Jobless Recovery?...

Posted by scapozzola on 06/30/2009

USW President Leo Gerard and the New America Foundation's Leo Hindery have penned a strongly worded op-ed in The Nation that argues for a strong rebuilding of U.S. manufacturing:
The current jobs crisis is in part a reflection of the misplaced priorities of previous administrations, which let America's manufacturing sector decline vis-a-vis our services economy. As a result, manufacturing industries now represent just 11.5 percent of GDP; the number of people working in manufacturing accounts for only 8.7 percent of the jobs in the country; and we have run an average trade deficit in manufactured goods of more than $500 billion over the past five years, all of which contributed to the huge buildup of US debt in recent years. This almost complete neglect of our manufacturing base relative to our service sector represents the height of irresponsibility, because compared with those in manufacturing, service jobs pay below median wages, do very little to help America's balance of trade, have a much smaller multiplier effect on other parts of the economy and mostly just move incomes around the country.
In their conclusion, Gerard and Hindery offer a number of constructive proposals, including significant revisions to U.S. trade policy and ongoing support for Buy America policies.

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Harry Dingey wrote 3 years 28 weeks ago

I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS

I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT in America.. If America Pulls out of NAFTA and WTO..

I will bet anyone one million dollars to a donut that I can create 15 Million JOBS if I was President. America would instantly kick into overdrive and you would see more Jobs created than Americans could fill almost over night.

The American people have been screwed for the last 80 years and they do not even have a clue of what is happening.

All the Democrat or the Republican Congress/people and Presidents for the last 80 years in Washington D.C. of both parties do not care about America or the American People.

Most of the American Politicians have been either been bought off by the wealthy Council on Foreign Relations (CFR PARTY) or they just sit on their hands and go along to get along.

The CFR Party was founded by JP MORGAN , Paul Warburg (Jew), John D. Rockefeller (Jew), three super wealthy CFR members back in 1921 with the specific Goal to control the American people by buying control of all means of communication to control and generate public support to advance the CFR Party agenda. With control of the people they could now buy off and elect these American Politicians of both parties to carry out their CFR PARTY agenda.

That is exactly why the American Government is shipping all the American Manufacturing Plants off shore to China as fast as they can in the last 16 years. You are watching the largest transfer of wealth is the history of the world (from America to China). The American Federal Government is serving up the USA to China on a silver Platter.

Then the America workers will all get their wish and they can start competing against the Chinese workers for that $2/day job. Since they all love that International trade so well.

At some point American workers will be required to compete with the Chinese workers for Slave Labor $2/day jobs. Every American regardless how much money you have will be affected in one way or another because a lowering tide will automatically lower all boats.

I think we are in the about the 8th inning right now.

If you think I am wrong I have only two questions for you to think about.

Why would AMERICA the most Wealthiest, the most Advanced, the most Strongest Country in the entire World, want to enter into NAFTA and the WTO and want to try to compete with third world Countries where the Workers are forced to work for Slave labor wages at $2/day?

There can only be one out come. All of the American International Manufacturers will be forced to move all of our great Factories and Technology off shore to Communist CHINA.

The American People has no choice in the matter either the USA pulls out of NAFTA and the WTO or at some point our country will just sink into the Abyss. You absolutely cannot have a complete Economic Recovery without Creating Good High Paying Jobs. Flipping Hamburgers at McDonald’s and working as a store clerk at Wal-mart will not do the trick.

I heard today on the news that the President Obama is going to share America’s top nuclear secrets with China?

A country that has no Manufacturing base is called a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. That is exactly where America is headed.

Once all the high paying manufacturing jobs are sent off shore to China. Please tell me where the America government will collect tax revenues to support our way of Life?

The CFR PARTY Global International Trade policy will end up driving America into total Bankruptcy, that is exactly what is happening right now. When the America people finally figure this out what is really happening it will be too late to stop it.

You want me to tell you why I already know this is the long term Plan.

