Silent Depression
Bizarre Politics Reports: They keep calling it a recession but it has
been a silent depression for many for years
President Obama, President Bush and President Clinton all
in one Free Trade Party
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exposed a silent depression in our land
in 2005 and it apparently was around for a long time before that. The silent depression represents millions missing in action
from any kind of real reporting with New Orleans as an example. The unemployment reporting is fiction compared to the reporting
years ago. Someone making only a $100 a month in our time is reported as employed and no one provides the breakdown of where
60 percent of our workers are working with only about 40 percent of all workers in the USA qualifying for unemployment insurance.
There are many things like this that are kept silent in the silent depression.
We really have only one poliical
party in the USA and it should be called the Free Trade Party. This party came about automatically when both major parties
in the U.S. locked hands in the passing and promotion of Free Trade. We had Rush Limbaugh and President Clinton acting like
partners in the promotion of Free Trade in the passing of both NAFTA and GATT. Even Glen Beck who is supposed to be the champion
of the people today is silent about this crucial issue where both major parties act as one. Others at FOX News are the same
in their obvious omission of Free Trade and the Trade Deficit as being the major cause of our economic crisis. The new Tea
Parties seem to not understand these problems either. No one says much about all the jobs that were shipped outside of the
USA as the cause of our economic crisis. Only workers with jobs can pay the toll for government services.
The
only ones I know who talk about the failures of Free Trade and Globallization are Congressional Representatives Marcy Kaptur
and Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. There are many others who do but I never hear or see them on any national network news programs.
A giant Trade Deficit exploded but it is kept separate from all the Gross National Product reporting since it
is all about someone else in the world producing the goods we once made in the USA. All recent presidents have ignored it
as part of our economy. They have economist who play with numbers and statistics and who even tell us that the Trade Deficit
is a good thing as our jobs evaporate.
No one asks why drugs remain the main crop in many countries around the
world. Regular farming and other business ventures are impossible due to giant Trans-national corporations being subsidized
by governments. No one asks about the foreign auto companies and their competing using government's subsidies to capture
markets .
And no one seems to want to talk about the main commodity being traded today. Workers have been "commoditized"
and are put on a world block to compete with one another for the same job down to wage slave and even child labor. This is
a silent issue in the silent depression around the world. Nothing good is going to happen anywhere until all the realities
mentioned above are discussed. It remains an untold story in the news. You would think by now the stock market would react
to it knowing it can not be kept out of the mix. However, in our economies there are just masks behind masks hiding the real
terror of our times. As one mask is pulled off another one appears.
Bizarre
Politics Reports: The global mess is not new. The core of our economic storms was during the
Clinton era when he bailed out a foreign country - Mexico and send hundred of companies to other lands including Ireland.
It's really about you in the global economic arena and even the Tea Parties ignore the
real problems of our times. You been had by the best of them!
Core of our economic storms - when the
American Dream was reversed
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Politics Reports: Shock and Awe economy follows Bush, Clinton and Alan Greenspan
Bizarre
Politics Reports: One third of all Americans are unemployed or underemployed
Payroll Tax acts as a flat tax on the
working poor
When I worked at several factories while going to college, I never
thought that these jobs would be lost too. We now have a generation of underemployed workers and the unemployed following
behind them. I see articles and ads about people advoiding hiring workers in order to avoid the overhead of payroll taxes
too. Imagine having to compete in a global economy with an automatic overhead of 15 percent to start with. This is the overhead
the American workers carry with them in the global economic arena. The payroll tax is branded as being a way to pay for social
security and medicare but it is used in the general fund the same as all other taxes. Even President Clinton admitted he used
the social security trust fund to fight the Balkan wars
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Politics Reports: This is part of a series we call back to the future economic crisis. We
retrace the steps of how we got into the the economic mess we suffer today. We keep repeating the errors of the past and do
not take time to answer some basic questions.
Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted
the economic crisis years ago based on experts who predicted the coming of the "Bewildered New World."
In a back to the future mode, we will provide articles from more than ten years ago that tell us the economic crisis is
not something new. The only thing new about it is the financial communities took the big hit this time and were bailed out
while the millions who lost their jobs forever during the most massive dislocation of jobs in history. Many others have stepped
down into the working poor class or are missing in action from any kind of reporting.
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Politics Reports: Here we go again. Reuters news reports President Obama wants to deal the
American Dream away just grabbing the baton from President Bush who had it passed to him from President Clinton who enacted
the elder Bush's trade programs as if he wrote them himself
President Obama graps
the baton from President Bush in a new race to the bottom. He is ready to extend global trade that caused the economic crisis
in the first place. It is really predatory trade to betray the American worker even further.
I recall during the presidential debates when Congressman Kucinich as a presidential candidate called for both Hillary Clinton,
now Secretary of State and Senator Obama, now the President of the United States, to renounce so called free trade. It seemed
to have caught both Hillary and Obama off guard and as I recall- President Obama said the defective trade programs happened
before his time and Hillary Clinton said she questioned her husband, then President Clinton in the passing of NAFTA trade
agreement. However, this was not true - Here is Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton's stands on NAFTA and free trade. Back then they both treated trade as a negative issue as Congress Kucinich challenged them
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Politics Reports: President Obama continues Pearl Harbor Attack on workers. He follows Bush
and Clinton in the attack.
Free Trade, Pearl Harbor Attack on Workers led by Pres. Clinton
- editorial cartoon was first published in 1994. President Bush was added in 2001 riding shotgun. Pres. Obama added in 2009
continuing the attack on American Workers
Pres. Obama now bails out Free Trade which is a direct
cause of our economic crisis
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Politics Reports: Wall Street Journal reports about surge in suicides due to our hard times.
Thanksgiving is a time for hope. The economic crisis will continue and this is not the time to divide by generation and age
Commentary in our hard economic times
Ray Tapajna Chronicles since 1992 -
online since 1998 - forecasted our economic storms based on several experts predicting the "Bewildered New World
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