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4. Restructuring of American Manufacturing and Business Power
The fourth major transformation involves a fundamental restructuring of American business. Today’s business environment is very complex and competitive, (or it was until Obama took over all major banks and businesses). To succeed, you have to be the best, which means having the highest quality and lowest cost. Whatever your price point, you must have the best quality and lowest price. To be the best, you have to concentrate on one thing. You can't be all things to all people and be the best. Government take over of all businesses is "suicide" to our economy.
A generation ago, IBM used to make every part of their computer. Now Intel makes the chips, Microsoft makes the software, and someone else makes the modems, hard drives, monitors, etc. IBM even outsourcer’s their call center. Because IBM has all these companies supplying goods and services cheaper and better than they could do it themselves, they can make a better computer at a lower cost. This is called a “fracturing” of business. When one company can make a better product by relying on others to perform functions the business used to do itself, it creates a complex pyramid of companies that serve and support each other.
This fracturing of American business is now in its second generation. The companies who supply IBM are now doing the same thing outsourcing many of their core services and production process. As a result, they can make cheaper, better products. Over time, this pyramid continues to get bigger and bigger. Just when you think it can't fracture again, it does. Even very small businesses can have a large pyramid of corporate entities that perform many of its important functions. One aspect of this trend is that companies end up with fewer employees and more independent contractors.
This trend has also created two new words in business, "integrator and complementer". At the top of the pyramid, IBM is the integrator. As you go down the pyramid, Microsoft, Intel and the other companies that support IBM are the complementers. However, each of the complementers is itself an integrator for the complementers underneath it. This has several implications, the first of which is that we are now getting false readings on the economy. People who used to be employees are now independent contractors launching their own businesses. There are many people working whose work is not listed as a job. As a result, the economy is perking along better than the numbers are telling us, or at least that is what Obama wants us to believe in this jobless, and bad economy.
Outsourcing also confused the numbers. Suppose a company like General Motors (Government Motors) decides to outsource all its employee cafeteria functions to Marriott (which it did). It lays off hundreds of cafeteria workers, who then get hired right back by Marriott. The only thing that has changed is that these people work for Marriott rather than Government Motors (GM). Yet, the headlines will scream that America has lost more manufacturing jobs. All that really happened is that these workers are now reclassified as service workers, and probably make less now in income. So the old way of counting jobs contributes to false economic readings. As yet, we haven't figured out how to make the numbers catch up with the changing realities of the business world, or with Obama selling out the nation's businesses, by owning them all as government entities (paid for by your taxes). Goodbye Middle class, welcome poverty, and a Banana Republic in the economy.
Another implication of this massive restructuring is that because companies are "downsizing" various units and people that used to work for them, the entity is smaller. As the companies get smaller and more efficient, revenues are going down but profits are supposed to be going up (but they are not going up, they are going out of business). As a result, the old notion that “revenues are up and we're doing great” isn't always the case anymore, unless you watch the "lap-dog" media or listen to Obama propaganda speeches five times a day on major media. Companies are getting smaller but are not becoming more efficient and profitable in the process.
On the one hand, does this make the U.S. a magnet for bright and ambitious people? It also makes us a target. We are becoming one of the last holdouts of the traditional Christian based culture for a free society, providing OBAMA, and the lap-dog media "kissing his ass" and putting him on TV five times a day in prime time for a self serving Dictator style "lip service" of hope and change, along with a self serving corrupt U.S. Congress destroying our freedoms one by one liberty at a time doesn't kill the nation first and foremost soon. Barring that issue, the United States is the only place in the world to be in a free market society business and raise children, providing the government does not open the borders to massive 3rd world infestation and takeover of our American patriotic culture, (example being... speaking English). The U.S. is by far the best place to have an idea, form a business and put it into the marketplace, let along just owning and having a Christian home without fear of terrorism against your belief in Jesus Christ and God. We take it for granted and it is time for the American people to hear the wake up call to an impending failing economy and prepare to recover from that, when it collapses around us all in the United States in 2010, or after a severe cold winter creating 100% increases in our American heating bills for both home and businesses, along with Obama "Cap and Trade" increasing electricity and heating costs for all Americans.
It's time to prepare now, for what is coming very soon down our road of life. Most importantly it is time to quit taking our Lord God and Jesus Christ for granted in our lives. Their spiritual powers of survival are going to be required to recover from the coming disasters of our total national economy for several years to come. Unless Obama and this Congress outlaw Christians, in favor of Islamic control of the USA.
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Four Cultural Changes Intimidating Our Nations Survival
Sep 11, 09 (9/11)
The Four Cultural Changes Intimidating Our Nations Survival - We Won't Survive!
