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It is really all about you in the global economic
arena where you are just a commodity to be traded
( continued from Let's take a look at Communitarianism
and Subsidiarity. ..... our liberated society turned neighbors into strangers .)
Phillip
Bond, British writer from Liverpool, in Prospect magazine in February 2009, wrote, "Look at the society we have become:
We are bi-polar nation, a bureaucratic, centralised state that presides dysfunctionally over an increased fragmented, disempowered
and isolated citizenry." In a separate essay, he added, "The welfare state and the market state are now two defunct
and mutually supporting failures."
However like many others, he leaves out the core problem
- free trade. It seems no one wants to use the terms associated with free trade - NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA, WTO, World Bank
etc.
Both liberals and conservatives leave these words out of the discussion
when they are the main tools that have been used to betray workers and society for years now. Phillip Blond and David Brooks
leave this part out of the problem and as long as they do that, they do not meet the enemy head on. Free trade has failed.
Globalization used it as a tool to drive towards some kind of new world order that the elder President Bush announced. You
do not need any conspiracy theories to know that free trade and globalization have not evolved in any natural way but have
been driven by elite forces way up there somewhere with governments, media, academics and giant transnational corporations
running the show while they hide from the audience.
Living in the global economic arena
David Brooks and Phillip Blond say we have to relocalize our economies and
this is what we should do. Only local value added economies in balanced geopolitical settings work. However, they fail
to mention what delocalized our economies in the first place and as long as they leave out free trade agreements like NAFTA,
GATT, CAFTA and international entities like the WTO which controls the flow of wealth outside the will of the people
and local representation not much will be accomplished.
The trade agreements left burn out communities behind
as factories were moved to far away places and money was globalized as a product all its own. Workers became the commodities
being traded.
Acknowleging this and seeking out who said we had to compete in a global economy are
the first things we must do.
Then what Blond says we have to do could follow. He says we need to: Elevate
the people to their proper sovereign place- They can not be treated as commodities in an economic system based on making money
on money instead of making things.
Reduce or cut our subsidies that now go to big business instead of small with
big government acting as brokers and dealers in the process. It is socialistic capitalism with only a few controlling events.
Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland who may have more to do with the fall of the Communist Soviet Union
than even Pres Reagan, says - he does not know that much about economics and business but he does know something is very wrong
when ten percent of the population controls 100 percent of the wealth.
Blond says too, we need to: Re-moralize
the market. Recapitalize the poor. Give small business a chance to survive. Revitalize local banks and local
capital funds. Encourage employee partnerships and ownerships. Reward Savings. And give budget authority to
the smallest units of government.
Essentially Blond wants to spread the wealth by spreading the opportunities.
We also need to enforce the fair trade laws that already are on the books. This is not protectionism but a common sense solution
for all living in a community. Decentralization of power is a must. Reduce the barriers in establishing
new businesses.
This is where subsidiarity and communitarianism comes in. No man
is an island. In every action there is a reaction which links us all together. The best way to approach problems is
to resolve them at the lowest possible level with the common good being the priority. Liberatarians leave out the common
good in their judgement calls. Apparently, they trust human nature to work things out in the proper way but in
our times human nature is on trial - See http://www.therationale.com/human-nature-on-trial
They maintain individuals have the right to do what they want as long as they do not hurt anyone else.
In our times, the rights of individuals have fragmented the common good and the greatest good of the greatest number could
be only one or two people or elements in any proposition.
In order to relocalize our economy, many
different approaches can be tried but do dwell on what should have been or could have been if real conservatism or liberatarianism
was implanted in the first place is a course that will lead to more imbalances and not less. We know big government
mixed with big money is the problem but how to break it down to controllable practices is another thing unless a community
of people want to go somewhere and do it together . This is where we get to the proposition that one size does not fit
all and centralization is bad because when something is centralized it brings with it centralizes both the bad and the
good. Centralizing the good parts is ok but centralizing the bad part just grows more bad things. Decentralization divides
the bad parts in a more controllable fashion and if groupings want to push something not fit for the whole of society , they
should just do it by themselves somewhere in their own community setting.
Our options are wide open and people
can gather together in what they think is the best way of doing things. It is a sort of liberatarian thinking in a community
way.
I grew up in a family food store. It was much more than that. It was a social gathering. Certain
customers would come at certain times to associate with others. Friendships became alive in a special way. There
were at least five similar stores in just a one block area including both sides of the street. Even walking down one
side of the street and not the other became a community pattern. Each store had its own specialty or skill for
people to choose from. The store was also a gathering for people making a living selling watches, ties or some
other items by going from store to store. Our store became a meeting place for these street vendors and their conversations
were packed with interesting stories. If someone came in and ask for some food, my father would fix them a big sandwich
that was equal to a full meal for free. Customers knew more about what it took for us to make a living and acted
accordingly. Non customers would come in and just buy the specials listed on the window while regular customers did
not take advantage of us this way. I will never forget the women who were coming back from church and only came into the store
to buy the specials on the window. We lost about a dollar on every ten dollars they purchased. This is how I found
out about the lost leader economy at a early age.
However, I also recall debating some of our loyal
customers to take a new shopping paper bag for their groceries since the ones they brought with them were fragile
being used so many times. Many customers were concerned about waste and the environment automatically back then. If they came
into a modern supermarket today and saw all the packaging, they would be in shock. They would also know the consequences
of shopping at places like Walmart knowing they would be shopping their way out of their jobs.
While going to college full time, I worked at several factories and was taught
many skills. And if the jobs were available today, there would be thousands standing in line to get them with
many being college graduates too. It was the factory foremen who took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In
turn the young could get married, raise a family, buy a home and help their children get through college. For the most
part this all has vanished from our workday.
I was also part of every computer generation and
sought after nationally and even internationally for some of my skills. I was taught all I knew in corporate schools and seminars.
There were no college computer classes back then and the generation that brought you the computer age were trained under real
world conditions. I sold against the centralization of computers too since I knew that once you sent a branch
or regional computer process to a central location, you froze that system in time because all the dynamics of humans was removed.
I can provide you with many more examples of local economies but this should be sufficient to show all what subsidiarity
and communitarianism can accomplish. It was stolen from us by the money changers and free traders in our times. It needs to
be restored.
Alan Greenspan took on just one small example to defend the free market philosophy and the problems
of human nature. The New Harmony workers community was just one example. We need to abstract from
the past all that was good including the Guild systems of the 14th century. We need to study Adam Smith in a real way
since the free traders use him to defend their actions. Adam Smith held labor as something sacred and the core of all
society and never would have treated them as just another commodity to be traded. Towns and communities need to stop
looking to the federal government for help because they are now natural competitors blocking the life ideal for all.
Most everything needs to start at the bottom and not from the top. There is not much difference between the trickle
down economy by President Reagan via the private sector and the trickle down economy by President Obama via big government.
If you noticed the money changers are the ones who always get bailed out - and not the workers. President Obama still
has not mentioned the terms NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA or the WTO as the cause of our economic crisis. Nothing good will happen
until he does.
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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