Media Ignores Main Reason for Foreclosures. Post 132

Loss of good jobs through ‘free’ trade is at heart of foreclosure epidemic

February 18, 2008 American Free Press By Mark Anderson

With the mortgage crisis reaching critical mass, it’s time for Americans to see past the media reports that are keeping them in the dark. Take Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. Foreclosures have emptied most of the houses. This town was “ravaged by the subprime mortgage crisis roiling the United States,” stated a typical mainstream news report.

Many former residents were “evicted for non-payment of their mortgages,” some left in search of new jobs “after the factories shut down.”

This report represents the usual shallow, worn-out “explanation” of the crisis. If people were not given so much worthless information, they might understand what is happening. The media blathers about careless lenders that gave mortgages to risky recipients who didn’t keep up their payments. But the real story is that the destruction of middle-class jobs, especially in the manufacturing realm, is destroying the ability of Americans to earn, save, invest, pay taxes, reduce personal debts etc.

…one must work. And the types of jobs people need to be secure homeowners are disappearing. These jobs left the nation aboard the “free trade express.”

The Clinton-Bush dynasties gave us …NAFTA, approved by Bush the Elder, was signed by Bill Clinton and protected by Dubya, who pushed through CAFTA. Congress has aided and abetted the whole process, perhaps believing in the fool’s gold of free trade.

As former General Motors executive Gus Stelzer noted many times, production is the key. the media invokes the word “consumer” when referring to Americans. Never do they seriously talk about the vital process of production. Why?

Production consists of taking the Earth’s raw materials and forging them into useful products. This value-added process lays the groundwork for an economy to function. Back when Americans were producing most of the things they needed…they were paid well…Imports usually cost more back then because they were supposed to (any item shipped long distances ought to cost more, for travel expenses alone).

There was a time when one could graduate from high school, skip college, go right to a company and work for decades, with a decent retirement. America was so productive that surpluses were exported. We were the world’s leading creditor nation, with no trade deficit.

Look at us now. It is the height of absurdity to believe that a national economy can function without production. But, under the thrall of the free traders, we close factories, outsource what used to be American production jobs to overseas locales, and then we build retail outlets here for selling the merchandise. Working at retail outlets does not generally enable one to buy a home…

Nor can we just employ people in tax-eating government jobs. As people slip down the job ladder and face eviction from their homes, they are even less able to pay taxes to support the mushrooming number of government jobs. And the pressure to spend more tax dollars and enact new taxes to cover the increased government employment eats away at the ability of remaining businesses and private individuals to keep their stores and homes (and home-based businesses) afloat. When they lose their grip, they become unemployment and welfare statistics.

“Based on a very conservative 4-to-1 ripple effect, if the goods represented by America’s current yearly trade deficit were produced in the United States, they would generate $2 trillion in added national income, equal to about $16,600 per household,” said Stelzer.

An immediate need is to put sizable tariffs on all imports, particularly those from China, to offset the advantage of having things made overseas for dirt cheap, and to create a strong incentive to make things in America. From there, all levels of government must be cut back so taxes can be lowered, regulations relaxed and a good business climate re-installed in the U.S.

And as presidential candidate Ron Paul says—no more policing the world (and the trillions of dollars it requires).

Read the full story: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/reason_for_foreclosures125.html

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Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™

This is great logic

Of course, logic is no longer taught in highschool, so American students no longer have critical thinking skills. They are brainwashed to think and to mouth the currently popular mantra, i.e. global warming.

Such nonsense!

The Club of Rome is a very prestigious and influential group that sets the agenda for many liberal/fascist groups.

The Club of Rome, has, since the sixties, been putting out papers stating that the ‘population bomb’ is about to explode, that ‘food and water’ should be rationed, that the ‘natural resources must be protected’ and ‘the earth is too hot.’

First, a hysterical setting must be created around a theme that has some level of truth to it; like population growth or climate change. Then, a set of ‘solutions’ are put forth that always calls for greater government involvement, which invariably narrows the ability of people to move forward with their lives, except as the Club has determined is acceptable. It is classic Fascism: Control at the top by the puppet masters with acquiescence by the puppets, i.e. the entire population.

I could say a lot more

about the world wide effort of leaders to enhance their own power and take more control of our lives. But, I will leave that to your own devices to explore.

Your responsibilities

1.  Your first responsibility is to yourself. You must take it upon yourself to feed, cloth, and house yourself, to train yourself for a vocation, and to prepare yourself to defend your life, your liberty, and your property.

2.  Your second responsibility is to provide for your family. Providing must be more than just the basics; it includes being a good example to your children.

3.  Your third responsibility is to help in your community by being a leader who can be trusted to do that which is good, righteous, and just.

Being a shining example in your community, is the best way to protect your children’s inalienable rights to their life, liberty and property. If more citizens were shining examples, then those wanting power, for the sake of power, have a harder time of consolidating power.

The government’s responsibility

The US Constitution requires that a government defend a person’s rights, to their life, their liberty, and their property. Defending is a negative action. It only happens when someone or something attacks. Protecting the citizenry, which is the current mantra, is a positive action, which only happens when the government wants to impose its will over the population.

Power

Delaying the assention of Power is the most that we can do. Wanting Power is one of those life forces that cannot be denied, like the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ of the New Testament. The Old Testament, in Proverbs, recalls that the Lord hateth, “A heart that devises wicked plots,” and “Him that soweth discord among brethren.”

But the Devil get’s his due. Men want Power, and when they get Power, it corrupts them. But, little understood, is that, often, evil men tend toward seeking power. The most evil are those who corrupt US, with their charm, their manner, their easy expression; because these men knowingly lead US down the wrong path and goad US into slipping the ‘golden handcuffs’ onto our own wrists. We are like the mice following the Pied Piper.

How to protect yourself and your family

I continue to believe that making an independent livelihood is the best way to protect oneself from the incursion of government. One can manufacture, merchant, farm, etc. But for me, doing real estate investing is the way to independence.

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