Ray, this is brilliant.
Natalia
On 9/4/2011 7:53 AM, Ray Harrell wrote:
We are the third largest country in the world..
We have the third largest population in the world.
We have a beautiful climate for growing things and compared to
Europe, China, Japan, Korea etc. we barely use our land letting it
function as forests. And unlike Brazil where the rain forest
has terrible land once the trees are cut, America has fertile land
beneath the forests. Immensely productive land. The
breadbasket of the world.
America is like a rich baron with a manor house filled with art
and antiques and thousands of acres who is having a temporary cash
crisis.
Because he can't bear to part with any of the paintings, or
antiques and won't invite the public in as tourists (for cash) and
refuses to till the soil he will die of starvation. Instead of
learning about the systems of his estate and developing them
through logical growth, he thinks himself poor because he doesn't
have petroleum or coal to exploit and destroy the land and poison
the waters of his neighbor's estates for cash. So he just sits
and speaks of his poverty and cuts back. The questions are
this: Where is the poverty? Is it in the estate or is it
between his ears?
He is the poor little rich kid that doesn't seem to know how
wealth happens aside from "striking it rich."
The Private Sector is worshiped by the Right wing, but:
1.if it's so efficient, why does the American people, through
their government, give it so many tax breaks and outright funding
sources?
2.Why do we give public lands to the private sector for a pittance.
3.Why is the private sector so inadequate at developing so many
important things like education, health care, cultural resources,
research science?
4.Why is the private sector so inept at coming up with obvious
answers to energy problems like Sun, wind and water which are
plentiful?
In fact the private sector can't make a profit on "Plenty" they
need scarcity to do that. Economics is not about dispensing
plentiful resources but scarce resources. Just look at the front
page of most economics texts if you don't believe me. For example:
"Economics is the study of how people choose among alternative
uses of their scarce resources."
"Economics" by Walter Jessell, Barron's Business Review Series.
To worship the private sector is as stupid as worshiping
government. In either case, to a genuinely religious person,
such action would be idolatry. Only the spiritually shallow tie
their religion, or lack of it, to the private market or the
government which is from the people itself. It seems one CAN
make an idol of one's people.
A real society requires careful planning and developmental
strategies that have real guts. Mere economic contraction is
like anal retention in the body. It will just make you constipated.
REH
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/the-jobs-crisis.html?_r=1
An homage to my parents:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/opinion/blow-an-ode-to-teachers.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
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