Perhaps this should be filed in the "You must be dreaming" file, however, I was wondering if it isn't time someone developed a scale, so to speak, on which a particular society's "governmental need" could be assessed. For example, developing country's, without infrastructure, or with minimal infrastructure and with epidemic level public health issues would obviously need governments strong in public works projects, public health task forces combined with long term project teams, focusing on both prevention and hospital/clinic building. Countries entangled in civil war would seem, to me anyway, to be better recipients of the American "big stick" military, than simply countries who happen to be parked over H2S laden black gold. I am getting a bit off-track here, and yes I, really was going somewhere with all this. For the countries with so many programs, policies, p.a.c.'s, governMENTAL agencies, politicians, departments, houses, members of senate, parties, and our all time favorite, corporations, we could never, in a million years, hope to remember even half of them, could our fantasy scale be applied to actually see what is needed in the way of a government?
I have had some fun with this, but my actual question, or idea if you like, is real. I am not sure there is an answer, but that's half the fun of asking. In case, as is sometimes the case with my writing, I have lost anyone, here's my question. First, do you think it is possible to develop a "scale" (sliding, graduated, etc.) that could be used to identify a countries (ultimately, it would be need to be able to be used for any and/or all countries) governmental needs? By governmental needs, I mean the actual size, right down to the number of department heads, employees in each department, yearly budget, operating costs, etc. This would all be estimated of course, with a close margin of error given, but that would also be something that we would have to understand before we could ethically use it. This is purely hypothetical, as I am not aware of any governments that are going to jump at the oppurtunity to be "downsized" to more appropriate dimensions, which brings up my final question. If a working "scale" could be created, do you think anyone would find it useful, or merely more depressing? AntiFossil Mike Krafka Minnesota USA _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
