Tapsearch Com EditorFree trade radically deflates the value of work
November 15th 2010 00:58
We previously wrote about human nature being sacrificed at the altart of greed but the value of workers and labor were sacrificed too.
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Workers sacrificed at altar of greed )
Our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning away. Governments pour in trillions of dollars to stop the firestorm but nothing really is working. The economic firestorms are being just contained. And time is running out.
And no want talks about the value of workers and labor as a real money standard
The last 3,200 steelworkers lost their jobs in our city in 2001. Now politcal leaders and consultants are telling us the worth of these jobs as government tries to create new jobs. In one program it cost taxpayers 8 millions dollars to create just one job. The common average is about 1 million dollars per job. Recently, auto companies spent millions of dollars in investments that were backed by the government that create only a thousand or more jobs. So what is the value of all the jobs we lost and how can we ever regain this value.
The last 3,200 steelworkers who lost their jobs in Cleveland caused the lost of an additional 8,300 jobs county wide and a total of 22,670 jobs statewide. And this was the ending -not the begining. Back in the 1980s more than 700,000 jobs related to the steel industry were lost. 400,000 in the auto industry. Just think of the value that was lost. They talk about the Trade Deficit breaking records but say it is only an economic measurement. No one ever talked about the measurement of the value of the jobs that were lost.
A close friend died this week. He worked in the steel mills all his life and for about the last eight years, his pension had to be paid by the Federal Government Insurance progam since his company went bankrupt. Many others ended up the same way in other industries.
Then we have government workers now who get paid pensions while they go back to working at the same or similar jobs. They are called double-dippers.
It is legal but is it moral?
This leads to nowhere.... just think it takes about $500,000 in sales or revenues for a company or organization to pay just one employee $50,000 a year. Where are the economic measurements for this in job creation and the funding of government jobs.
How many workers ever get a pension or are able to enjoy their 401K in their elderly years. Only a very few do.
We will never get these jobs back or the value that these jobs brought to the economy and all of society. Now a working poor class replaces these middle class jobs with many of these workers needing government assistance to survive. The underclass and jobless ranks grow too with no one seemingly knowing what to do about it. The food banks keep calling out for more food to feed the hungry.
The same old talk about creating new technology and better education goes on and on, but this is not the reason for the race to the bottom. The standard value of all jobs has been lost. Where is human dignity in all of this. Where is religion and philosophy response to the massive devaluation of work.
And as this all is happening, the mayor of our city celebrates the opening of a Walmart store in the graveyard of the steel industry. Apparently, we are using tthe same things we always have but most of the commodities come from somewhere else. The industrial revolution is not over. It just was moved outside our country.
See:
Walmart built on steel industry graveyard By Ray Tapajna - Editor and Artist at Tapsearch Com sites Search under ... Our city has surrendered to free trade and our Mayor Jackson ...
Walmart in built in steel industry graveyard
( Google: Human nature sacrificed at altar of greed - ... Human nature sacrificed at altar of greed by Ray Tapajna
Workers sacrificed at altar of greed )
Our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning away. Governments pour in trillions of dollars to stop the firestorm but nothing really is working. The economic firestorms are being just contained. And time is running out.
And no want talks about the value of workers and labor as a real money standard
The last 3,200 steelworkers lost their jobs in our city in 2001. Now politcal leaders and consultants are telling us the worth of these jobs as government tries to create new jobs. In one program it cost taxpayers 8 millions dollars to create just one job. The common average is about 1 million dollars per job. Recently, auto companies spent millions of dollars in investments that were backed by the government that create only a thousand or more jobs. So what is the value of all the jobs we lost and how can we ever regain this value.
The last 3,200 steelworkers who lost their jobs in Cleveland caused the lost of an additional 8,300 jobs county wide and a total of 22,670 jobs statewide. And this was the ending -not the begining. Back in the 1980s more than 700,000 jobs related to the steel industry were lost. 400,000 in the auto industry. Just think of the value that was lost. They talk about the Trade Deficit breaking records but say it is only an economic measurement. No one ever talked about the measurement of the value of the jobs that were lost.
A close friend died this week. He worked in the steel mills all his life and for about the last eight years, his pension had to be paid by the Federal Government Insurance progam since his company went bankrupt. Many others ended up the same way in other industries.
Then we have government workers now who get paid pensions while they go back to working at the same or similar jobs. They are called double-dippers.
It is legal but is it moral?
This leads to nowhere.... just think it takes about $500,000 in sales or revenues for a company or organization to pay just one employee $50,000 a year. Where are the economic measurements for this in job creation and the funding of government jobs.
How many workers ever get a pension or are able to enjoy their 401K in their elderly years. Only a very few do.
We will never get these jobs back or the value that these jobs brought to the economy and all of society. Now a working poor class replaces these middle class jobs with many of these workers needing government assistance to survive. The underclass and jobless ranks grow too with no one seemingly knowing what to do about it. The food banks keep calling out for more food to feed the hungry.
The same old talk about creating new technology and better education goes on and on, but this is not the reason for the race to the bottom. The standard value of all jobs has been lost. Where is human dignity in all of this. Where is religion and philosophy response to the massive devaluation of work.
And as this all is happening, the mayor of our city celebrates the opening of a Walmart store in the graveyard of the steel industry. Apparently, we are using tthe same things we always have but most of the commodities come from somewhere else. The industrial revolution is not over. It just was moved outside our country.
See:
Walmart built on steel industry graveyard By Ray Tapajna - Editor and Artist at Tapsearch Com sites Search under ... Our city has surrendered to free trade and our Mayor Jackson ...
Walmart in built in steel industry graveyard
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