If I was The President I would create at least 15 million Jobs in America almost over night.

Why don’t President Obama create those 15 million JOBS right now as the USA desperately needs additional Jobs?

My answer is because President Obama is a card-carrying member of the CFR Party and they have a concerted plan to redistribute all the American People’s wealth to all of the Third World Countries.

It is called enslaving the American workers and the total destruction of America as we know it. If you beat the American Worker down far enough he will be ready to accept anything you offer to feed his family.

All of you people who have money in the Bank and well fix and you love this International Trade, just wait till you lose everything then tell me about how smart you was.

Back to my Question:

How I would create 15 million jobs almost over night?

There is one thing the America Government has total Control over and that is WHERE and WHO will produce all of the products the American people buy and use on a daily basis.

I would PULL OUT OF NAFTA and the WTO and close the doors to the American Consumer Market (the biggest consumer market in the world) and I would tell the entire world if they want sell their Products in America they must build their products in America. This is exactly what China does.

I know all of you American people have been told for 80 years that protectionist will hurt the USA even more because all other countries around the world will stop buying American made products and the USA will lose a lot more American JOBS than they will ever gain.

That my friend is just not true.

How can anyone make that statement without at least evaluating the Export and Import numbers?

Normally that answer is true. But, the American International trade deficit has grown so super huge in the last 16 years (and still growing); that if America just stops exporting anything and just produces the items we use on a daily bases that we are now importing, we can create 15 million additional new jobs almost instantly.

In fact I do not really care if the rest of the world buys even one penny of American made Products from America. If America just manufactures all of the products we use on a daily bases right here in America, we will create an additional 15 Million Jobs automatically.

Also, the USA yearly National Budget Deficit will automatically be lowered by $760 Billion because that Trade Deficit Money will not be transfer off shore to China like now. The Federal Government will get a huge boost in Tax Revenues from the 15 million American high paying Jobs.

The American Government must understand they can not continue to allow sending all the high paying American JOBS off shore to Mexico, India, China and Japan and still have enough JOBS to support the American way of life.

YOU CAN NOT GIVE SOMETHING AWAY AND STILL HAVE IT. . . .

Right now all of them 15 Million Jobs I am talking about have all been moved off shore to China, Mexico and Japan, Germany, India. They are producing all of those goods and are shipping it back to America to supple our daily needs.

Then when this very same goods is imported back into the America, the American Government who is broke, must borrow money from China and Japan to buy the very products that should have been produce right here in America in the first place.

This is Equivalent to our Stupid American Government forcing the American workers to sit on his Hands and then tell China to produce all of the goods America consumes and then when the goods is imported back into America the Federal Government is broke and are forced to borrow money from China and Japan to purchase all of this goods we are using on a daily bases.

This has got to the most stupid damn bunch in Washington or are they just conspiring to bankrupt and destroy America?

If you think I am wrong. You can goggle it and check it out for yourself. Then go to “youtube.com” and do some key word searches and listen to some of the videos and do your own research on the web.

I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT right here in America ! ! !

Here is my Job creation Computations:

America Imported in 2006 mainly from China, Mexico, Japan and India well over $760 Billion Dollars more than we exported in 2006.

The $760 billion dollar import number that I am quoting includes Oil Imports which is something that America cannot change over night therefore must be subtracted out of total import number. The total U.S. crude oil imported during 2006 amounted to: $309.4 billion dollars of crude oil in 2006.

So, $760 billion minus $309.4 billion = $450.6 billion dollars worth of Manufactured Goods that could have and should have been produced right here in America.

Based on conventional wisdom in job creation, if you take $450.6 billion dollars worth of imported goods / $30 billion to create one million jobs = 15.02 million jobs would be automatically created almost over night.

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Now because some of you people still do not get it I am going to recalculate the cost of the Trade Deficit in just Jobs.

So please do not tell me the stock CFR PARTY answer: “YEA, but look at all of the EXPORT JOBS the USA will LOSE.”

