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that Talks calls the book a "corker" - The 2008 Money Crisis could have been predicted. Take time to read these
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A Book Review - The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman of N Y Times )
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to workers dignity - South America, Asia,
Europe, Middle East etc. For more articles click expert author above. It is really all about you in the global economic
arena. The basic problem is this: The Federal Reserve Bank prints money images on paper and calls it money. The value
of the paper is relative to the power and the economic investments based on this paper, interest rates and stock
values. It is not based on an "absolute" value as it once was when it was based on the gold standard.
Instead, usury interest rates captures both individuals and nations. Labor is the only variable value and it is exploited
down to the levels of wage slave and even child labor. It is a new kind of slave trade, colonialism and imperialism where
raw Capitalism mixes with Communism and Socialism in a Globalism stew. It makes a mockery of the Free Enterprise system.
Our main expert
sources include Chuck Harder, Manuel Castell, Sir James Goldsmith, Representative Marcy Kaptur and Doctor Pat Choate.
We also include the Catholic Workers and its founders Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day. They maintained that business
should make it easier for men and women to be good. Pat Buchanan and others were instrumental in a Populist response
but were quickly put aside. However, the Populist movement is coming like a tidal wave from South America and the USA is too
busy in the Middle East to stop it. Bishops like St Alberto Hurtado led the way fifty years ago. Other South American
and Catholic Bishops and priests were martyrs in recent times. There is also Bishop Ramazzini who renounced
CAFTA in the U.S. Congress. Unfortunately in our country we have a President of a Jesuit University backing someone like Thomas
Friedman. At the same time, however, we do have the Jesuit volunteers who work for social justice across the globe.
There is also Rerum Novarum - an open letter by Pope Leo on the conditions of labor in 1891. It was a standard for a
very long time in the labor relations. However, today many people of good will say, I believe
in most of the spiritual and social justice things like you, but we must adjust to the real world.
The real world today has President Bush saying his favorite philosopher was Jesus. His actions say something else.
His actions say - It's nothing personal , I am just taking care of business.
We
now include John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire. Our
stories about the demise of local value added economies fit with his in the global economic arena.
All should read his books. No matter what you conclude about the man, the events are obviously real and you do not need any
conspiracy theories to make your own conclusions.
There is also Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nadar who are right about many
of these things. However, Dennis forgets that abortion and his ultra left positions are geopolitical contradictions.
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The only real variable in the Flat or Round World is the
cost of labor. Everything else is just a few percentage points or degrees apart and a good society is only as good
as it treats all the parts for the benefit of the whole.
The word "corker" describes a remarkable person, an argument that appears
conclusive or a preposterous lie. It seems the book the World is Flat by Thomas Friedman may have all three in one....
It's a "corker"! Thomas Friedman flys around the world searching for his Flat World.(Actually, you don't need to fly anywhere to explore the Flat World- just take a few cab rides with drivers from all over the world, Ask a few questions about their lives as
you drive by places in our cities that now look like third world countries too. )
Contact: Ray Tapajna at newsworld@fastmail.net
First of all, Thomas Friedman fables ignore the fact
that workers have no voice in the process of globalization even though they are the heart and center of any economy.
2nd. Friedman 's book is fiction. His statistics
do not compute with the past. For example the unemployment reporting was much different in the 1970s. Click on http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews home about this fabrication. Only 38% of all workers in the USA qualify for unemployment insurance. This would have
triggered a Congressional investigation in the 1970s
3rd. His "flatteners" reverse the cause and effect
of things like the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Y2k crisis. Was the fall of the Iron Curtain the flattener or was it Roosevelt
at Yalta when he gave one half of Europe to the Communists? - or was the Lend Lease Act the ultimate flattener.
This was real Free Trade- see http://ezinearticles/com/?id=390710 Was the real flattener behind Y2k, the India programmers comming to the rescue or was Free Trade the cause which resulted
in over a million workers in the U.S. losing their jobs in the computer industry. Another flattener should be Truman
allowing the Communists to take over China as millions of Nationalist Chinese were forced ot flee for their lives. It changed
the course of Asia. And the end of the story is yet to unfold.
