How can any worker or small business person vote for Hillary ? She is using her reverse stand on NAFTA as a spin. Free trade has a much longer history and she was there during these times. She was there during the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history while millions were losing their jobs and small businesses and she did nothing. She said nothing. Here is one account from a published letter in the Cleveland Plain Dealer....

Hillary Clinton's convenient turnabout on NAFTA and free trade
Friday, March 07, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters Editorial Page

Voters are shopping their jobs away at places like Wal-Mart and now are vot ing their jobs away by supporting Hillary Clinton. Here is the real timeline behind free trade:

1956 - U.S. government starts moving factories outside the United States.

1970 - 120 factories moved from the United States to Mexico.

1980 - 400 maquiladora factories in Mexico.

1980s - While Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart, about 1,000 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico.

1992 - 2,000 maquiladora factories in Mexico.

1994 - NAFTA is passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton; number of factories moved to Mexico doubles to more than 4,000; reports tell of "dirty manufacturing" in Mexico causing health problems and birth defects.

1995 - President Clinton rushes $20 billion to save the Mexican economy. Then he uses other means to rush even more money to Mexico. ( President asked Congress for $40 billion but they gave him just $20 billion instead- he said he would use other means to get the extra money to bail out the Mexican peso )

1996 - Hillary says NAFTA is good for everyone.

2000 - Hillary, at an economic forum in Switzerland, praises business efforts in supporting NAFTA.

None of the above stopped the flood of Mexican workers to the United States seeking economic survival.

Now, after all of that, Hillary says free trade has to be tweaked at bit.

Ray Tapajna

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Letters Editors
March 7, 2008

See what ten Mexican bishops think about NAFTA in their signed plea to stop it at http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/nafta-cultural-death and see review of The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan with the Clintons starting at http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/confessions-for-history. See also actual 1998 job losses and company close downs list.
For more articles and sites see
http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/id40.html
http://tapartnewsmobile.filetap.com
And note the - Open Letter to all Candidates here at http://www.phillyfuture.org/node/5885 and pass it on.

Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena?

How did the definition of trade and trade practices change to moving production, factories and jobs from place to place anywhere in the world from trading products? Why are workers being "commoditized" this way?

Open Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates :

The American Dream is Burning not only in the USA but across the globe. If this is a good economy, I would hate to see a bad one.
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exposed a vast underclass living in a silent depression. The same applys for most of our major cities and towns across the land.

Why did 46,000 people apply for only about a 1000 jobs at 3 new Wal-Mart stores in Cleveland, Ohio and in Chicago suburbs ? ( These are only near minimum wage jobs with limited benefits - Reportedly, many workers at Wal-Mart have to seek government help to survive. )

Why is human dignity in the work day under such an attack ?

Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena?

Did Globalization and Free Trade evolve in a natural economic way or have they been driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people?

Why did the federal government sponsor the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956? It was supposed to be just a temporary program. Why did it continued for so many years evolving into so called Free Trade?

With more than 4,000 U.S. factories moved to Mexico, why do so many Mexican workers migrate to the USA seeking economic survival ?

When did the historical definition of Free Trade change to include the moving of production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor?

Why was labor made a major commodity in Free Trade? Isn't trade supposed to be about trading products and not workers?

Why did we chop up our local value added economies and send the pieces to far away places around the world? With our industrial power, we were able to restore local value economies in Asia and Europe. Shouldn't economic success be based on duplication and not
monopolization ?

How can the overhead of long haul ocean, air, rail, trucking shipping and packaging compete with local value added economies? ( As noted in the Dark Side of Energy Saving Light Bulbs posts here a Phillyfuture org, it takes 8000 miles of energy for these light bulbs to get to the USA from China where they are made under questionable dirty manufacturing conditions - all we hear about his the lead coated toys. ) ( Gore was VP during the consummation of Free Trade. Is he really "green" ? )

Doesn't this mean, we have to protect our interests on a global basis now creating a new kind of colonialism which inherently breeds wars and terrorism ?

