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What if free trade
agreements had to be ratified by a popular vote - from the bottom up - , how many workers would approve it. ( see http://therationale.com/wall-street-protests-free-trade-cancer Can not leave free trade out of the Occupy Wall Street protests.)
Subsidiarity
is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.
... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity - See also http://tapsearch.com/pope-benedict-economic-encyclical
Communitarianism, as a group of related but distinct philosophies, began in the late
20th century, opposing exalted forms of individualism. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarianism - Definition in context We look at it from a bottom up solution rather than from a top down one. Our one size fits all, centralized big
government federalistic system is not working especially in economics where big governments have merged with big money. Big
government now acts a a power broker and dealer which destroys the Free Enterprise system.
Libertarian author and politician Harry Browne wrote: "We should never define Libertarian
[Party] positions in terms coined by liberals or conservatives ... ( I have a problem understanding Libertarians
myself- We have borders to protect people who gathered together to form a more perfect union as
a community. The purpose in gathering together is for common purposes. Bottom up solutions
should be the priority but like in sports, somewhere along the line you need an umpire, referee or judge for the sake of fairness
to all. Ray Tapajna )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism - Cached - Similar
And Note: Do unto others as you
would have them do to you - is not only a biblical saying but a practical solution to many of our society and economic problems.
Actually human nature is on trial - with philosophy and reason left out of the picture in our times . See http://www.therationale.com/human-nature-on-trial
This follows our response to the health care issue at http://www.therationale.com/sophist-health-care It prompted me to go deeper into my thoughts about bottom up solutions to our problems. And I find
that the core of most problems center on the concept of one size fits all and centralization is better than decentralization.
I go back to my college days when I was assigned to write about The New Harmony workers community as I noted on the
first page of this site. I disliked the topic and found it to be an isolated experiment in history that did not deserve
the attention it got. As I also noted in earlier at this site, I worked in several factories while going to college full
time. This gave me a split personality about workers and their place in society. There was a vast void between the
college class rooms and the factory floors where I worked. Even the most profound professors in courses like metaphyics and
ethics, seemed to out of touch with what was happening outside their sphere of influence.
People at New Harmony
sought to live in community with the workday being an integral part of the whole and not something that was separate
from their belief systems. In the 1970's, a report came out showing that 70 percent of workers
found it impossible to match up their workday with their spiritual life.
Much of this remained with me through
all my spiritual pursuits and I found that the main problem people had in going deeper into their spiritual
world was due to the business and work world with pre-set ethical problems. It was sad to see so many give up their ideals
for the sake of economic survival.
Then with the coming of so called Free Trade and Globalization, with
millions losing their jobs, I took on my advocacy for workers dignity in the a new world economy that was ransacking the free
enterprise system. It was the best thing the world had to date that protected the dignity of man in the workday.
The globalist free traders came and used the term free market to smash the free enterprise system. They used Adam
Smith to defend their policies for a global economy based on raw capitalism with a one size fits all approach based on centralizing
the power of money. Money became a beginning and the end in the process. The value of work itself was attacked.
However, Adam Smith held workers and labor as the core of society and not as just a means to an end. I challenged free trade
and globalization with my main sites being Ray Tapajna Chronicles at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnewshttp://tapsearch.com/flatworld and http://tapsearch.com/communications-by-rank
About two years ago I read Alan Greenspan's Age of Turbulence book and low and behold, I came
back to my beginning. Greenspan dedicates a good portion of his book to the New Harmony workers community experiment as a
way of defending his free market as being the most compatible system with human nature. He said that idealic attempts
like New Harmony will never work. He only gives this one example. Greenspan says our current so called free market economy
accomodates human nature the best. Peter Maurin, the co founder of the Catholic Workers says the opposite. There is not
only one way to reach the life ideal. There are many ways to form communities for the sake of workday. Work is expression
of our place on earth. The Free Enterprise system is supposed to make it easier for men to be good but the Free Enterprise
system has been ransacked by raw capitalism on one side and federalism on the other.
Call the White House and tell them you
can not eat funny paper money and stocks
Growing up in a small family business, I felt the impact from both raw
capitalism and federalism. As young teenager during World War 2, I found liberalism being the worst problem for small
business. It seems liberals never understood what it takes to run a business and thinking bigger was always better than smaller,
they could not appreciate the precious value of small business in society. One of the worst things was ceiling prices which
were set by President Roosevelt. Small businesses were faced with the impossble task of selling products under their costs.
