To: Frequent posters, lurkers, and innocents on several mail lists Hi Folks, I was delighted to be welcomed back to list FutureWork by a re-play of my two year old post "Two Articles of Economic Rights & Responsibilities," posted by Tom Walker. The older I get, the more I appreciate such kindly gestures. Here is a 20 month old post which alarmed a few determined defenders of the status quo (DDotSQ) on other lists, and hopefully will alarm a few more on list FutureWork. Warm regards to all, WesBurt >>>>>>>>>>> Begin 20 month old post <<<<<<<<<<< Subj: The "English Disease" Date: 97-09-03 16:20:37 EDT From: WesBurt To: Members of Burt's list Dear Defenders of the Commonwealth: If you are satisfied with the present trends in our world-wide laboratory of nations, then you have no need of the technically valid conceptual model of industrial society recently located at URL <http://www.freespeech.org/darves>. Read no further and e-mail me your request to be removed from my copy list. The practical approach to sustainable global governance is to acknowledge the excessive amount of chaos created by the systemic defect of omission in our public policy, and supply that defect of omission. This approach requires the social science community to develop and promulgate to the public a technically valid conceptual framework that comprehends the whole system of an infinite variety of sovereign corporations operating under ONE LAW in tandem (series) with the human assets of the world commonwealth. Fig.6, at the above URL provides that technically valid conceptual framework in which a reproducible set of capital assets supplies the world market with goods and services, and, a reproducible set of human assets supplies the labor market with value-added, in a continuous-flow life-support process. You ask: What is this "systemic defect of omission" hog-wash? It is our nearly universal propensity to minimize our taxes by withholding half of the public investment we should be making in our developing human assets. That is, we babble on about the importance of public education to the future of every nation, while charging the support of children in our own nations entirely to the household budget of young low income parenting families, which leaves one child in seven living in poverty in the U.S.. The immediate effect of that unavoidable, but randomly distributed, item of fixed cost is to corrupt the operation of a free labor market for all but gay, lesbian, celibate, elderly and high income households, which do not bear that fixed expense. Here is a defect of public policy that inflicts an obscene financial injustice on the great majority of the parenting families in every society in history that has not corrected this defect of omission. This issue has nothing to do with whether or not you are capable of loving your neighbor's black, brown, yellow, or white children as you love your own children. The issue is: are you capable of doing 6th grade arithmatic. We know this condition as the "English Disease" by its symptoms of a volatile 5 to 25% unemployment rate and a perennial 2-3% inflation rate that is observed in every industrial society that allows the priestly establishment to claim part of the first Tithe in addition to the second Tithe which is their due. Everyone knows by now that the first Tithe is for the development of the nation's most expensive and important assets, its children. That is, 5% of GNP for their education and 5% of GNP for their support. Sustainable global governance eludes our grasp because people on the Left rail at the multinational corporations for being too powerful, and, people on the Right rail at the government got being too intrusive, while both corporations and government are essential to the general welfare of every Commonwealth. Having been systematically educated to be ignorant of a technically valid conceptual framework which could inform their judgment, the Left and Right surrender democratic governance (that is, control and rule) to THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT, whose ultimate aim, as described in 1962 by author Dan Smoot, is to create a: "one-world centralized government and make every nation an official part of it." The alternative to such a "one-world centralized system" is obviously "a one- world de-centralized system" of sovereign nation states under ONE LAW. The ultimate promise of making a public disclosure of the theory of such a de- centralized system, is this: Those sovereign nations that presently find their central government trending to become more powerful and expensive, but less effective, would find it possible to muster enough public support to reverse that trend by means of corrective actions that have been standard practice in corporate management since the Bank of England was founded. A substantial majority of both Left and Right will, I believe, approve of that part of the FORWARD to the report of the UN Commission on Global Governance where it is written: >>> "We are not proposing movement towards world government, for were we to travel in that direction we could find ourselves in an even less democratic world than we have--one more accommodating to power, more hospitable to hegemonic ambition, and more reinforcing of the roles of states and governments rather than the rights of people. <<< It comes down to this: the contribution of English speaking people to the emerging new world order (whatever it may turn out to be) ended with the Great Inflation of the 1970's and '80's, and will not resume until they put their own house in order. And this they cannot do until their social scientists develop and promulgate a technically valid conceptual framework that comprehends the whole system of an infinite variety of sovereign corporations operating in tandem (series) with the human assets of the world commonwealth. The smaller nations cannot establish a stable and prosperous new world order while the United States and the United Kingdom are still trending toward an order "more accommodating to power, more hospitable to hegemonic ambition, and more reinforcing of the roles of states and governments rather than the rights of people." The U. K. and the U. S. still hold the balance of world wealth and power, for the short run. But, having passed their apogees of wealth and power in 1914 and 1969, respectively, the United Kingdom and the United States are LOSING GROUND with every passing day and are FREE TO CHOOSE only between restoring their moral leadership in world affairs, and, being destroyed by internal chaos as our wealth and power decline. We can get serious about this TEFLON TOPIC by asking the members of the President's 1983 Commission on Entitlements what they intended to accomplish when they established the present Social Security Payroll Tax of 15% on earned income below $63,000/year, without any exemptions for dependents, and a zero% tax rate on all income above $63,000/year? The members of that commission that I remember are Robert J. Dole, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Allan Greenspan, and Peter G. Peterson. As David Lawrence, late Editor of U.S. News & World Report, told me in 1970: "your TEFLON TOPIC will not be newsworthy until some prominent person addresses the topic in a public forum." My vision of the model could be as mistaken as McNamara's vision of the Viet Nam \War, but no one has dared to say that, because a single industry application of this model was issued a U.S. Patent in 1953, and the theory of the model had been reduced to practice by American industry, Germany, Japan, and the Scandinavian countries in the 1940's. If you have seen one such system with only one class of ACTIVE productive human assets and an infinite variety of PASSIVE productive capital assets, you have seen them all. I wonder who will be the first prominent American or Englishman to address the topic since Henry Carter Adams last addressed it in his 1887 essay, RELATION OF THE STATE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION? Such a bold address will open the floodgate of public debate! WesBurt >>>>>>>>>>> End 20 month old post <<<<<<<<<<<
