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[FlyingVProd]

Here is a short video that I made about how to help to save the world economy. Labor unions will play a part in improving the world economy.

Link:

http://tinyurl.com/3b7jnxo

Salute,

Tony V.

[unionbustersandtrollsout]

Good to meet you, Tony. Can't say there's too much I don't agree with here aside for two points:

1.) you say that flooding the market with cheap goods (from China) is 'communist'. Communism is a loaded term. I wouldn't use it in this context ---

which leads to...

2.) if we 'drill baby drill.' we might have some union jobs but are you for 'nationalizing' our oil industry? If so, nationalizing is a major tenet of a communist/socialist platform.

There's a good documentary called 'life and debt' that is very much in line with a lot of what you say here.

Again, thanks for sharing.

p.s. Does anybody have any comments/concerns about the Keystone pipeline? We are in the midst of a social movement, imo. Do we really want to alienate ourselves from the environmentalist, who are traditionally pro-labor?

[FlyingVProd]

Thanks for watching my video unionbustersandtrollsout, and it was my pleasure to make the video and share it.

And I would like to see China obtain freedom, democracy, and good human rights, and unions independent of the government, and fair pay and good treatment for workers.

On the issue of "drill baby drill," I am against nationalizing our oil industry, but one way our government could make money to help to reduce our debt is that much of our oil and Natural Gas (and gold, and silver, etc) is on government owned land and the government can do leases for people to drill and mine, etc, to help to raise money to reduce our debt. And we should be running cars, trucks, and buses, in the USA on clean burning, American produced, Natural Gas, which in some parts of Texas only costs one dollar per gallon, and most people already have Natural Gas piped to their homes for cooking and heating and they can fill their fuel tanks with Natural Gas at home in their garages.

Thanks again for watching my video.

[FlyingVProd]

"Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

Psalm 82:3-4

And always remember the Golden Rule to treat other people as you would wish to be treated, and love your neighbor!

This is how we are going to save and improve the world economy.

Please share my video if you like it.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

We should, we can, and we must, improve our entire world economy, and we must do it NOW! We can do it, and we can help to save each other.

Here is a link for a thread that I started on the Greece Topix page about how to help to improve the situation in Greece, please post any ideas there that you may have on how to help to improve the situation in Greece.

http://www.topix.com...P6QUIAT1VHB5HT3


Happy Trails!

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

We need to cowboy up, and we need to save our world economy.

We can do it!

[unionbustersandtrollsout]

You know what will save the world economy? Electing Newt Gingrich.

Yep. Bring back child labor! We can do it!!

[FlyingVProd]

unionbustersandtrollsout, on November 26 2011 - 10:38 AM, said:

You know what will save the world economy? Electing Newt Gingrich.

Yep. Bring back child labor! We can do it!!

When I was a child my family owned livestock, and I had to get up in the morning and feed the cattle and horses before I had breakfast, it was good for me, and I learned responsibility at a very young age. I also did work in the fields with my family. Then, when I was nine years old, just before my tenth birthday, my father died, and my mother became a poor widow with three children to raise, and my mother worked hard but we were still poor, and my mother refused to accept welfare and foodstamps no matter how poor and hungry we were, so at ten years old I bathed and brushed dogs for my grandmother who was a dog groomer to help to bring food into the house so that we could eat, at ten years old I already knew what it was like to work a twelve hour day bathing and brushing dogs so that we could eat. My grandmother taught me that if you want to eat you have to work, even as a child, and I worked my ass off as a child so that I could eat. I also mowed my neighbors' lawns for money, and did other jobs as a kid. Then as a teen I worked at a summer camp for the Burbank YMCA for two summers, and that is how I saved money to buy my first car. By the time I was eighteen years old I managed a dog kennel where I worked bathing and brushing dogs for my grandmother when I was younger, I earned the respect of the World War II Marine veteran who owned the dog kennel and he put me in charge of his whole business, I managed his whole business for him at eighteen years old. I was an at risk child, because my father died when I was a child, and because we were poor, but I learned responsibility young, I learned that if you are honest and if you work hard you can earn money to eat, and I never had any problems with the law or anything, I was never on drugs, I never committed any crimes, and I always had good character. (Of course, it also helped me that my mother made sure that I had a good Christian foundation, and she took me to church every Sunday as a child, and so I have always been a good Christian.) So, it is good for poor and at risk youth to have the opportunity to work as a child so that they can learn to earn their own food and stuff like I did, it teaches children responsibility, it teaches them to be grateful for what they have, etc, etc, etc, and it teaches them to do honest work and it helps to keep them out of trouble and away from drugs and stuff.