The American people have been BRAIN WASHED by the CFR PARTY into believing in that GLOBALIZATION is in the best interest of USA. I think they are trying to destroy the USA because that will be the final outcome.
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Total USA Imports in 2006:
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$ 2,211.7 billion -------(This includes Crude Oil)
$ 309.4 billion less --- (Spent on Imported Crude Oil)
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$ 1,902.3 billion / 30 billion=63.41 million jobs from Import. ==================================================

Total USA Exports in 2006:
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$ 1,451.7 Billion / 30 billion=48.39 million jobs from Export.

If USA Pulls out of NAFTA and WTO right now:

USA could possibly lose 48.39 million Jobs from EXPORTS.

However, I am sure many countries will still export many items from the USA because they will be forced too. That would create even more jobs gained than I have estimated.

USA would absolutely gain 63.41 million Jobs from IMPORTS.

So, 63.41 minus 48.39 = 15.02 million NET JOBS GAIN.

My calculation means an ABSOLUTE 15.02 million Jobs gained if the rest of the world did not buy one penny of USA EXPORTS.

But, instead the Washington Politicians with all their Infinite Wisdom elected to move all of that manufactured goods off shore to China. Even as America has up-ward of 16% unemployment rate and climbing.

Then to make things even worse the Federal Government must borrow money from China and Japan to purchase back these very products being produced off shore, then brought back into America and sold into the biggest consumer market in the world. The effect of this maneuver is to drain all the wealth from America and transfer it to China.

I think we are witnessing the Federal Government in the process of transferring all the America Assets off shore to Communist China on a silver platter.

The CFR PARTY goal is to turn America into a Communistic “North America Union” state consisting of Mexico, USA and Canada. The CFR are in total control of the American Government and have been for well over 80 years.

Why would the American Government sit on their A$$ and watch or advocate that all the American Manufacturing Base and high Technology are being shipped off shore to a Communistic Country like China?

Make no mistake about it China is still a Communistic Country.

We are handing all of the American Military Defenses and our entire manufacturing base over to China on a silver platter.

Please tell me; “What the HELL are we going to do if we get into a War with Russia or China”?

I guess we’ll just concede the War without firing a shot like Poland did to Hitler during World War II. It looks like we would have been much better off too have lost World War II to Hitler, at least we would not be forced to work for $2/day slave labor.

They must be stopped or one day America will wakeup under total Control of China Government.

This is so sad because we had it all and our Federal Government just transfers everything we own off shore to China, Mexico and India.

Have you ever asked yourself?

Why is it “when we elect a President from a different party and he always looks and acts almost identical as the last President”?

It really makes no difference who you vote for President as you will still end up getting the same party and it is called the “CFR PARTY”.

If you think I am crazy go Goggle it on “youtube.com”. You better start doing your research fast because they are starting to remove or restrict some of these informational internet web sites.

You can never take back your country with the Ballot Box. I personally think it will require an all out Civil War. At some point the American People will say ENOUGH is ENOUGH and that is when all hell is going to break lose.

The Presidential Elections have been predetermined by the CFR PARTY since 1921.

Why is it every Presidential Candidate of both the Democrat and Republican Parties are always all members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which is controlled by the most wealthiest Jews in the world.

The “CFR Party” has tons of money so they figured out in 1921, if you want the President of the USA to be a card-carrying member of the “CFR Party”; they simply BUY OFF all the Presidential Candidates of both the Democrat and Republican Parties before the election even starts. The CFR Party System has worked very well for 80 years.

Where is Joseph McCarthy when you really need him?

All of these politicians should be tried for treason and every penny of their ill-gotten wealth from lobbyists confiscated and returned back to the U.S. Treasury.

This has to be a Concerted Conspiracy because most of these politicians hold Major Educational Degrees from some of the best colleges in America.

