Chinese connection to low Black American self-esteem
Support youth manpower programs, not more investments in Asia slave labor
The US will import over 1.5 trillion dollars of goods and services this years. Over 80 per cent of these imports are in fact reexports of US mutlinationals using slave labor plateforms for final assiblem and low-tech manufacuturing. Many of these plateform are critical first jobs for young American workers. These imports have destroyed whole American industries and have created youth unemployment levels three times the levels of the Great Depression in the 1930's. Rather than attack the US multinationals who are creating the the youth unemployment nightmare, the mass media is blaming the crisis on African American youth. No one is explaining how billions of dollars of US investments and techology is being given to the Chinese in order develop industrial slave plantations.
The U.S. mass media hype about youth violence and TV, HBO series like "the Wire" are carefully designed to obfuscate and hide the deadly violence effects that Asian slave labor imports are having on American youth, employment and the abandonment of urban-based US manufacturing.
Most of American inner city major problems would be politcally manageable with good public schools and full employment. Retaining the urban workforce would be the key infastructure challege. The near collaspe of the public schools and massive unemployment has pushed most American cities beyond their educational infastructure critical mass. The lack of national investment in new small paperless public schools and advanced computer manufacturing applications is retarding American cities from resisting the displacement of more jobs to Chinese industrial plantations. The new waves of Chinese slave labor imports are destroying the remaining local American manufacturting companies that provide critical transitional employment opportunities to youth workers. These jobs are critical for young Black workers to develop their value added skills and human potential.
The export of physical infrastructure and transitional jobs to China has directly contributed to a collective sense of American youth worthlessness, uselessness, helplessness, low self-esteem and demoralization. The high valve placed on work by American society is nolonger supported by job creation. According to the New York Times- "a pervasive culture of cynicism about religion, and the casual "hooking up" approach to sex so pervasive on MTV, on Wed sities for teenagers and in hip-hop, rap and rock music. Divorced parents and dysfuntional families also lead some teenagers to avoid church entirely or to drift away."
The New York Times reports-"that if trends continue, only 4 perecent of teenagers will be "Bible-believing Christians" as adults. That would be a sharp decline compared with 35 perecent of the current generation of baby boomers, and before that, 65 percent of the World War II generation." The New York Times, like all other main stream news papers is very carefully not to make any linkages between the crisis in Bible-believing Christians , the crisis in youth unemployment and Chinese slave labor. The historical trends in American youth self-esteen appear to interdependent on the rise and fall of US industrial education and advanced manufacturing.
Chinese slave labor is destroying the myth of American industrial-based self-esteem. That is, because employment , the good life and savings are core ideasa within the American industrial self-esteem, there is a growing cutlure cynicism among American youth about main stream Evangelical Christians strong support for the Bush Adminstration's Chinese slave labor policy and mass Chinese imports.
The lost of self-esteem is seriously impacting on African American youth faith and is weakening their spirituality. Industrial-based self-esteem is learned through positive social interaction and successful accomplishment of tasks. The lost of whole manufacturing industries has removed the the primary means of building self-esteem in the youth segment of the workforce. The lack of good public school education and youth employment opportunities and strong adult role models retards the building of strong self-esteem. The weakening of youth spirituality has allowed them to be easliy controlled by the mass media, political apathy and the drug culture.
It had been well documented that American youth unemployment is three times the national levels of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Inner city schools are only graduating less than 35 per cent of the high school age population. Few American public high schools, much less inner city schools have the existing educational infrastructure to arm their student with the necessary CIM tools to function in a paperless Computer Intergrated manufacturing culture. Its is also well documented that Chinese imports now 300 billion dollar is destroying the United States industrial base and skilled work infrastructure. Every working class American family and community as been affected by the Chinese slave labor Black hole that drawing the life blood out of the American inner cities. American youth understand the the outlines of the political economy of Chinese slave labor and take note that their main stream churches are not only saying nothing, but are investing in the Chinese slave labor.
