Tapsearch Com EditorIllegal immigration causes and effects
November 28th 2009 20:58
We need to stop living off the impoverished workers who make our goods for us in other lands and the new working poor class in our country due to it as we shop our way out of our jobs.
Is it human nature to shop for the cheapest price no matter what without considering the human conditions behind the price? If it is, religion and philosophy have both failed their mission in our times.
Is illegal immigration our new wage slave trade?
We have written about the causes and effects of illegal immigration before and it seems many people of good will are part of the cause and effect without knowing it.
We wrote about what ten mexican bishops call NAFTA free trade - they call it cultural death
See also what Bishop Ramazzi, leading Central American bishop, told the U.S Congress what CAFTA free trade does to his country.
and how free trade takes tariffs off products and put then on workers
The value of workers and labor become the commodities actually beingtraded in the process. Adam Smith who the globalist free traders used to defend their methods, held workers as something sacred before any other economic evaluations. He held workers as the core of society.
With this background, we review Pope Benedict's new economic encyclical We also dedicated a large part of our The Rationale Quest exploring the latent response of religion and philosophy to the global economic arena.
Unfortnately the American Catholic bishops are still out of touch with the real causes and effects behind illegal immigration. Bishop Roger Gries , Message of Faith from the Cleveland Plain Dealer reveals this in his message about illegal immigration. He says thousands of migrant workers are vital to our communities. This may be true but it is a wrong reference for the plight of migrant workers. Fourty years ago, advocates fought for migrant workers in a different way. They challenged the system that allowed the impoverishment of workers be they migrant or otherwise. They asked why anyone had to work for wages that did not aallow a living wage.
The question of our time is this: Why did so many Mexican workers migrate to the U.S. to seek economic survival after so many Americans lost their jobs in the process of free trade?
What is the real moral process and responsibility of Christians in this matter?
I became an advocate for human dignity in the workplace after more than a million workers in just in the computer industry lost their jobs with thousands of small computer companies and hundreds of computer manufacturers closing down due to free trade. I was a trouble shooter supplyer for micro industrial computers and other manufacturers who were trying to cope with the attack on their existence due to unfair competition. In this pursuit, I had to keep up with all the particulars confronting the industry. In 1992, I read an article in a computer trade magazine that changed my life. It prompted me to becoming an advocate for human dignity in the workday and fair trade. The article told about the maquiladaro factories in Mexico where corporations could move their production or cut all their production in house and use impoverished workers in Mexico to produce their products. There was even a set up where corporations did not need any direct employees at all. They could contract the factory space, the workers and everything else for just one price which was added up to a fraction of the costs in the U.S. and freedom from all regulations. The "good" corporations stayed in place in the USA while the bad ones took advantage of a new kind of wage slave trade.
The article in the computer trade magazine revealed a history of deception. The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside of the USA starting in 1956. This was the same year the world was on the edge of a financial crisis following the Suez Canal crisis. 1956 proved to be the globalization of money values. The money people thought they could save money values by moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. As we know now, it is a total failure. We do not need any conspiracy theories to know that free trade and globalization have been driven by powerful forces in government, the financial and investment communities and massive trans-national corporations. The 1956 program set up to move factories outside the U.S. was supposed to be a temporary test. It was set up to help the Mexican and Central American economies while providing cheaper goods for the American consumers. It never ended. Only a few hundred factories were moved in the first twenty years but by 1992 prior to the passing of NAFTA, more than 2000 US factories were moved to Mexico. There were some stories about the ugly working conditions and the pollution caused by this but nothing changed. Pregnant women workers were having babies with more than the average abnormal conditions. When President Clinton passed the NAFTA trade agreement, the number of factories moved to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4000. Soon after this , President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to save the value of the peso that was affecting money values in Europe and beyond while at the same time save the Mexican economy that was in ruins. Free trade was a failure then and many experts forecasted the coming economic crisis back then. None of the programs halted the impoverishing of Meican workers while a vast new working poor class in the U.S. replaced a middle class. It actually caused a massive migration of workers to the USA seeking economic survival. However, the surge of illegal immigrants added to the economic problems in the USA.
One of the few who openly opposed this was the Catholic Workers. They were one of the first to sound off about this scam of the century. The Church itself was silent. Rerum Novarum which stood the test of history for more than a hundred years in the defense of human dignity in the workday was thrashed. The new economic encyclical by Pope Benedict does not even mention free trade specifically about violating moral laws.
Now, we have American bishops reciting a scenario that actually makes the problems worst and not better. The "Bewildered New World" that was forecasted by many experts is here with many people of good will igniting more of the fire that is burining the American Dream away on both sides of the border. The Catholic bishops should first announce that only local value added economies with several added levels of added value in balanced geopolitical settings work. Of course, charity calls us to serve the poor every where and under all circumstances but we must also look at the causes and effects behind the problem and not just accept them as something "vital" to our communities. We must stop living off the poor while rejecting conditions that produce them.
A priest from Cleveland led a caravan of trucks full of food and supplies to help the Mexican subsistent living farmers who lost their farms due to free trade in Mexico. Father Begin who tried to do things the right way years ago, is still considered to be something of an outsider in the Diocese of Cleveland.
Your text goes hereRay Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic crisis years ago based on experts who predicted the coming of our "Bewildered New World".