Free-Trader Globalists call for a borderless world economy but in the USA, we have
States competing with one another for foreign auto assembly factories paying out up to 400 million dollars to entice them
to their State. This comes after thousands of auto workers losing their jobs with the new jobs for only a fraction
of the old workers at half the pay. In the end, taxpayers are paying up to $200,000 per job
and it is impossible to get a return on this investment for the people of the particular State. See http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/id37.html Indiana wins over Ohio for Honda Assembly Plant while Gambling Casino money is given to Honda. At most
only 2000 jobs will be created while about 20,000 auto parts workers lose their jobs. Adding up all of the Indiana money
to get and support Honda, it costs taxpayers $200,000 per job. And Alabama is paying KIA $400 million dollars
to build their assembly plant there. This is an Implosion in Friedman's Flat World. And imagine what 400 million automobiles
in China and India would do to the world.
Friedman says some are and will lose their jobs. His "some" is now
a sum of a millions. The USA has suffered the largest dislocation of jobs in its history including the Great Depression.
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exposed a Silent Depression residing throughout the USA. Personal and Business bankruptcies
have broken records for years. This matches up with the massive Trade Deficits that keep breaking records. ( Summary of this
site is at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=251143 Pass it on -Feel Free to copy it and send to newspaper editors, government leaders and/or use it in class.)
The World is Broken - not Flat - The Creator's label
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1956 - the year that
really changed the world
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The world is broken - not flat. In many cases it is
shattered. Friedman's Free-Traders are imploding the world by ignoring workers dignity.
(See next few pages for a list of historical events that changed the economic life
of the * common man.) A new babarianism is surging. The U.S. military with all kinds of high tech gadgets is being beaten
by human bombs with the internet showing beheadings instantly worldwide while Friedman ignores the fact that
workers have no voice in the process of globalization even though they are the core of any economy. Friedman leads the way
in "communications by rank".
*( The term- common man is a generic one which includes both man and
woman. The need to footnote this is an indication of one of the major things that have dramatically affected the world
in general and the workday..)
To gain an insight of our times, all one has to do is ponder over things stopped at a red
light on one of the marginal roads next to the highways that divide our cities into parts. You
can see the "forensic" evidence that tells the stories of our times. There's always the glimbering of shattered
glass and even parts of a shredded credit card.. Bottles are thrown out of the windows at will. There are also empty and sometimes
half full fast food bags and cartons too with all the major logos telling the story of the franchised working poor. There
are also empty cans or plastic bottles of pop and beer. However, there are fewer of the cans since
the aluminum is a source of income for the homeless.
I seldom saw any of this when I grew up no matter what the conditions were.
This represents a throw-away society with throw-away jobs and throw-away lives--( The
U.S. prison population keeps breaking records ) and even throw-away computers that were once described to be a
panacea for all of the above. In some cases, prison inmates to the processing for credit card companies.
(When a person came into our grocery store and asked for food, my father would first smell
their breath and then if they passed the test, he made them a large sandwich. Imagine this happening in our super stores
or fast food restaurants these days. The police would be called. )
I worked in several factories while going to college making the equivalent of
$15 to $20 an hour. If these jobs were available today, literally thousands would be standing in line to apply for them including
many college graduates.
During the 1950s, I commuted to a college on the other side of the city. I took short highways
and parkways to get there on the perimeters of the city. It was impossible to drive through the center of the city. Today
there are more superhighways but the fastest way to get to the college is an old main street right
through the center of the city. In the 1950's, it was congested with activity of business and manufacturing. It was
impossible use since it took about three times longer than going around the city. Today, most of all
the businesses are gone and the factories are empty. A big medical center stands alone with its multi-floors towering
over a de-populated area. Some say the de-population was planned. We do know that something or someone broke
this world. Now the big medical center wants to close down the main street for several blocks and affect the last of the small
businesses who are still there.
While many of the main streets in our major cities look like they are in a Third World country,
others try to duplicate the old neighborhood mercantile communities in upper middle class suburbs. Only a few can afford
to shop at these places and the old community spirit is not there. The money spent at these places does not stay in the USA.
Most of the channels of supply are in distant lands. There are no real local added value economies. The money spent quickly
fans out to where the products and profits are made. Value is added primarily at only the retail level with the other
5 to 7 levels back down to raw product somewhere else. Only a few at the retail level enjoy any rewards, while the retail
workers try to survive on near minimum wages. There are also miles of shopping centers
where manufacturing was once thriving. Down the roads from the shopping centers, the retail workers live on little farms trying
to survive by living off the land.
Here is a list of many of the things that broke our World starting with the Civil
War.
1. The Civil War - Federalism won over States Rights. Government start centralizing things
and started the take over of our economic lives. Now under Fast Track, the Executive Branch acts as the CEO of world trade
and commerce.
