FTC: Made In The USA Comments Concerning Ray Tapajna--P894219

KEEP THE MADE IN THE USA LABEL AS IS. . . .

RAY TAPAJNA
(216) 671-6263

IF THIS IS A GOOD ECONOMY, I WOULD HATE TO SEE A BAD ONE!

1. UNEMPLOYMENT STATS. SHOW ONLY THOSE WHO REPORT TO UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICES. IT DOES NOT COVER THOSE WHO GAVE UP LOOKING FOR WORK OR WHO HAVE LOST SUBSEQUENT JOBS THAT DO NOT CARRY ANY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.
2. ACTUALLY 1/3RD OF ALL WORKERS ARE UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED. THIS IS BASED ON;...
3. ONLY 50% OF ALL JOBS ARE NOW FULL TIME JOBS BASED ON A 40 HOUR STANDARD AND CARRY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. WORKERS WHO LOSE OTHER JOBS ARE MISSING FACTORS IN THE STATS.
4. EVEN 10 HOUR A WEEK JOBS ARE NOW REPORTED AS NEW JOBS WITH MANY HAVING UP TO 4 JOBS AT ONE TIME WITH THESE JOBS NOT BEING REPORTED AS 4 JOBS PER WORKER BUT AS 4 SEPARATE JOBS.
5. 70% OF ALL WORKERS ARE LET GO PRIOR TO AGE 65. VIRTUALLY NONE HAVE A PENSION EXCEPT FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, MOST HAVE ONLY A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS IN THE BANK
6. 33% OF THOSE OVER 55 YEARS OLD ARE UNEMPLOYED AND MOST WILL NEVER FIND ANOTHER JOB.
7. 30% OF ALL WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS IN THE 1980s.
8. 33% OF ALL BUSINESSES HAVE CLOSED DOWN SINCE 1976.
9. 50% OF ALL YOUNG BLACKS IN THE INNER CITY ARE UNEMPLOYED.
10. 70% OF ALL COLLEGE GRADUATES ARE NOT WORKING IN THE FIELD FOR WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED.
11. 20% OF ALL COLLEGE GRADUATES ARE UNEMPLOYED OR IN JOBS NOT REQUIRING ANY DEGREES.
12. THE VALUE OF MOST EXISTING JOBS HAVE BEEN DISCOUNTED UP TO 50%.
13. A WORKER WHO WORKED THEIR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE IN THE 1950s MADE THE EQUIVALENT OF $15 To $20 AN HOUR. IF THESE JOBS WERE AVAILABLE TODAY THERE WOULD BE LINES OF APPLICANTS TRYING TO GET THEM INCLUDING COLLEGE GRADUATES NOT AS A MEANS BUT AN END.
14. 80 TO 90% OF ALL NEW BUSINESS STARTUPS FAIL IN THE FIRST FEW YEARS.
15. THE TERM DOWNSIZED INDICATES A COMPANY IS STILL FUNCTIONING BUT IN MANY CASES THE ONLY THING THAT REMAINS OF THE SO CALLED DOWNSIZED COMPANY IS THE BRAND NAME.
16. FULL-TIME WORKERS WHO STILL HAVE JOBS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT NO TIME OFF WORKING 60 TO 70 HOURS A WEEK BECAUSE EMPLOYERS REFUSED TO HIRE NEW WORKERS.
17. COMPANIES ALSO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND SKILLED WORKERS WHEN THEY LAY OFF SEASONED WORKERS WITH FULL SKILLS DURING THE SLOW TIME. THEY WANT TO HAVE PORTABLBLE SKILLS WITHOUT DOING THE TRAINING THEMSELVES.
18. IN THE 1940s TO THE 1970s., IT WAS THE SHOP FOREMAN WHO TAMED THE STREETS BY TAKING THE YOUNG MEN OFF THE STREET AND TEACHING THEM A SKILL. IN TURN THE YOUNG MEN WERE PAID ENOUGH TO GET MARRIED, BUY A HOME AND HAVE CHILDREN. NOW WE EXPORT THESE JOBS.
19. MEANWHILE THERE IS A 300% INCREASE IN BANK AND FOOD STORE ROBBERIES WITH NO REAL JOBS AVAILABLE TO A VAST GROUPING OF WORKERS.
