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Friday, May 31, 2013
Economic Lies Not New
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A generation of economic lies
The Back to the Future Economic Lie
Big lies about the economy are not new - What Year was this ?
They coined the term "Rust Belt" and told us a new economy was on the way.
More than a million workers in the computer industry have lost their jobs. More than a hundred major computer manufacturers have closed down. Micro computers are only assembled in our country with the parts coming from the sweatshops of the world. Now, another 200,000 workers lost their jobs in the computer industry during a time when the President and Congress passed new programs to import cheaper labor to fill positions where they said there was a shortage of qualified workers. It was obvious that this was a lie.
During this time, the Y2k crisis was costing billions of dollars to fix a computer problem caused by a shortage of workers but the shortage was due to so many workers being fired and for a decade, U.S. computer systems were not being updated as they should have been. The Wall Street Journal, reported, companies were afraid to rehire fired workers because so many were "disgruntled". Others used a more appropriate word describing the fired workers as being "livid".
In the Silicon Valley, many workers were ready to go on strike because of working conditions, but were afraid to do it because they knew they would be fired and replaced. Only a few news channels reported the problem. It was not only a Y2k crisis but also a human problem too. Many workers in the computer field, were only able to get periodical contract jobs with no benefits what so ever. A darkness fell over the land with workers living under conditions they never experienced before.
Some of the top high technology companies, also found ways to fire workers before the reach the age of forty when the age discrimination laws kicked in.
FACE, an organization of past and present INTEL workers cited many cases of age discrimination and other violations at INTEL.
Here are some sad examples of workers passing the forty age mark. We have left their names out of the story that were given in these stories. It sums up the conditions back then. Sadly, today they are just another story about the the greatest betrayal of workers in U.S. history. Note too this is the computer industry and not a story about the "Rust Belt" workers.
R------- P-------, over 50, passes out his resume at job fairs, It took him eight months just to find a temporary contract job which ended quickly. His resume covers many high accomplishments in the computer field.
( Note during this time, reportedly one third of all workers who lost their jobs at age 55 and above, never found another job.)
G--- N-----, age 46, with a doctorate in biophysics which he no longer mentions on his resume while he does only telephone support work while searching for a regular position. He maintains there is no shortage of programmers and finds the only shortage there is in the field are twenty-five to thirty-nine old workers with the same skills.
A----- K------. age 44, who has a masters in computer sciences, says she has had only one interview in the past year.
W------ S-----, age 48, says he has many portable skills and has lowered his income requirements and can not find a position. He has a doctorate in physics along with programming experience. He says that age discrimination is so widespread that it has come invisible. Too many are ashamed of their circumstances to broadcast their plight but hope this calamity will be more out in the open.
The time never came and now these people are in the Social Security age group. A church bulletin back then, carried this line for a long time - " Success is reaching Social Security age without having to declare bankruptcy."
The year was 1998 and now it is just old news because not much has changed.
A generation of economic lies
The Back to the Future Economic Lie
Big lies about the economy are not new - What Year was this ?
They coined the term "Rust Belt" and told us a new economy was on the way.
More than a million workers in the computer industry have lost their jobs. More than a hundred major computer manufacturers have closed down. Micro computers are only assembled in our country with the parts coming from the sweatshops of the world. Now, another 200,000 workers lost their jobs in the computer industry during a time when the President and Congress passed new programs to import cheaper labor to fill positions where they said there was a shortage of qualified workers. It was obvious that this was a lie.
During this time, the Y2k crisis was costing billions of dollars to fix a computer problem caused by a shortage of workers but the shortage was due to so many workers being fired and for a decade, U.S. computer systems were not being updated as they should have been. The Wall Street Journal, reported, companies were afraid to rehire fired workers because so many were "disgruntled". Others used a more appropriate word describing the fired workers as being "livid".
In the Silicon Valley, many workers were ready to go on strike because of working conditions, but were afraid to do it because they knew they would be fired and replaced. Only a few news channels reported the problem. It was not only a Y2k crisis but also a human problem too. Many workers in the computer field, were only able to get periodical contract jobs with no benefits what so ever. A darkness fell over the land with workers living under conditions they never experienced before.
Some of the top high technology companies, also found ways to fire workers before the reach the age of forty when the age discrimination laws kicked in.
FACE, an organization of past and present INTEL workers cited many cases of age discrimination and other violations at INTEL.
Here are some sad examples of workers passing the forty age mark. We have left their names out of the story that were given in these stories. It sums up the conditions back then. Sadly, today they are just another story about the the greatest betrayal of workers in U.S. history. Note too this is the computer industry and not a story about the "Rust Belt" workers.
R------- P-------, over 50, passes out his resume at job fairs, It took him eight months just to find a temporary contract job which ended quickly. His resume covers many high accomplishments in the computer field.
( Note during this time, reportedly one third of all workers who lost their jobs at age 55 and above, never found another job.)
G--- N-----, age 46, with a doctorate in biophysics which he no longer mentions on his resume while he does only telephone support work while searching for a regular position. He maintains there is no shortage of programmers and finds the only shortage there is in the field are twenty-five to thirty-nine old workers with the same skills.
A----- K------. age 44, who has a masters in computer sciences, says she has had only one interview in the past year.