2. Tariffs- For more than a century, government revenues came from taxes on products and not on
the workday and people. There was no income tax. Today the tariffs have been taken off products and put on the
new main commodities in the global economy - human beings as workers. Plus there are many hidden tariffs on things like gasoline
where about one-half the cost is based on taxes. There is also a tax on the working poor. About 70% of all workers pay more
in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes. Senior citizens on Social Security who still have to work keep paying
the Payroll Tax although they will never get anything back. Someone making just $12,000 a year will pay about $10,000
in payroll tax in ten years. At the same time, those who have pensions and interest income pay no Social Security tax
at all. Only those who have to work are penalized. They also have to give part of their Social Security payments
back if they are 62 to 64 and make over just $10,000 a year.
The Federal Government spends both taxes the same way by putting an IOU on the Social Security
Trust Fund which really does not exist. However they spend the money as if it comes from the General Fund. Companies
and Businesses pay one-half of these taxes and they move out of the USA to escape this overhead and use impoverished
workers with no Social Security. In the end the companies escape both tariffs on their products and on their labor costs.
American shoppers not only shop their way out of their jobs but they also are shopping their way out of the entitlements
and Social Security too. Americans now vote on what kind of society they want in the check out line than they do in
the voting booth.
President Bush's tax cuts do not include the payroll taxes plus any extra surpluses usually
go to the retail level and then fans out to the places where the products are made and where the investments originate. The
extra money feeds foreign economies and not ours.
3. World War 1 - President Wilson engaged the largest propaganda machine in history
to get American involved in the war on the "Huns" but after the war he was unable to reverse the propaganda. Some say
he went insane literally over this.
Wilson hired thousands of men called the "Minute Men" . They told stories
of "Huns" raping and killing people in the new movie houses and on stages across America. Wilson also put out world-wide
brochures and books against the Germans about the murdering "Huns" . He could not use the word German
because there were too many good Germans in America. The printing was paid by the government. It worked but it worked
too good. After the war, Wilson tried to reverse his attack in order to start a new economy in all of Europe. However,
the Allies took over the League of Nations and old enemies wanted to make the "Huns" just farmers and not let them do any
manufacturing. Many used Wilson's books and brochures to prove their point. Of course this failed and gave rise to Hitler
who took advantage of the Global Depression. All Germanys' enemies had deep problems in their own lands to properly
respond to Hitler. Some say the Balkans triggered World War 1. After it, the allies put all the Balkan countries under
Yugoslavia. About 4 generations later, President Clinton comes and breaks it all apart again. The allies put other
nations together who did not want to be together like the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They split in a peaceful fashion
about 4 generations later. Hillary Clinton scolded the Slovaks for wanting their own country. There is a good
lesson here for the world. This is the first time in a thousand years that Slovakia is under its own flag. It stood the test
of time and Globalists want to change these ageless cultures.
In the end, we won World War 2 and after the war, we restored the local value
added economy in Germany with the Marshall Plan which was based the awesome industrial might built during the war. The
Marshall Plan proved to be an extraordinary success. The U.S. put in more than $13 billion dollars into the plan. (
That would be about $150 billion in today's value) . By 1949, less than five years after World War II, the agriculture, industry
and (real) foreign trade were near prewar levels. Industrial production in local value added economy settings, was actually
15 percent above. If the U.S. was able to this before Hitler's rise to power, there would have never been a Hitler or
World War 2. We now have given away this awesome industrial might that won World War 2. The real flattener of this era
did not end with the fall of the Iron Curtain. It started with Roosevelt at Yalta turning one half o Europe over to the Communist.
The same applys in Asia, when Truman let the Communists take over China while the Nationalist Chinese had to flee for their
lives after the U.S. stop supporting them.
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4. Japan- On the other side of the world , in 1906
The Root-Takahira Agreement the USA gave Japan an Open Door Policy to the mainland of China. Japan considered its Manifest
Destiny to expand from their island nation for the sake of survival. Japan considered this as a real agreement
although the USA just considered it an executive order even though Root gave the terms directly to the Senate. During
the 1930s. the USA recinded this "agreement" and Japan was surprised and felt betrayed. They were a continental power
and did not want to reverse their course in history. They bombed Pearl Harbor which many today say was not a surprise attack.
President Roosevelt had already factored the attack into his plans to get America into World War 2. after supporting
the Allies for years through the Lend Lease program.
