Tapsearch Com EditorOpen Letter to Drew Carey about his hometown
March 9th 2010 19:16
by Ray Tapajna - American Dream Renew
TV host of the Price is Right Drew Carey has created a series of documentaries about restoring his hometown of Cleveland Ohio and he is on target about restoring our economies from " bottom-up projects" driven by the people and not from the top down.
A trickle down economy down through the private sector and down from big government has failed. Free Trade has ransacked the Free Enterprise System. The Free Market is now an oxymoron term.
If you do not make it or grow it , then the next best thing to do is SELL IT. And this commerce has to start from the bottom up and not from the top down. Someone tell Drew Carey about our one example: Send email to
friends@foxnews.com
Foxreport@foxnews.com
Oreilly@foxnews.com
yourcomments@foxnews.com
See story : Drew Carey, host of the TV show The Price is Right, who grew up in Cleveland, has created a series of documentaries offering ideas and solutions for restoring his home town. see The Cleveland Plain Dealer , March 8, 2010, front page story by Michael K. McIntyre - mmintyre@plaind.com - twitter it around the world - and note our example below.) Tell Drew Carey he could do a show at:
The Downtown Airport Boardwalk
(Cleveland has a one of a kind downtown airport with many talking about getting rid of it. The airport represents the heart of Cleveland Ohio and it can be many things at one time using
"bottom-up projects" to revitalize not only the city but the people too. This is the idea I offer and the possibilities are endless. All cities in the world have something of their own in place that can be utilized easily and without a high cost. What is yours? Here is ours:
In Cleveland Ohio like many other major cities across our land and the world, leaders are wondering how to make a comeback. Instead of talking about bringing back good paying jobs, they are talking Casinos and red-light traffic cameras to raise money. They offer tax abatements and outright payoffs for foreign assemblers. They foster big box stores where the money spent at retail quickly fans out to foreign countries where the products art made. Their priorities are based on a tax revenue mind-set rather than on creating real commerce.
Cleveland has a downtown airport right on the lake. The air traffic is down and there is talk about making a park or building condomiums there. A park would be nice but it would serve no real purpose in the recovery of Cleveland as one of the poorest cities in our country . High priced residential units will not work either. We need to work from the bottom up and not from the top down.
We suggest using the airport as a Mini-Mercantile Center for Business to Business and Corporate demonstrations . Vendors could sponsor a buffet where business people could use their calling card as their ticket to get in for a free buffet lunch or dinner. Vendors could present their products and services and have presenters going from table to table with their items while the main presentation is going on too. The airport fees for vendors flying in could be discounted. This in itself would highlight the downtown airport on the lake as a wonderful positive that Cleveland has a airport on the lake. There could be charter flights ferrying people to the islands in Lake Erie and to nearby cities in Canada.
At night, the center could be used for business to people selling bringing in consumers. Outside or in the hangars, a vast flea market or bazaar could be started. It could be used for in the selling of art, antiques and collectibles too with an upscale area. Cleveland like many other major cities now have what I call " the Gray Economy". I also call the people who picked through the rubbish on pick up day "the Gray People". This is a big business that no one talks about. Why not have a vast flea market or upgraded bazaar at the airport. This would bring many people into the area.
Businesses and restaurants downtown could have booths for people to sample their wares. There could be a shuttle trolley bus going back and forth between the two areas and the West Side Market. Upper scale businesses and restaurants could have limos taking customers back to their establishments. Coupons could also be given away at the center only for the Rock Hall of Fame and the top Science Center close by to draw people from everywhere. A ship could be docked near by to offer overnights rooms and even be an extension of the mini mercantile center.
A Kiddie Land could be built to draw families. A giant Ferris Wheel could be built and light up the whole area off Lake Erie and on the lake itself.
The Mercantile Fair would be the attraction with the Rock Hall of Fame the Science Center close by. At the Science Center or at the airport , there could be a replica of a working old fashion windmill or water wheel as an attraction and again to light up the area. A boardwalk could easily be had from E9th to as far as E40th close to the Lake. Street Vendors could be located on the boardwalk. There could be test drives in this area for potential auto buyers.
In all it would have with many people interacting with each other in selling and buying. It would be a people to people venture.
The world renown Cleveland Art Museum will close down for renovations for a year or so. A mini-art museum could be a the downtown airport during this time or keep it as an ongoing display.
Even an E-Bay Rep could be on hand finding regional items for consumers worldwide right there.
A program could be started to to promote a Made in Cleveland label perhaps calling it
Pride of Cleveland products!
following with a Made in Ohio and Made in the USA label. The label program could be advertised heavily throughout the city, state and country as a way of letting all know what a local value-added economy is and promote area manufacturing.
(We tried in many ways to tell our leaders and media here about this all but no one seems to listen. It would not take much money to get it all going but our leaders talk Casinos and parks instead.) And they talk education- education but when the core of the classroom is a $100 to $200 PC computer, that is not even made in the USA, how can anyone expect anything good to come from this. The price of the device demonstrates the demise of high tech in the USA . It is especially silly to push computer education when word processors only make a bit over minimum wages. Who would have predicted that workers need computer skills just to earn a minimum wage.
