Ray Tapajna, the Editor and Artist of Tapart News and Art that Talks confronts Thomas Friedman's version of Globalization and Free Trade in his book The World is Flat at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld  Friedman colors history, statistics and economics with his own paint brush. The picture does not represent the real world of the work world.

Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews is dedicated to human dignity in the workday. It mixes thought provoking editorial topical artwork by Ray Tapajna with published letters and articles based on actual living experiences in the real world from the perspective of the streets of USA.  It is an unique resource with data from private business files and some of the top experts in the field of Globalization and Free Trade. There are many topics to select from at the main site. 

It also links to http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and http://tapsearch.com/flipflatworld with the leading topic being The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Friedman has proven to be a top evangelist for Globalization and Free Trade. He provides false parables to back up his preaching. He calls certain periods in history that supposedly paved the way for Globalization and Free Trade -  flatteners. However in the process, he reverses causes and effects with Free Trade being a cause rather than the effect of many negatives.  The USA has gone through the most massive dislocation of workers in its history due to Free Trade.  One of Friedman's flatteners was cited as the Y2k crisis.  The Y2k came after more than a million workers in the USA lost their jobs in the computer industry.  Literally, there were not enough workers to maintain the systems for over ten years.  The workers in India were used because of the cost of labor and not because of any technology advances there.

Friedman ignores very essential facts too. He ignores the fact that workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and history tells us what happens when this is the case. Only turmoil follows. This is evident in much of South American where they are responding with a loud NO! to Free Trade and Globalisation.  He also ignores a more basic fact that Free Trade is not trade as history defines it.  Free Trade is primarily based on moving production from place to place based on the cheapest labor markets of the world. Workers are the real commodities being traded and not products per se.  In the end a very basic situation applys. You can not do business with someone who does not have any money. Up to now the consumers in the USA have been the core of Free Trade but as they lose their jobs and drift into working poor and under classes, they need cheaper and cheaper imports. Lend Lease and the Marshall Plan were real flatteners and should have been emphasized in Friedman's book. They were not. See Lend Lease was real Free Trade and not chopped liver as in Globalism and Free Trade at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=390710

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