Harry(O.F.) wrote: I'll try again, thereby showing my almost implausible patience and perhaps resignation.
PLease Harry(O.F.) no resignation! If you did that then we couldn't go forward with our plan to impeach you and tar and feather you to see you off. Hang in there, Brian > Brad wrote: > > >Harry Pollard wrote: > >>Keith, > >>As I said, I think that war is now inevitable (short of Saddam > backing > >>down) for the US can no longer afford not to go to war. > > > >[snip] > > > >Can we put a dollar figure on that? > > > >What's the "net"? > > > >Can we outsource it? > > > >Can we get a big investment back to > >float a stock offering for it? > > Brad, old lad, stop misconstruing things. The cost is war in Korea > among > other things as the US is thought to be a paper tiger. > > >I sincerely believe that the free market > >ends where serious issues of life and death > >begin. The free market is a luxury > >we can afford only when nothing important > >is going on. That means that the > >unemployed and the overworked but > >underpaid are enjoying paradise. > > I'll try again, thereby showing my almost implausible patience and > perhaps > resignation. > > The free market is no more than allowing people to trade freely. If > you are > against it, you are allowing politicians to tell us how we should > behave - > and you know how they behave. > > >There are, of course, other luxuries we could > >choose instead, like coordinated social > >intelligence minimizing labor time and > >maximizing leisure like to some extent they > >seem to do in the old Europe . . . > > Again, this is nonsense. There is no such thing as a "coordinated > social > intelligence". There are only individual intelligences. > > We now have such an incredible power to produce that we can be vastly > inefficient and still be able to live well. > > Why this "incredible power to produce" doesn't translate into an > absence of > poverty is something that must be thought about. However, thinking > about > such things seems to be remarkably absent in our uncoordinated social > intelligence. > > Harry > > > ****************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of LA > Box 655 > Tujunga CA 91042 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > ******************************* > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.393 / Virus Database: 223 - Release Date: 9/30/2002 > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