We are reaching a point of no return. Low paid workers need low price goods. However this is a never ending race to the bottom. We are shopping our way out of our jobs. We are losing decent paying jobs. A working poor class has been created in the USA. They find it more and more difficult to even afford the cheaper imports while at the same time the destitute workers outside the USA who make the products can not afford to buy the very things they make for us let alone buy anything the USA may have left to sell.
John A Byrne, editor of Fast Company magazine, commenting on an article about Wal-Mart, says in an editoriall that many people are literally shopping themselves, their children, and their friends out of work. Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart launched a Buy American crusade in 1985 but when he died in 1992, things changed and Wal-Mart has become the world center of cheap imported goods in a new slave trade- a wage slave trade.
Steve Bobbins, CEO of Carolina Mills, whose company closed down ten factories and cut 1,200 employees in the USA, reported that even if Carolina Mills employees worked for nothing at all, his company can not compete with the products sold at Wal-Mart. He also says, we are shopping ourselves out of our jobs.
On Bill Moyer's PBS program, a reporter told how Wal-Mart employees have to take advantage of every government or other social help program to survive. They do not independently make enough money at Wal-Mart. A former Wal-Mart manager who was with Wal-Mart for 17 years showed a long file he kept of all the social service programs for his employees. He also said that the turn over rate hindered many employees from ever enjoying any company benefits. No one thinks about adding all the extra costs at the end of the bill when they shop at Wal-Mart.
Even the upper middle class who has lived off the working poor class is now being affected too. Many higher paid high tech jobs are now be outsourced to places like India and China. A top leader in India says, the USA better get used to his country being better and less expensive in the high tech industry.
A Mayor of a Southern California town told how his town gave Wal-Mart $1.2 million dollars to build their store in his town. The town never recouped the money and now Wal-Mart is closing down the store and moving to greener pastures after putting out many local businesses.
President Bush's tax cuts and other stimulus packages have a very short fuse. Any extra money that flows into the economy , first goes to the retail level and then fans out to the far away places where the products are made, The money does not stay here in the USA to grow more value back down to the raw product level.. the money goes to places like China and India to grow their economy instead.
In this race to the bottom, as more US wages deflate and it is becoming a no win situation for all. Nothing from nothing ends up nothing. Who will untangle this war of terror on jobs, that Globalism and Free Trade have bred.
Follow Ray Tapajna as tapsearcher at Twitter Com tapsearcher and retweet the message related to this article to friends worldwide.
TV host of the Price is Right Drew Carey has created a series of documentaries about restoring his hometown of Cleveland Ohio and he is on target about restoring our economies from " bottom-up projects" driven by the people and not from the top down.
A trickle down economy down through the private sector and down from big government has failed. Free Trade has ransacked the Free Enterprise System. The Free Market is now an oxymoron term.
Economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. It is time to start from the beginning.
If you do not make it or grow it , then the next best thing to do is SELL IT. And this commerce has to start from the bottom up and not from the top down. Someone tell Drew Carey about our one example: Send email to
friends@foxnews.com
Foxreport@foxnews.com
Oreilly@foxnews.com
yourcomments@foxnews.com
See story : Drew Carey, host of the TV show The Price is Right, who grew up in Cleveland, has created a series of documentaries offering ideas and solutions for restoring his home town. see The Cleveland Plain Dealer , March 8, 2010, front page story by Michael K. McIntyre - mmintyre@plaind.com - twitter it around the world - and note our example below.) Tell Drew Carey he could do a show at:
The Downtown Airport Boardwalk
(Cleveland has a one of a kind downtown airport with many talking about getting rid of it. The airport represents the heart of Cleveland Ohio and it can be many things at one time using
"bottom-up projects" to revitalize not only the city but the people too. This is the idea I offer and the possibilities are endless. All cities in the world have something of their own in place that can be utilized easily and without a high cost. What is yours? Here is ours:
In Cleveland Ohio like many other major cities across our land and the world, leaders are wondering how to make a comeback. Instead of talking about bringing back good paying jobs, they are talking Casinos and red-light traffic cameras to raise money. They offer tax abatements and outright payoffs for foreign assemblers. They foster big box stores where the money spent at retail quickly fans out to foreign countries where the products art made. Their priorities are based on a tax revenue mind-set rather than on creating real commerce.
Cleveland has a downtown airport right on the lake. The air traffic is down and there is talk about making a park or building condomiums there. A park would be nice but it would serve no real purpose in the recovery of Cleveland as one of the poorest cities in our country . High priced residential units will not work either. We need to work from the bottom up and not from the top down.
We suggest using the airport as a Mini-Mercantile Center for Business to Business and Corporate demonstrations . Vendors could sponsor a buffet where business people could use their calling card as their ticket to get in for a free buffet lunch or dinner. Vendors could present their products and services and have presenters going from table to table with their items while the main presentation is going on too. The airport fees for vendors flying in could be discounted. This in itself would highlight the downtown airport on the lake as a wonderful positive that Cleveland has a airport on the lake. There could be charter flights ferrying people to the islands in Lake Erie and to nearby cities in Canada.