I support child labor laws when it comes to children working in factories and stuff, children should NOT be allowed to work in factories, but children should be allowed to do farm work with their families, and other jobs with their families, and it is good for teens to work at summer camps, etc etc etc, and delivering newspapers as a kid, and mowing lawns, and washing cars, and stuff, are all good things for kids.

Yes, we need child labor laws, but we also need to allow children the opportunity to do some work and earn some money and learn and stuff.

[FlyingVProd]

Let me post this again...

In the beginning of our history the government of the United States was funded by tariffs on imports, because Americans refused to pay taxes. Tariffs on imports were the largest source of federal revenue from the 1790s to the eve of World War I.

Can you imagine how quickly the economy in the USA would improve if we lowered taxes for Americans and raised tariffs on imports?

I know ways we could improve the entire world economy, but it could not be done quickly. But, so far as improving the economy in the USA and getting Americans back to work, lowering taxes for Americans and raising the tariffs on imports would be the fastest way to pull the USA out of this nose-dive and reduce the debt.

And as far as improving the entire world economy...

Workers EVERYWHERE need to unionize, along with having good labor laws so that no matter where companies go they have to pay the workers fair and have to treat them well.

That means unions in China, India, Latin America, the Middle East, etc etc etc.

If you want to help to improve the world economy, you have to look at China, and change needs to be forced upon China by good labor leaders like Lech Walesa, as China improves it will help to improve the whole world economy.

We cannot bring the USA down to the level of China in order to compete with China. China's workforce consists of communist slave labor. BUT, what we can do, is bring China up. And labor unions are part of the answer on how to do that. And I guarantee you that if the Chinese workers had more money in their pockets to participate in the world economy that the world economy would improve.

We learned as a result of the Great Depression on how NOT to do things. If you have many people producing cheap goods, with the workers being paid less and less, while the companies produce more and more for cheaper and cheaper, with the workers not being able to buy anything because they are working but are still poor, soon the whole economy collapses. But, if the workers are paid fair, they can buy stuff, and can participate in the economy. Unions, labor laws, fair trade rules (including anti-trust/anti-monopoly and anti-dumping rules), and fair pay and good treatment for workers, are all things that are good for our economy and which help us avoid another great depression. If we all try to compete with communist slave labor in China, producing more and more for less, while the workers earn less and less, we are heading for a global depression and bad times, just look at where we have been heading, the facts are there to see. We need to go UP and not down. We NEED improvement instead of decline.

The whole world can benefit from having labor unions, labor laws, and fair pay and good treatment for workers, along with enforcing fair trade rules, etc. Labor leaders need to look at the global picture, and need to support labor movements globally, the way that labor unions in the USA and around the world supported Lech Walesa in Poland, there needs to be a global brotherhood amongst workers all around the world.

We need improvement, not decline.

The Chinese went on strike against Honda, and got wage increases, but the people of China need REAL labor unions independent of the government.

Link to article about the strikes in China:

http://www.economist.com/node/16282233

It is damn hard for people to go out and get a good job, and earn fair pay to take care of their family, if there are no jobs, and if all of the jobs are all moving to China, so the way I see it the workers of China must be viewed as our brothers and by fighting for improvement for the workers of China the conditions for all workers will improve. The workers of China are ready to fight for fair pay and for good treatment, and for freedom, democracy, and for good human rights, but the workers of China need labor leaders with courage, wisdom, and strength, to lead them, and the workers of China need support from labor unions around the world.

The world needs more heroes like Lech Walesa.

Healthy, peaceful, evolution must happen in China, and a labor movement in China is part of the way to help evolution to happen, along with supporting good human rights there, and supporting freedom of religion, and a more open Chinese society, etc etc etc.

By fighting for good human rights for all people; we protect our own. By fighting for fair pay and for good treatment for all workers; we protect our own.

Truth.

China could be a great force for good in the world, and could be a great ally, if the people there would cause evolution towards freedom, democracy, and good human rights. The whole thing with communism and with the denial of good human rights just does not work, and it is the 21st Century now and they need to leave communism behind.

And there are several ways we can support healthy evolution in China, and we must do so.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission

http://womenshistory...uman_rights.htm

Here is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Eleanor Roosevelt wanted, and the world still needs it.

http://en.wikipedia....of_Human_Rights

By fighting for good human rights for all people; we protect our own. By fighting for fair pay and for good treatment for all workers; we protect our own.

A labor movement in China can help, and we must support a labor movement in China the same way the world supported Lech Walesa in Poland.

Freedom of religion can help, of which the Catholic Church supports.

The world wide web can help, and the exchange of information and ideas. And a more open Chinese society needs to evolve.