There is no documentation or active debate about the fact that Chinese-based mutlinational slave labor manufacturing is moving out of low-end furniture, shoes&leather goods and clothes&textiles exports and into to high-end electrial equipment, computer & electronics and manufacturedd goods. China's exports to the US are set to approach 300 billion, up from 243 billion in 2005. The US Commerce Dept. data show that electronic gear, at 50 billion, up from 4.93 in 1996, was the learget category of imports from last years. Advanced Electronics and IT manufacutruring based in Comupter Intergated Manufacturing was to be the future of manufacturing for American's youth. These industries are the next targets for Chinese manufacturing dominats.
Little debate or documentation has surface on the cost to address the youth eudcational and unemployment crisis. There is no public debate about the culture nature of self-esteen. Nor is there any debate about the deepening mental health crisis faced by American youth as they helplessly watch industry and industry transferred to China by US multinationals. Young Americans workers are under increasing pressure from Chinese slave plateforms with few indsutril tools to resist with.The fact that almost 1 in three American youth who are graduate from college, are economicly forced because of low paying jobs, to return home, has a negative affect on both their faith in higher education and self-esteem.
In North America alone there are over 700,000 industrial ghost parks and towns. Ghettoized young Americans are forced to live in these industrial ghost towns commonly called the hood. Over 500,000 more industrial ghost parks and towns have been created in Japan and Western Europe during the same period. The French youth riots were about the lose of jobs to China.
The failure to rebuild the industrial based of New Orleans is a function of the power of Chinese imports. There are few things New Orleans industrial productors can now manufacture that can not be manufactured in China. The 400, 000 youth of the New Orleans region are direct impacted by this emerging Chinese slave labor reality. Most of the pre-Katrina 100,000 inner city youth of New Orleans have been not been allowed to return. This post-Katrina Chinese slave labor phenomenon is expanding in local economies across the country. Over 500,000 African America males have been economically forced out of the New York City economy.
Multinationals think tanks and main stream economists and policy analysts have been very careful not to connect these global trends of Asian slave labor to the collapsing self-esteem of American youth in general and Africa American in particular.
The Bush administration is political substituting the health care industry for a real national federal industrial policy and manpower program. Rather than supporting the expansion of US based computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) to protect the industrial based of the economy, the Bush administration is using 600 billion dollars Medicare to politically fund the expansion of the health care industry at the expense of the US industrial economy. Rather than build paperless advanced manufacture centers, Bush adminstration is supporting the construction of few paperless hospitals and traige of inner city health delivery system.
The federal government abandonment of the defense of the US industrial economy means African Americans will continue to face massive unemployment and poor education. The reorientation of the US economy away from CIM manufacturing and towards a service economy puts an immediate labor emphasis on advanced math, science and computer application skills.
This higher labor skill requirement puts 90 per cent of inner city African Americans at serious educational risk of structural unemployment. With the emerging paperless hospitals and other elements of service section supply chain, hospitals like Capital Health Center at Princeton, the educational bar will raise beyond the reach of most Black workers skill levels. Inner city public schools are weakest in computer science, math and science preparation.
According to BusinessWeek-“What’s Really Propping Up the Economy”-Since 2001, the health care industry had added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None. This is far short of the 18 million new job the American economy needs to remain health and internationally competitive. According to BusinessWeek –“with more than $2 trillion in spending—half public, half private—health care is propping up local job markets in the Northeast, Midwest, and South, the regions hit hardest by globalization and the collapse of manufacturing”.
Health care is all home-produced, “ says Princeton University economist and health-care expert Uwe Reinhard. The good news is that if the housing market falls into a deep swoon, health care could provide enough new jobs to prevent a wider recession. In August, health-services employment rose by 35,000 double the increase in construction and far outstripping any other sector.
The official Bush Administration policy of abandonment of defense US mass manufacturing and federal funding for Computer Integrated Manufacturing, has allow the flood gates to open on Chinese led slave labor imports.
The United States imports officially imports over 1.4 trillion dollars project for 2006, most of this is American multinational reexports from slave foreign labor platforms.
Multinationals like Wal-Mart see no point in paying American youth 6 or 7 dollars an hour for critical first work experiences, when they have willing adults in Asian willing to work for less than a dollar an hour to do the same thing. Rich people from rich communities like Princeton see not need to employ inner city children from Trenton when Central and South Americans adults will work for less under the table. Most urban youth would jump at a real job opportunity. Increasing the jobs still remaining in the US economy require skill level beyond the reach of most inner city youth.
