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. 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