Tapsearch Com EditorThe Free Trade Mirage
January 20th 2011 22:10
The Seattle Times has an article about Free Trade with two writers debating the issue. They talk about the ususual surface issues that do not apply to main problem with Free Trade. It is a common practice in most news media channels including our own newspaper in our city. The skate around the main issue of our times as we continue to point out on our sites and blogs since 1998. And that is .............
Free Trade is not Trade !
Free Trade is a mirage
Seattle Times news source about Free Trade
( Seattle was where the war against Free Trade and Globalization was lost.
A movie was made a few years ago about the massive protests but failed to mention that the protests ended up in defeat of advocacies for human dignity in the workday. See
Battle in Seattle lost - Ethics Box
Sep 1, 2009 ... At the anti-WTO protests in Seattle, ( in 1999 ) , there were many peaceful ... 1. September 1st 2009 @ 21:51. Tapsearch Com EditorSays: ...
Battle in Seattle was lost - workers were betrayed )
First we need to define what free trade is. It is not trade as historically defined and practiced. The U.S. did insource Chinese workers to build our railroads but this was an exception.
Free Trade is primarily based on moving factories and production from
place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. Production is portable in
the Free Trade global economic arena.
Next, in the process, new money products were created to supplement the
degrading of the value of labor. The money changers failed to balance
things out as our economies based on making money on money instead of
making things are burning out. Big government came and bailed out the
free traders investment community but this is just at temporary fix and it will not work.
In the end we have taken tariff off products and put them on workers and
future generations to pay for the massive losses.
We do not need any conspiracy theories to know that Free Trade has been
driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people and workers
have no real voice in the matter.
The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside of
the U.S. in 1956. It was a temporary program than never ended. All
administrations since then participated in the process of moving and
separating production from the investment process.
In the first Bush stimulus package debate, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke told Congress that the best way to stimulate our economy is to
buy "domestically produced goods." This is a real economic indicator that proves only local/regional value added economies work in balance geopolitical settings. This adds several layers of added value in a given region from the raw products stage to the end user or retail level.
And in the end what is an export in terms of Free Trade. Can we call products that we ship to factories that once were in the U.S. - exports. And how can any product that is assembled or built in the U.S. with mostly parts and components from outside of the U.S. be considered exports. In addition since so many products are now part of government subsidies, how can we compare real values in any transactions via foreign trade or domestic endeavors. The U.S. bailed out our auto industry but the bail out was not a subsidy.
Free Trade has failed. We should be preparing for the next step but are
not. The U.S. has gone through the most massive dislocation of jobs in its
history including the Great Depression. And Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans exposed a vast underclass living in a silent depression which we
now know could be duplicated in most of our major cities in the USA.
For more see - Ray Tapajna Chronicles, online since 1998, which
forecasted our economic crisis years ago.
See Ray Tapajna Chronicles Exploring the lost worlds in the globalist free traders Flat World or
search under tapsearch page or ray tapajna page.
Here is a good response by a writer who brings out an example of what Free Trade is really all about This applys across the board for many imported products and/or for products that are assembled in the USA by foreign companies. We found this out early on in the computer industry when hundreds of U.S. major computer manufacters who spent years developing our technology with more than a million workers in the computer industry losing their jobs. Thousands of small computer companies were put out too.
Similar Has Hyundai Finally Earned Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T? - AutoSpies Auto News
Dec 6, 2010 ... The Korean government nearly 100% subsidizes Hyundai, so they are not competing
on equal footing with private companies across the globe. From
Auto Spies News
.... The comment continues.........
I don't respect Hyundai for two reasons and you shouldn't either.
1. Their work is entirely stolen from design to engine to interior to amenities. It is 100% the work of other auto manufacturers who invested the R and D. When you have no R and D, you can spend all your money (see point two) on factories, etc. When you have to choose between R and D and infrastructure, you strike a balance where you may not have the best of the best factories, etc., but you innovate. Hyundai does not innovate, they steal and then use the R and D money to 1up their competition. It is a shady practice. Not illegal, but certainly of questionable ethics and thus not deserving of respect.
2. The Korean government nearly 100% subsidizes Hyundai, so they are not competing on equal footing with private companies across the globe. If you combine this with their 0 innovation strategy and near 0 R and D, you get a reliable car with no soul.
Now, you may argue that you will take reliable over innovative everyday, but if everyone had that crap-eating attitude, we would still be driving model A's and cars with no seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes, collision avoidance systems, traction control, HUD's, remote entry, air-conditioning, fuel injectors, and on and on and on. No, I have no respect for a company that steals, no matter how "reliable" their product. Pure crap and I wouldn't take one if it were given to me free and clear.
