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The Economy: Not Random or By Accident

John Gregory - 4/29/2008

What happens when a person gets distracted? What they were working on or thinking about doesn't get the attention it needs; and that is what finger-pointing is all about. If a problem isn't going away, let's just blame somebody, until THEY fix it, even if their part in it is small.

Where does it end? Find the source.

Bear with me as I attempt to provide focus on the issues. Some of the limited natural resources of this planet are being thrown into space; into a program 60 years in the making; and there above the clouds the results float, at a place not a miniscule of the distance needed to get anywhere; and to do what, exploit another planet? Based on technology, how large a space vehicle will it take and how long will it take to get the vehicle anywhere and back, to bring back only 20 tons of a material found on another planet? And how long will 20 tons last?

Considering the above, and the cost of a seat on the next space shuttle at $100,000,000 how much time do you suppose will pass before men inhabit another planet? Since this economy is all about the money, do the math. So now what is to be done about getting along with one another until man can go somewhere else? How smart is a species if they continue to make the same mistakes over and over and over until they become nothing more than a joke; but isn’t that what is happening now - material for the commedians?

Like any other area directly affecting your life, this article is not just about the misuse of power; the space program is just one area of misdirected priorities and principles of the multiple party divisive democratic/republican capitalistic system people seem to support as the best system for society. Is any government solving the woes of the species? Do they take into consideration, the natural resources of this planet belong to the entire species over the entire course of the planet’s existence; and not just to a few generations of self-serving opportunistic exploitive generations who by their possession of the materials or their positions give them entitlement to subject others to a compromised or lower standard of existence?

It has NOT been random or by accident. It is simply the choices everyone makes; and everyone's choice DOES make a difference. The end of this country is coming because of those choices; and still you will ignore what you will hear and read because you don’t think yourself accountable or the country vunerable.

Who has been profiting from what? Who foresaw yet withheld valuable information because of what could be gained from the events, the government think tanks, economic advisors, investment gurus? Some did and some didn't; even the Christian God warned Christians of their destruction knowing many of them were hypocritical practicing deception and compromise; but this is NOT just about their actions, is it? Don’t think you have to believe words of prophecy (another word for forecasting) before they will happen, even if you’re not a Believer.

A rich man passes by a poor man. The rich man has many things they could have given out of their power, authority, position to influence policy, and wealth, but they thought themselves too entitled to part with their possessions, so they made their financial, investment and life decisions based on what best served their interest, and the poor remained the same. Have the values of the wealthy, or the values of the poor, brought a nation to ruin and the globe to unrest? By the authority of words (decisions, truths, lies) everybody influences; you are always giving something to society, but what: hope, respect, kindness, solutions for a much dysfunctional elitist society?

We observe, you do not.