RE: [Futurework] FT PR vs. Historical Facts

2003-12-19 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray, How then do we know that " Nezahualcoyotl was one of the great poets of the world"? Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net

RE: [Futurework] To return to an old subject with a new history.

2003-12-19 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray, Thanks for the post. It was interesting. Homosexuality is not "normal". Sex in the human being is intimately connected with having children, securing the mother during pregnancy, caring for defenseless children until they can take care of themselves. That is "normal". Homosexuals are not

RE: FULL OF ADMIRATION (was RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-19 Thread Harry Pollard
. Bowd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:30 PM To: Harry Pollard; 'Keith Hudson' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FULL OF ADMIRATION (was RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade   Hi Harry,   I

RE: FULL OF ADMIRATION (was RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-19 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: Re: FULL OF ADMIRATION (was RE: Slightly extended (was Re:  [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n  Trade vs. Modern Trade Tom,   You seem to be pretty good to me.   Harry   Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box

RE: [Futurework] What Keynes and Schumpeter thought about time

2003-12-19 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   Something new to me.   I installed a Linux version by simply booting from a CD within my XP operating system. On the 700 megabyte disk was 1,700 megabytes and apparently it can take 2 gigabytes.   It’s a process called “transparent compression”. Never heard of it before, but

[Futurework] More Information for hungry minds

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: More Information for hungry minds Hi! As you know, I’m not particularly enamored of our “bought and paid for” legislators, which rarely receives a retort to the point, but often complaints that I am against government, which I’m not. Obviously government can be useful to us. I do ge

RE: Don't shoot me. (wasRe: Fw: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Ed and Keith,   What’s a “clawback”?   Harry   Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net *

RE: [Futurework] Dissecting the voting machine madness

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Lawry,   I find nothing wrong with the old ways. Neither did practically everyone else.   In California (for a change we did something right) we have a rule for chads - if it were needed. As I have previously reported, the Democrats who ran the counts in the disputed Florida counties ch

RE: [Futurework] Dissecting the voting machine madness

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   In my discussion of location monopolies, the local ‘phone company looms large – so long as it tied to poles by the roadside. However, my cable company installed a local service in direct competition with the local phone company.   They supplied two lines with all the costly extr

RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Tom, As you have probably gathered, I have been working for most of the last 50 years to obtain justice for all. Justice doesn't mean a chicken in every pot, or a BI. IT means no more than that a person will keep what he produces and shares equally the bounties of nature. So, the problem with som

RE: I enjoyed Taming of the Shrew (was Re: [Futurework] RE: Survivor

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Pete, Amen! Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net -Original Message- Fr

RE: [Futurework] RE: Survivor

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
://haledward.home.comcast.net   From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 6:41 AM To: Harry Pollard; 'Keith Hudson' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] RE: Survivor   Sorry Harry but I don

RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
that consumers should consume until the "well runs dry"  (of course if the product is properly priced, including the future discount rate of increasingly scarce resources, then prices will rise)   arthur -Original Message----- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: II. Find the cause (was RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith, I think you may be on to something, but I'm not sure that any of us - including you - have fully grasped the idea. It needs a lot more work, but then anything worthwhile does. As for status goods, I suppose that cell-phones, or mobiles, have receded as status goods. In their place, I would

RE: [Futurework] A Basic Income as a form of Economic Governance

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Ed,   Several remarks from the point of view of Classical Political Economy.   You’ll remember that.   If Ricardo is correct, all that will happen over time is that wages will fall by about the amount of the BI. (The so-called “working poor” are an example of this.)   I think that R

RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Ed,   Yet again I am responsible for heat as well as light. I posted this from the Economist. The figures show not only the current deficit, but the coming deficits stemming, I suppose, from already incurred obligations (a figure conveniently forgotten by our legislators more concerned, I

