Tapsearch Com EditorSophisticated Manipulations in Global Economic Arena
March 4th 2009 19:23
By Ray Tapajna, Artist and Editor - at Art That Talks
The unnetted and educated class at odds again living in a global economic crisis
I come from a different place than most others in the educated class.
At age 13,
I was operating the cash register and making small purchases in our
family food store.
At age 18
I was a set up man for three assembly lines. Then I went to college. I
worked in several factories and had the equivalent of four years of full
time factory work while attending college for four and one half years.
(* As an added note, if these jobs were available today, there would
be thousands standing in line to get them including college graduates.)
Graduating from college, at age 23, I had about ten years experience in
the food business, four years in the factories and one year with the
largest advertising art studio in Cleveland. I left college learning about the
common good in my philosophy classes but failed to find it on the streets.
I found business school grads to be a very strange breed.
What they were taught and what I experienced represented
two different worlds. Not much changed for me throughout my business career
where I dealt with all levels of corporate management up to the highest echelons of management.
Business school grads were always a strange species to me. The Ivy League
types challenged me even more relating to my real world experiences.
They seem to know more about manipulations rather
than realities. The factory floors and the sincere efforts of factory
workers never left me. The good workers I lived my days with were not educated
enough to know about sophisticated manipulations nor the manipulations going on around them. They were part of the "unnetted".
In our current economic crisis, we are finding out that the educated class that leads
us all have sophisticated methods for manipulation. White collar crime is vivid
among us but is accepted as a means to an end. The same applys to the government.
Unfortunately, we are all paying now for their transgressions. Both the left and the
right now are accepting the ultimate tariff on work and labor - the bail out of big money.
The bail out of the investment, insurance and banking industries have made us all one
in a different way. Those on both the left and the right who promoted Raw Capitalism and unbridled Free Trade are getting bailed out for their efforts.
Whatever, the political debates are on the surface. People like Rush Limbaugh and President Clintong walked hand in hand in the Free Traders global economic arena. Once anyone on the right especially take bail out funds they automatically become socialists. Worst yet the Free Market, Free Trade rich class, can no longer say they are not living off the working poor and the under class. The "I got mine- why don't you have yours class" are now taking corporate welfare checks in one way or another.
Currently the educated liberals are running the show and we are finding out that President Obama and President Reagan are not much different in their trickle down economic ways.
President Obama carved his economic recovery plan from worn out public works and he acts as if this government money will eventually reach the working poor while he ignores the working poor and underemployed class. Only 38 percent of all workers in the U.S. qualify for unemployment insurance which means more the 60 percent are living in an economic limbo that not one can identify.
Some experts suggested curtailing the payroll tax for a few years. 70 percent of all workers pay more in payroll tax than they do in income taxes. This tax also acts like a flat tax and tariff on work. In essence it is a terrible overhead in the global economic arena. It also makes any tax credits plans a laugh.
In the end, we have the educated class controlling events through Sophisticated Manipulations with both the left and right playing the game.
Hopefully in our next post we will explore the affects of Sophisticated Manipulations have had on the common good more directly.
( Note : payroll tax - We did an article about getting rid of it completely. The U.S. tax codes are now obsolete due to Free Trade and Globalization. See Taps instead of Taxes. )
The unnetted and educated class at odds again living in a global economic crisis
I come from a different place than most others in the educated class.
At age 13,
I was operating the cash register and making small purchases in our
family food store.
At age 18
I was a set up man for three assembly lines. Then I went to college. I
worked in several factories and had the equivalent of four years of full
time factory work while attending college for four and one half years.
(* As an added note, if these jobs were available today, there would
be thousands standing in line to get them including college graduates.)
Graduating from college, at age 23, I had about ten years experience in
the food business, four years in the factories and one year with the
largest advertising art studio in Cleveland. I left college learning about the
common good in my philosophy classes but failed to find it on the streets.
I found business school grads to be a very strange breed.
What they were taught and what I experienced represented
two different worlds. Not much changed for me throughout my business career
where I dealt with all levels of corporate management up to the highest echelons of management.
Business school grads were always a strange species to me. The Ivy League
types challenged me even more relating to my real world experiences.
They seem to know more about manipulations rather
than realities. The factory floors and the sincere efforts of factory
workers never left me. The good workers I lived my days with were not educated
enough to know about sophisticated manipulations nor the manipulations going on around them. They were part of the "unnetted".
In our current economic crisis, we are finding out that the educated class that leads
us all have sophisticated methods for manipulation. White collar crime is vivid
among us but is accepted as a means to an end. The same applys to the government.
Unfortunately, we are all paying now for their transgressions. Both the left and the
right now are accepting the ultimate tariff on work and labor - the bail out of big money.
The bail out of the investment, insurance and banking industries have made us all one
in a different way. Those on both the left and the right who promoted Raw Capitalism and unbridled Free Trade are getting bailed out for their efforts.
Whatever, the political debates are on the surface. People like Rush Limbaugh and President Clintong walked hand in hand in the Free Traders global economic arena. Once anyone on the right especially take bail out funds they automatically become socialists. Worst yet the Free Market, Free Trade rich class, can no longer say they are not living off the working poor and the under class. The "I got mine- why don't you have yours class" are now taking corporate welfare checks in one way or another.
Currently the educated liberals are running the show and we are finding out that President Obama and President Reagan are not much different in their trickle down economic ways.
President Obama carved his economic recovery plan from worn out public works and he acts as if this government money will eventually reach the working poor while he ignores the working poor and underemployed class. Only 38 percent of all workers in the U.S. qualify for unemployment insurance which means more the 60 percent are living in an economic limbo that not one can identify.
Some experts suggested curtailing the payroll tax for a few years. 70 percent of all workers pay more in payroll tax than they do in income taxes. This tax also acts like a flat tax and tariff on work. In essence it is a terrible overhead in the global economic arena. It also makes any tax credits plans a laugh.
In the end, we have the educated class controlling events through Sophisticated Manipulations with both the left and right playing the game.
Hopefully in our next post we will explore the affects of Sophisticated Manipulations have had on the common good more directly.
( Note : payroll tax - We did an article about getting rid of it completely. The U.S. tax codes are now obsolete due to Free Trade and Globalization. See Taps instead of Taxes. )
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