W------ S-----, age 48, says he has many portable skills and has lowered his income requirements and can not find a position. He has a doctorate in physics along with programming experience. He says that age discrimination is so widespread that it has come invisible. Too many are ashamed of their circumstances to broadcast their plight but hope this calamity will be more out in the open.
The time never came and now these people are in the Social Security age group. A church bulletin back then, carried this line for a long time - " Success is reaching Social Security age without having to declare bankruptcy."
The year was 1998 and now it is just old news because not much has changed.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The American Dream becomes a nightmare
Stories behind News in Global Economic Arena - Part of Tapsearch Com and Tapart News Network sites
Explore the untold stories behind the news in the lost worlds of Globalist Free Traders. It is really all about you in the global economic arena. By Ray Tapajna - Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks - global issues. " Information Digest " sites at http://multiurl.com/la/ray-tapajna-tapsearcher from the real world of the streets of USA keeping history straight..
The American Dream becomes a nightmare
6.16-09 rev 13
Bizarre Politics Reports: Plain Talk about our economic crisis.
The American Dream becomes a nightmare I started my computer career at a relative late age of 31 after having experience in several fields - small family food business, rack jobber to supermarkets, factory production work, insurance investigator, international passenger and cargo airlines, Transportation Army Officer, and other side ventures. I had about twenty years of experience before entering the computer worldsince I start working in our family food story at a young age. Add to this more than 40 years in the computer industry being part of every computer generation. I helped raise seven children with all having college degrees - two have advanced degrees. My wife was at my side running parts of my businesses while raising our children. This should add up to an American Dream happy ending but it did not. Starting in 1964, I received my first computer training on the job and became a National Accounts Manager for major international corporationsbased in the Cleveland/Akron and Pittsburgh areas. I gained experience dealing with the highest echelons in management for many years. I enjoyed this vantage point and have a first hand experience of all kinds of operations. This proved to me that decentralization was much better than centralization. Nothing beats the dynamics of local hands on experience in most fields. Data Processing was launched this way. I am really not that technical. I come from an artist influenced background and not a technical one ( although in factory work while going to college full time, I was a set up man for three assembly lines and in inventory control.) However, I became something of an expert in the field being sought out nationally and internationally for my disk storage and computer know-how. Computer industry was primarily launched from the streets and not from the university classrooms or by government agencies I like so many others in the field I recieved myformal training in corporate class rooms. One corporation invested two years in training me. I mixed with students coming from our customer base in these classes. After that, I attended many classes and seminarswith other companies. The corporations were able to afford training all these people. The computer age was not launched in our colleges or government. It was launched from the streets of U.S.A. In fact the universities did not even have any of these courses during that time. Ultimately, I became an expert in disk storage and my last jobs were as a consultant in this area. I helped launch the Cat Scan industry, the computerized typsetting industry and helped government agencies save thousands of dollars on disk storage after I presented them with my study of error correction codes. IBM trained thousands of systems people and silently laided off 10,000 workers to staff the corporate world in the U.S. This is the main reason corporations went the IBM way. Data Processing Managers rose up from the factory floors and from office management. They were good because they had real world practicalexperience in a local setting. This followed the example given by the foremen sector in our nation that took the young off the streets and taught them a skill. In turn the young were able to get married, have children - many had large families- buy a home and help send their children to college. The "corporate storekeepers" who were in charge of inventory processes became super at managing the flow of computer processes. This followed a period in our history where companies during slow times switch their workers to making parts for inventory instead of being laid off. ( I maintain that "just-in-time" supply and in-processing manufacturing are not good for an economy as a whole. The negatives outweigh the positives. Plus, the ecology costs of long haul shipping is another negative still not addressed. ) Just 16 large container ships pollute the world more than all the automobiles in the world. In computerization or most every other process, local dynamics can not be beat. In my computer sales career, I challenged the IBM centralizing processes. At first it looks like the righ thing to do. However, if you go in and forward all the processing from local office to a central location, you lose all the human dynamics of the situation that later come back to haunt you. These dynamics are lost forever and systems are frozen in time. The success of the computer industry was based on local human dynamics rising from factory floors and office management. Like most everything else, it does not work well from the top down. Not much has happened in Cleveland or in other parts of our country for the past thirty years because we dismissed most of this logic. The talk about converting the "rust belt" to high technology will continue even though we lost that industry too many years ago while people talk as if it was just yesterday. Cleveland was in the center of this revolution but lost it too. We gave it away after investing many many years in it. The free enterprise system is a simple process. You grown or make something and add a margin to it that provides a decent living for the owners and the workers. Cut one out of the mix and you have an econmic nightmare like we do now. Workers remain to be the most essential tangible value there is . Their value acts as a real money standard. Free trade and globlization have smashed this value and we now have reverse tariffs on workers with the bail outs of big money being really tariffs too. More than a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs. Hundreds of computer manufacturers closed down. Thousands of computer systems houses and dealers went out of business too. The American Dream turned into a nightmare. Presidents come and bail out big money, investments and the "too big to fail" business ventures but this adds up to nothing when the millions who have lost everything due to free trade are ignored. See more at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews 
http://clinton-years-american-dream-reversed.tapsearch.com/clinton Free trade and globalization are the main causes for our economic crisis
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