The resolution of problems
is neither easy nor hard.
Government's primary function is
to feed people. Because this is so simple and takes so little time, and in fact
people as a rule want to feed themselves, government can do all sorts of other
things.
Elections in
large part are the action of deciding which of vying political
groups can do in the best way the best set of other things. If
a political group does not even have the determination to feed
people it should not be considered as a potential government.
If a government can't feed people it not only has no business
being a government it isn't one. Since every country, state, city
or planetary space is owed a legitimate government, a group acting
as a government but not feeding its people, is standing in the
way of the legitimate government. All the illegitimate governments
of the world fall into this category.
The only answer to the national debt
is to cancel it. At the same time cancel all debts owed to this country. It's
too bad, perhaps, that the U.S. didn't cancel the debt owed to it back when it
was a global creditor, but it's no less timely now. Maybe a little more embarrassing.
I submit, however, that the nation [1]
can argue that not only did it not understand before now that money had no value,
but there also wasn't the computer to zero things out.
We have ourselves to thank
for the deficit, and we can thank God He didn't create it. Therefore it is unarguably
in our hands to take care of it. The deficit's wonderful lesson is that the more
gargantuan and ghastly it became the easier it was to see it really didn't exist
and would disappear with the stroke of a pen. While we're at it we should disappear
all debt of any kind anywhere. God, Who created us in His Image, is indebted to
no one.
Some rich soul may argue that as
a debtor nation we must honor the international commitments our debts imply. Thank
God this country really is a superpower; who's going to argue with us? Of course
it would become instantly clear to our global neighbors that to survive in a sane
world they would want to cancel their debts as quickly as possible as well.
A better answer to the homeless problem
is private ownership. Right now we're headed, in the name of capitalism, on a
break neck tear toward total socialism. A few more recessionary squeezes and all
property everywhere will be owned by the state and a few other faceless corporate
fictions. It makes ever so much more sense for everyone to own where they are.
Once that's taken care of, see who's out in the cold, and where the empty homes
are. A perfect task for a computer. Landlords and ladies would be happy because
they wouldn't be responsible for all the homes they don't live in.
There is no evidence that the employed
eat more than the unemployed; in fact there is some evidence that the more employed
someone is the less he or she eats. It is the indolent who have more time and
space for eating. In any event, there is no reason for people to not be employed.
In fact, it is impossible that anyone could be unemployed. Someone might not do
his job, and might not show up where he was needed, but he would never be out
of work.
The assignment of resources is local
according to a distribution program passed by elected legislators. "The program
is the platform."
Fortunately, by eliminating money
the nation's consumption of fuel will be manifestly reduced. So there won't be
much of a need for oil drilling or coal mining for a while. And by that time there
could be a prodigality of applicants for drilling or mining adventures.
There are lots of incentives in the
world, the most valueless of which is money. But if money must be replaced with
other incentives, its best replacements so far thought of are fame and vacations.
Clean up your mess, see Paris in the springtime. Because business class, and the
poor salesmen's economy class, will disappear, commercial airlines can retool
to handle the burgeoning holiday-bound.
Since money has no value, more is
no greater than less. The reason player salaries are embarrassing is that they
render fatuous otherwise perfectly fine athletes. Ask Joe Montana. [2]
He threw way more touchdowns when he was getting way less money.
Because so many people can't find
work right now so many things don't get done. Paint the house that needs painting.
First.
[1]
I am posting this from Canada, of course.
[2]
Joe has now retired, and his TD passing days are over, but the same principle
continues. Tripling Shaq's salary will not mean one more bucket next season.
© Gerry Armstrong 1992, 2000, 2002