The most immediate economic ramification of Chinese slave labor is the fact that lower-end manufacturing jobs are disappearing. The remains advanced manufacturing jobs require two or more years of college. America lacks the high school students educated in digital manufacturing and service support jobs to form the basis for the massive transition to virtual manufacturing in the U.S. While Mr. Gates is building a model paperless high school in Philadelphia, the cause Mr. Gates speaks to, would be better served if Microsoft built a dual use Xbox/laptop for 160 dollars, and offered online high school training classes for digital manufacturing and support services. Also, the Xbox could turn itself off during school hours.Virtual reality digitalized manufacturing would necessitate workers able to function in a totally Internet-based computer integrated design and manufacturing environment.
Informational-based educational models emphasizing mathematics, science and critical thinking, would have to replace the assembly line orientation of today’s public school education. Churches and community center must become virtual reality learning centers. Computers must replace Play stations and guns as the tools of choice for ghetto youth. The State, County and city should develop and staff a county based virtual learning program.The real truth is that there is a deadly slave triangular backdoor sub-assembly trade growing between China, Canada and Mexico in components and sub-assemble and final assemble that ends up in America as cheap imports. Millions of the youth jobs are lost to this backdoor trade.
Multinationals exporting from China are positioned to both take US market share and flood Central America economies with cheap imports, so long as the dollar keeps falling, and if the small countries are forced by Washington to let their currencies rise. There have been no real talks either in Washington or on Wall Street about major upward adjustments of either Mexico or Canada’s currencies against the dollar to balance the proposed Chinese adjustment. With combined Canadian/Mexican imports into the U.S. of 412 billion, the time is near for a major push by Bush for currency adjustments by Canada and Mexico.
Also, the reorientation of US manufacturing toward Chinese slave labor final assembly has directly impacts on the lack local corporate support for public education. Hundred of billions of dollars for foreign investments, some US pensions, are flowing into Chinese slave labor plantations. This sends a very negative political message to American youth about what American society thinks of their worth.
Since the exponential growth of Chinese led Asia slave labor imports to the United States of over a trillion dollars following 9/11 millions of American jobs have been lost to Asia. As a direct consequence, there has been a 12 percent increase in the number of youth that are both jobless and out-of-school, which translates into a nearly 1.2 million increase in this population during. In 2000, on average there were 4.9 million 16 to 24 year-olds who were both jobless and out of school while in 2001, on average, there were 5.2 million 16 to 24 year-olds who were both jobless and out-of-school. This number has swollen to nearly 5.5 million in 2002 and the write estimates that there is over 7 million youth now jobless.
US multinationals like Wal-Mart have created this massive trade imbalance that is causing growing social and economic problems among America’s young people, especially those with limited schooling and those who reside in high poverty neighborhoods.
Giving inner city youth any hope of effectively dealing requires first telling the real truth of their crisis economic situation. Secondly our youth must be given the advanced educational and spiritual tools to fight in a post-industrial world.
The 70-80 percent unemployment rate for many urban youth amounts to multinationals economic violence against our own children for being nothing more than children.
The direct consequence of this multinational-Bush Administration ruthless Asian slave labor policy only 1 in 5 Black youth between 16-24 are working in many of the hardest hit industrial communities of North America. The so-called media created Bay Bay youth unemployment crisis of over 7 million youths are nothing more than a growing underclass of post-industrial dehumanized and marginalized American children victimized by U.S. multinational foreign trade. The Bush health care policy and mass slave labor trade are leading contributing factors in the collapsing American industrial public school and deepening self-esteem crisis of American youth.
Leading American multinationals like Delphi who is closing ten more U.S. auto parts manufacturing plants in the U.S. Delphi is expanding operations at 13 new modern plants in China and transferring critical core production technologies. Delphi is leveraging the slave labor based of China, against its older US and South American operations platforms. The closures of Delphi reach into the deep fears of Black manufacturers and skill workers in North America.
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