There are a lot of ways we can support healthy evolution in China.

When I lived in Malibu I had a room-mate who is the daughter of a general in communist China, because her father is a general she was allowed to attend college, and then they put her in charge of a hammer factory after she finished school and she ran that for a while, but as soon as she got the opportunity she left China and moved to Malibu in spite of the privileges she had in China because of her father's high position. She too wants to see healthy evolution happen in China, as opposed to violent revolution, but it will take courageous, wise, strong, active people to help China to evolve peacefully. So there are people of all positions in China who want to see healthy evolution happen. And Lech Walesa proved that healthy, peaceful, evolution away from communism is possible.

And I do not know how any Republican could be against unions after we watched a union in Poland free Poland, collapse the USSR, bring down the Berlin Wall, and end the Cold War. Fair pay and good treatment for the honest workers is an important part of freedom, democracy, and good human rights, and unions help insure that.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

I watched a wonderful documentary on PBS some time back, and it was about a lady who worked in a factory in Bangladesh making clothing, and it showed how she lived, she lived in a slum, and she was eating rice and lentils and she could not even afford to eat meat with her dinner, and they brought her to the USA and they took her to a store which was selling the items she made, and she got to see the prices that the items were selling for in the USA, and she was blown away, and at the end of the documentary the lady went back to Bangladesh to become a union organizer. It was a great documentary.

Go union Norma Rae, all the way.

The workers of the world need to unionize. And it would help the world economy, along with the improved human rights which could be obtained in places such as China, and it could help in creating a fairer and more just world, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

Here is a thread that I started on the Harvard University Topix forum...

http://www.topix.com...HLTRFO3IQKUD2F1

I am trying to help save and improve our world economy.



Tout les meilleur,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

It is up to us to enforce the trade rules that we want to live by, and which will help to save and improve our world economy, we can even create new rules if we need them for our survival and betterment. And we must support a labor movement in China the same as we supported Lech Walesa and Poland, and we must support fair pay for workers globally, and we must have the same environmental protection rules globally for our planet.

As it says in the Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov, "Violence is the last refuge for the incompetent." Thus, there may be some saber rattling by the communist government of China before they relinquish power to the people, but it must be done not only to improve the situation for the people of China but also to help to save and improve our world economy. And ultimately it can all be done peacefully as was the case with Lech Walesa and Poland.

[FlyingVProd]

I am pro union, and I am a Republican. Some of my heroes from history are Cesar Chavez, Lech Walesa, Eugene V. Debs, and Jimmy Hoffa. Abraham Lincoln was also great, and Lincoln was a Republican. I believe in fair pay and good treatment for the honest workers, which is an important part of freedom, democracy, and good human rights, and I support power to the people. And many Republicans believe in "Trickle Down" economics, which I support, but Trickle Down economics does not work without labor unions to fight for fair pay for the workers. I support an improved economy, I support lower taxes, I support a smaller government with less government intrusion into our lives, and at the same time I support labor unions to fight for improvements for the honest workers, so that things get better for everyone.

[FlyingVProd]

The Berlin Wall came down on November 9th, 1989, and look how fast the economy improved for Germany once East Germany was set free, in just twenty three years Germany has risen to become one of the wealthiest nations in the world, along with the fact that they have been enjoying freedom, democracy, and improved human rights, and a better quality of life. The situation would improve in China just as quickly if China obtained freedom, democracy, and improved human rights, and good labor unions independent of the government along with fair pay and good treatment for the honest workers, and it would help to improve our entire world economy.


Tout les meilleur,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

The USA, and the world, must come from a place of abundance.

In leadership training they told me to always come from a place of abundance, as opposed to scarcity. We can easily grow enough food to feed everyone on earth if we come from a place of abundance, as opposed to letting them starve as we come from a place of scarcity. And sometimes the way to improve things is to think big, even when times are hard and we are tempted to say that we cannot because of poverty. We can live in a world of abundance, and unlimited opportunity, or we can live in a world of scarcity where it just continues to get worse. And with leaders, say for a company, they want people who will make the company grow and prosper, not people who will keep downsizing it until it does not exist anymore. People want leaders who improve things, not make things worse.

With the bad economy, and with the giant debt of the United States, it would be so easy for everyone to downsize everything out of existence, which would only make things worse, at a time when we need to do the opposite and grow and prosper and improve things instead. A great depression is as much a state of mind as it is a reality, we cannot fall into that state of mind and we must avoid that reality.

We must come from a world of abundance and unlimited opportunity, and grow and prosper, and improve things, we must be creative in good ways and we must think big, and every problem creates an opportunity for people to solve the problems, and where there is room for improvement there is opportunity for people to improve things, etc etc etc.