I worked as Industrial Engineer working as an Expert in Industrial Relocation, Manufacturing Efficiency & Engineering, Industrial Economy Analysis, etc. for Rockwell International. Most of my adult life was spent studying the very things of which I am posting about. So, please trust me I know exactly what I am talking about because that was my job for 30 years.

Here is the Main Problem in America.

The American People keep thinking their Representatives in Washington are looking after your interest and will always solve problems and do whatever is best for America and the American People.

Wrong!!!

If you do not listen to me then you are part of the problem too. If you think I am wrong go Goggle it and check it out. Then go to youtube.com and do key word searches and listen to the videos. Start doing your own research.

This is about Presidents and Congress of both Democrat and Republican Representatives in Washington who are in the pockets of big money Lobbyist and have turned the operation of running the Federal Government entirely over to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR PARTY).

This is also why Israel always gets exactly whatever they want from America. America has been helping Israel in every way possible even to the point of using borrowed money to support them.

The CFR Party members must lay awake at night trying to think of ways to totally destroy the American Government and the American way of life and render the American people homeless.

Add an amendment to eliminate all forms of “affirmative action” in every school, college and all other organizations in America.

Add an amendment to eliminate the American Electoral College System.

Add an amendment that Federal Elected Offices must have a majority of the total vote to win Office.

Add an amendment for Term Limits on all Federal Congressional Offices.

Add an amendment to abolish the Federal Reserve System because the America Treasury should be printing all money under the direction of the American Congress.

Add an amendment to put America back on the Gold Standard.

Repeal the State Home Land Security Act.

Build a Concrete Wall 15 feet high and 3 feet wide on our Southern Border and topped off with razor wire.

Rescind the Anchor Baby Law back to its original inception.

Any Illegal Aliens caught on American Soil would be given a mandatory 20 year prison sentence. Then watch them all run south back home.

Bring home all America Soldiers all over the world and shut down all of the Foreign Military Bases. We are not going to be the policeman to the rest of the world.

Add an amendment to make Lobbyist Illegal with a Mandatory 20-year prison sentence.

Appoint Ron Paul as Secretary of Treasury and very close adviser.

Appoint Lou Dobbs as Secretary of State.

Then have new 2008 elections all over again for every office in the Federal Government.

Is there no end to the ruthlessness of the most Super Wealthiest People in the World?

SO MOTE IT BE. . . . .

Do you truly want to help straighten out the United States Government now? Then, copy and post this article everyplace on the Internet you can post.

The American People have a right to know exactly who runs our Federal Government.

BY: Harry Dingey

Have a good day my friends.

Harry Dingey wrote 3 years 46 weeks ago

U.S. International Trade in

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Highlights
June 10, 2009

Goods and Services Deficit Increases in April 2009

The Nation's international deficit in goods and services increased to $29.2 billion in April from $28.5 billion (revised) in March, as exports decreased more than imports.

Goods and Services

• Exports decreased to $121.1 billion in April from $123.9 billion in March. Goods were $80.0 billion in April, down from $82.6 billion in March, and services were $41.1 billion in April, down from $41.4 billion in March.

• Imports decreased to $150.3 billion in April from $152.5 billion in March. Goods were $120.1 billion in April, down from $121.8 billion in March, and services were $30.2 billion in April, down from $30.7 billion in March.

• For goods, the deficit was $40.1 billion in April, up from $39.2 billion in March. For services, the surplus was $10.9 billion in April, up from $10.7 billion in March.

Let me explain what this Merchandise Trade Deficit means to AMERICANS.

First I must tell you that International Trade is a ZERO-SUM game meaning when any country gains one job another country will lose one job.

If your Country has an International Trade Deficit then your country is losing JOBS to the rest of the world.

If your Country has an International Trade Surplus then your country is gaining JOBS from the rest of the world.

America has the largest International Trade Deficit, greater than any other country in the entire world. In fact America has a Trade Deficit almost as large as the all the other countries of the world combined.

