Posted on 11/15/2003 6:30:03 AM PST by cp124
Please take one minute to read this and save your company, your job, and our country.
If we don’t organize now, manufacturing will simply become extinct in the United States. Since the enactment of China free trade and “Fast Track” legislation, what was a trickle of jobs lost abroad is today a torrent. You think it’s hard now? China is, by a country mile, the world’s largest buyer of the latest technology and production capacity. Then running it with .90 Cents an hour wages, no OSHA, no EPA, no Workman’s Comp. no out of control tort system, no Disabilities ACT or countless other government mandated added costs beyond your control. In addition, since 1994 China has pegged their currency to the dollar giving Chinese goods another huge competitive boost in the USA. China and our other trade partners are not the enemy, it's our trade policy that is at fault. (Please note we have received some emails asking if we are advocating a dismemberment of USA worker benefits, the answer is absolutely not!)
People speak of a “jobless recovery.” Duh! – If I take my product and eliminate the American workers, sell my plant and equipment (or ship the equipment to China) my cost for finished goods drops by what 40%, 50%, and 60%? My company makes a big buck. Wall Street is joyous; the stock shoots up……along with unemployment. Gone are the manufacturing jobs. Gone is the consumer purchasing power. Gone is your business or your job. At the end of the day a few get rich. As for the USA… we spiral downward.
Our manufacturing capacity is vaporizing before our eyes.
Our machine tool industry is all but dead. Don’t believe it? The price of used machinery in the US is in “free fall.” A man whose shop was worth $5 million before China free trade will be lucky to fetch $1M today.
We are rapidly eliminating skilled, high paying manufacturing jobs and converting them to minimum wage dead ends.
America must have a sensible and fair trade policy. If the government is going to saddle us with unending costs then, we need to employ some fair trade methodology to allow Americans to compete at home and abroad.
Democrat or Republican it makes no difference, there is plenty of blame on both sides on how we arrived here. Our interest in not partisan, just American!
We are all talking about it, but few of us have time to seriously address these issues while struggling to keep our own businesses alive.
A Simple Plan:
Each month we will select a government leader to receive our message. We are going to flood this individual with a demand that we will not settle for anything less than FAIR TRADE.
Here’s how:
I know it’s a pain but we MUST SEND LETTERS. The e-mails and fax numbers that we can get access to for these people won’t work for volume required. WE NEED BULK!
If just once a month, we use the power of an ordinary letter multiplied by five (or more) business associates or co-workers, and their five and so on…and if we all have the discipline to do this, we can deliver our message in literally a ton of mail….directly to our politicians door.
Step 1. Printing and sending the letter.
Simply Click on the "September Letter" button to the left and print. If you experience any trouble printing the document, simply copy and paste into your computer's editing software. Or, if you feel like voicing your own opinons and experiences - write your own letter.
Step 2. VERY IMPORTANT
FORWARD THIS WEB ADDRESS TO A MINIMUM OF 5 BUSINESS ASSOCIATES, PARTNERS, CO-WORKERS, AND/OR ANY INDIVIDUALS THE MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN SAVING OUR USA MANUFACTURING BASE. PLEASE STRESS THAT THEY GIVE THIS THEIR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AND CONTINUE TO FORWARD IT ON. OUR CONTACTS COME FROM METALWORKING, SO IF YOU HAVE CONTACTS IN OTHER FIELDS OF MANUFACTURING PLEASE USE THEM.
Step 3. Make sure you mail your letter as soon as possible.
THIS WON'T WORK AND NITHER WILL YOU UNLESS YOU MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!
Our government leader for November 2003 is:
President George W. Bush The White House U.S. Department of Commerce 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500
And you would prefer a company-store situation, where they wer only allowed to buy from you and people you approve of, I am sure.
Sounds like your company is a glorified welfare-queen, sopping up the crumbs from government contracts paid for by taxpayers.
What does it matter if taxpayers get screwed as long as you get to run your little boutique and pretend you are a self-made entrepreneur?
The primary source of income for all those companies you mentioned is government contracts.
