Manufacturing, the strength of our
society’s world superiority, has declined by almost 50%. The decline was not
because our products were no longer in demand. The decline was strictly the
result of rulings that opened doors to better profitability elsewhere. At
first, the explanation for the exodus was, American workers were not as
productive as the workers elsewhere ... so it was unavoidable. When it became
apparent that explosive accusations like that needed alteration ... more
patronizing revelations came to life. American productivity became second to
none. It was then attributed to the kind of work third world countries should
do. We had better fish to fry. HA! We became the fish, and we are being fried.
The ensuing downsizing mayhem brought forth new words to keep us calm ...
“service society” is two of them. What that is supposed to mean in the grand
scheme of things has never been made clear to us. What is crystal clear,
manufacturing jobs capable of supporting traditional family life, are
dwindling. As that essential base for middle class prosperity vanishes,
government’s need for paper pushers grows. How that computes is beyond me.
Most magicians will say their act is just an illusion. Not so of our magicians
in Washington.
From thirteen colonies living on the edge of a wilderness we became the worlds
leading industrial power. Why has everything changed overnight? Now we are in
the grip of “power’s preference to do it elsewhere.” What do I mean by
preference. Power certainly didn’t prefer to modernize outdated plants in the
U.S..
Our steel mills were automatically
outdated when we helped build new state of the art facilities elsewhere. Not
until our U.S. market was in dire jeopardy did corporations here rush to
modernize, before total calamity set in. That was a little too late as we had
already upgraded the facilities of the world. The result was manufacture
there, arrange beneficial trade costs, sell back here, and make more money
than ever. Everyone who was helpful to promoting power’s preference is
connected to and responsible for our industrial dilemma.
The productivity of American workers jumped significantly when better plants,
better tools, better incentives were finally introduced here. “None” were
forthcoming at the proper time. “Proper time” are the operative words. As long
range planning and investment were held hostage to an increasing fast buck
mentality, something had to happen ... and it did. The way became clear. Lay
off eighty thousand workers today and tomorrow the books can show an overnight
profit growth as never before. It has become the way of our times. Long range
planning would not be considered. Factory or product improvement would not be
considered. Investment capitol could work better elsewhere. As the stock
market reacheed new heights by the hour, and a corporation’s worth grew
commensurately, abandoned workers pound the pavement.
To argue that a power play has taken over America needs no precise
documentation. It is far better to generalize and be accused of less than
perfect statements than to argue as a specialist in minutia, armed with
practiced misrepresentation.
The loss of our manufacturing base is not solely due to the stress of low wage
regions someplace else. The average American could not live in Japan on an
American salary. Japanese products swamp our U.S. market, and it’s not because
they work for chicken feed. Having less natural resources than us, they and
others engaged us in a trade war. With a diminished U.S. industry, how can we
equalize a trade balance. Sell them cars? We still haven’t come up to their
quality.
EXODUS
Corporate linguistic contortionists no
longer feel burdened to cover-up manufacturing’s exodus. That program has been
accomplished. They have advanced to phase two, reprimanding us for not
grasping a confusing presentation of the future, a service economy they
created for us. Are they really concealing an attempt to establish a society
locked in the “service of power”? If we take the word “New” out of “New World
Order” what remains is “World Order.” Who will dictate ... what manner of
order?
Government generated numbers, showing justification for what’s going on, admit
their arithmetic depends on continued levels of economic growth. They never
specifically discuss our economic growth. They don’t need too. The average
American barely holding his own, is more likely falling behind. When we try to
argue that point and claim their GAO reports need investigation ... we are
brazenly sidestepped. They have the knack of fragmenting conversation, making
it impossible for us to concentrate on one subject for advantage. We have all
witnessed that.
When the media disclosed the practice of “our government funding the migration
of manufacturing” it was hot news for a brief moment. In short order, other
unveilings of other improprieties were paraded before us. That’s the way of
it. Lets face it, “main stream journalism” as used by power can swamp and
nullify “main street woes.”
There can be no justification for standing by while the manufacturing
resourcefulness of American workers is abandoned and their means of decent
livelihood exported. No one should be allowed to fabricate any sort of
reason for that abuse ... “no one.” There is only one beneficiary to that
arrangement ... “Power.”
Manufacturing companies were always dealing with reversals in expectations.
They struggled through more than one recession. They faced competition from
within and eventually from without. The without was not only their problem, it
was their fault. “Once” they seemed to focuse on how to reinvigorate the
market within our own boarders. Remember the “buy America” campaign. Then we
could choose products made here. Over the past seven recessions there was no
downsizing. Manufacturing and accompanying jobs always rebounded better than
before, growing by 300%. That was job creation, not falsification.
How are we expected to accept an explanation that justifies the reason --
steel, automotive, millwork, garment, home appliance, and a host of other
industries were forced to bow out of our lives due to world competition? Are
we really expected to believe it was elsewhere or bust? I think it’s easier to
accept the tooth fairy as being real.
Not accepting the folly, “industry can’t compete if they must produce within
the borders of incorporation”, only leads to one conclusion. Power has become
government.
If that conclusion is plausible -- the need for the people of America to
conference and organize opposition is not only justifiable, it’s imperative.
Supporting those words, justifiable and imperative, consider the following
excerpts from our Declaration of Independence. They were complaints justifying
extraordinary action.
“For cutting of our trade with all parts of the world.” Shipping our factories
abroad amounts to the same. If we can’t produce here our ability to trade
those missing products is cut off. Is this some sort of ... “agenda”?
“For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering
fundamentally the forms of government.” Today, government not only permits, it
induces corporations (once hesitantly granted limited privileges) to operate
as our laws never intended. Those who were powerful enough to seduce our
government, have finally gained control of it.
The exodus of industry, the exodus of our law, the exodus of morality, boils
down to a “secretly permitted mass migration of America’s life supporting
assets.”
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