So we keep growing until we have to send spaceships to the planets and stars because we've overgrown the planet like weevils infesting a bag of flour?
I've always had a problem with this idea of "growth". Conservatives will argue that we aren't overpopulated and can fit the entire population of the planet in Texas with room to spare (bet Texans would love that). To me it seems like academics looking at the growth thing one dimensionally. And are we going to create "make work" jobs? Meaningless jobs that are only there to pay a wage? I'm with the crowd that says pay people NOT to work. Give stipends to everyone. There's some government spending for ya that will probably work! But the Koch Zombies (my new name for Tea Baggers) will whine that is "welfare" and we must all "work hard." What a bunch of fools. And then there is the argument that if you divided up all the work people would only work 1/3 of the year. I'm a technologist but at this juncture the technology field could plateau development for a decade or few and I think everyone would be happy. The public is having enough of a problem adapting to new technologies anyway. The problem with our system is that the establishment is a drag on our society. That's why a revolution is needed to change things. Otherwise they'll keep trying to orchestrate things thus leading to more inequity. And what government spending? Yup, we need some work on the highways, dams, levees and a few other things. That will take care of some blue collar workers. We need less government spending in defense sectors. We've turned killing people into a new business. One that is going to backfire on this country. On 08/07/2011 11:21 AM, authfriend wrote: > The national debt is high, but it is by no means out > of control; that's just a myth. > > And "austerity" programs at this point will only make > it worse, not better. What we need is *more* government > spending, not less, to get the economy moving again. > *Then* we can take measures to reduce the deficit > without risking a double-dip recession and vastly > greater human suffering. > > Or we could have, if it weren't for the scare stories > about the deficit that made it possible for the GOP > to hold the debt ceiling hostage until they got the > spending cuts they wanted. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"<jr_esq@...> wrote: >> The debt is estimated to be now at $13.4 trillion. This is equivalent to >> three times the national debt when the US was involved in WWII. We are now >> at war with our own inability to manage the national financial affairs. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png >> > >
