Ray Tapajna Chronicles forecasted our economic storms years ago based on experts like Manuel Castells, Sir James Goldsmith, Harry E Figgie Jr and others.
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http://tapsmobileworld.filetap.com 
  
http://www.theworldsnews.net/bewildered-new-world-now-real   

Pope Benedict's encyclical arrives about ten years after the fact. Our economies based on making money on money instead of making things have burned out. Experts like those above told us what was coming and religion and philosophpy remained silent.  At http://www.therationale.com/  we have many articles about the latent response of philosophy and religion to globalization and free trade and describe workers and labor as their "stepchildren".

The value of workers was betrayed years ago with the passing of so called free trade agreements.  Workers were "commoditized" for the sake of the investment communities. The stock market prospered by workers getting fired instead of   hired while our churches did nothing.

Now someone like Alan Greenspan tells Congress, he was surprised that the financial community did not police itself.  Alan Greenspan went out of his way in his book The Age of Turbulence, discounting Christian Worker Communities like New Harmony. In his book he did not even mention Lend Lease act and discounted the Marshall Plan as having much value.  ( See http://tapsearch.com/bizarre-politics-top-blogs and  note all the sites and references about Alan Greenspan's part in the betrayal of workers and labor. )


Actually, globalization, globalism, free trade is all about centralization versus decentralization. Pope Benedict refers to parts of this as subsidiary priorities but does not show how a new "ism" is set on centralizing not only  controls over wealth but also over all other parts in a new world order manner that the elder President Bush announced.  Manuel Castells calls it a Global Casino where money games are played with paper money created out of nothing.


Pope Benedict states that profit is useful if it serves as a means to an end. However profit is an end itself in the global economic arena where anything goes providing it is under the umbrella of controlling globalists.

The State finds itself having to address the limitation to its sovereignty imposed by international trade characteristics.  There was a time in Rome when it was better to be a slave than a free man and it appears that those days have returned.  Rome also found that outsourcing and insourcing work and labor left them with no ability to fend for themselves.


Here are the parts of Pope's Benedict's encyclical that invites hope and faith.  Man is the source , the focus  and the aim of all economical and social life. Man is not a lost atom in a random universe.  Without truth and love, there is no social conscience. If it is left out of the picture, the logical power results in social fragmentation globally.  This is the time to direct our attention to the designers of Globalism  and what it does to the social conscience of individuals and societies.  The building of the City of God has been the Church's goal in history  but the City and family are certainly foreign elements to Globalization.  Subsidarity is the best antidote against the all emcompassing welfare state and all need to consider reciprocity as the heart of what  it is to be human.


However, insourcing or outsourcing work and workers is not one way of  accomplishing this goal.  Someone wins and someone loses this way in a global economic arena.  How can anyone say the 400,000  auto workers and the 700,000 steel workers who lost their jobs in the USA  during the first wave of so called free trade in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a good thing.  How could anyone ignore what happened years ago and what it  would do later on to local economies.  The only thing that works is local value added economies in balanced geopolitcal settings.  Human dynamics work best in local settings.