20. THE MEDIAN WORKER NOW PAYS MORE IN FICA AND MEDICARE TAXES THAN IN INCOME TAX. A WORKER MAKING ABOUT $10,000 A YEAR PAYS OUT CLOSE TO 20% OF THIS INCOME IN TAXES COVERING PAYROLL, MEDICARE, LOCAL AND STATE TAXES. A PERSON MAKING THE SAME IN THEIR OWN BUSINESS PAYS OUT EVEN MORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PAY DOUBLE FOR THE PAYROLL SOCIAL SECURITY TAX.
21. MEANWHILE THE STOCK MARKET FLOURISHES WHEN MORE PEOPLE ARE FIRED AND NOT HIRED. IN THE YEARS BEFORE THE 1980s, COMPANIES WERE JUDGED ON HOW MANY EMPLOYEES THEY COULD HIRE AND STILL MAKE A PROFIT. NOW THE STOCK MARKETS COUNTS ON PEOPLE GETTING FIRED TO SHOW MORE PRODUCTIVITY. WORKERS ARE STRESSED OUT BY DOING THE WORK OF THREE PEOPLE.
22. CONTRACT WORKERS, PART-TIME WORKERS AND TEMPORARY WORKERS HAVE GROWN TEN-FOLD IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. THESE JOBS USUALLY HAVE NO BENEFITS WHAT SO EVER.
23. 40% OF OUR PEOPLE HAVE NO HEALTH BENEFITS. WE HAVE HEALTH CARE WORKERS WORKING FOR JUST OVER MINIMUM WAGE TAKING CARE OF THE SICK WHILE THEY HAVE NO HEALTH BENEFITS OF THEIR OWN.
24. WE ARE PUTTING PEOPLE OFF WELFARE AT A TIME WHEN THERE ARE NO REAL JOBS AVAILABLE. MEANWHILE WORK FARE PEOPLE WILL TAKE JOBS AWAY FROM HIGHER PAID WORKERS IN THE SAME FIELD. AT THE OTHER END, INVESTORS WAIT FOR THE LATEST WORD FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE TRUST OF BANKS IN A HIGHLY FINE TUNED ECONOMY BASED ON OTHERS MISERY.
25. THERE IS NO BASIS IN HISTORY FOR ANY OF THIS
26. WE LIVE IN AN AGE WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. CAN GO JOGGING IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY JUST A FEW BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE WHITEHOUSE AND THEN COME BACK AND TELL THE PEOPLE HOW WONDERFUL THE ECONOMY IS.
27. WE HAVE A SERVICE ECONOMY WITH MOST OF ALL OUR FACTORY PRODUCTION AND SMALL FARMING EXPORTED TO OTHER COUNTRIES. A SERVICE ECONOMY IS LIKE A POKER GAME WITH JUST SO MUCH MONEY ON THE TABLE. ONLY ONE OR TWO PERSONS GO HOME WINNERS SHUFFLING THE SAME MONEY AROUND. THE REST GO HOME BROKE. WHEN AN ECONOMY DOES NOT HAVE ADDED LEVELS OF VALUE FROM THE INITIAL RAW PRODUCTS, THERE IS NO WAY TO SUPPORT MANY COMMUNITIES. MEDIUM AND SMALL SIZE TOWNS ARE DYING.
28. IN BIGGER CITIES LIKE CLEVELAND OHIO, THE LARGEST EMPLOYERS ARE GOVERNMENTS-FEDERAL, COUNTY, STATE AND LOCAL FOLLOWED BY EDUCATION AND MEDICAL. IN A SENSE THESE ARE ALL PARASITE JOBS THAT ARE DEPENDENT ON THE TAX BASE AND THE TAX BASE DEPENDS ON MANY VALUE ADDED LEVELS OF MANUFACTURING, FARMING AND COMMERCE. A SERVICE ECONOMY CAN NOT SURVIVE ON ITS OWN.
29. A GROWING UPPER MIDDLE CLASS IS FLOURISHING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE LOWER CLASS. WE ARE NOW LIVING OFF THE WORKING POOR HERE AND ABROAD AND THE AMERICAN WORKER WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT OF SERFDOM.