Note Ray Tapajna's other article at Ethics Box relating to the above post. Free trade not only cultural death
Is it human nature to shop for the cheapest price no matter what without considering the human conditions behind the price? If it is, religion and philosophy have both failed their mission in our times.
Is illegal immigration our new wage slave trade?
We have written about the causes and effects of illegal immigration before and it seems many people of good will are part of the cause and effect without knowing it.
We wrote about what ten mexican bishops call NAFTA free trade - they call it cultural death
See also what Bishop Ramazzi, leading Central American bishop, told the U.S Congress what CAFTA free trade does to his country.
and how free trade takes tariffs off products and put then on workers
The value of workers and labor become the commodities actually beingtraded in the process. Adam Smith who the globalist free traders used to defend their methods, held workers as something sacred before any other economic evaluations. He held workers as the core of society.
With this background, we review Pope Benedict's new economic encyclical We also dedicated a large part of our The Rationale Quest exploring the latent response of religion and philosophy to the global economic arena.
Unfortnately the American Catholic bishops are still out of touch with the real causes and effects behind illegal immigration. Bishop Roger Gries , Message of Faith from the Cleveland Plain Dealer reveals this in his message about illegal immigration. He says thousands of migrant workers are vital to our communities. This may be true but it is a wrong reference for the plight of migrant workers. Fourty years ago, advocates fought for migrant workers in a different way. They challenged the system that allowed the impoverishment of workers be they migrant or otherwise. They asked why anyone had to work for wages that did not aallow a living wage.
The question of our time is this: Why did so many Mexican workers migrate to the U.S. to seek economic survival after so many Americans lost their jobs in the process of free trade?
What is the real moral process and responsibility of Christians in this matter?
I became an advocate for human dignity in the workplace after more than a million workers in just in the computer industry lost their jobs with thousands of small computer companies and hundreds of computer manufacturers closing down due to free trade. I was a trouble shooter supplyer for micro industrial computers and other manufacturers who were trying to cope with the attack on their existence due to unfair competition. In this pursuit, I had to keep up with all the particulars confronting the industry. In 1992, I read an article in a computer trade magazine that changed my life. It prompted me to becoming an advocate for human dignity in the workday and fair trade. The article told about the maquiladaro factories in Mexico where corporations could move their production or cut all their production in house and use impoverished workers in Mexico to produce their products. There was even a set up where corporations did not need any direct employees at all. They could contract the factory space, the workers and everything else for just one price which was added up to a fraction of the costs in the U.S. and freedom from all regulations. The "good" corporations stayed in place in the USA while the bad ones took advantage of a new kind of wage slave trade.
The article in the computer trade magazine revealed a history of deception. The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside of the USA starting in 1956. This was the same year the world was on the edge of a financial crisis following the Suez Canal crisis. 1956 proved to be the globalization of money values. The money people thought they could save money values by moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. As we know now, it is a total failure. We do not need any conspiracy theories to know that free trade and globalization have been driven by powerful forces in government, the financial and investment communities and massive trans-national corporations. The 1956 program set up to move factories outside the U.S. was supposed to be a temporary test. It was set up to help the Mexican and Central American economies while providing cheaper goods for the American consumers. It never ended. Only a few hundred factories were moved in the first twenty years but by 1992 prior to the passing of NAFTA, more than 2000 US factories were moved to Mexico. There were some stories about the ugly working conditions and the pollution caused by this but nothing changed. Pregnant women workers were having babies with more than the average abnormal conditions. When President Clinton passed the NAFTA trade agreement, the number of factories moved to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4000. Soon after this , President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to save the value of the peso that was affecting money values in Europe and beyond while at the same time save the Mexican economy that was in ruins. Free trade was a failure then and many experts forecasted the coming economic crisis back then. None of the programs halted the impoverishing of Meican workers while a vast new working poor class in the U.S. replaced a middle class. It actually caused a massive migration of workers to the USA seeking economic survival. However, the surge of illegal immigrants added to the economic problems in the USA.
One of the few who openly opposed this was the Catholic Workers. They were one of the first to sound off about this scam of the century. The Church itself was silent. Rerum Novarum which stood the test of history for more than a hundred years in the defense of human dignity in the workday was thrashed. The new economic encyclical by Pope Benedict does not even mention free trade specifically about violating moral laws.
Now, we have American bishops reciting a scenario that actually makes the problems worst and not better. The "Bewildered New World" that was forecasted by many experts is here with many people of good will igniting more of the fire that is burining the American Dream away on both sides of the border. The Catholic bishops should first announce that only local value added economies with several added levels of added value in balanced geopolitical settings work. Of course, charity calls us to serve the poor every where and under all circumstances but we must also look at the causes and effects behind the problem and not just accept them as something "vital" to our communities. We must stop living off the poor while rejecting conditions that produce them.
A priest from Cleveland led a caravan of trucks full of food and supplies to help the Mexican subsistent living farmers who lost their farms due to free trade in Mexico. Father Begin who tried to do things the right way years ago, is still considered to be something of an outsider in the Diocese of Cleveland.
Your text goes hereRay Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic crisis years ago based on experts who predicted the coming of our "Bewildered New World".
Note Ray Tapajna's other article at Ethics Box relating to the above post. Free trade not only cultural death
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