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September 27, 2011

We Can't Leave Free Trade Out of the Wall Street Protest

By Ray Tapajna

Free trade is the major cause behind our economic crisis. Economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out as we wait for the next economic bubble to burst.

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Economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. The investment community divorced itself from the production sector of our society many years ago. The globalists used free trade as a tool to create new money products. They thought they could make debtor nations into exporting nations and have them at least pay interest on the loans whereby they could create perpetual revenues from these nations. But it didn't work because the new money products did not replace the loss value of workers and labor. Free trade deflates the value of labor, and this value is a real asset and perhaps a much better money standard than the value of paper money and all the funny money manipulations of transactions. Degrading the value of workers and labor affects all money values and creates a negative balance. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression.

A must read is "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins. Mainstream media tries to make him look like a quirky character, but in reading the book, you can put aside this judgment for another time and study the process he portrays. He shows how the money powers of the world get nations hooked on loans and then penetrate into whatever they can in terms of capturing the total resources of these countries -- or at least find a way to control the flow of wealth in these nations. If we ignore these things while going after Wall Street directly, we miss the proper sequence of cause and effect.

Free trade is a take away project. It is not trade. It primarily about moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. The money products represented by equity loans, home loans and credit cards went bad because free trade came and smashed the middle class production workers. This affected other businesses and services as a new working poor class replaced the middle class workers. More than a decade ago, newspapers reported that 47 percent of all small business owners maxed out their credit cards to stay afloat. Many businesses were surprised by the onslaught of free trade and tried to find ways to survive. Many put their homes and other personal assets on the line trying to survive. The same applied to all the millions who lost their jobs due to free trade. They thought they could easily get a job of equal value but this was not case as many waited too long in joining the working poor class. We had record-breaking personal and business bankruptcies and record-breaking home foreclosures making headlines more than a decade ago.

Many thought that the "Battle in Seattle" in 1998 would wake America up to the savage assault of globalization and free trade. The protests made a big splash, but nothing really changed. The elite money powers found ways to control these protests and keep them out of the news, just like the Wall Street protest is now left out of big news channels.

Unfortunately, in the background, we shopped our way out of our jobs. We took the dangling carrot of cheaper prices and went for the imported goods from the wage slave markets of the world, with many saying they no longer had a choice. They said it was a matter of survival.

We can say it is Wall Street who caused all this -- and perhaps they did. But they did it after we participated in the process. We participated in the deception by shopping our way out of our jobs. We have to keep history straight about the Clinton era. It was a Democrat President and a Democrat controlled Congress that passed both NAFTA and GATT trade agreements. Of course, the Republicans locked hands with the Democrats. Even people like Rush Limbaugh joined hands with President Clinton and pushed for the passage of both NAFTA and GATT.

We also should let everyone know that even though President Bush hid our economic mess behind his "shock and awe" wars, President Obama followed him and bailed out the financial community and big money interests and put them back in charge. We have only one major party in the U.S., and it should be called the Globalist Free Traders party which ignores those who have lost everything due to free trade. The first question to ask all political candidates is this - who said we had to compete in a global economy with one another for the same jobs? We do not need any conspiracy theories to know that free trade did not evolve in any natural fashion but has been driven by powerful elite forces outside the will of the people.



Authors Bio:
Ray Tapajna 's Bio and background at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/id18.html or see http://www.spoke.com/profiles/RayTapajna?preview
Most of business career was in the computer industry being part of every computer generation and many innovations. Was called upon to resolve disk storage problems nationwide and internationally . Wrote on error recovery codes.

Advocate for workers dignity and fair trade.
Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks at
http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
Mobile user friendly summary of articles at http://tapsearchnewsmobile.filetap.com and http://tapsmobileworld.filetap.com
Explore lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld
See also http://tapsearch.com/globalization and most popular artwork which is part of more than 5 million search results referenced on Yahoo, Altavista and Goolge is the Clinton Years American Dream Reversed- see http://tapsearch.com/clinton and http://tapsearch.com/backfire
For untold stories behind the news in the global economic arena, see http://www.bizarrepolitics.com featuring series of reviews of The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan and The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

For a philosophical and religious persfective of Globalization relating to the common good and workers dignity see http:/www.therationale.com/

Blogspot is at http://tapsearch-global.blogspot.com and Ray Tapajna's artwork is certified as BIAM (Bank of International Art Money in Copenhagen Denmark ) at http://www.artmoney.org/user/1801

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