Our Change and Hope; is the second coming of terror in religion, over-population, climatic change, and a one world government business takeover of the USA destroying our society and culture.
By Dean A. Ayers
Lead Investigative Reporter
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20 Sept 09
1. The Attacks of Religion and Terrorism in War
There are three major monotheistic religions in the world: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In the 16th century, Judaism and Christianity reconciled with the modern world. The rabbis, priests and scholars found a way to settle up and pave the way forward. Religion remained at the center of life, church and state became separate. Rule of law, idea of economic liberty, individual rights, human rights all these are defining points of modern Western civilization. These concepts started with the Greeks but didn't take off until the 15th and 16th century when Judaism and Christianity found a way to reconcile with the modern world. When that happened, it unleashed the scientific revolution and the greatest outpouring of art, literature and music the world has ever known.
Islam, which developed in the 7th century, counts millions of Muslims around the world who are normal people. However, there is a radical streak within Islam. When the radicals are in charge, Islam attacks Western civilization. Islam first attacked Western civilization in the 7th century, and later in the 16th and 17th centuries. By 1683, the Muslims (Turks from the Ottoman Empire) were literally at the gates of Vienna. It was in Vienna that the climatic battle between Islam and Western civilization took place. The West won and went forward. Islam lost and went backward interestingly; the date of that battle was September 11. Since then, Islam has not found a way to reconcile with the modern world.
Today, terrorism has conducted attacks on Western civilization by radical Islam. To deal with terrorism, the U.S. is doing two things. First, units of our armed forces are in 30 countries around the world hunting down terrorist groups and dealing with them. This gets very little publicity. Second we are now taking military action in Afghanistan and we were deeply in Iraq. These have been covered relentlessly by the media. People can argue about whether the war in Iraq was right or wrong. However, the underlying strategy behind the war was to use our military to remove the radicals from power and give the moderates a chance. Our hope is that, over time, the moderates will find a way to bring Islam forward into the 21st century, instead of the murdering radicals possibly seeking nuclear weapons for a terrorist attack in the near future. That’s what our involvement in Iraq and now Afghanistan is all about.
The lesson of 9/11 is that we live in a world where a small number of people can kill a large number of people very quickly. They can use airplanes, bombs, anthrax, chemical weapons or dirty bombs. Even with a first-rate intelligence service (which the U.S. does not have thanks to Speaker Pelosi attacking the CIA credibility), you can't stop every attack. That means our tolerance “for political horseplay” has dropped to zero. No longer will we play games with terrorists or weapons of mass destructions. It would be great if the saying, “no longer will we play games with terrorists or weapons of mass destruction” were true. However, we the people don't think it is true. The way the war in Iraq and now Afghanistan is being fought with our troops “fighting” with their hands “tied behind their backs” is pretty good proof that it is not true.
Most of the instability and horseplay is coming from the Middle East. That’s why we have thought that if we could knock out the radicals and give the moderates a chance to hold power; they might find a way to reconcile Islam with the modern world. So when looking at Afghanistan or Iraq, it’s important to look for any signs that they are modernizing. For example, a woman being brought into the workforce and colleges in Afghanistan is good. The Iraqis stumbling toward a constitution is good. People can argue about what the U.S. is doing and how we're doing it. But anything that suggests Islam is finding its way forward towards the USA, is not a good thing to allow, yet it is happening in a Christian based society world of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. We are fast becoming the minority in our own country and the world in our religious beliefs and life. Thanks to the President and Congress (allegedly) Islam is in, Jesus Christ is essentially out.
2. The New Emergence of a China Threat
In the last 20 years, China has moved 250 million people from the farms and villages into the cities. Their plan is to move another 300 million in the next 20 years. When you put that many people into the cities, you have to find work for them. That’s why China is addicted to manufacturing; they have to put all the relocated people to work. When we decide to manufacture something in the U.S., it’s based on market needs and the opportunity to make a profit. In China, they make the decision because they want the jobs, which is a very different calculation.
While China is addicted to manufacturing, Americans are addicted to low prices. As a result, a unique kind of economic codependency has developed between the two countries. If we ever stop buying from China, they will explode politically. If China stops selling to us, our economy will take a huge hit because prices will jump. We are subsidizing their economic development; they are subsidizing our economic growth.