At the same time the federal government launched subsidies to help farmers but this help was detoured to big business and
the subsidies have lasted all these years. As a consquence, we have things like corn and soy beans being grown under
the cost of production. This alone has alter the state of business overall leading to a loss leader economy where those with
the most money can put out those with less money at will. Money became both a means and end in business and not just
a method for transactions. I found out early that only local value added business in balanced geopolitical settings
work. Economic values had to accomodate the needs of a society as a whole. The U.S. economy had absorbed many
services for its members by creating a large middle class based on our awesome industrial might. The factory foremen
took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In return, the workers made enough money to get married, have a family,
buy a home and help their children go to college. On top of that they had extra money to pay taxes for those who were
left out of the process.
In 1956, federalism took over and our federal government sponsored the moving
of factories outside of the USA starting in that year while at the same time the globalization of money started after the
Suez Canal crisis exposed a global money crisis. The value of money took precedence over the real tangible value of
work. By 1992, more than 2,000 factories were moved to Mexico alone. After NAFTA, GATT and the WTO trade agreements
were passed in 1994, the number of factories moved to Mexico doubled to more than 4,000 quickly but it did not
resolve the global money problems. President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the value of the peso
that was affecting money values in Europe. It was clear that the free trade experiment had failed but instead of confronting
the situtation, the federal government pushed free trade harder and harder. Today our economic engine is broken with nothing
left to fix it. Our economy based on making money on money instead of makign things has burned out. Our subsidizing
of crops have shut down local production in places like Mexico while other nations took the hint and established their own
subsidies with consumerism falling into the trap. The U.S. workers not only were losing their jobs due to unfair
free trade but were participating in the process by shopping their way out of their jobs saying it is only human nature to
shop for the lowest price no matter what.
I was surprised that Alan Greenspan did not write about The Marshall Plan or
the Lend Lease Act which were a very important part of our modern economic history but spent the time writing about the New
Harmony experiment. Our most popular article that many people have published on the web is Lend Lease was real Free
Trade and not Chop Liver as in the Globalist World. Search under this title for all the stites or see http://ezinearticles.com/?id=390710 or http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/
This brings us to our overview of a thought provoking article
by David Brooks from the New York Times:
The poltics, economies of community 3/2010 - our
overview :
David Brooks says the United States is becoming a broken society. Our economic engine certainly has
broken down. Our Ray Tapajna Chronicles based on several experts predicted the coming of the Bewildered New World as it is
today.
More and more Americans have contempt for the political class. Tariffs have been taken off products
and public debt is becoming overwhelming with tariffs being put on the value of workers and future generations. A new working
poor class has replaced the large middle class and even the working poor are now losing their jobs. Unemployment reporting
has been a facade for years compared to reporting in the past. Only about 38 percent of all workers qualify for unemployment
insurance today which means about 62 percent are living in an economic limbo with many missing in action from any kind of
reporting. We live in a time when someone making only a $100 a month is reported as employed. This would
be like reporting during the Great Depression that someone making only $10 a month were reported as being employed and from
all I know and read this would have been considered insane.
Our economy based on making money on money instead
of making things has burned out. President Roosevelt never found an answer until he initiated Lend Lease but this
turned into World War 2. Today liberatarianism is challenging the economic crisis in their own way.
For one thing, it will not work because we have ran out of time to radically alter our economic landscape this way
fast enough. Also liberatarianism is doomed to many expressions and the defintions of what it is almost
equal to the number of liberatarians there are.
Still, the Tea Party movement flows from this part of
our society as they rally against big government, big business and the ruling class in general. It all sounds good but as we
note at our http://ethicsbox.com/tea-party-brewing-wrong-tea nothing good will happen until we directly confront the biggest scam of the century- free trade. Drew
Perry, a liberatarian, challenges a municiple owned West Side Market in Cleveland that if full of small free enterprise businesses
and says people have plenty of places to shop instead nearby. By nearyby, he includes Walmart where many workers
need government assistance to economically survive and where the products sold come from the wage slave markets of the world.
This makes no sense to me. See http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/id25.html about restoring our cities.
There are better ways to respond to our economic
challenges from the bottom up as we note in the web page above. We need
to re-localize our economies in a more communitarian way. In sports, we have teams set by cities
or by universities and not just one massive bunch of national teams playing against themselves. Each league has
its own rules and regulations. Each contest has referees and umpires to hold teams to the rules. Many of the pro teams were
funded with municiple money. This may not be the best way to do it but it is who we are. From the beginning
of my advocacy in 1992, I kept writing and saying only local value added econmies in balanced geopolitical settings work.