RE: I enjoyed Taming of the Shrew (was Re: [Futurework] RE: Survivor

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
ms to make it too accessible, too plain.  Maybe too transparent.   arthur -Original Message- From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:39 PM To: Harry Pollard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I enjoyed Taming of the Shrew (was Re: [Futu

RE: [Futurework] A Basic Income as a form of Economic Governance

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   “Profit” has nothing to do with economics. It’s an accounting term that the economists have grabbed – perhaps to make them seem relevant.   Although the accountants can play with figures to satisfy the government, the shareholders, and so on – actual profit (the surplus) is most

RE: [Futurework] From status to stratum

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   It is normal for new things on the market to have a high price at first. Then as sales pick up, the price drops. Then others get into the act and the price plummets.   As I wrote earlier, I have often been a buyer of new things that interest me. However, this is hardly for stat

RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   Thought you liked your urban sinkhole.   Harry Pollard   Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net

RE: [Futurework] Symmetry (+ the right pick for Iraq reconstruction manager)

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: Re: [Futurework] Symmetry (+ the right pick for Iraq reconstruction manager) Tom,   The reason that it is beyond belief is because it is reality.   Life has a habit of being a bit peculiar at times.   Even without conspiracies.   This is such an uplift for Bush (though for th

RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Chris, Considerable difference between land and buildings. Concentrate on how they get the wealth rather than to whom they leave it. Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 81

RE: FULL OF ADMIRATION (was RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert E. Bowd Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:31 PM To: Harry Pollard

RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Chris and Art, Such agreement among us! The problem in every country is the hemorrhaging of production into the hands of the landholders. As I posted earlier, Marx saw this and pointed out that the Industrial Revolution was financed by the landholders. (He said more - that "surplus value" inevita

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
rthur     -Original Message- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:17 AM To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, C

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
.    Everybody is better off in absolute terms, most will be worse off in relative terms.  Good or bad??   arthur -Original Message- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:01 AM To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Futurework] RE: Survivor

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net   From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:44 PM To: Harry Pollard; 'Keith Hudson' Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
-Original Message- From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:41 AM To: Harry Pollard; Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/ I don't think we've solved the

RE: I enjoyed Taming of the Shrew (was Re: [Futurework] RE: Survivor

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net   From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:39 PM To: Harry Pollard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I enjoyed Taming of the Shrew (was Re: [Futurework] RE

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Brad, Accreditation means that without it you are dead in the water. You may not practice. If it's simply proof of competency, there is no problem. If you choose an apparently competent doctor rather than the witchdoctor your neighbor goes to - fine. But, the witchdoctor shouldn't be banned. Thi

RE: [Futurework] Fw: Democratic 'Shadow' Groups Face Scrutiny

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Selma, The blacks are almost completely Democratic. To win, a Democratic candidate has to hold that 13% guaranteed. So, it is normal politics to claim the Republicans are racist and anti-black. Dean is simply looking to his bottom line. Harry Henry G

RE: [Futurework] Future of our Species

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
CTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Future of our Species Harry Pollard wrote: > Chris uses free trade (the absence of interference) to > describe both national and international interference. "Abse

RE: [Futurework] FW Basic Income sites

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
Chris, What if people prefer to drive their cars rather than use public transit? Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net

RE: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature Harry Pollard wrote: > Thanks for reading carefully, Ray. I wish Chris did. In the flood of Harry's postings with subject lines that are unrelated to the msg content, I don't read each one. Now I w

RE: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature (e-Bray?)