Where does the government steal... I mean, get its money?
You obviously are not in manufacturing and see the Auctions and number of companies going out of business.
I prefer to look at the facts, rather than relying on anecdotes, and the facts are as I have stated them, as you can see by looking at that chart one more time.
Are you reading from the Free Traitors handbook?
LOL. Let's just look at the facts, shall we?
The source for the graph is listed right below it - any questions about the methodology can probably be answered by referring to the source.
Looks like we headed down to me.
Yes. The slight downward trend you notice is a result of the fact that the economy has been in recession since early 2001 or so. This recession also explains the number of businesses you see closing up shop and the number of auctions and what have you - the anecdotal evidence. Essentially, the effects you see are a result of the slowdown in the economy, not a result of trade policies.
Also note the sharp drop in the stock market along with a sharp rise in unemployment that coincides with 9/11/2001. Although the small size of the charts makes it hard to show exact dates, memory recalls what a profound change 9/11 brought about in the spending and investment habits of people. It should be pretty obvious that 9/11 wasn't the fault of the present administration.
BTW, the first chart is more than a little deceptive in its design.
Anyway, with all that said, we still need to look at this issue. Our manufacturing has taken a downturn in the last couple of years and America must face up to the fact that we are pricing ourselves out of the business. But I will contend (IMHO) that it isn't wages that are the primary culprit, but over-regulation, excessive tort, and unfunded governmental mandates that are choking our business environment.
Dubya needs to do what Reagan started to do - Get the government off the backs of the people!
One is that the government can not forever create "money," unless something more than the "faith and credit" of the U.S. Government stands behind it. There has been a massive Economic brainwashing program directed at the world's shortsighted greedy people to convence them that we play by "new" economic rules. Both Republicans and Democrats are involved in this obviously flawed "conspiracy." For this belief, I have been jeered, insulted and even cursed. So be it. My skin is thick, and especially so, while I am reviewing my precious metal returns - Hehe!
The second opinion is that there is an obvious "conspiracy" to overthrow the U. S. Constitution. When you review comments from Federal Judges and Supreme Court Justices that the U. S. Constitution is not above world opinion, then it seems as if the Constitution has already been replaced by political opinion. Very likely, the U. S. is no longer a Constitutional Republic, but one based upon "Kangaroo Justice." Despite all the Republican furror over Judicial nominations, both parties are responsible for the loss of Constitutional Justice. It has been eroded over many years as political operatives on both sides have managed to get political judges appointed, and then used those judges to advance their political agenda and or to reward their financial syndicates.
My third view is that both political parties are totally dependent upon large financial backers. In order for politicians to "survive," they must accept contributions from financial backers, who "give" the money at a very steep price. The financial backers and the politicans buy and sell votes. It has always been this way, but today the "crooked" exchange is being dominated by fewer and fewer financial syndicates. The "free" marketplace for crooks has become an oligopoly marketplace, dominated by the globalists in the New World Order. However, there is nothing new about these world rulers. They have always been around. They used to be called Monarchies and Dynasties. They were always ruled by Kings, Princes, Emperors or other such tyrants. They were, and still are, the worlds Royals. They may fight among themselves, but they stand united to keep the world's peons, serfs and supposedly free people under their yoke of slavery. These financial syndicates "own" the Democratic and Republican Parties. We get to choose between their candidates. They let us fuss over issues such as abortion, homosexuality, minority rights, the Confederate Flag and religion. But, the money and power issues are left to the royals. If a peon, or God forbid a free person, poses a serious threat, then the royal syndicates backed by their Kangaroo Courts and hired politicans quickly stamp out the "rebellion."
Yes our Founding Fathers fought these royals. They gave us a Constitution to protect us from the royals, but after 200+ years, the cycle has finally turned. As before, many dark years may again pass before the cycle turns back toward freedom. The process of turning Americans from a free people to enslaved peons begins when they take away American jobs. Without income, Americans can not fight the royal syndicates, who then will march Americans uninhibited toward the serf pens.
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