Alan Greenspan in his book The Age of Turbulence, uses Adam Smith to defend Globalization and Free Trade. Adam Smith held labor as something sacred and the core of societies. Why do Globalist Free Traders leave this part out when they use Adam Smith's essays ?

Alan Greenspan does not have the term "Free Enterprise" in the index of his book - The Age of Turbulence - perhaps the turbulence is due to the denial of the "Free Enterprise" system. He writes only about the Free Market. However, the Free Market stops at the door of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve is just a master bank acting as a monopoly in control of the flow of money. How is this possible in a so called Free Market? Shouldn't the flow of money be competitive too?

History tells us the USA will leave Iraq just like all the other outside nations have in the past. Most likely the situation will be worst than it what it was before we went in. Why not save time and lives and just withdraw in an orderly manner?

Why did the USA change from a nation ready to provide humanitarian help to nations in conflict instead of getting involved in the conflicts?

Why do the Free Traders keep talking about future success when we have a long history of failures with generations of workers being sacrificed at the altar of greed?

Why do Democrats ignore the fact that it was President Bill Clinton and a Democrat controlled Congress who passed the unfair NAFTA and GATT trade agreements, consummating Free Trade and Globalization?

Why are the Republicans the war party now? In the past, they emphasized the balance of power before resorting to war?

Finally, why is there a communication by rank? Why are so many people in the USA and other countries outside looking in at the celebration by the Globalists and Free Traders ?

Why do workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade? And we repeat - who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena ?

( For more see Tapsearch Com sites including Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ ( Mobile user friendly summary version at http://tapsearchnewsmobile.filetap.com/ )
Explore the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trader Flat World of Thomas Friedman, Alan Greenspan, the Clintons and the Bush family at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ray_Tapajna
http://www.bisarrepolitics.com - currently reviewing Greenspan from the trenches -
http://arklineart.fotopages.com - gallery of Art that Taks global issues -
http://unnettedjourneys.filetap.com - about the journey of those left out in cold -

This follows Ray Tapajna's quoted comments in the Plain Dealer article about the Dark side of energy-efficient light bulbs. This letter was published in the Plain Dealer May 13, 2007 in response to the article.

By Ray Tapajna
Editor and Artist
Tapart News and Art that Talks
http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
tapin@safe-mail.net

ENERGY-SAVING LIGHT BULBS? WELL NOT EXACTLY

Michael Scott gave us an excellent report about the mercury contamination related to the use of CFL energy-saving light bulbs (May 4). However, there's more to it than this alone. Home Depot, on Earth Day, gave a million of them away free, saying it was like taking 70,000 autos off the highway in terms of pollution.

THE 8,000 MILES LIGHT BULB
Home Depot and Wal-Mart, which also promotes these bulbs, do not tell us how far one of the CFL light bulbs has to travel to get here. Ninety percent are made in China. This means a single CFL light bulb travels about 8,000 miles to get to the United States. We are not told how much energy is exhausted in terms of protective packaging, long-haul ocean shipping and truck and rail energy used in getting just one light bulb here.

On top of this, we do not know the extent of "dirty" manufacturing involved in China. Manufacturing these bulbs includes the use of coal, which produces mercury pollutants. There are no walls up to the sky protecting us from this pollution.

We should also note that the money spent by consumers for this product, like many others made in China and other foreign places, goes directly to the manufacturers in China to boost their economy, not ours.

Finally the China Ocean Shipping Co. brings products like this across our country on railroad flat cars containing large shipping containers. COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army. (note: How does this fit in with Homeland Security. Why worry about our borders when the Chinese Liberation Army rolls by over our railroads. Also, the empty shipping containers are an energy overhead too especially since the United States does not export much back to China.)

Ponder all this while you think you are saving energy using these light bulbs. Someone should ask the dysfunctional globalist free-traders like Al Gore about things like this.

