Tapsearch Com EditorOld story about new jobs regurgitated
February 28th 2010 21:19
by Ray Tapajna - Regurgitated News
Our local newspaper like most others in the U.S. keep repeating the same old story about job creation. They still ignore what Free Trade is all about.
Free Trade is not about trade. It is about moving jobs from place to place anywhere in the world for the sake of cheaper labor. Education and Research and Development has little to do with creating new jobs for a " next economy" if the production phase goes outside the nation that instigates a new way of doing things. Free Trade and underpaid workers go hand in hand in any effort.
Here is the latest headline in our Cleveland Plain Dealer in the editorial section. ( The Editor has already gone on record saying the paper will push globalization and free trade like it or not......as the pages of the paper dwindle away.....
FROM THE COMMUNITY - Ohio must position itself to prosper in next economy
The article is by Bruce Katz, VP and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and Lava Brachman, Co-director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center in Columbus - ( which according to my long advocacy for workers dignity - a place where Free Traders play their games. )
( It shows a picture of a military aircraft brake produced by Astro Manufactuing & Design in Eastlake in 2007. There are no disclaimers about it being a federal contract military item. Military production is something different than the ordinary production for the private sector.
Rather than bore you with the details - which I have covered for years now - [LINK=http://snipurl.com/ull46 - bad link in newspaper story ] if you want to take the time to read about the same old stuff. Search under Cleveland Plain Dealer Ohio must position itself to prosper in next economy or search under one of the authors noted above
Basically, they get into the unemployment rate - which is a facade in itself, how income taxes have fallen and how the next American economy must do this or that.
They talk about innovations must emerge from the factory floor so that production can be localized. This nonsense since so much production has been moved outside of the U.S in the past twenty-five years. There are few factory floors left.
Recently , there were other headlines in the paper that told about a French company wanting to build a steel plant in Youngstown. The cost would be about $160 million dollars to create just 350 jobs. This is a location where thousands of steelworkers lost their jobs.
Another headline told about Ford going to spend $155 million dollars to rehire just 60 workers at its local Brook Park plant - Compare this to the jobs that were lost and the value that was lost due to Free Trade - More than 700,000 steel related jobs were lost and more than 400,000 auto workers jobs were lost early on in the Free Trade surge. More than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry and our region represented a center of innovations in high tech fields. This massive value has been lost forever. The value of workers and labor were real assets and a money standard backing up all paper money values. It is all gone. Nothing good has come of it. I started my advocacy in 1992 and told about the demise of our economy since then and especially with each new story coming out about creating innovative ways to restore our economy.
For years, it has been the same old story regurgitated a few times a year like the one above. Nothing good will happen until our news channels start telling it like it is.
Our local newspaper like most others in the U.S. keep repeating the same old story about job creation. They still ignore what Free Trade is all about.
Free Trade is not about trade. It is about moving jobs from place to place anywhere in the world for the sake of cheaper labor. Education and Research and Development has little to do with creating new jobs for a " next economy" if the production phase goes outside the nation that instigates a new way of doing things. Free Trade and underpaid workers go hand in hand in any effort.
Here is the latest headline in our Cleveland Plain Dealer in the editorial section. ( The Editor has already gone on record saying the paper will push globalization and free trade like it or not......as the pages of the paper dwindle away.....
FROM THE COMMUNITY - Ohio must position itself to prosper in next economy
The article is by Bruce Katz, VP and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and Lava Brachman, Co-director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center in Columbus - ( which according to my long advocacy for workers dignity - a place where Free Traders play their games. )
( It shows a picture of a military aircraft brake produced by Astro Manufactuing & Design in Eastlake in 2007. There are no disclaimers about it being a federal contract military item. Military production is something different than the ordinary production for the private sector.
Rather than bore you with the details - which I have covered for years now - [LINK=http://snipurl.com/ull46 - bad link in newspaper story ] if you want to take the time to read about the same old stuff. Search under Cleveland Plain Dealer Ohio must position itself to prosper in next economy or search under one of the authors noted above
Basically, they get into the unemployment rate - which is a facade in itself, how income taxes have fallen and how the next American economy must do this or that.
They talk about innovations must emerge from the factory floor so that production can be localized. This nonsense since so much production has been moved outside of the U.S in the past twenty-five years. There are few factory floors left.
Recently , there were other headlines in the paper that told about a French company wanting to build a steel plant in Youngstown. The cost would be about $160 million dollars to create just 350 jobs. This is a location where thousands of steelworkers lost their jobs.
Another headline told about Ford going to spend $155 million dollars to rehire just 60 workers at its local Brook Park plant - Compare this to the jobs that were lost and the value that was lost due to Free Trade - More than 700,000 steel related jobs were lost and more than 400,000 auto workers jobs were lost early on in the Free Trade surge. More than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry and our region represented a center of innovations in high tech fields. This massive value has been lost forever. The value of workers and labor were real assets and a money standard backing up all paper money values. It is all gone. Nothing good has come of it. I started my advocacy in 1992 and told about the demise of our economy since then and especially with each new story coming out about creating innovative ways to restore our economy.
For years, it has been the same old story regurgitated a few times a year like the one above. Nothing good will happen until our news channels start telling it like it is.
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