Tapsearch Com EditorTea 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.
Alan Greenspan followed Ayn Rand and in his book The Age of Turbulence,
he makes a point to tell us about the failure of the New Harmony workers
community and calls utopian attempts not really consistent with human
nature . He seems to conclude that human nature is flawed and only the
free market place can deal with a flawed human nature the right way. Peter Maurin,
co-founder of the Catholics Workers said if people like Greenspan are right we need
more policemen than priests. And the biblical saying of do unto others as you would
have them do you is not practical.
I have also paid close attention to Ron Paul and when he talks, he sounds
like he is right on about the real world but I do not understand how he
connects his conclusions in a survival of the fittest patterns. Anyone
who has been in the business world, knows there must be umpires and
referees just like there are in sports for the game to be played according to
hoyle. Otherwise, the business world is based on an anything goes basis.
And our economies based on making money on money instead of making things
has burned out.
I also have a difficult time with free-traders who use the theories of
Adam Smith to defend their positions. First of all Adam Smith came at a
time before the industrial revolution and was talking about merchants
and marketplaces and not about a global economy based on moving production
from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. But, most
importantly, Adam Smith held labor and workers as something sacred and
as the core of society. It is obvious that this is not the case in our
times.
The Tea Parties have a long way to go. We already have the
Constitution Party which has hit the target for the common good and the
proper connection with human nature for many years now. And I do not
see any Tea Party movement mentioning this fact.
It comes down to this question : Who said we had to compete with each
other for the same jobs in a global economic arena ? We been at since
1992 and online since 1998 and our Tapsearch Com sites have about
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The so called free market has to be scoped too.
Alan Greenspan followed Ayn Rand and in his book The Age of Turbulence,
he makes a point to tell us about the failure of the New Harmony workers
community and calls utopian attempts not really consistent with human
nature . He seems to conclude that human nature is flawed and only the
free market place can deal with a flawed human nature the right way. Peter Maurin,
co-founder of the Catholics Workers said if people like Greenspan are right we need
more policemen than priests. And the biblical saying of do unto others as you would
have them do you is not practical.
I have also paid close attention to Ron Paul and when he talks, he sounds
like he is right on about the real world but I do not understand how he
connects his conclusions in a survival of the fittest patterns. Anyone
who has been in the business world, knows there must be umpires and
referees just like there are in sports for the game to be played according to
hoyle. Otherwise, the business world is based on an anything goes basis.
And our economies based on making money on money instead of making things
has burned out.
I also have a difficult time with free-traders who use the theories of
Adam Smith to defend their positions. First of all Adam Smith came at a
time before the industrial revolution and was talking about merchants
and marketplaces and not about a global economy based on moving production
from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. But, most
importantly, Adam Smith held labor and workers as something sacred and
as the core of society. It is obvious that this is not the case in our
times.
The Tea Parties have a long way to go. We already have the
Constitution Party which has hit the target for the common good and the
proper connection with human nature for many years now. And I do not
see any Tea Party movement mentioning this fact.
It comes down to this question : Who said we had to compete with each
other for the same jobs in a global economic arena ? We been at since
1992 and online since 1998 and our Tapsearch Com sites have about
200,000 references and results on Google etc. Our most popular topical
artwork has millions related to its title - Clinton Years American Dream
Reversed. See Clinton art and story behind it. pass on
Real World News with questions to ask our political
leaders, educators and news outlets. ( see free email service to send
message to all. )
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1. The free market and "do unto others..." is completely compatible. Why would it not be?
2. Of course there has to be rules in the business world, and Ron Paul would not disagree (even if government does not make the rules).
3. The U.S. economy still makes plenty of things. Our manufacturing sector was booming in terms of output before the recession.
4. Adam Smith's defense of free trade has been tested and confirmed in more recent times than when he wrote it. It is basically unanimous among economists that free trade is desirable.
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1. The so called free market in the global economic arena is first of all not free since it locks out the real free enterprise system. I have been an advocate for human dignity in the work day and real world trade since 1992 and onlne since 1998 with my Tapsearch Com news and info sites enjoying about 200,000 references on Google alone. My Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic crisis years ago based on several top experts and not only my own from a 60 year work experience in the corporate and business world from the factory floors to the highest echelons in corporate management. For about half that time I was in my own computer business too. All in all, the Biblical phrase - do unto others as you would have them do to you - was absent most of the time. A large church association reported the same concerns and a poll showed that 70 percent of all church goers were unable to follow their beliefs into the work world and business world. I explore the latent response of religion and philosophy to the global economic arena at http://www.therationale.com
My main online sites since 1998 are at Ray Tapajna Chronicles - and - at Exploring the lost worlds in the Flat World The core of our current economic storms started during Cllinton era of driven free trade policies by powerful forces outside the will of the people
And if you want more of a direct example of where I am coming from , after ten years into my advoacy, write about my own journey in the global economic arena noting that this story does not only reflect my own but also reflects the stories of literally thousands of others who I worked with or for . See About Ray Tapajna
A top author and education consultant who also had a career in high tech provides an overview of my thoughts at Communications by Rank This reveals the essential core behind our economic and common good problems. Please review this article especially.