I read that fewer people are willing to get student loans because they are afraid they will not be able to pay them off, and they are afraid to accrue the debt for an education, and that is totally the wrong way for them to be thinking right now, and at this time the USA needs to have a better educated and better trained population, and there will be plenty of opportunity for good educated people to solve problems and improve things after they receive an education. In my opinion the people of the United States need to enter college at higher numbers, not lower. Things are not going to get better if we have a lesser educated population, that is going in the wrong direction, we need a higher educated population instead. So we need to get them thinking from a place of abundance, so that we can achieve abundance, and a better economy and a better world.

And the whole thing with the debt of the United States could be solved if we come from a place of abundance. Much of the land of the United States is government owned land, we are talking abundance, and that land could be sold to private people, and that alone would pay off much of the government debt. The government can also make money with gas and oil leases at a time when gas and oil are at all time high prices, and drilling for natural gas and oil in the USA would be a good thing for many reasons. And that would help reduce the debt. Also, gold is at an all time high price right now, and there is gold on much of the government owned land, along with other precious metals. And that would help reduce the debt. If we come from a place of abundance then we can reduce the debt easily. Then, we monitor the spending of the government better in the future so that we can pass down surpluses to future generations instead of deficits.


Salute,

Tony V.

And here are a couple of nice quotes...

"Do not worry that you do not have wealth, love, or high office, but instead spend your time making yourself worthy of wealth, love, and high office." - Confucius

"And then he has won, through his fantasy he has achieved that which before he had only in fantasy; wealth, honor, and the love of women." - Sanford Meisner (Who snagged it from Freud.)

[scb]

I'm not sure I know how to "save the world economy"...but I can't help but think that if the flakes weren't a part of it, it'd be in a lot better shape than it's in.

-scb-

[FlyingVProd]

The way that people have been trying to save and improve the world economy is NOT working, the bail outs and stimulus schemes are NOT working, the world economy just continues to get worse and worse, and the economy will continue to get worse and worse until we take desperately needed action and deal with the core issues which are hurting our world economy, we must take the correct action NOW.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

I will post this just in case any of you are into the arts, some of you may like this...

Here is an acting scene on You Tube of me doing the Second Chorus from Anouilh's Antigone. My Uncle Dennis was my cameraman. I hope that you enjoy it. I will make more You Tube videos soon.

"Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles's classic produced in the context of the anti-fascist French resistance, is Jean Anouilh's (1910–1987) most often-produced work today. Antigone premiered in Paris in 1944, but Anouilh had written his tale of lone rebellion against the state two years earlier, inspired by an act of resistance during Paris's occupation by the Nazis. In August 1942, a young man named Paul Collette fired at and wounded a group of directors during a meeting of the collaborationist Légion des volontaires français. Collette did not belong to a Resistance network or organized political group, but acted entirely alone and in full knowledge of his certain death. For Anouilh, Collette's solitary act—at once heroic, gratuitous, and futile—captured the essence of tragedy and demanded an immediate revival of Antigone. Aware of Anouilh's thinly veiled attack on the Vichy government, the Nazis censored Antigone immediately upon its release. It premiered two years later at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris under the direction of André Barsacq, a few months before Paris' liberation. The play starred (his wife) Monelle Valentin as the doomed princess."

Here is a link for the video:



Tout les meilleur,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

When I was in college, before I went to acting school, I had an extremely brilliant history professor who wrote a dissertation for her doctorate about the Great Depression; she wrote about what caused the Great Depression, and she wrote about what America did to help America to overcome the Great Depression, and she wrote about things which were done to help to prevent another Great Depression from happening. I have always really loved history, and I read and studied a lot, and so the history professor and I were able to have some really wonderful discussions about history. I just loved her, it was a really great class, and many of the things which we discussed were really pertinent to problems which we are facing today. And it is important to know history so that we do not repeat past mistakes. There are many problems which are happening now in the present day for which the solutions can be found by studying and knowing history. Many of the answers pertaining how to save and improve our world economy can be found by studying and knowing history.


Tout les meilleur,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

Here is a thread that I started on the Topix forum for the Philippines, about how to save and improve our world economy, the Filipinos can help...

http://www.topix.com...12FMCFRT9FS4JRK

Feel free to join in on the discussion there if you want, you do not need to register or anything to post on Topix, and the Filipinos all speak English, and English is a national language in the Philippines.

I fully believe that we can save and improve our world economy quickly if we work together as a team in good ways, and if we take the correct action.

Tout les meilleur,

Tony V.