30. AS CONSUMERS WE VOTE ON THE KIND OF SOCIETY WE REALLY WANT AT THE CHECK OUT COUNTER AND NOT AT THE VOTING BOOTH WITH BOTH PARTIES DEEP INTO THE GLOBAL ONE WORLD ECONOMY WHERE THE AMERICAN WORKER IS NOT PUT ON A WORLD TRADING BLOCK AS A COMMODITY TO COMPETE WITH 20¢ AN HOUR WORKERS AND EVEN SLAVE LABOR.
31. GATT AND NAFTA FREE TRADE IS A TOTAL FAILURE WITH OUR TRADE DEFICIT SOARING OUT OF CONTROL. GATT AND NAPHTHA ARE NOT NEW AND HAVE BEEN FOSTERED FOR MANY YEARS WITHOUT THE FULL CONFIRMATION OF FREE TRADE UNDER GATT AND NAFTA. THERE IS REALLY NO PRECEDENCE IN HISTORY FOR THIS TYPE OF WORLD TRADE. ROOSEVELT SAID THAT ECONOMIC DISEASE IS HIGHLY COMMUNICABLE. UNCONTROLLED TRADING IS LIKE SEX. WHEN YOU SLEEP WITH SOMEONE, YOU SLEEP WITH EVERYONE ELSE YOUR PARTNER HAD SEX WITH. IN UNCONTROLLED FREE TRADE YOU PASS ON ALL THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND GEOPOLITICAL DISEASES OF YOUR TRADING PARTNERS.
32. IN ESSENCE, WE HAVE TAKEN TARIFFS OFF PRODUCTS AND PUT TARIFFS ON PEOPLE WITH THE AMERICAN WORKER CARRYING THE LARGEST TARIFF IN THE WORLD ON THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS.
33. ECONOMICS HAS ITS OWN ECOLOGY AND WHEN THAT ECOLOGY IS OUT OF BALANCE, THE REAL PRODUCT BECOMES CASH FLOW AND WHEN THAT MONEY GOES TRANSNATIONAL, ONE DOES NOT NEED ANY CONSPIRACY THEORIES TO KNOW OUR SOVEREIGNTY HAS TO FOLLOW THE MONEY
34. HIGH TECHNOLOGY IS NOT THE ANSWER. THE SO CALLED SUPER HIGHWAY IS JUST A SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE SKY TO GET US FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER FASTER. WE STILL NEED SOMETHING AT BOTH ENDS TO SUPPORT THE BRIDGE. BITS AND BYTES CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IN PLACES LIKE INDIA THEY CAN DO THE WORK AT A FRACTION OF OUR COSTS. IN FRANCE, THEY HAVE HAD A COMPUTER TERMINAL IN ALMOST EVERY HOME SINCE 1980. THE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED THE STARTUP AND STILL DOES AS THE ONLY WAY FOR THIS NETWORK TO SURVIVE. THEY ALSO HAVE TO DEPEND ON THE PINK NETWORK FOR REVENUES WHICH FEATURES EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF IN THE PORNOGRAPHIC WORLD. FEW USE THE INTERNET THERE. IT IS APPARENT THAT OUR OWN ECONOMY WAS MUCH BETTER BEFORE THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION WITH THE EONOMY MUCH MORE BALANCED WITH THE AMERICAN DREAM ALIVE.
35. NOW WE HAVE A PREDATORY CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM WHERE ANYTHING GOES WITH MORE AND MORE PEOPLE NEEDING EMERGENCY HELP WHILE THE GLOWING REPORTS ON THE ECONOMY CONTINUES. 750,000 STEEL WORKERS, OVER 250,000 AUTO WORKERS AND NOW ABOUT 1,000,000 COMPUTER WORKERS HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS IN RECENT YEARS. THERE IS NO COMPUTER MANUFACTURER LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY. MEANWHILE THE AUTO MANUFACTURERS DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT BUILDING A PARKING LOT AT THEIR NEW FACTORIES IN MEXICO. OTHERS WHO MOVE NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ALL THE ENTITLEMENTS PAYMENTS OR POLLUTION CONTROLS. WE CAN NOW ALSO EXPORT OUR POLUTTION TOO