Tapsearch Com EditorFriedman Flat World plays the same old song
February 9th 2010 17:20
Here we go again - This follows a recent post about the
Same old Song about restoring Jobs
Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, plays the same old song about restoring jobs again in a recent article from the New York Times, calling on President Obama to create jobs through innovations. He plays while President Clinton, President Bush, Greenspan and President Obama dancing in the dark together to their free trade song, with Limbaugh and Gingrich doing a jig too on their dance floors promoting and engineering free trade. All promote the scam of the century -free trade and globalization. Only current Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reveals part of the scam. He said, the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods." However, this term may include production that are only assembled in the USA and so even Fed Chairma Bernanke skirts arount the problem too instead using the term Made in the USA. Something like Honda in Indiana should set off a fire storm against so called free trade where the State of Indiana paid Honda after upfront and later $160 million dollars of taxpayers money to build their assembly plant in their state. The parts come from the impovished workers outside the USA. Honda ended up employing 5,000 workers. If someone did the math they would find out that this alone will be a losing proposition for years to come. However there is even more negatives than that. During this time, about 20,000 auto parts workers in Indiana lost their jobs. So the end results are even darker.
In West Point Georgia, the scenario plays out the same way with KIA getting about the same amount from taxpayers with many out of work. The town even put up a banner saying Thank you Jesus for KIA. We can give you more examples too while the free traders above play the same old song about creating innovations. Even if Pres Obama funds more taxpayers money for research and development, nothing is in place to stop the production cycle from going outside the USA to the cheapest labor markets of the world. It is an endless loop to nowhere while all these leaders and the news media keep playing the same brokend record.
I worked in several factories while going to college and these jobs are all gone. If these jobs were still available we would have thousands standing in line to get them including college graduates with many with master degrees and beyond. We still use all these things. The only
difference they are made somewhere else in the world as we live off impoversished workers and even child labor. I was part of every computer generation with tons of innovations. Cleveland was even a center of these innovations during this time, but then more than a million workers lost their jobs in the computer industry as our government sponsored programs to give our technology away to other countries that took years
to develop. The value was perhaps more than ten Marshall Plans. The Marshall Plan restored the European and Japan's economy after World War 2 by duplicating the success and not sending production to other lands just for the sake of cheaper labor and the investment communities with the latter getting bailed out. It is obvious that President Obama is paid to bail out free trade no matter what.
The innovations we need to find are ones that are in a back to the future mode and create the real free enterprise system again. I was part of the massive influx of innovations in the 1980s. The Cleveland region was leading the way in high tech right behind the Silicon Valley where I traved to frequently. For some reason , people like President Clinton, Pres. Bush, Pres . Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gringrich , Senator Dole and Thomas Friedman chose to send out all the technology that took years to develop outside the country. They all betrayed the American workers and eventually all the workers in the world.
There will always be someone in the world who will work for less. The last jobs protected in the U.S. are government jobs. The public sector workers are more closely united with the political leaders. Those in the private sector are left to fend for themselves.
I review Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat from a real world perspective of workers and the real free enterprise system at exploring the lost worlds in the globalist free traders Flat World
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