Ray Tapajna
tapin@safe-mail.net
Plain Dealer May 13, 2007

( The IUE-CWA union had a large page ad in the Plain Dealer May 10,2007 titled Green Technology shouldn't mean a Pink Slip for American Workers and refers readers to ScrewThatBulb.org. )

See also Welcome Dysfunctional Globalists and Dislocated Workers who have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=545363

THE DARK SIDE OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT LIGHT BULBS - Mercury in CFLs raises concerns

Michael Scott
mscott@plaind.com
Plain Dealer Reporter

The bright, white light cast from increasingly popular fluorescent bulbs also throws a surprisingly dim environmental shadow.

So today, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials will meet with local solid waste district leaders to push their plan to keep flourescent bulbs out of landfills.

Their concern: up to 40 milligrams of toxic mercury found in each of tens of thousands of flourescent tubes thrown away by Ohio business and industry. Mercury, the catalyst that makes the bulbs glow, is also a neurtoxin linked to brain, liver and kidney damage.

But the environmental apprehension doesn't end there: There's also some mercury in the newer, smaller compact flourescent lights.

CFLs - those usually swirly topped, screwed-in bulbs that sell for as much as $14 but promise a lifespan of four years or more- are a hot environmental commodity.

They're promoted by environmental groups as a way to reduce pollution and by retail giants like Wal-Mart, which has said it hopes to sell 100 million CFLs this year.

In fact, the highly efficient flourescents remain highly recommended by the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency over electricity-drainging incandescents.

But mercury concerns are rising.

Although an individual CFL may contain as little as 4 milligrams of mercury - one tenth of the amount in the commercial lenght tubes - there are a lot of them out there.

Compact flourescents were introduced to the United States in 1898 up about 7 percent of the market with millions a year coming from China alone.

That bugs Cleveland artist and activist Ray Tapajna.
" Once I found out about the mercury and that 90 percent are made in China - and who knows what kind of pollution controls are in place over there? - I opposed them," Tapajna said.

State and county officials said millions of the mercury bulbs someday landing in landfills would pose a serious problem but the collection and recycling efforts are coming along.

"It's on everybody's radar screen," said Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Director Pat Holland. "Even though righ now, we're worrying more about six-footers from businesses than smaller bulbs from individuals.

EPA officials today will encourage waste-disrict leaders to provide better ways for flourescent users to recycle.

"Right now we're trying to get trade associations to be aware of the hazards," said Helen Miller of the EPA's Division of Solid Waste. "The volume used by households is not there yet, but it could be someday."

For now, Holland said, a homeowner who tosses a CFL in the trash doesn't even face a fine.

At the same time, consumers are warned not to breathe the dust from broken flourescent because of the mercury.

The EPA recommends cleaning up a broken CFL with a broom or wet cloth - not a cacuum - and placing the broken bulb in a plastic bag before disposing it.

Officials at TCP Inc, an Aurora company that expects to be churning out 1 million CFLs a day sometime this year, recommends Internet sites earth911.org or lamprecycle.org to locate the nearest recycling center. Consumers can call 1-800-CLEAN-UP.

Holland said the Cuyahoga district will accept the CFLs at May 12 collection and other Northeast Ohio counties also ave at least one collection day each year.

Lorain County Solid Waste Disrict Director Dan Billman said residents fill a semitrailer truck with flourescens every few months. The district has collected 87,000 bulbs since March 2005.

"We're probably the most agressive county in the state, and I think we've shown that there are a lot of flourescents out there," said Billman.

The rise of CFL - and the environmental concerns - have gone unnoticed by other bulb manufacturers.

Royal Phillips Electronics earlier this year rolled out a new CFLs with an industry-low mercury content below 2 mg. General Electric, meanwhile, has said that by 2010 it will offer incandescent bulbs twice as efficient as those sold today and for times as efficient by 2012.

Even with concerns that CFLs are mostly manufactured overseas, theat they sometimes don't meet longevity claims, that many won't work with a dimmer switch and that some still emit a cool, bluish light, the bulbs still are promoted heavily by environmental groups.

"We're very gung-ho for CFLs," said Jack Shaner of the Ohio Environmental Council. "We want people to keep on buying them and using themand learn about safe disposal practices."