2003-12-17 Thread Harry Pollard
ct: Re: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature (e-Bray?) Christoph Reuss wrote: > Harry Pollard wrote: > >>Thanks for reading carefully, Ray. I wish Chris did. > > > In the flood of Harry's postings with subject lines that are unrelated to >

[Futurework] Pollard Information Services

2003-12-16 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: Pollard Information Services This was the Iraqi transcript  of  the  conversation  between  Saddam, Tariq Azizhis, and April Glaspie,  the  American  Ambassador.  It  was translated by the New York Times. -

[Futurework] (no subject)

2003-12-15 Thread Harry Pollard
Hi! Here is another letter from Zimbabwe. Looks bad there. Should we get ready to invade before the Fedayeen get too powerful? N! We’ll pass a strong resolution at the UN. After all, we have Christmas to enjoy and Africa is none of our business. Incidentally, a naartjie is a t

RE: [Futurework] E.European Women discover the Joys of Free Trade

2003-12-15 Thread Harry Pollard
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] E.European Women discover the Joys of Free Trade Returning from 2 weeks of mountain holidays, I see a varied debate has evolved in this thread.

[Futurework] RE: Survivor

2003-12-15 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   I had the same problem with King Lear.   When Kent preposterously says: “I cannot conceive you.” I knew I wouldn’t like it and never read, or watched, or listened to, Lear again. Anyone who uses conceive like that is obviously illiterate or being clever. Perhaps he’s indulging

RE: [Futurework] Are they going mad?

2003-12-15 Thread Harry Pollard
0428g.htm http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1991/h910425g.htm Chris Harry Pollard wrote: > Chris, > > Here I am again with my incredible patience. You said: > > "Who had installed and armed (incl. with WMD) Saddam in the first > place . . " > > T

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-15 Thread Harry Pollard
Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net   From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 7:12 PM To: Harry Pollard; 'Robert E. Bowd'; &#x

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-13 Thread Harry Pollard
?  License to practice law?  License to practice medicine? -Original Message- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:17 PM To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Slightly

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-13 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray, You said: Harry said: If each member of a community is better off, is it difficult to concede that the community (of people) is better off? RAY: Because wealthy communities don't necessarily do good things. Good works and great civilization is what seduced me from the pleasures of the w

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-13 Thread Harry Pollard
  But group B is 4x better off than originally   and group C is 10x better off than originally(well...you get the idea...)   is the whole community better off??  In some ways yes and in other ways no.   arthur -Original Message- From: Harry

RE: [Futurework] Private health care (was E.European...) -- the free market again(?)

2003-12-13 Thread Harry Pollard
omcast.net -Original Message- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:43 AM To: Harry Pollard Cc: 'pete'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Private health care (was E.European...) -- the free market again(?) Harry P

RE: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-13 Thread Harry Pollard
ginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade Harry Pollard wrote: > The New Internationalist is, of course, n

RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/

2003-12-13 Thread Harry Pollard
nesday, December 10, 2003 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/ We have "solved" the production problem but can't seem to deal with the issue of distribution. Arthur

RE: [Futurework] E.European Women discover the Joys of Free Trade

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
Stephen, How can you be so naïve? "Government" is not engaged in protecting you. It's in the pockets of the monopoly corporations. That's why it is so difficult to free trade. Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tu

RE: [Futurework] Coming of age in new times

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   I found the conditions described to be absolutely horrible. I also feel, or maybe hope, that this will be a period in their lives that will recede into memory as the years go by.   Once it was thought that you were already educated when you went to college or university. There you be

RE: [Futurework] Future of our Species

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
    From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:42 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n  Trade vs. Modern Trade Ed,   If you can't get a job as a programmer, you gat a job selling insurance, or laying bricks, or anything else that brings in money (if it's money you want).   Harry    **

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
with consumerism. (Now there's a word I use a lot. But "consumerism" doesn't have ad hominem overtones because we are all consumers and we are all taken in to a greater or lesser extent. We need a society in which consumer goods are on tap but not on top.)Keith -

RE: [Futurework] Future of our Species

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
goes.   Harry   Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net     From: Lawrence DeBivort [ma

RE: [Futurework] Are they going mad?