— LJ745
( Writer Profile link at Auto Spies sites noted above )
Free Trade is not Trade !
Free Trade is a mirage
Seattle Times news source about Free Trade
( Seattle was where the war against Free Trade and Globalization was lost.
A movie was made a few years ago about the massive protests but failed to mention that the protests ended up in defeat of advocacies for human dignity in the workday. See
Battle in Seattle lost - Ethics Box
Sep 1, 2009 ... At the anti-WTO protests in Seattle, ( in 1999 ) , there were many peaceful ... 1. September 1st 2009 @ 21:51. Tapsearch Com EditorSays: ...
Battle in Seattle was lost - workers were betrayed )
First we need to define what free trade is. It is not trade as historically defined and practiced. The U.S. did insource Chinese workers to build our railroads but this was an exception.
Free Trade is primarily based on moving factories and production from
place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. Production is portable in
the Free Trade global economic arena.
Next, in the process, new money products were created to supplement the
degrading of the value of labor. The money changers failed to balance
things out as our economies based on making money on money instead of
making things are burning out. Big government came and bailed out the
free traders investment community but this is just at temporary fix and it will not work.
In the end we have taken tariff off products and put them on workers and
future generations to pay for the massive losses.
We do not need any conspiracy theories to know that Free Trade has been
driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people and workers
have no real voice in the matter.
The U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside of
the U.S. in 1956. It was a temporary program than never ended. All
administrations since then participated in the process of moving and
separating production from the investment process.
In the first Bush stimulus package debate, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke told Congress that the best way to stimulate our economy is to
buy "domestically produced goods." This is a real economic indicator that proves only local/regional value added economies work in balance geopolitical settings. This adds several layers of added value in a given region from the raw products stage to the end user or retail level.
And in the end what is an export in terms of Free Trade. Can we call products that we ship to factories that once were in the U.S. - exports. And how can any product that is assembled or built in the U.S. with mostly parts and components from outside of the U.S. be considered exports. In addition since so many products are now part of government subsidies, how can we compare real values in any transactions via foreign trade or domestic endeavors. The U.S. bailed out our auto industry but the bail out was not a subsidy.
Free Trade has failed. We should be preparing for the next step but are
not. The U.S. has gone through the most massive dislocation of jobs in its
history including the Great Depression. And Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans exposed a vast underclass living in a silent depression which we
now know could be duplicated in most of our major cities in the USA.
For more see - Ray Tapajna Chronicles, online since 1998, which
forecasted our economic crisis years ago.
See Ray Tapajna Chronicles Exploring the lost worlds in the globalist free traders Flat World or
search under tapsearch page or ray tapajna page.
Here is a good response by a writer who brings out an example of what Free Trade is really all about This applys across the board for many imported products and/or for products that are assembled in the USA by foreign companies. We found this out early on in the computer industry when hundreds of U.S. major computer manufacters who spent years developing our technology with more than a million workers in the computer industry losing their jobs. Thousands of small computer companies were put out too.
Similar Has Hyundai Finally Earned Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T? - AutoSpies Auto News
Dec 6, 2010 ... The Korean government nearly 100% subsidizes Hyundai, so they are not competing
on equal footing with private companies across the globe. From
Auto Spies News
.... The comment continues.........
I don't respect Hyundai for two reasons and you shouldn't either.
1. Their work is entirely stolen from design to engine to interior to amenities. It is 100% the work of other auto manufacturers who invested the R and D. When you have no R and D, you can spend all your money (see point two) on factories, etc. When you have to choose between R and D and infrastructure, you strike a balance where you may not have the best of the best factories, etc., but you innovate. Hyundai does not innovate, they steal and then use the R and D money to 1up their competition. It is a shady practice. Not illegal, but certainly of questionable ethics and thus not deserving of respect.
2. The Korean government nearly 100% subsidizes Hyundai, so they are not competing on equal footing with private companies across the globe. If you combine this with their 0 innovation strategy and near 0 R and D, you get a reliable car with no soul.
Now, you may argue that you will take reliable over innovative everyday, but if everyone had that crap-eating attitude, we would still be driving model A's and cars with no seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes, collision avoidance systems, traction control, HUD's, remote entry, air-conditioning, fuel injectors, and on and on and on. No, I have no respect for a company that steals, no matter how "reliable" their product. Pure crap and I wouldn't take one if it were given to me free and clear.
— LJ745
( Writer Profile link at Auto Spies sites noted above )
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