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Previously, I described all the factories I worked at while going to
college full-time or was associated with over the years. None of them have survived. I also told you that if these
jobs were still available today, thousands would be standing in line trying to get them. It is a sad commentary of our
times.
Recently, Paul Krugman of the New
York Times, says college graduates are now the ones most vulnerable to free trade attack on jobs. Other countries like India
provide superb technical and other advanced services as half the cost of an American college grad. And government workers
are next on the list to be boomeranged by free trade. Free trade has proven to be a war on the middle class.
Perhaps 1970 represents the turning point in our history. For the most part our
factories were still here and many corporations worldwide headquarters in our city were still here too. The computer industry
had been launched and those major manufacturers had thousands of workers in branches dotted across our cities throughout
the USA. I worked at more than one where there were about a hundred workers just in our branch alone. Here
are some of the major players who no longer exist - Honeywell/GE Univac, NCR, Burroughs, Control Data,
RCA, Data General, Friden Singer, ( IBM cut about 150,000 workers in 1992 ), Prime, Tandem, Wang Xerox Data -computer
group and this is only a fraction of the computer manufacturers who have ceased to exist. I have a list of more at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews totalling more than a 100 major manufacturers and thousands of smaller ones. More than a million workers lost their jobs
in the computer industry alone since then. Most of these jobs went overseas.
Here is the main point. In
1970, a first class stamp cost 8 cents. You could buy a beautiful brand new midsize car like a Mercury Montego for only $3,800
and a decent home that sells for about $160,000 today for only $25,000. $10,000 dollar a year jobs were plentiful.
The production workers made that much too. Comparing this with today, there should now be plenty of $60,000 single jobs
for workers but obviously, they do not exist. If we go back a bit further into the 1950s and 1960s, the comparisons
would even be more disenhearting.
Here is another rub. Most of the old line manufacturers had 50 to 100 year histories.
Many of the small enterprises and family business that were located for miles down the main streets of our cities also existed
for the same length of time. What happened. They tell us that all these local value added economies were no longer competitive.
It happened in a stirred up rapid fashion. Who stirred up this pot of grand betrayal. Do companies and businesses that
lasted for 50 to 100 years, all of sudden do not know how to operate businesses or was there an eternal force that
forced the surge of free trade and globalization. Who said we had to compete in a global economic arena based on the cheapest
labor possible?
In 1992, I found an answer. In reviewing a high tech publication, I found an article about
the maquiladora factory program in Mexico and it told how you can move a factory to Mexico and even had a choice where
you had to move nothing but contract a factory there to do it all for just one price. The maquiladora factory contractor would
provide the workers, the building and the equipment. A company could fire everyone at home except for the main executives.
And then the big part of the story hit me. It noted that the U.S. Federal Government itself sponsored
the moving of factories outside of the USA starting in 1956. It was a temporary program that was set to test a way to
help out the Mexican and Central American econmies while getting cheaper goods for the American consumers. It was supposed
to be a temporary program but it never ended. I have challenged anyone I could to prove this was not the case, but still all
our political leaders ignore it with the possible exception of Congressman Dennis Kucinich. For the first few years
only a few factories were moved. Then about twenty years later, the program took off. By 1992, more than 2,000 U.S.
factories were moved to Mexico alone prior to the passing of the NAFTA free trade agreement. After President Clinton
pushed the passage of NAFTA, the program was turned on as warp speed. The number of factories moved to Mexico quickly doubled
to 4,000 and the scam of the century and the betrayal of American workers was solidly in place. In 1999, I
did this artwork which is now part of more than 3 million search results on Yahoo and Google:
It was President Bill Clinton who consummated the
betrayal of American Workers and the American way - click on picture for more info.
The eye of our economic storms - the consummation of the free trade agreements
- with free trade not really trade, not free ( as big money investment communities are being bailed out ) and
not safe for the environment.
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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