In the end, the USA dropped the bomb and it was over. However, after the war,
the USA gave Japan everything they needed to survive. There would not have been any need for the war or the bomb if
the USA were able to do this for Japan in the first place. The US brought a local value added economy to the island nation
and Japan found ways to produce goods and export them under real trade. The US helped
the Japanese develop In-process manufacturing which cut out the overhead of labor instensified manufacturing where
there were pre and post production cycles prior to the manufacturing stage.
At the same time, the Government in the USA was pushing Zero Defects Manufacturing in its
own country which was labor instensified. The Zero Defects Manufacturing banners were on our factories across
our land. Anyone who wanted a defense or government contract made sure they plugged this type of manufacturing into their
process. Actually there is no such thing as Zero Defects Manufacturing since there is always about a 1% failure rate
no matter what. To get rid of that 1% is very costly and and not compatible with any economic situation. For example, a regular
manufactured reel of computer tape ended up costing about $25 to $30 a reel. It involved pre processing of the raw tape, polishing,
quality checks and certification of each and ever reel. Some tapes that were also produced to calibrate tape drives.
They did have to be 100% Zero Defects. This zero defects tape cost about $100 for a single reel
of tape . Many factories in the USA were in Zero Defects manufacturing while the USA was showing the Japanese how to
do In-process manufacturing where everything happened during the manufacturing stage. In-processing manufacturing was able
to make products with only a 3% defects rate that later could be searched out with statistical testing.
In the USA, the computer tape and disk storage manufacturers evolved into the inprocess
manufacturing way. A computer tape dropped to about $12 a reel or about one half the cost of the certified regular manufactured
tape. The 3% failure rate was found in statistical testing but it was difficult to discern what batch of production
it was. Rather than rejecting large batches , alot of this tape went to market and unpolished tape worn out the tape heads
faster. Rigid Disk Storage has a simpler story to tell and many other manufactured products in the USA went this way
while Japan had a jump start on the process. I can not prove any sinister plans by unknown groups but always
wondered about this. I feel someone somewhere was playing games with our economy in a planned way. However, you do not
need any conspiracy theories to know certain powers and money have selfish interests and someone broke the world
this way too The point here is many things happened artificially by design and not through any natural evolution.
It makes one wonder if anything evolved in a natural way or if Friedman's Flatheads for the Flat World have been around for
a long time.
5. Roosevelts- Teddy Roosevelt turned Populist when
we saw what corporations, trusts and monopolies were doing to the USA. He said his worst fear for American is when Big Business
and Government join as one in controlling the flow of wealth. His Populism is now growing throughout South America
and it will confront the Flat World of the Free-traders and Globalists to stop their economic rape of people.
Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable and he was right.
It is difficult to tell what he would do if he was around in our times. The Free Traders today blame the Smooth Howley
Trade bill for more tariffs as causing the Great Depression. However, the bill was not passed until 1930 after
the Depression started and it can be questioned if it ever really got off the ground. Franklin Roosevelt came into office
and pumped paper money into the economy and started subsidies for farmers. However, today many of these subsidies are
used by the big agricultural corporations to put out subsistent living famers in Mexico and South America. FDR started
the Lend Lease program too. He sent free goods to support the allies war efforts and this artificially stimulated the
economy. It was an act of war but he needed more than this to get Americans into the war. Many historians today
suggest he factored in the Pearl Habor
Attack into his plans and it was really no surprise attack as far as Roosevelt
and company were concerned. During the war, he started the loss leader economy with ceiling prices. It was illegal to
sell anything over the established ceiling prices. However, many businesses paid more for the goods than the ceiling
prices and they could not make any profits over the table. This forced many small business to do business with only
people they knew well. Up to this time the small businesses were able to compete with the chain stores when it was considered
unfair trade to sell anything under costs. The chain stores quickly found out that they could put out the small businesses
by featuring loss leader items under costs. This way they capture traffic and then were able to sell other items at
a high markup. A few years later statistics took over in monitoring how many customers pass a certain place in a store where
high percentage merchandise would attract their attention. Other businesses use these methods and this evolved into
the company with the most money putting out the company with the least money. A company could sell under costs for a long
time- even years while capturing the market. The stock market watched only the growing sales and many of these companies
start doing more things just to enhance the value of their stock. Eventually, they had to pay the piper and sell things
at a reasonable markup to survive. However following on their back was another loss leader company.
