Tapsearch Com EditorFront Page article distorts events
November 27th 2011 02:48
Small deal makes the front page while real issues are ignored.
We have a new kind of "blank journalism" where the news outlets leave out the stories they do not want to tell.
I question our top newspaper in Ohio motivations and editorial stance in making Stephen Koff , Washington DC Bureau Chief , article being a front page story. He goes after two champions of those against free trade. He makes a big deal about both of them using contract workers while they are supposed to be ardent supporters of workers dignity.
Contract workers are the name of the game now in the USA across the board. Generally, workers are sought out to be only contract workers to save the overhead of them being directly employed. However, many workers want to be contract workers and consider themselves in their own business. This way they can also work for others the same way at the same time.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Congressman Dennis Kucinich who have fought the economic insanity of free trade for years, evidently have some contract workers on their staff. No one asked the contract workers themselves if they prefer to work on that basis but Stephen Koff assumes they are not employed directly by the two U.S. House of Representatives in order to avoid the overhead as direct employees. Naturally, politicians hire more people during election time and some are free lance workers. In the end the article was about something that is usual these days while other job situations are much worst.
We now will be living in the "Occupy Wall Street" era and an article about the
use of of contract workers for election phases is really beside the point these days when so many worst case situations exist. If these situations were reported on a regular basis , we would not be in the fix we are in. Many of the protesters are unemployed and the number of those protesting suggests that U.S. unemployment rate should be challenged. Why talk about contract workers when the Bureau of Unemployment stops counting those who given up looking for work as employed.
There another story that can be told too about interest income where many make a living without paying any payroll taxes. Businesses escape the taxes this way too by taking interest income instead of paying payroll tax in many creative ways. In the private sector, everything is happening to avoid all overhead for the sake of competing in a global economic arena. Now in the "Occupy Wall Street"world we have an opportunity to search things out and make things right again.
For far too long corporations have played a game outside of the box. For
example, people like "Chainsaw Al" - Albert Dunlap bought companies like
the Scott Paper Company and axed 11,200 workers. He created a good
looking balance sheet this way with the stock market labeling it as an
increase in productivity and responded with delight. Knowing this shell
of a company could not last long, Dunlap sold Scott Paper to
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, ( who were probably happy that Dunlap did
the dirty work for them ) for $9 billion dollars netting billions for
the shareholders and millions for himself. These kinds of story should
be on the front page now in our new "Occupy Wall Street" era.
On the other side of things, a few years ago a President of a university
complained hundreds of young people would not longer be able to get an
education since the payroll tax had to be paid on work study programs.
In the free trade world, we live off 20 cents an hour workers in
everything we use or eat including the cars we drive. Government workers
were surprised when free trade came their way and challenged their very
existence.
I spent five years in an advocacy trying to find work for a physically
and mentally workers community. The workers were willing to work for
less than minimum wage and were paid by the piece and not by any hourly
rate. The more physically able workers were willing to produce more
without any extra pay for the sake of those who were less able. I found
doing this to be an impossible task due to the raw competition due to
free trade.
There are very few stories about any of these events. It leads me to believe many newspapers have a globalist free trade policy in their approach to the news.
By Ray Tapajna
See summary of articles at at main Tapart News site with a drop down menu showing other related sites and articles
We have a new kind of "blank journalism" where the news outlets leave out the stories they do not want to tell.
I question our top newspaper in Ohio motivations and editorial stance in making Stephen Koff , Washington DC Bureau Chief , article being a front page story. He goes after two champions of those against free trade. He makes a big deal about both of them using contract workers while they are supposed to be ardent supporters of workers dignity.
Contract workers are the name of the game now in the USA across the board. Generally, workers are sought out to be only contract workers to save the overhead of them being directly employed. However, many workers want to be contract workers and consider themselves in their own business. This way they can also work for others the same way at the same time.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Congressman Dennis Kucinich who have fought the economic insanity of free trade for years, evidently have some contract workers on their staff. No one asked the contract workers themselves if they prefer to work on that basis but Stephen Koff assumes they are not employed directly by the two U.S. House of Representatives in order to avoid the overhead as direct employees. Naturally, politicians hire more people during election time and some are free lance workers. In the end the article was about something that is usual these days while other job situations are much worst.
We now will be living in the "Occupy Wall Street" era and an article about the
use of of contract workers for election phases is really beside the point these days when so many worst case situations exist. If these situations were reported on a regular basis , we would not be in the fix we are in. Many of the protesters are unemployed and the number of those protesting suggests that U.S. unemployment rate should be challenged. Why talk about contract workers when the Bureau of Unemployment stops counting those who given up looking for work as employed.
There another story that can be told too about interest income where many make a living without paying any payroll taxes. Businesses escape the taxes this way too by taking interest income instead of paying payroll tax in many creative ways. In the private sector, everything is happening to avoid all overhead for the sake of competing in a global economic arena. Now in the "Occupy Wall Street"world we have an opportunity to search things out and make things right again.
For far too long corporations have played a game outside of the box. For
example, people like "Chainsaw Al" - Albert Dunlap bought companies like
the Scott Paper Company and axed 11,200 workers. He created a good
looking balance sheet this way with the stock market labeling it as an
increase in productivity and responded with delight. Knowing this shell
of a company could not last long, Dunlap sold Scott Paper to
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, ( who were probably happy that Dunlap did
the dirty work for them ) for $9 billion dollars netting billions for
the shareholders and millions for himself. These kinds of story should
be on the front page now in our new "Occupy Wall Street" era.
On the other side of things, a few years ago a President of a university
complained hundreds of young people would not longer be able to get an
education since the payroll tax had to be paid on work study programs.
In the free trade world, we live off 20 cents an hour workers in
everything we use or eat including the cars we drive. Government workers
were surprised when free trade came their way and challenged their very
existence.
I spent five years in an advocacy trying to find work for a physically
and mentally workers community. The workers were willing to work for
less than minimum wage and were paid by the piece and not by any hourly
rate. The more physically able workers were willing to produce more
without any extra pay for the sake of those who were less able. I found
doing this to be an impossible task due to the raw competition due to
free trade.
There are very few stories about any of these events. It leads me to believe many newspapers have a globalist free trade policy in their approach to the news.
By Ray Tapajna
See summary of articles at at main Tapart News site with a drop down menu showing other related sites and articles
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