Because of their huge growth in manufacturing, China is hungry for raw materials, which drive prices up worldwide. China is also thirsty for oil, which is one reason oil is now at $60 a barrel. By 2020, China will produce more cars than the U.S. China is also buying its way into the oil infrastructure around the world. They are doing it in the open market and paying fair market prices, but millions of barrels of oil that would have gone to the U.S. are now going to China. China’s quest to assure it has the oil it needs to fuel its economy is a major factor in world politics and economics. We have our Navy fleets protecting the sea lines, specifically the ability to get the tankers through. It won't be long before the Chinese have an aircraft carrier sitting in the Persian Gulf as well. The question is will their aircraft carrier be pointing in the same direction as ours or against us?
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3. A Shifting of Population in Western Civilization
Most countries in the Western world have stopped breeding. For a civilization obsessed with sex, this is remarkable. Maintaining a steady population requires a birth rate of 2.1. In Western Europe, the birth rate currently stands at 1.5, or 30 percent below replacement. In 30 years there will be 70 to 80 million fewer Europeans than there are today. The current birth rate in Germany is 1.3. Italy and Spain are even lower at 1.2. At that rate, the working age population declines by 30 percent in 20 years, which has a huge impact on the economy.
When you don't have young workers to replace the older ones, you have to import them. The European countries are currently importing Muslims. Today, the Muslims comprise 10 percent of France and Germany, and the percentage is rising rapidly because they have higher birthrates. However, the Muslim populations are not being integrated into the cultures of their host countries, which is a political catastrophe. One reason Germany and France don't support the Iraq war is they fear their Muslim populations will explode on them. By 2020, more than half of all births in the Netherlands will be non-European.
The huge design flaw in the post-modern secular state is that you need a traditional religious society birth rate to sustain it. The Europeans simply don't wish to have children, so they are dying.
In Japan, the birthrate is 1.3. As a result, Japan will lose up to 60 million people over the next 30 years. Because Japan has a very different society than Europe, they refuse to import workers. Instead, they are just shutting down. Japan has already closed 2000 schools, and is closing them down at the rate of 300 per year. Japan is also aging very rapidly. By 2020, one out of every five Japanese will be at least 70 years old. Nobody has any idea about how to run an economy with those demographics.
Europe and Japan, which comprise two of the world’s major economic engines, aren't merely in recession, they're shutting down. This will have a huge impact on the world economy, and it is already beginning to happen. Why are the birthrates so low? First, There is a direct correlation between abandonment of traditional religious society and a drop in birth rate, and Christianity in Europe are becoming irrelevant. The second reason is economic. When the birth rate drops below birth replacement, the population ages, such as in Japan. With fewer working people to support more retired people, it puts a crushing tax burden on the smaller group of working age people. As a result, young people delay marriage and having a family. Once this trend starts, the downward spiral only gets worse. These countries have abandoned all the traditions they formerly held in regards to having families and raising children.
The U.S. birth rate is 2.0, just below replacement. We have an increase in population because of immigration. When broken down by ethnicity, the Anglo birth rate is 1.6 (same as France) while the Hispanic birth rate is 2.7. In the U.S., the baby boomers are starting to retire in massive numbers. This will push the “elder dependency” ratio from 19 to 38 over the next 10 to 15 years. This is not as bad as Europe, but still represents the same kind of trend.
Western civilization seems to have forgotten what every primitive society understands you need kids to have a healthy society (not Obama socialized care taxing us all to death and refusing us old people health care). Adults do not understand that our children are huge consumers. They grow up to become taxpayers. That’s how our society works, but the post-modern secular state seems to have forgotten that. If U.S. birth rates of the past 20 to 30 years had been the same as post-World War II, there would be no Social Security or Medicare problems (Obama care will only compound the tax burden issue facing this nation).
The world’s most effective birth control device is money. As society creates a middle class and women move into the workforce, birth rates drop. Having large families is incompatible with middle class living. The quickest way to drop the birth rate is through rapid economic development. After World War II, the U.S. instituted a $600 tax credit per child. The idea was to enable mom and dad to have four children without being troubled by taxes. This led to a baby boom of 22 million kids, which was a huge consumer market that turned into a huge tax base. However, to match that incentive in today’s dollars would cost $12,000 per child.
China and India do not have declining populations. However, in both countries, there is a preference for boys over girls, and we now have the technology to know which is which before they are born. In China and India, many families are aborting the girls. As a result, in each of these countries there are 70 million boys growing up who will never find wives. When left alone, nature produces 103 boys for every 100 girls. In some provinces, however, the ratio is 128 boys to every 100 girls.
The birth rate in Russia is so low that by 2050 their population will be smaller than that of Yemen. Russia has one-sixth of the earth’s land surface and much of its oil. You can't control that much area with such a small population. Immediately to the south, you have China with 70 million unmarried men – a real potential nightmare scenario for Russia.
