A never ending story continues. Looks like everything has to be repeated over and over again until we get it right. The elder Bush announced the New World Order. President Clinton followed and led the way getting NAFTA and GATT Free Trade agreements passed sealing the fate of the American Workers. Millions lost their jobs while the Clintons chanted Happy Days are here again. President Clinton bombed Iraq on an ongoing basis and started wars in the Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing by doing the very same thing. He also bombed an aspirin factory in Africa just to show his macho image to the world in his "Wag the Dog" wars.
The younger President Bush followed and more of the Free Trade agreements were passed while all eyes were on the wars he started. The USA bombed Iraq for years but we never saw an Iraq plane bomb the USA. However, this did not stop President Bush from acting as if they did. He started his False Crusade with Black Knights- see article here at Ezine Articles. History tells us will over and over again, the U.S. will not win. Just like all the other nations in history who invaded the Middle East, the U.S. will come home and leave things worst than they were before they came.
At the same time more and more Americans drift into the Silent Depression. Millions have lost their jobs due to Free Trade with 39 percent of all over age 45 filing for bankruptcy from 1992 to 2002. ( Latest figures are still not available but most likely the number will grow larger with the Baby Booners on their way to old age.) Let us go back a bit in time and see how this all came about since we are being asked to let Hillary take over. Let us go back to a pivotal year - 1998 and get some examples of what is in store for us now.
Here are some numbers of job losses and a list of employers that closed down back in 1998 when the Clintons were proclaiming a statistical prosperity while millions were getting fired. The stock market thrived for a long time just as it is now based on workers getting fired instead of hired. Today people like Cavuto on Fox News keep telling us this is a good thing and not a bad thing. They hide the fact that the stock market had a trillion dollar loss when the Dot Coms went katput just when Clinton finished his job and Bush took over and the same thing is bound to happen again.
Here are the "good" old days in the Clintons' Land of "is" based 1998 as an example. This is the list of some of the major jobs losses.
In 1998, Rockwell cuts 3,800 jobs. Boeing and other related supporting companies cut 50,000 workers. LTC lays off 600. Kodak cuts 10,000 jobs. Raytheon cuts 14,000 jobs. TRW cuts 7,500 jobs. Lubrisol cuts 150 jobs. American Greeting cuts hundreds of jobs. Eaton cuts 200 jobs in chip-making operations. Sun liquidated with 2,800 losing their jobs. Hanna trims 260 workers and shuts down plant. Republic cuts 1,400 jobs. Bethlem Steel cuts 750 jobs and closes down operations. Weirton Steel lays off 300 workers.
(In the world of money ) - World Bank cuts 750 workers. Merrill Lynch cuts 3,400 jobs. Chase cuts 90 jobs locally. Huntington Bank cuts 1,000 jobs. Wells Fargo cuts 2,000 jobs.
Toro closes plants and lays off all workers. Texaco, Royal Dutch and Shell cut 4,000 jobs. Ameritech cuts 5,000 more jobs. Carpet Barn closes all its retail outlets. Heinz cuts 390 jobs. Cummins Engines cuts 1,000 jobs. NBC cuts 250 jobs. Toys R US closes 59 sores. Boston Chicken seeks bankruptcy protection. GE shuts New England plants. Goodyears plans more cuts after thousands were fired. BF Goodrich vacates headquarters ending the loss of thousands of jobs. Polaroid cuts 700 jobs. Venator Group closes 570 stores. Consolidated Gas cuts 2,600 jobs. Fruit of the Loom cuts another 5,000 workers and moved factories outside the USA saying they could not afford to pay an hour.
(In the high tech world where we hear about labor shortages ) INTEL cuts 5,000 jobs. Seagate cuts 20,000 jobs. DIGITAL cuts 15,000 jobs in merger with Compaq with company moving factories to China. Packard Belll lays off 1,000- later goes out of business. AST Research cuts hundreds of jobs.
LSI Logic cuts 1,200 jobs. Texas Instruments cuts 3,500 jobs. Gateway cuts 300 workers. Siemens worldwide cuts 60,000 jobs. Cadence cuts 180 engineers. In 1998, more than 250,000 lost their jobs in high tech alone.