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
***     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed WeickSent: Friday, December 12, 2003 5:31 AMTo: Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Keith Hudson'Subject: Re: [Futurework] Are they going mad? Harry, there are no neutral observers.  Neverth

RE: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature (was Re: Slightly extended (was Re: David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade)

2003-12-12 Thread Harry Pollard
n his statements about long term. REH - Original Message - From: "Christoph Reuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature (was Re: Slightly extended (w

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net     From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:11 PMTo: Harry Pollard; 'Keith Hudson'Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David R

RE: [Futurework] Are they going mad?

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
Chris, Here I am again with my incredible patience. You said: "Who had installed and armed (incl. with WMD) Saddam in the first place . . " The 2,400 tanks and 400 planes with which Saddam invaded Iran were Soviet. The so-called "weapons of mass destruction" were supplied by the US Centers fo

RE: [Futurework] Foul-up in education (was The Politics of Foodbanks (or lack thereof) (was Re: Slightly extended)

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
ell them what students they may or may not accept. That may be an appropriate punishment for their snobbery in the past (and now!), but it has also meant that they have little independence now, and they are both steadily losing their cachet as world-class universities which they once used to be

RE: [Futurework] Future of our Species

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
Lawry,   I'm not sure what you mean by:   "Thank you Ray. As a species, we face a key decision: do we buy into the laissez-faire approach to futuring ourselves, or do we engage coherently in the process of managing our evolution?"   Maybe you should have said:   "Thank you Ray. As a species

RE: [Futurework] Are they going mad?

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   It is likely that everyone across the work rewards those who contribute to them and punishes those that harm them. Americans can spend their money anyway they like.   Meantime, you continue to mix chalk and cheese.   You take various examples of government intervention and call it a c

RE: [Futurework] Pox Americana update ~

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
Brad, The money isn't "international money" or UN money". It's American money. I would think that we can do what we like with "our" money. Including who might get it. No matter the apocryphal 'Dies Irae'. Harry Henry George School of Social Science

RE: [Futurework] Are they going mad?

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
Ed,   Chomsky and Soros are of course neutral observers of the American scene.   Come along now, lad.   Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledwa

RE: [Futurework] Sociopaths

2003-12-11 Thread Harry Pollard
**********     From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:58 PMTo: Harry Pollard; 'futurework'Subject: Re: [Futurework] Sociopaths Harry,   I decided to look up privilege and found seven interesting denotative defin

RE: [Futurework] A glimpse of medieval Hangzhou and the Song civilisation

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:13 PM To: Harry Pollard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] A glimpse of medieval Hangzhou and the Song civilisation Harry Pollard wrote: > Brad, > > George suggested in his Law of

RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Brad, We are discussing these problems in a society where the power to produce has reached unbelievable proportions (After many have been thrown out of work, the industries they left behind are actually producing more. Productivity hasn't fallen even though there are far fewer workers employed.)

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   After some disagreements, I rather think you right with regard to the capacity of the modern state to take the depredations of the tax gatherers.   As I indicated to Brad, the modern state has a tremendous ability to produce. This is why ridiculous political and economic policies fai

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Ed,   Another good discussion.   I see little network television, but one I try to see is Survivor. In it, people are voted out of the tribe. Those that remain try to "survive" until the final episode when the winner gets $1 million.  (Remember the $64,000 question?)   One member was a good c

RE: [Futurework] A new basis for taxation which could catch criminals, too

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
My golly Keith, back to the Purchase Tax.   You'll recall that washing machines were deemed luxuries and got 100% PT.   Harry   Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2

RE: [Futurework] The poverty of nation-states

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   An adult student of mine was CEO of one of the large enterprises in the LA area - and they were locked in a strike.   He mentioned in class that "at least, these days the people we are talking to are just like ourselves". I had an eerie vision of suits gathered around the table discus

RE: [Futurework] Sociopaths

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   I fear I understand it better than you.   The difference is perhaps that you want special privileges for the arts, while I want to end all privileges.   All of them - and as Krugman suggests, it's not just the Republicans. All of Congress are in for the feast.   If you saw Bill Moyer's