Based on the April 2009 Trade of: $29.2 times 12 = $350.4 Billion Dollars worth of American Jobs that will be sent off shore to other countries during the year of 2009.

Right now Americans are being Laid-Off, driven into bankruptcy and forced foreclosure of his home.

Why is Federal Government sending $350.4 Billion Dollars worth of Jobs off Shore?

This is total Insanity by our Federal Government.

I worked as Industrial Engineer for (30) years for Rockwell International one of largest Companies in America. I worked on production problems like this all my life, so trust me I know what I am talking about when it comes to Jobs.

If you were to ask me how to create enough American JOBS to get American out of this Depression as fast as possible there is only one answer:

I would tell you if I was President of America I would give the required (60) days notice to pull out of NAFTA and the WTO immediately.

Then watch all of them International Companies bust their butts to bring back all of them American JOBS that was moved off shore in the last 20 years.

Remember America still has the Largest Product Consumer Market base in the entire world.

Based on my calculations all I am saying is America is getting a royal screwing on International Trade Agreements.

So, I just want trade places with the rest of the world. Let them produce all of the American Exports and I will produce all of American Imports, Something we Americans have total control over.

Now, of course there will still be some Exports that other countries must buy from America, so the Jobs created will be ever greater than my calculations project.

America would pull out of this DEPRESSION almost over night. I am sure some other countries of the world would not like this very much, but they know the Presidents first job must be to look out for the American workers interest.

There President really has no other choice here because if WE did not pull out of NAFTA and the WTO soon, America will go into a total financial collapse from losing jobs to the rest of the world. That is exactly what is happening as I speak and in the end there can be no other choice.

America would start creating more jobs over night than we Americans can fill. That is not a maybe, that is an Absolute Promise.

Call your Congress-person in Washington D.C. and demand that America Pull out of NAFTA and the WTO immediately.

Linda Evans wrote 3 years 47 weeks ago

Harry, you are so right! And

Harry, you are so right! And it's not only manufactoring jobs going away, it's tech jobs going offshore. Worse yet, for tech our politicians have issued hundreds of thousands of work visas to bring in tech workers to take jobs in the tech sector. American tech workers are forced to train their replacements and then put out on the street while the imported workers are paid about one third what the Americans had been making. After this happened to my husband and his co-workers, I wrote a novel, Jobless Recovery. It's about an American computer programmer who loses his job to cheaper imported labor. The events I foretold in the book are now coming to pass.

Harry Dingey wrote 3 years 47 weeks ago

I want give you something to

I want give you something to think about.

It is really a funny thing that the all the Highly Industrial Countries are all affected by this Financial Problem. All of these Industrial countries have one common thread that runs though all of those affected countries. However, the only difference is the degree of the Financial Problem in each country.

All the Industrial Countries of the World have been sending all their highest paid Jobs off shore to China in search of the lowest wages.

This has been going on for 15 years, every since all other Industrial Countries of the World followed America in to joining the WTO and canceling all their Import Tariffs.

America over the years has proven to be the best country in the whole world for creating new jobs, that’s why America was the wealthiest Country in the world till we joined NAFTA and the WTO in 1992 and 1993 respectfully.

Here is the problem; as fast as America creates new Jobs the Politicians advocate sending all of these higher paying Jobs off shore to Mexico, India or China in the name of Free Trade faster than America can create them.

That’s why China a third world country 15 years ago is getting much richer on the backs of American workers and America is going Bankrupt, it’s that simple.

What is the America Politicians Thinking? They are either being bought off by the Big International Bankers, International Manufacturing Companies or just plain stupid. I got a feeling it is not the latter.

I’ll bet Americans will have change of heart about Free Trade when they have lost everything and standing in the Soup line with their children.

I have lived in the Philippines for the past 7 years and I know the pain from real poverty. I have seen Medical Doctors refuse to donate $ 200/Surgeries and the people die on the streets. There are no Soup lines over here.

Trust me; this is not what you want to see anyone go though in America.