Whirpool, Woolworth and International Paper announce thousands of workers will be cut. Scott Paper cuts 11,200 jobs. MCI WorldCom cuts 2,500 jobs. Nabisco cuts 3,100 jobs and closes plants. Pioneer Standard cuts hundreds. Goodrich closes four plants. Advance Lighting cuts 2220 jobs and closes plant. Kellogg cuts 525 salaried workers and 240 temporary workers. Liz Claiborne cuts 400 jobs and shuts down stores. HUFFY cuts 1,000 jobs and closes USA factories. Stanley works cuts 5,000 jobs. BF Goodrich closes down corporate headquarters in Akron Ohio. General Tire has similar situation. BP America closes down headquarters in Cleveland Ohio. Reliance Electric fades away after Rockwell buyout. Even McDonalds cut 525 workers in its Chicago Corporate Offices or about 23 percent of its staff. Weirton Steel idles blast furances. Mr. Gasket eliminates all production jobs and outsources jobs outside the USA.
(Some humor ) Scrabble is set to C-L-O-S-E factory. JUST CLOSEOUTS closes out all stores.
In 1998, Personal Bankruptcies jumped 19 percent to 1.3 million going bankrupt. Business failures surged 16 percent totalling 83,384 business failing.
THIS WAS 1998. There were plenty more jobs lost but these are the only figures we kept in 1998.
During the beginning of the Clinton years around 1992, IBM and AT@T/NCR cut about 250,000 workers
between just these three companies.
There is more and you can not blame the Clintons for all of the following but he and Hillary did nothing to correct the situation during their time in office. More than 700,000 workers lost their jobs and related jobs in the steel industry. More than 400,000 workers lost their jobs in the auto industry.
Here is a list of computer companies that folded surrounding the Clinton years. All of these computer companies are gone with most of them being U.S. manufacturers. ( We stand to be corrected with perhaps some of these companies remaining in part somehow but virtually they are all gone. )
Commodore, Compugraphics, Computer Automation, Computerm, Computone, Condor, Corvus, Data Systems, Delta Data, Datapoint, Four Phrase, Radio Shack Computers, Redactron, Remex, Standard Logic, Sykes, Eagle, General Automation, Redcor, General Computer, Intertel Data, Itek, Ohio Scientific, Novar, Sundance, Sperryrand, Televideo, Mohawk, Leading Edge, ITT, Lobo, Micromation, Modular Comp, Micropolis, Monroe, Nixdorf, Northern Telephone, Ontel, Perkins-Elmer, North Star, Ohio Nuclear-Technicare, Packard Bell, Leeds and Northrup, Pertec, Osborne, Vector, Vista, Vydek, Wango, Wordstream, Zilog, Wells America - (the last micro computer made in the USA ), Zenith, Unisis Mircros, AT&T Micros, Datatron, Datronix, Franklin, Basic FOur, Synon, QDP, Quasar, Star Tech, Tandem, Wang, BTI, Pronto, Rodine, Contel, CTI, Data Design, Data Logic, Datatronics, Heath, Intertek, and this is only a partial list.
We also have on file about a thousand systems houses in a tri-state area that went out of business surrounding the Clinton years.
In Mainframe computers, over a million workers lost their jobs prior and during the Clinton years.
They include Honeywell, GE, Sperry, Univac, Burroughs, Control Data, NCR, RCA, Xerox, IBM ( 150,000 were cut in the early 1990s ) DEC, Data General, Wang and more.
In computer media, 3M sold out to Imation who then laid thousands off. BASF Magnetics closed their US plants and sold this division to Korean company. Like many others, the brand name is the only thing left in the USA. The same applys to Dysan, Memorex and Verbatim.
Electing Hillary as President is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop and it history will always verify the fact that it was President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and Democrat controlled Congress that passed both NAFTA and GATT unfair trade agreements. See more at Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ The dollar's value is based on the power of the USA and so wars follow accordingly. American shoppers are now "hooked" on cheap imports from around the world. What wars will now follow during Hillary's time in office?