RE: [Futurework] Coal in their stockings

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Karen,   Take note of that modern phenomenon - truth via polling and guesswork.   So, if reality intrudes on the polls and the "analytical guesswork", reality has changed.   So, next time the polls say Joe will win right up to the point when Bill actually wins - watch what they say. It won't

RE: [Futurework] Re: Hobbes

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Selma, I am not very keen about the Hobbesian Leviathan, but think more about self-interest. If one always acts in one's self-interest, one is more likely to survive. If one always acts against one's self-interest, one is less likely to survive. We have survived. Think what is in our self-inte

RE: [Futurework] Hear No Evil See no Evil...

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Karen,   Although the ground is warming, the troposphere - the lower atmosphere - is not.   Atmospheric carbon dioxide increased through the last century, yet there was a cooling beginning in the forties and lasting 35 years until the upper seventies. During this period CO2 increased.   Abrup

RE: [Futurework] Bush has suddenly become friendly to Europe!

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   The trouble with infant industries is they rarely grow up. So they get old in their artificial creche life as they make everyone pay for their protection.   It is usually better for industries to be near their markets. If an exporter builds a business in another country, they often

RE: [Futurework] The poverty of nation-states

2003-12-10 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   The "rainy day" doesn't always work.   Our unlamented recalled governor came to power with a $12 billion surplus. During the re-election - barely won by Davis against a weak under-funded Republican candidate with little part support - this had apparently changed to a deficit in the

RE: [Futurework] The Politics of Foodbanks (or lack thereof) (was Re: Slightly extended)

2003-12-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur, When I read it, I agreed with Chris' remarks. Except of course his aside on protectionism. There are probably areas almost the size of Switzerland in the US where there is little crime and living is good. There are other areas that aren't like that, However, unless thought is given to t

RE: [Futurework] Future Teaching

2003-12-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur, Perhaps we should check on what has already replaced human intelligence. Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net **

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman  Trade vs. Modern Trade Ed,   Not only to liberty and justice not taste too well, when they aren't there to taste, you will be sure that ends will not meet.   Two hundred years ago, Ricardo postulated the "Iron Law of W

RE: [Futurework] Future Teaching

2003-12-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur, who establishes the codes? Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net -

RE: [Futurework] The poverty of nation-states

2003-12-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   You said: "First of all, if the government ran everything in a business like fashion they would bankrupt business."    That's an oxymoronic statement if I've read one!   Apple ran a closed operating system and held it tight. Microsoft didn't.   That meant that there were 50,000 progra

RE: [Futurework] NYTimes.com Article: For Middle Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury

2003-12-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur, We could start by getting rid of the patent system that articially raises drug prices along with the bottom lines of the huge drug companies. This money helps them pay off Congress. If you saw the Bill Moyer show on Friday you would appreciate why Eisenhower originally intended to call it

RE: Bush the confidence trickster (was RE: [Futurework] Blair's curious illnesses

2003-12-06 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur,   I rather think that this "lack of guile" was what Americans reacted to during the debates with Al Gore. Bush "lost" only one - but even that one resulted in an increase in the poll figures for Bush.   I suppose that Reagan had this quality too, Whether or not people agreed with him,

RE: [Futurework] Downshifting to a better work-life balance~ the grim reaper enjoys his job

2003-12-06 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray, You are right. People mustn't be allowed free will. They must be prevented from traveling between countries. All intercourse must be prevented (that will stop aids in its tracks too, No SARS inflicted Canadians must be allowed across the border - but as we don't know when they are infected

RE: [Futurework] The first transnational nation revisited

2003-12-02 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith,   Soros lost about 2 billion pounds a year or two later.   But, we don't talk about the losses.   Harry   Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://hal

RE: [Futurework] Downshifting to a better work-life balance

2003-12-02 Thread Harry Pollard
e-From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:28 PMTo: 'Ed Weick'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Keith Hudson'Subject: RE: [Futurework] Downshifting to a better work-life balance Ed,   I suppose everything I have is old - except t

