letter to the President about the economy and free trade that caused the lost of thousands of computer companies. In just a tri-state area of Ohio, Pennslyvania and Michigan, I had a data file of about a 1,000 computer businesses going out of business. Hundreds of computer manufacturers already had closed down across the USA.
I fought to the end for the last micro computers and most of the last industrial computers made in the USA. This came after being part of every computer generation and part of many innovations for the previous thirty years. In the late 1980s and during the 1990s, more than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs. This turned out to be the major cause of the Y2k crisis with not enough workers left to maintain computers systems.
I had been with the top innovator of disk storage technology for ten years. Dysan led the way in this technology and also seeded 30 other companies. All of this rapidly came to a close when a "standards" meeting in Toyko, ruled in favor of Sony "standards". Sony did not invest in the research and development stage but were new comers in the field. Both IBM and HP ruled in favor of Sony. IBM was doing all that they could to protect their mainframe computer business. They made their micro computer hardware compatible wherein any manufacturer in the world could copy the hardware. They gifted Microsoft the right to the operating system. It was called DOS and Microsoft took exclusive property to the software side of things locking out everyone else.
One of the companies Dysan started was Seagate who took over the market in hard disk technology. Seagate ended up with about a 100,000 workers with about 90,000 workers in Malaysia and Asia. Only about 10,000 were left in the USA. U.S. domestic production came to an end.
The generation of americans who dedicated their lives to the computer industry lost their jobs and no one seem to care. Sir James Goldsmith did. He was a former corporate raider who changed to being an advocate for workers everywhere. He wrote the book - The Trap which foretold the coming economic crisis if nations pursued free trade based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. He was a prominent political leader in both England and France. He ran for Prime Minister in England before he died.
In 1992, I read a report about the Maguiladora factory program in Mexico. Since 1956, the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories to Mexico. By 1992, more than 2,000 factories were moved from the USA to Mexico causing the lost of millions of jobs. This was before the NAFTA trade agreement was passed in 1993.
These were the reasons for my letter to the elder President Bush.
His 9 page response did not have anything in it about the issues as described above. He had some good sounding ideas but also pushed for the passage on NAFTA and more free trade acts. His response was contradictory.
The elder President Bush said that 1 in 6 U.S. manufacturing jobs were directly tied to exporting - ( he did not mention the fact that the factories were being exported. )
He said the U.S. must be an export superhouse - ( it ended up with a super exporting of production and not goods. )
He said Capitalism grows from the bottom up, not from top down. Capitalism begins on Main Street and extends to Wall Street, not the other way around. ( Obviously, everything was being set up to work the other way.)
He said U.S. industry is moving from old-style hierarchical organization to "flattened" and "decentralized" structure. ( Obviously the vast trans-national corporations were taking over and small businesses were being decimated by free trade and Globalization. )
He said 1 out of every 3 acres produces crops for sale abroad. (He said this as farms were closing down due to free trade.)
The elder President Bush set the stage for the implementation of NAFTA. President Clinton who never mentioned free trade that much during this run for president, took the baton from Bush and pushed the passage of both NAFTA and GATT trade agreenments.
We had the following letter published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer after Rush Limbaugh joined Clinton in the betrayal of American workers. I did a post about this at Really Long Link
President Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Senator Dole and Congressman Gingrich walked hand in hand down the path of Globalization and Free Trade that led to the global economic crisis.
Unfair competition breeds not only job losses but when businesses can not pay the toll of Free Trade, Wall Street and the banks suffer the consequences too.
Gingrich, Limbaugh and Dole lock hands with Pres Clinton
(Art by J. Suits - 12/11/94 - Cleve Plain Dealer)
(The following published 1994 letter by Ray Tapajna still applys. The passing of NAFTA and GATT betrayed the American workers and now we have more than a 15 years history of Free Trade failures - )
FROM THE DIVINE TO THE DEFICIT_______From 1994
Can Gingrich and the Republicans keep their promises- and should they?
By Ray Tapajna, Cleve Plain Dealer 12/11/94
As a Conservative, I apologize to the American worker (for Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh (Limbaugh was instrumental in the elections of the new Contract with America Republicans.) Soon they will be promising a chicken for every pot and telling us to be happy. Maybe Gingrich will add it to the "contract".
What they don't understand is that many of us came out of the woodwork (to vote) because the option of being "Clintonized" was too much to handle. We were against the new GATT because we were against the old GATT that exported our jobs and industries. Anyone who has dealth with this end of things knows that our American idea if fair play doesn't happen in many foreign countries.Anyone who has been on either side of a strike line knows nothing gets resolved by moving the jobs outside the USA. It seem both Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh have a problem in defining what human dignity is all about
Those who feel Limbaugh betrayed them by hiding his real feelings about the GATT trade agreement until after the election should drop a note to his sponsors and the radiio station to tell them to boycott their products. Then we conservatives would like to reach out to the workers of America and offer an alliance of solidarity until this terrible "Big Money" thing stops stealing the Ameriacn Dream from us. In the meantime, the Republicans can stuff their 'Contract with America'. GATT should have been part of it.
(President Clinton and a Democrat controlled Congress passed both NAFTA and GATT. GATT was passed in a Lameduck session even though the Republicans had won the House- Clinton joined hands with Dole and Gingrich Republicans in betraying the American workers. The number of factories moved from the U.S. to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4,000 -- President Bush followed in 2000 and passed Fast Track which in effect made the Executive Branch of the US , the new CEO of the world economy .-- This has no basis in our Constitution or history.)
We will continue our journey since then as we post many more published letters that foretold the coming of the economic crisis.
Today, there is a stress test for banks. It is based on banks and the financial communities being able to sustain more closedowns of companies with big debts. It's is really about free trade and globalization deflating the value of work. It is really about an economy that is based on making money on money instead of making things burning out. It is really about taking tariffs off goods and putting it on work. It is really about putting tariffs on coming generations with the bail out of big money with the free traders and globalists refusing to take the blame.