Fair Trade laws were on the books but they were never enforced. So these
companies were ripe for Free Trade where they could cut down their labor costs my moving out of the USA. This is the Flat
World driven by a loss leader economy. The Great Depression was never really resolved. World War 2 hid it and the artificial
economy continues.
6. The Marshall Plan - The Marshall Plan, as noted above, helped restore
local value added economies in Europe in 16 different nations and Asia. It was based on the awesome industrial might
the USA build during the war. It did prove that one nation could help other nations form local value added economy
in balanced geopolitical settings. It proved a global economy could be balanced. Trade could be balanced and Power
could be too. There was a beautiful period of time for about five years after the war, where many believed and practiced
the fact that limited warfare never works.
7. *** 1956 *** the
year the world was turned upside down! Nasser closes the Suez Canal and the US Federal Government starts moving
factories out of the USA.
Over the years,
our job required us to study and read many computer tech periodicals, journals and magazines. In 1992, I came across an article
that stunned me. It was in the Computer Sources Magazine. It was an article telling high tech manufacturers how they could
reduce their overall costs of production in Mexico. It told about the Maquiladora factories in Mexico that could produce
products for a fraction of the costs of American made products. A company could even get a plan where they contracted the
facility, the equipment and the workers all in one package. A company would need nothing else of their own. By this time,
nothing seemed to surprise me anymore as I witnessed hundreds of computer manufacturers close down or move
their operations outside the USA. One of my former employer had closed their factories in New England and let go about 5000
workers and later sold the whole facility along with even the brand name to an Asian company. About 12 former employees formed
their own company as manufacturers' reps in the sales of the products in the USA. This was all that was left of the company
in the USA. Most of the customers never knew that the brand they were buying actually belonged to someone else with
the whole company wiped out of existence.
--- What happened and how did this all start?
The U.S. Federal Government sponsored and funded the moving of factories outside the USA
starting in 1956. It was supposed to be a temporary program to help the Mexican and Central American econmies
while at the same time provide cheaper goods for the American consumers. The Federal Government said it was only a temporary
program for one or two years. However, it never ended and the term Free Trade later was applied to the process. The program
became known as the Maquiladora program. The definition of Free Trade changed as understood historically. Free Trade became
something foreign to the term trade. In the past trade was based on trading products. Suddenly, Free Trade became the moving
of production and factories from place to place based on the cheapest labor markets of the world. The main commodities became
human beings as workers. Workers were put on a world trading block to compete with one another down to the lowest levels
of wages even including wage slave and child labor.
By 1972, about 200 factories were moved to Mexico. By 1992 this number multiplied
10 times with more than 2000 former U.S. factories being moved to Mexico. In 1993 the so called Free Trade
NAFTA and GATT agreements were passed. It must be noted, that it was a Democrat President and a Democrat controlled Congress
that passed both of these "trade" bills. President Clinton even called Congress in during the Thanksgiving
holiday to get the latter bill passed. He forced it through a lameduck session of Congress even though the new Contract
with America Republican had won Congress in early November. He locked hands with Republicans Newt
Gingrich and Senator Dole. Rush Limbaugh the voice of the new Contract with American pushed the passage of
both bills. He said on one talk show session that he did not care if a 64 year old person lost their job.
After NAFTA and GATT were passed, the number of factories moved to Mexico doubled to
more than 4000 U.S. factories being moved to Mexico. The new Free Trade bills confirmed what was going
on for a long time and put the process in high speed. After getting NAFTA passed, President Clinton had to
rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso.
So inspite of the obvious long failures of what is called Free Trade, the Flathead
Free-Traders like Thomas Friedman push the process no matter what the consequences and worst yet the hide the real untold
stories behind all the failures and who caused it all.
Now many of the factories are moving out of Mexico to Asia and places like China where labor is even cheaper. The Mexicans
report a low unemployment rate just like the USA. does and accordingly someone should tell President Bush and people like
Thomas Friedman that there are many jobs in Mexico that Mexicans will not take forcing the massive migration of workers into
the USA. Who, why, when, where and how did this all happen. Thomas Friedman and other Free-Traders remain silent about these
questions that we are taught to ask in high school and college journalist classes. It is also apparent the Thomas Friedman
and other Globalist Free-Traders " do the talk only without ever doing the walk ".
Nasser closing of the Suez Canal made it clear that Middle East countries were not going to stand still while the Economic
Hit Men did their thing.
8. The real PC Computer revolution - IBM was surprised
and Bill Gates is gifted a monopoly. MicroSoft was born a monopoly.