[Futurework] Taxing land - not people (was - E.European Women discover the Joys of Free Trade)

2003-12-02 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur, Let me first define economic rent. It is " the extrinsic community created value that attaches to a location". Economic rent is a consequence of the surrounding community. Collecting and giving it back to the community that produced it seems to be a perfectly fair proposition. The Danish

RE: [Futurework] Talmud vs. Science (or Censorship thereof)

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
-Original Message- From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:44 PM To: Harry Pollard; 'Christoph Reuss'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Talmud vs. Science (or Censorship thereof) Thanks Harry fo

RE: [Futurework] FW: Strategic Implications of the Unsaid

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Brad, I seem to remember that Kepler based his ideas on Tycho Brahe's findings - and Tycho was wrong! Harry Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home

RE: [Futurework] Downshifting to a better work-life balance

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
ol of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA  91042 Tel: 818 352-4141  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net     From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:14 AMTo: Harry Pollard; [EMAI

RE: [Futurework] A glimpse of medieval Hangzhou and the Song civilisation

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Brad, George suggested in his Law of Human Progress that the Progress of Civilization depended on "Association in Equality". In my courses I use the more positive term "cooperation" rather than "association" but I think association is better. Equality doesn't mean we are all the same, which would

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Title: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman  Trade vs. Modern Trade Tom,   Thanks!   Of course, if money is the problem (or lack of it) then the obvious thing to do is give everyone money.   But, that seems unlikely to work, so .  .  .  .  .  ?   Money isn't the m

RE: [Futurework] Blair's curious illnesses

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith, Long before Iraq, Gwen and I used to be amused by Presidential hair color transitions. Hair that came in black, goes out gray. Gray heads become white. The job is not an easy one. I remember a science fiction yarn about the future Presidency. There were actually three Presidents - each wi

RE: [Futurework] Bush's impossible problem of same-sex marriage

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
omcast.net    From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:10 AMTo: Ray Evans Harrell; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [Futurework] Bush's impossible problem of same-sex marriage Sarcasm  Ed.   I thought

RE: [Futurework] Bush's impossible problem of same-sex marriage

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
  --  Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed WeickSent: Friday, November 28, 2003 3:34 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Futurework] More on free trade.

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray,   So Krugman is a free trader, eh? (Canadian _expression_)   Good for him.   He couldn't help remarking:   "That said, the critics of globalization do have some valid points." "First and foremost, the promise of export-led growth has failed in too many places. In particular, Latin Ameri

RE: [Futurework] RE: Miscellaneous

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
k] RE: Miscellaneous Probably some deep psychological reason behind this.    Wanting to fit in on the part of the young ones vs. a desire to be distinctive on the part of others.    arthur -Original Message-From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2

RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
25, 2003 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade Harry Pollard claimed: > (Chris thinks the US is a free trading country with an internal free > market, but then he thinks some very peculiar things.)

RE: [Futurework] Talmud vs. Science (or Censorship thereof)

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Chris, Thanks for this. Science which is no longer science seems to be spreading, and one time reputable scientific journals are becoming more politically correct and less scientific. If they didn't like "colonists" and "concentration camps" it should have been picked up by the editing staff. It

RE: [Futurework] Re: Logic 101 for Georgists

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
drivel. Else, a lecturer at a funny LA school that cannot even afford its own domain name spouted drivel. The latter seems more likely, especially if one logically examines the contents of what was said. You're living proof of where privatization leads to. Chris Harry Pollard wrote: >

RE: [Futurework] Economic/psychological/emotional Choices

2003-12-01 Thread Harry Pollard
PMTo: Harry Pollard; 'Selma Singer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [Futurework] Economic/psychological/emotional Choices Nice exchange.  However, I can't resist pointing out that your two assumptions sound like an old man's attitude towards sex.   REH     - Origi

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