It is the ‘end of the world’ for places like Detroit, the dispossessed of Katrina, and multitudes of rusting towns – sometimes the ‘end’ doesn’t come as expected or announced.

Detroit (or the numerous echoing towns)  is NEVER on the news! Ruddi:  The thing here, is that Americans are really not aware (maybe intuitively) of just how severe the work situation (lack of) is. They do locally, but aren’t aware of the national crisis.  Daily the news/think tank shills, blubber all over the media how GREAT the economic picture is, a chicken in every pot, jobs a plenty etc. The war mongers – oil hucksters – contractors are cleaning up.

 

Treaties have decimated manufacturing, farming, textile, paper, and high tech jobs. Detroit is only a microcosm of what America truly looks like. Across the nation – foundries, plants, mills, in town after town; are left rusting and  echoing with towns (like ours) presenting the use of these places as condos – hotels – restaurants – storage – or malls. Hardly a replacement for the thousands of jobs lost.

 

My youngest son spent two years documenting (for school) on large format (8x10) these relics of the industrial age, before they were all destroyed. Many times we went with him on these photos – shoots, as the hauling of equipment to these sites was a physical trial. It was sickening to witness the surrounding towns of these massive mills - that once held vibrant communities, all boarded up, and decaying.

 

The work a day people are far removed from making decisions – and thus have become the refuse of corporate greed, in its quest for PROFITS – seeking a workforce in the global market place – that they can indenture into servitude,  at slave wages/no worker safety/environmental regulations etc.

It’s not like multitudes of citizens didn’t come out and demonstrate, i.e. labor, environmentalists, students, workers, seniors etc, to bring attention to the emptying of America – and the enslavement of the multitudes. They were met with clubs, gas, and Ninja troops. The media NEVER presented these protests, as other than a ‘small’ group of malcontents, seeking to disrupt the world’s business.  To date, I have never seen programming discussing these treaties – this off shoring – nor the millions of jobs lost. The ‘news’ is perfectly managed by public relations packaging to keep people ignorant.

 

When quotas were set on the importation of autos, countries simply located their plants here. I have seen no news on the work situation in the Gulf (Katrina damage) where local people,  put out of work are fired – or not hired, due to recruiters for these various contractors (Halliburton – Brown and Root)  bringing in multitudes of immigrants from South America on ‘work’ visas.

Instead we have Wal-mart – Home Depot – casinos (the first buildings rebuilt in the Gulf) – and prisons and WAR as our newest industries. Right now the focus and blame (per managed media) is being kept on ‘illegal immigrants’ as being the fault of all this unrest, lack of employment etc. Since states/local governments; know zero about these various treaties and the detrimental effects they will (are) have in their towns – the people are kept in the dark, and mostly fearful. JM