Saner and others arque that CFLs prevent more mercury from being released into the air by power plants because they are more efficient.

A power plant emits about 10 mg of mercury to produce the electricity needed to run an incandescent bulb, compared with only 2.4 of mercury to run a CFL for the same amount of time.

Michael Scott
Plain Dealer Reporter
mscott@plaind.com

(The article also has a comparison chart noting the differences in the CFLs and Incandescent Bulbs for those who want to know more. Ray Tapajna who is quoted in the article had a response to this article in the Plain Dealer, May 13, 2007. - this response was added later at this site. The IUE-CWA Union had a page ad in the Plain Dealer about the economic impact of the CFLs being made in China titled Green Technology shouln't mean a Pink Slip for American Workers May 10, 2007. )

To people of Philadelphia and all men and women of good will, tell the world Brotherly Love can replace the new barbarianism of our times.

Thomas Friedman, elitist writer for the New York Times and a point man for the Globalist Free Traders with his book The World is Flat, is challenged by Ray Tapajna, editor and artist from Tapart News and Art that Talks by those who did the walk before they talk. See Exploring the lost worlds in the Flat World of Thomas Friedman Fables at
http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and its annex site
Flip the Flat World of Friedman over and see what is underneath at
http://tapsearch.com/flipflatworld/
It is not pretty. Underneath, there is an underclass, the unemployed, the underemployed, the underground economy, the undernourished, the underprivileged with no voice in the process of Free Trade and the underworld in many ways. And note the parasites who feed off the working poor in this country and the impoverished workers abroad.

Friedman uses periods in history which he calls flatteners which supposedly paved the way to Globalization and Free Trade. He confuses cause and effect and uses statistics to compare with the past that do not match up with the past. For example, people would laugh and then call their Congressman in the 1970s if a person making only a $100 a month were recorded as employed in the employment rate. They would also respond radically to the fact that only about 38% of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance in our times.

For real flatteners that caused the problems of Free Trade and Globalization see http://tapsearch.com/flatworld.
For the Real World and news from the streets of USA see the main site for Tapart News and Art that Talks these issues at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
Please pass on this site to the world. ( They are even passing it on in Asia). Help restore the American Dream for all in the world.
After World War 2, the Marshall Plan helped restore local value added economies in Europe and Asia in just a few years. It was based on the awesome industrial might of the USA that won the war. Now local value added economies have been chopped up into pieces and sent across the globe. This has caused total imbalances at home and a new kind of colonialism that is being challenged abroad in many ways including terrorism and wars.

Friedman and the Free Traders ignore the main fact. Workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade and many are outside looking in at the party with others missing in action from any kind of reporting as the "unnetted" - "if you are not part of any network, you do not exist". ( See http://unnetted.truefresco.net )

View the Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror artwork below by Ray Tapajna ( or at http://cross9-11.filetap.com ) - asking who will now untangle the terror Globalzation and Free Trade have bred. Pass on Tapart News and make your political leaders mouth the words NAFTA and GATT as the unfair tools of raw Capitalism which has even merged with Communism State run economies. Don't let them cover the situation with platitudes that mean nothing - make them mouth the terms of betrayal. Let your voice be heard.

Ray Tapajna, Artist has 3 renditions of Jim Thome as Cleveland Indians, Phillies and Chicago White Sox uniform in the same home run hitting stance in 8x10 format direct to canvas fabric and padded as soft-sculpture. He is in Cleveland uniform at the main site and the others 2, if not below, will be displayed soon at new sports site offering Free U.S. stamps with baseball greats and unique ones only by Ray Tapajna.
See also a new soft sculptured padded fabric rendition of Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio at http://tapsearch.com/id11.html or http://sportsartplus.filetap.com
See also http://artklineart.fotopages.com/

(See review of The World is Flat book by Thomas Friedman at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/)

(if you feel "unnetted" in the lost worlds of the Flat World of Globalization and Free Trade see
http://unnetted.truefresco.net )