Released on = October 28, 2006, 4:57 pm

Press Release Author = Tapsearch Com Editor

Industry = International Trade

Press Release Summary = Explore the lost worlds in the Free Trade Globalist Flat
World led by Thomas Friedman of the New York Tims.

Press Release Body = Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that
Talks, challenges the Globalist Free Traders about the so called Flat World fables
with Thomas Friedman leading the way with his so called \"flatteners\". Friedman uses
periods in history that supposedly paved the way for Globalization and Free Trade
and calls them \"flattners\" confusing them with the \"level playing field\" phrase. (
View the full story at tapsearch.com/flatworld The main Tapart News site mixed with
thought provoking editorial art is at tapsearch.com/tapartnews )

Here is a real \"flattner\" that Globalists and Free Traders like Friedman ignore. The
U.S. Federal Government itself, sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA
starting in 1956. It was supposed to be temporary program to help the Mexican and
Central American economies while providing cheaper goods for the American consumer.
The program never ended. It evolved into the Maquiladora factory programs for Mexico
where the cost of production was a fraction of the cost in the USA. In 1970 there
were 120 Maquiladoras in Mexico. Ten years later there were nearly 400. By 1992,
more than 2000 factories were moved to Mexico prior to the passing of the NAFTA
Trade Agreement. NAFTA just confirmed what was going on for a long time and soon
after its passage, the number of factories moved to Mexico doubled to more than
4000. As demonstrated by the massive migration of workers from Mexico to the USA in
recent years, the programs and NAFTA have proven to be a failures. It should also be
noted that it was a Democrat President and a Democrat controlled Congress that
passed both NAFTA and GATT. President Clinton pushed GATT through in a lame duck
session of Congress after the new \"Contract with America\" Republicans won Congress
and before they were to come into power. Soon after getting NAFTA passed, President
Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso. This confirmed
the failures of Free Trade which is not trade but the moving of production from
place to place for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor.
Today, many of these factories are now moving out of Mexico to places like China for
the sake of even cheaper wages with a $1 an hour paid in Mexico being too expensive.
On top of that China is contracting some of the work out to other nations that even
pay less than what workers would get in China.
President Bush says the Mexicans come here to take the jobs that Americans will not
take but he ignores the fact that a 40 year history of sending factories to Mexico
is a failure and there are jobs in Mexico that Mexican will not take.
For more information and real world news from the streets of USA, go to Tapart News
and Art that Talks at tapsearch.com/tapartnews or tapsearch.com/flatworld.
Call and write your Congress person and ask them if this is all true and why did
they let it happen.

Web Site = http://tapsearch.com/flatword/

Contact Details = Ray Tapajna
Editor and Artist
Tapsearch Com
Tapart News and Art that Talks
tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
14524 Orchard Park Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44111
(216)671-6263