In a previous section of this series, we mentioned Harry Dexter White, who had been identified as a Communist working in the Treasure Department. In Senate Internal Security Subcommittee Hearing, Nov. 17, 1953, it was reported that “from November 8, 1945, until June 24, 1946, seven communications went to the White House bearing on espionage activities wherein Harry D. White’s name was specifically mentioned.” Even after receiving those details on White’s communist connections, President Truman still appointed White to be one of the leaders for (?) the United States at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July, 1944 which established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. These were to be the interim progenitors of an international bank similar to the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States. (Note that name: UNITED NATIONS Monetary and Financial Conference over a year BEFORE the United Nations came into existence!)
Not too surprisingly, it turned out that among the assistants of White at the Bretton Woods affair and/or working with him in the Treasury Department were five others who were later exposed as being Communists: Virginius Frank Coe, William L. Ullman, Harold Glasser, Irving Kaplan and Victor Perlo.
The Bretton Woods policies established by White in 1944 were designed to accomplish three broad objectives: (1) To build the industrial capacity of other nations, at our expense, eliminating the vast American industrial superiority; (2) to thereby take world markets- and much of the domestic market- away from American producers so that the United States would no longer dominate world trade; and (3) to strip the great gold reserve of the United States which had made the dollar the dominant currency on the planet.
The policies set into motion at the Bretton Woods conference have been followed by every administration and by every Congress, whether Republican or Democrat, since 1944. Not only followed but expanded as rapidly as possible.
What have been the tragic results? Without taking time to trace all the steps in the process of destroying the most productive and freest economy of all time, we can get some idea of how things have gone over the past decades.
As late as 1967, in spite of all the damaging controls, government regulations, taxes, etc. the United States with only 6% of the world’s population and 7% of the land mass of the world was still producing: 59% of the world’s steel, 46% of the electric power, 50% of the oil, 56% of the corn, 33% of the coal, 31% of the copper, 38% of the iron and 44% of all the manufactured goods in the world. And this with only 6% of the world’s population, of which a much smaller percentage were actually doing the production.
But then came the 70s and the start of the “alphabet” agencies, OSHA, EPA, etc. which began to constrict American businesses with hundreds of “Lilliputian” threads. Slowly, but steadily, American enterprises were saddled with ever increasing bureaucratic mandates, mounting paperwork requirements, environmental edicts, “safety” requirements, etc. The producing giant began to falter under the load.
Then came NAFTA! And the World Trade Organization! These were the straws which “broke the camel’s back!” NAFTA has been in force for ten years now. During that time there has been an absolute hemorhhage of American jobs being exported to other countries, just as was planned so many years ago.
Information from the “USA Today Analysis of Bureau Of Labor Statistics Data” paints a grim picture of the present results of all the anti-American activities of our Congress, administrations, business leaders, media magnates, and the rest of the Insider network. Various reports have purported to show that NAFTA actually increased the number of jobs in this country. Technically, that might be true, but the really important information lies in just what kind of jobs are still LEFT in this country!
Comparing the number of jobs in various industries in the U.S. in 1950 and in 2002 tells the real story of what has been happening to our economy. In 1950, non-farm manufacturing jobs made up 34% of our work force- in 2002 the percentage had DROPPED to only 13%! In 1950 the comparable non-farm service jobs made up 59% of our domestic jobs- in 2002 that number had JUMPED to 82% of all such jobs. NOTE that service jobs are NON-PRODUCING jobs.
Comparing numbers is possibly even more informative. In 1960, the number of textile jobs in this country was 924,000- by 2002 that had declined to only 433,000 jobs. In the apparel industry, in 1960 there were 1,233,000 people employed- by 2002 there were only 522,000 such jobs left. In the metals, primarily steel, in 1960 there were 1,185,000 people working- by 2002 there were only 593,000 left. And the majority of these declines has taken place since our Congress approved NAFTA supposedly as a means of helping American workers!
By comparison, in the services field there had been a virtual explosion of jobs. For instance, in the business service area, advertising, data processing, credit reporting, etc. in 1960 only 656,000 people had jobs- by 2002 that number had exploded to 9,301,000 jobs. In the health field, in 1960, 1,548,000 individuals had work- by 2002 that number had jumped to 10,661,000 positions.
As pointed out above, jobs in the service area are non-producing in terms of real goods. They are counted as part of the Gross National Product but such inclusion is extremely mis-leading. As jobs in the manufacturing fields are exported, this nation becomes more and more dependent upon producers in foreign nations, the majority of whom are NOT friendly to this nation, only to our money. With our primary manufacturing industries squeezed out of making any profit and then moved overseas we become more and more defenseless. Our standard of living in this country is dropping rapidly and it was all planned that way!
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