Freedom from Want and Fear

["John Gelles" <johng@xxxxxxxxxx>]

        WEF is over. It claimed to want poverty and pollution
        reduced as business and banking institutions won ever
        greater freedom from national regulation.

        It's claims generally did not wash. The 9-11 tragedy
        and the Enron farce combined to let voters know that
        unregulated business means terror, drugs and chaos.
        And the farce of a mad pursuit of wealth unhinged
        from honesty, brotherhood, and effective government
        brings out the rascals--men and women of big appetite
        and little common sense or concern for other people.

        WEF talked the talk--it did not walk the walk.

        WEF proved nothing is so weak as a conference with
        no idea of what to do.

        If anything was worse than WEF it was its counter-
        culture opposition. If WEF wants all the food at the
        table, its oppositon wants all the crumbs.

        The only overarching program on the horizon is the
        American attempt to lead a post-cold war world to
        post-terrorist waters--a program led by a president
        whose friends are mostly in it for the money.

        Yet that is the nature of middle class reform and
        revolution. In the name of creature comforts it fights
        also for life, property, and a system of checks and
        balances that may possibly do more good than evil.

        "No taxation without representation" was the cry that
        finally brought us freedom. Now we must have a new
        one.

            "No taxation at all--with people out of work and
            public needs unmet."  Our government is the monopoly
            source of money to spend in the public interest. When
            more is spent there is more that people can earn and
            save to build an estate and enjoy deserved economic
            security.

        At the end of  the day, when a political economy works
        to produce and consume what the public interest demands,
        there will be a reckonning of property fairly distributed
        among all the people on earth. Apart from the property
        will be the money we use to ask for more as we say to
        all others who also want more--

            OK friend, we're back-ordered on some things
            and you'll have to wait. But you'll never be hungry
            again.
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        Recognizing my message may be too cryptic, I am
        trying to put it into better words at
                www.1944.org/mega-1.htm