The final analysis is that American Workers ends up working at Wal-mart as a check-out or at MacDonald's flipping homburgs and China grows much wealthier and militarily stronger in the process more and more every year.

If that’s not enough the Politicians all refuse to build a concrete wall on our southern border to stop the Drug Pushers, Illegal Aliens and Terrorist from entering our Country Illegally.

What the hell type of Politicians do we have in Washington D.C.?

They are allowing more Cheap Illegal Drugs to flood our country through our southern border and drug pushers killing each other on our streets. Then all these Illegal drugs are allowed to flood our streets to addict all of our young children.

These Illegal Aliens who can’t speak English or don not even have elementary school education are causing the deterioration of our Wages standards in America and taking advantage of Free Medical Services.

In the end our children will have minority status in our great country..

What would you think of your Father and Grand-Father had they left you in such a position?

Then at some point in our future you can bet one of those terrorist will walk a weapon-of-Mass-Destruction across our southern border and kill a million or more Americans.

The Question is not if this will happen? But when it will happen?

The bottom line is that the whole world wants America to stay in NAFTA and WTO because they all want some of those High paying America JOBS that our politicians are moving off shore to the cheapest wage country.

Everyone keeps saying; Harry why are you preaching Protectionism, that is what, caused the Great Depression back in 1930s.

I say to you; "That's Absolute Bull S-H-I-T."

You know when they tell a lie often enough it will in time become the truth.

They all say that because they either didn’t check the history of American Free Trade or they are benefiting in someway from NAFTA or WTO.

Yes, America did pull out of some International Trade Agreements by passing Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act passed into law on June 17, 1930. That’s exactly what I am suggesting we do right now.

The truth is it had absolutely nothing to do with causing The Great Depression.

Read this you will know exact how Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, affected THE GREAT DEPRESSION:

Earlier today I visited the National Bureau of Economic Research's Macro history Database. I clicked on Chapter 7 and then looked at the value of U.S. imports and the value of U.S. exports for each of the 120 months during the 1930s.

Turns out that for only 18 of the 120 months of that dreary decade did the United States run a trade deficit (that is, imported more, value-wise, than it exported). For each of the remaining 102 months of the decade of the 1930s the U.S. ran a trade surplus.

On an annual basis, the only year of the decade of the 1930s that the U.S. ran a trade deficit was 1936; in each of the other nine years the U.S. ran a trade surplus.

So, you see during the Great Depression American Trade Deficits was exactly the opposite in 1930s as they are right now.

This is nothing more than a 5th Grade mathematic problem.

America must pull out of NAFTA and the WTO to Survive. Here are the International Trade Balances for the year 2006. YOU FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF….

If America just stopped exporting everything in 2006 we would have LOST $ 1,440
Billion Dollars in Jobs.

America Imported ( $2,200 minus $386 (Oil Imports for 2006) = $1,814 Billion Dollars.

If America just stopped importing anything in 2006 we would have GAINED $ 1,814 Billion Dollars in Jobs.

The Question is: Would give up $1,440 Billion Dollars every year if you were guaranteed to receive $1,814 Billion Dollars in return?

That would be a Net Total Increase of $ 374 Billion Dollars of new Jobs created every year in America. These new JOBS would cost America absolutely nothing.

That is assuming America did not export one penny worth of goods during 2006.

What’s the best way our politicians can create NEWS JOBS in America?
“STOP GIVING THEM TO CHINA".

Look at all this bailout money our politicians are borrowing from China to create JOBS. This is laughable and will only make things worse in the end. These bailouts will be a yearly advent and America will go farther and farther in debt to China.

The day America Pulls Out of NAFTA and the WTO, you will see all of our problems solved over night. All those International Manufactures will bust their A-S-S to bring back all those jobs they sent to China. Remember America has the Biggest and the wealthiest consumer Market in the whole world.

I am sure America will get a lot of flack for doing this. But, America must do this to SURVIVE or be totally destroyed.

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