Apparently, we are worlds apart about the so called free market , free trade and globalization and I can not even entertain any way of responding to you especially after viewing your site.
Too many people that I know have lost everything they worked an entire life time to gather. Many are part of the vast record breaking population that have gone bankrupt. Many have lost their health in the process too. So you see why I can not even approach your comments in a common way. It comes down to this - President Clinton proclaimed prosperity while millions were losing their jobs in the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression. Hurricane Katrina exposed a vast underclass living in a silent depression. The same applys to most of all U.S. major cities. Our economy based on making money on money instead of making things has burned out and I do not know what will replace it. The Tea Party has to react knowing this. And if you want to know what ten Mexican Bishops say and what one top Bishop from Central America told Congress directly about free trade - NAFTA and CAFTA - see NAFTA muy malo at my Bizarre Politics webpage. They call it - cultural death. And if you really want to read a real story about the global economic arena, a must read is The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.
And if Adam Smith was living today, he would cry over the mess the free traders have caused. And we need no conspiracy theories to know that free trade and globalization have not evolved in any natural fashion and have been driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people. Workers have had no voice in the process even though they are the core of all society and the real true value behind any economy.
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1. To the extent that the global economic arena locks out real free enterprise, I agree with you. The best global economy is one built on free enterprise.
2. Thank you for clarifying what you meant in regards to the Biblical phrase. That is concerning that so many people feel that way. Still, I don’t think that free markets/free enterprise by definition mean that people cannot treat each other well. Free markets are simply a system that allows the individual actors to determine how much “doing good” is worth. So it is more the underlying morals of people that lead to this phenomenon. Also, note that, generally, Communist nations make Christianity illegal.
3. I think one of the main reasons our views conflict is in how we define “free trade,” “free market,” and “globalization.” To me, free trade simply means a country having no barriers to trade with any other countries. Free markets simply means a system where the government has little to no influence in the actual functioning of the markets, although government is necessary to uphold contracts, laws, etc. Globalization is just the free movement of people, goods, capital, ideas, etc. across borders.
My definitions are at the theoretical level, while you seem to be more concerned with how these concepts have been played out at the political level in practice. I think both of us bring something important to the table. I see that the countries in the world with the least poverty are those where globalization has impacted the most. On the other hand, those places that are “off the grid” so to speak are where people still have life expectancies in their 40s and 50s. Same for free trade and free markets. You, on the other hand, note that corporations/politicians have done a great deal of harm by promoting what they call “free trade,” even when it is far from the free trade that I envision. This is a valid point.
I agree with you that these shortcomings of the actual “globalization movement” should be pointed out. However, I think it would be dangerous to throw away the idea of the theoretical concepts that I promote. True free trade and free markets would be a tremendous benefit to the world.
4. Again, just a slight nitpicking, but the U.S. economy certainly does still make stuff. In fact, U.S. manufacturing output increased by 50% from 1994 to 2006. Jobs in manufacturing has been on a downward slide for a long time, but that is due to increased productivity, not trade, that allows for factories to make more stuff, with fewer people. I consider this a good thing on net.
I have not had the time yet to check out all of the resources you provided, but I certainly will.
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Most statisitics are now flawed compared to the past because of so many changes. An economic professor once told me that there is no such thing as a good or bad economy. He said economics is about measurments and not necessarily being an indicator for a good or bad economy.
However, the general public and news reporting do not plug in this disclaimer.
This is I do know:
Free trade is not trade as historically practiced and defined and should be called something else. It is primarily based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. And the U.S. Federal Government engineered and sponsored this new free trade starting in 1956. This so happened to be the same year, money was globalized after the Suez crisis. This was all started outside of any democratic process and obviously outside the will of the people.
The U.S. unemployment rate does not match up with the past when it was primarily based on full time jobs with benefits. Today , only about 40 percent of American workers qualifying for unemployment insurance. This means there are about 60 percent of workers living in limbo or missing in action from any kind of reporting.
The term manufacturing has changed too. When manufacturing output is compared it could mean many different things compared to the old description Made in the USA. Does the term today include assembled in the USA, built in the USA, fabricated or crafted in the USA etc. When a manufacturer flies our parts to be machined or ground in another country and then flowed back to the main factory for finishing or assembly - is this part of the manufacturing stats.
How does the Gross Domestic Product reporting work with the Gross National Product where one is compared on things happening within the borders of one country and the other is about what goes on everywhere by nationals owning processes anywhere in the world . And how does the Trade Deficit play in all of this when the Gross Domestic Income is part of the formula.
And take things like this. President Clinton admitted he used the U.S. Social Security trust fund to support the Balkan wars. So, money was taken directly from a taxpayer fund and used to produce military products. How does something like this play out with all the stats above.
The poverty rate could most likely be contested in many of the same ways but anyone can do an eyeball test by driving down miles of main streets in most of our major cities in the USA and see miles of empty storefronts, empty factories, empty office buildings and down the side streets full of empty and run down homes. ( My art below in the next comments tells the story too. )
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