I look at what the Pope says about subsidiarity and others say about communitarianism and I suggest that they may have it
more right than the liberals, conservatives and liberatarians. No matter what we must rid ourselves of the failures of free
trade and globalization. We are indeed coming to the post globalization era where people again must gather together in small
groupings to save their local economies.
Phillip Blond, a British writer, explores alternatives to our deep economic
fall similar to what I have tried to do since 1992. He grew up in working Liverpool. I have more than a sixty year history
of work and businesses in Cleveland, Ohio. Blond recalls , " ( Liverpool ), was a beautiful city, one of the few in Britain
to have a genuinely indigenous culture. And that whole way of life was destroyed." Industry died. Political
power was centralized in London. The same happened in Cleveland. I worked as several factories while going to
college full time. If those jobs were still available today, literally thousands would be standing in line to get them. I
saw the downfall of Cleveland from several vantage points. I witnessed first the closing down of all the small retail stores
and then came the larger family owned super markets. I traveled the city servicing them in my own business as a jobber.
From about 1960 to 1970, about ten owners were killed during robberies. In the 1990s in the same period with all the
larger supermarkets gone and fewer small grocery stores only remaining, more than twenty grocery store owners were killed
during robberies.
I also witnessed the closings of many major international corporate headquarters that
I called on for many years. Then came the downfall of the high tech industries with Cleveland once leading the way in
this area. Now I drive down miles of major streets in the city seeing empty storefronts, empty factories and empty office
buildings. They talk about establishing small farms in areas where houses and business places have been demolished.
I can relate to Blond's experiences in England easily. Blond says that we have witnessed two revolutions - and
Cleveland looks like it went through one physically- both of which liberated teh individual and decimated local associations.
First the revolution came from the left displacing traditional manners and mores - it was a legal revolution that emphasized
individual rights instead of responsibilities - a welfare revolution in which social workers displaced mutual aide societies
and self-organized associations.
In the USA, the liberals are quick to talk about equal rights but refrain from
describing how the minorities have been downgraded in terms of jobs. Reportedly, one half of all young blacks in our
major cities can not find a job. Just when the jobs for union workers were being opened to the black community, the roof fell
in. Free trade came and shipped the jobs outside of the country. Today our prison population has broken all records with
the black prison population breaking all records too.
In the late 1980s, more than 700,000 jobs related to
the steel industry were lost and more than 400,000 were lost in the auto industry too.
Deregulation came and giant
chains like Wal-Mart decimated local shops and everytime a factory in a small town was lost, a burn out community was left
behind. Global financial markets took over small banks and the local banker was replaced by money changers in far away places.
The two revolutions talked the language of individualized freedom but they ended up creating centralization.
They created a segmented society and the state took over trying to repair the damage. However, it was the federal
government that sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA and so in the end we had the fox put in charge of guarding
the chicken coop.
The free market which really was controlled by elite groupings destroyed the
free enterprise system. It failed to create the pluralistic decentralized economy. It created a centralized money on
money economy with big government supposedly in place to control it. But, big government also acted as a broker and
dealer in moving production and money values around the world. Globalization formed a new kind of colonialism where
nations had to defend their holdings across the globe. Centralization did not free up individuals but handcuffed their efforts
for a better life. It weakened families, increased out-of-wedlock births and turned neighbors into strangers. ( Continued
on next page )
In the age of deregulations
Ray Tapajna 50 plus years work history includes : Raised
in family food store, Advertising Art, Artist- Several years in factory production - Assembly Line Set up Man, Inventory
Control, Spot Welder, Machine Operator and general factory work- U.S. Army Transportation Officer in Ocean Shipping
and harborcraft- Cargo Airlines rep -Insurance and Personnel Investigator- International Air France Rep -passenger
and cargo- Rack Jobbing business -Church furniture and renovations - Asst Factory Manager- Computer industry for more
than fourty years includes Mainframes, National Communcation Networks, Data Entry Systems, Disk Storage expert, Micro Computers,
Software, Help jump start Cat Scan and Computerized Typesetting manufacturers and systems, Weather Software and Hardware Systems,
PC compters, Calibration and Diagnostic devices = Part of every computer generations and their innovations. National
Accounts Manager / Started several Branch and Regional Offices for major Computer Manufacturers. Sold directly
to China and Canadian accounts and in own business for more than 25 years as trouble shooter supplier to major manufacturers.
College background - Art, Diplomatic History, Geopolitics, Philosophy - Attended several Corporate Computer Schools and Seminars.
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