To: A few friends on several mail lists Good day folks, I just returned from a week's vacation which was divided between lying on the beach and watching our cognitive elite on C-SPAN and C-SPAN II. Nothing has changed since my vacation of 97-06 when I posted "The Simple Solution, again" to list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Begin 30 months old post <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Subj: The Simple Solution, again Date: 97-06-13 13:47:20 EDT From: WesBurt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: WesBurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My recent vacation provided an opportunity to watch prominent members of our cognitive elite for a week on C-SPAN and C-SPAN II, while they promulgated the politically correct public opinion to the TV audience. The common theme, of the 65 prominent guests most interesting to me, was that the English/American domestic policy (public education plus the means-tested welfare system) has created the best of all possible worlds and that all nations in our global laboratory of nations are converging on this New World Order. These 65 prominent guests of C-SPAN may be right, there is damned little evidence to the contrary available to the American public! Those nations which are still moving contrary to the New World Order are quiet as church mice about their dependent allowance systems and may well be lying about their high unemployment rates in order to treat Englishmen and Americans like mushrooms, that is, keep them in the dark and covered with bullshit. Only one C-SPAN guest during the week, Mr. T. R. Reid (Washington Post), speaking on "East Asia and the United States," called attention to the 8 to 10%/year growth rates in Asia, the low crime rates, the more even distribution of wealth, the practice of teaching moral values which he had observed in the Asian nations, and he concluded that Henry R. Luce's "American Century" lasted only 50 years. Mr. Reid certainly pointed in the right direction, but he left unsaid much of what journalist John LaCerda (1912-????) said about the root-cause of Japan's rapid economic recovery after W.W.II in his 1946 book, THE CONQUEROR COMES TO TEA, Japan under MacArthur. LaCerda is the only post-W.W.II author, to the best of my knowledge, who has concisely identified the structure of worker compensation (worker's pay plus 1/5 of average worker's pay per dependent) which was common to Japan, Germany, and Western European Nations during their economic recovery after W.W.II, and he also reported the objections to the Japanese structure of worker compensation which were voiced by MacArthur's sixteen-man labor advisory mission headed by Paul Stanchfield, formerly with the US Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. The mission observed, in objection to the Japanese labor policy: "On the one hand, if the amount paid to the worker for each of his dependents were to be substantially increased, it might encourage Japanese workers to increase the size of their families. ------ On the other hand, such an allowance may place so great a financial burden on the employers as to induce him to refuse employment to workers who posses large families" To these objections I would reply: On the one hand, the experience of France, since the same structure of family allowances was adopted in the 1930s, confirms that the first objection is invalid. On the other hand, only English and American social scientists could believe that family allowances were to be paid by the specific employer of each worker. In practice, such allowances are always paid from the public revenue, or, if imposed on employers by government mandate, will be pooled by the employers just as workmen's injury compensation expenses and unemployment compensation expenses are pooled by employers. In my first post to list AGENDAS on May 18, I called attention to just how long the public has been kept ignorant of the simple principle that regulates human action, when I wrote: If the present state of the art of human governance is any guide, it would seem that the very idea of a Generally Accepted Optimum Theory of Human Governance has been anathema to our teachers and governors ever since our oldest history book was compiled and edited by Ezra in 457 BC Recall that our teacher Moses is alleged to have smashed the first two tablets of stone (Exodus 32:19-28) and hidden the second two tablets in the ark (Exodus 40:20) in order to teach only Ten Commandments to the people and keep the other Two Commandments a SECRET OF THE TEMPLE. Granted that the public has the collective intelligence of a bowl of rice, how can we hope to discover a Generally Accepted Optimum Theory of Human Governance that the public can understand and enforce, if all simple solutions are declared invalid by members of the cognitive elite, as claimed by Don Steelman in the following three excerpts from his 97-05-21 post "quick fixes?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Begin Don Steelman excerpts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That Marvelous Quick Fix 1, I am alarmed at the shallowness of though, not only on this list, but in the entire American polity as well. The problems many of us attempt to solve, did not just happen--they evolved over a great deal of time and with a great number of people and things contributing to their creation. They cannot be solved with a myopic fixation on only one element. ~~~~~~ snip ~~~~~~~~~~ 2, If there is not a single cause, neither is there a single solution. Certainly, the redistribution of wealth seems like a marvelous idea. The question is whether such a redistribution would lead to paradise or stagnation. More importantly, would not the enhanced power to government that such a redistribution concomitantly implies, merely exacerbate those elements of society to which we now object? ~~~~~~ snip ~~~~~~~~~~ 3, If there is to be any global structure at all, then that structure must be one in which inherent conflict and a constant jockeying for position and power restricts any single group or ideology from dominance. Pragmatism and Pragmatism alone will solve our problems. It's like my father once said--"If it ain't broke don't fix it and if it is broke don't use it till it's fixed." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End Don Steelman excerpts ~~~~~~~~~~~ This balance of power (balance of terror) theory that Don speaks of, IMO, is the foundation of the divide and conquer policy practiced by proponents of the New world Order. It has been the perennial principle of governance for the last 2500 years. But in the last 50 years, certain nations have moved ahead to a better system of governance which puts each of these fortunate sovereign nations in a stable and prosperous steady-state mode wherein its exchange of goods, services, and capital with adjacent nations do not impair its sovereignty by adversely affecting its unemployment or inflation rates. In other words, nations that adopt this better system of governance remain in control of their internal affairs while enjoying the benefits of trading with all other nations, and without subordinating their sovereignty to a new layer of government that is superior to the nation state. There is nothing new here. Sovereign private corporations have been perfecting this mode of international cooperation since the Bank of England and the East India Company were established in 1600. The underlying principle involved is simply this: "It is impossible to compute, or execute, an optimum dispatch of productive assets, capital or human, in a corporation or commonwealth until the fixed or sunk costs of acquiring the assets are separated from the variable costs of production, and the fixed or sunk costs are managed by the next higher level of organization." That is the principle by which the production of electric power was dispatched in the 1950s and forever after. That is how the General Electric Company sets the price of its products. That is how each of the ten government contractors I worked for priced their technical proposals. Conformance with that principle within each nation is the only way to stabilize a world full of sovereign nations. We have a choice that needs to be discussed in an open public forum. We may optimize the whole system of capital and human assets, or, we may continue to sub-optimize various parts of the whole system for a maximum return to usury. The odds on C-SPAN were 65 to one in favor of the second option. As Alexander the Great put it: There must be one law for Greeks and Persians alike. Why not one law for capital assets and human assets alike? WesBurt >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> End 30 months old post <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<