In the beginning of the computer industry , IBM trained many system
and programmers to fit their mold. 10,000 of them were quietly let go and were quickly absorbed in corporations
across the USA who were eager to computerize their manual systems. The only trained personnel to staff these jobs had
to come from the Corporate Schools. It would be years until any of this was taught in colleges. And so the IBM way took
over computing quickly. Not much was said about this because IBM and rest of the computer manufacturers were afraid people
would think computers were going to put them out of their jobs too.
IBM led the way for years with their version of unbundled systems while protecting their
hardware architecture for as long as they could. Other manufacturers had to find ways to copy the IBM way to survive.
Some did a decent job but only capture a very small percentage of the business. IBM stressed centralized processing and the
use of dumb terminals in branch locations. Honeywell tried to counter this with their approach to off-line processing.
Honeywell took over GE Computers and It worked but still IBM was just too strong to oppose. By then, IBM
had a vast network of tech information coming from their large installed base. Control Data Computers came in
and many thought they could compete with IBM but they failed too in the long run. The IBM brand name became "scotch
tape" brand of the industry. Standards and universal methods went the way of the IBM brand. However, IBM was challenged
in a different way through the courts. They were charged with anti-trust laws. IBM even gave parts of the company away in
settling some of these disputes.
In addition, some mini-computer bundled systems competitors were starting to be
successful. Then the micro-computers came to challenged the mini-computers and companies found a cheap way for distributing
processing in all their branches and offices. There was a problem with centralizing processing with
only giant computers in corporate centers. When manual and other systems were moved to a central location,
the dynamics of human intervention was affected. Many local systems were frozen in time with the central computer center not
knowing how to deal with local situations.
IBM looked at all of this but their priority was to protect their mainframe systems.
That was where all the money was. With all the anti-trust suits still lingering they chose to bring their version of a micro
computer to market. It was the first time in IBMs history where they went outside their own company for the components.
They just wanted to confuse the micro computer market and but were surprised what happened. They gifted Bill Gates the operating
system and selected DOS. Their history of not bundling systems backfired on them. Just think what a different world this
would be if IBM made their own hardware components with their own operating system.
With the hardware architecture not protected they chose to make the PC Computer
a compatible. Anyone anywhere was able to build it. To their surprise, the IBM brand name made the PC a universal
standard overnight. Meanwhile, Bill Gates had complete ownership of the operating system and was gifted a monopoly as
all other micro-computers, mini-computers and operating systems faded away. Only Apple survived while the world
took control of the manufacturing of the hardware. Components came from the sweatshops of the world and now IBM has sold their
micro-computer division to China after having to fire more than a 150,000 workers.
During this time there were standards conventions where foreign companies barter many
things to capture a standard against American companies.
This is a story that the Flathead Free-Traders leave untold.
The USA gave away the computer industry to the world and the last PC computer made in
the USA was in 1990. Also by the time, President Clinton took office, literally thousands of system houses and
computer dealers who started the PC revolution were put out of business. Just between, IBM and At&T/NCR computers over
300,000 lost their jobs soon after President Clinton took office. What did he do? He pronounced statistical prosperity
and that happy days were here again.
We were left with a throw away PC computer that was supposed to revolutionize education
and open the world wide open with the internet being claimed as the panacea for the masses. Soon after the Dot
Com revolution fell apart and the stock market crashed with trillions of dollars in value washed away.
And minimum wage and near wage workers had to learn to use a computer that
degraded their dignity more than ever- with workers taking over what were once only entry level jobs trying to support themselves
and families. At the beginning of the computer industry, workers were told they would have to prepare for more leisure time
with computers taking over much of the work. Today, workers do have more leisure time but it is because they can not
find real jobs. What is the sense of having a $100 t0 $200 computer being the core of the classroom when
the value of return is not much better than the cost of the device.
Dell took a road that many of us in the computer industry could not morally take.
We could not see how destroying several levels of distribution and other channels of supply that provided jobs for millions.
We made money when we used USA made computers and now we have computers worth about ten times less but have no way to make
money using them. Now the young workers need to know how to use them just to find a minimum wage job. This was
not the intention of those who led the way to the computer revolution. We thought computers being high technology
would upgrade the workday and not degrade it as they do now.
Who would have thought, computers would be part of the economic rape of not only
U.S. workers but workers everywhere.
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the gold standard has been replaced with oil mixed with blood. The Flat World can not bring back the lost lives, jobs, dreams and
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