At night, the center could be used for business to people selling bringing in consumers. Outside or in the hangars, a vast flea market or bazaar could be started. It could be used for in the selling of art, antiques and collectibles too with an upscale area. Cleveland like many other major cities now have what I call " the Gray Economy". I also call the people who picked through the rubbish on pick up day "the Gray People". This is a big business that no one talks about. Why not have a vast flea market or upgraded bazaar at the airport. This would bring many people into the area.
Businesses and restaurants downtown could have booths for people to sample their wares. There could be a shuttle trolley bus going back and forth between the two areas and the West Side Market. Upper scale businesses and restaurants could have limos taking customers back to their establishments. Coupons could also be given away at the center only for the Rock Hall of Fame and the top Science Center close by to draw people from everywhere. A ship could be docked near by to offer overnights rooms and even be an extension of the mini mercantile center.
A Kiddie Land could be built to draw families. A giant Ferris Wheel could be built and light up the whole area off Lake Erie and on the lake itself.
The Mercantile Fair would be the attraction with the Rock Hall of Fame the Science Center close by. At the Science Center or at the airport , there could be a replica of a working old fashion windmill or water wheel as an attraction and again to light up the area. A boardwalk could easily be had from E9th to as far as E40th close to the Lake. Street Vendors could be located on the boardwalk. There could be test drives in this area for potential auto buyers.
In all it would have with many people interacting with each other in selling and buying. It would be a people to people venture.
The world renown Cleveland Art Museum will close down for renovations for a year or so. A mini-art museum could be a the downtown airport during this time or keep it as an ongoing display.
Even an E-Bay Rep could be on hand finding regional items for consumers worldwide right there.
A program could be started to to promote a Made in Cleveland label perhaps calling it
Pride of Cleveland products!
following with a Made in Ohio and Made in the USA label. The label program could be advertised heavily throughout the city, state and country as a way of letting all know what a local value-added economy is and promote area manufacturing.
(We tried in many ways to tell our leaders and media here about this all but no one seems to listen. It would not take much money to get it all going but our leaders talk Casinos and parks instead.) And they talk education- education but when the core of the classroom is a $100 to $200 PC computer, that is not even made in the USA, how can anyone expect anything good to come from this. The price of the device demonstrates the demise of high tech in the USA . It is especially silly to push computer education when word processors only make a bit over minimum wages. Who would have predicted that workers need computer skills just to earn a minimum wage.
We are reaching a point of no return. Low paid workers need low price goods. However this is a never ending race to the bottom. We are shopping our way out of our jobs. We are losing decent paying jobs. A working poor class has been created in the USA. They find it more and more difficult to even afford the cheaper imports while at the same time the destitute workers outside the USA who make the products can not afford to buy the very things they make for us let alone buy anything the USA may have left to sell.
John A Byrne, editor of Fast Company magazine, commenting on an article about Wal-Mart, says in an editoriall that many people are literally shopping themselves, their children, and their friends out of work. Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart launched a Buy American crusade in 1985 but when he died in 1992, things changed and Wal-Mart has become the world center of cheap imported goods in a new slave trade- a wage slave trade.
Steve Bobbins, CEO of Carolina Mills, whose company closed down ten factories and cut 1,200 employees in the USA, reported that even if Carolina Mills employees worked for nothing at all, his company can not compete with the products sold at Wal-Mart. He also says, we are shopping ourselves out of our jobs.
On Bill Moyer's PBS program, a reporter told how Wal-Mart employees have to take advantage of every government or other social help program to survive. They do not independently make enough money at Wal-Mart. A former Wal-Mart manager who was with Wal-Mart for 17 years showed a long file he kept of all the social service programs for his employees. He also said that the turn over rate hindered many employees from ever enjoying any company benefits. No one thinks about adding all the extra costs at the end of the bill when they shop at Wal-Mart.
Even the upper middle class who has lived off the working poor class is now being affected too. Many higher paid high tech jobs are now be outsourced to places like India and China. A top leader in India says, the USA better get used to his country being better and less expensive in the high tech industry.
A Mayor of a Southern California town told how his town gave Wal-Mart $1.2 million dollars to build their store in his town. The town never recouped the money and now Wal-Mart is closing down the store and moving to greener pastures after putting out many local businesses.
President Bush's tax cuts and other stimulus packages have a very short fuse. Any extra money that flows into the economy , first goes to the retail level and then fans out to the far away places where the products are made, The money does not stay here in the USA to grow more value back down to the raw product level.. the money goes to places like China and India to grow their economy instead.
In this race to the bottom, as more US wages deflate and it is becoming a no win situation for all. Nothing from nothing ends up nothing. Who will untangle this war of terror on jobs, that Globalism and Free Trade have bred.
Follow Ray Tapajna as tapsearcher at Twitter Com tapsearcher and retweet the message related to this article to friends worldwide.
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