[GJM] What is the SP alternative for the Hizbollah - Israel conflict?

[wesburt at juno.com]

Many thanks to John Watkins, Frank Legge, and Victor Gunasekara 
for their provocative comments on this subject.  I am much obliged 
to Frank and Victor for giving Doug Everingham some extra exposure
to my post of 8/9/06 on John L. Perkins' Council of Austrian Humanists
list. 

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:04:39 -0400 John Watkins <johnw at simsoc.org>
writes:
> Wes, you keep sending me these messages and they contain a lot of 
> verbiage but they have failed as yet to help me understand TOP. I 
> think you may have a psychological need not to be understood. For 
> example, your use of the word "cognoscible."
> 
> My main message is that, to the extent this is true, you're wasting 
> people's time by sending them such lengthy and opaque messages. 
> Eventually, they'll tune out and either tell you to stop--or simply 
> stop reading them.
> 
> So, here's a challenge. In fifty words or less, just what is TOP.
> 
> If you can't give an understandable and definitive top (no pun 
> intended) view, you'll never get your message across.
> -- 
> Simply,
> 
> John
> http://simsoc.org 
> 603-889-0111
> 
> Thank you for you!
> 
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John, thanks for the kind thoughts and the challenge: In fifty words or
less, just what is TOP?  Shortly before joining your list I posted what I
thought was a definitive definition of TOP.  It read as follows: 

So what, exactly, is the technical content 
of the several visual-aids hosted on Dr. W. 
Curtiss Priest's web site below?  The several 
visual-aids simply expand the content of 
Adam Smith's First Maxim of Taxation which 
equates; the expense of government for the 
citizens of a great nation, to, the expense of 
management for the joint tenants of a great 
estate or corporation.  (T. W. O. N., 1776, Pg. 777)

This First Maxim declares that corporations 
and governments should perform the same 
service for their respective kind of reproducible 
productive assets, product lines and people.  
That service is, to distribute the nonrecurring 
expense of developing the next generation of 
productive assets over the income of, or value-
added by, those assets currently in production.  
This method of funding works as well for developing 
infrastructure as it does for developing capital or 
human productive assets, and the funding is 
"interest free," "debt free," and "inflation free."

~~~~~~~~~~~ End a long definition of TOP ~~~~~~~~~~~

Clearly, that definition was much too long.  But since we 
are defining "the optimum policy" (TOP) that policy may 
look different to each of the millions of households or 
product lines to which TOP is applied.  So I have added 
variety to brevity and composed the tabulation below, 
in appreciation of your challenge:

(27 words) TOP is the financial practice in which the 
nonrecurring costs of acquiring a productive asset 
are charged uniformly over the lifetime sales revenue 
of the productive asset. 

(23 words) TOP is the practice of recovering the expense 
of acquiring a productive asset uniformly over the lifetime 
sales revenue of the productive asset. 

(23 words) TOP adds 3% of GDP to our taxes in place of a 
3% of GDP shortage of purchasing power in the work force. 

(17 words) TOP assures each supplier in a free market 
the same ratio of discretionary income to earned income. 

(17 words) TOP since colonial days, has collected 2.8% 
of GDP to invest in educating the US work force. 

(14 words) TOP would also collect 3% of GDP to invest in 
developing the work force. 

(13 words) TOP is the proprietary secrete of every nation's 
Emperors, Kings, Priests, and WHIPs.

(11 words) TOP at 50% is optimum for keeping the public 
in debt.

(10 words) TOP will relieve destructive global competition 
by expanding local markets.

(8 words) TOP enables perfect competition in a free market. 

(8 words) TOP at 50% is the SOP of Empires, 

(8 words) TOP is the One Law that Cicero cited.

~~~~~~~~~~~ End Twelve brief descriptions of TOP ~~~~~~~~~

There is a magic in the number Twelve which is missing 
from the number Ten, as when speaking of Commandments.  
Surely, one or more of these short definitions should put 
at rest the mind of any one who is still reading my posts.

When you live in Ireland like Richard K. Moore, in France 
with Bill Bonner, or in Australia with Frank Legge it is 
easy to talk tough about a second Civil War in the US to 
get George W. Bush and his NeoCons out of the White House.  
When you live ten miles from the White House and one mile 
from the CIA Headquarters better solutions come easily 
to mind, without even raising one's consciousness.  

When the Establishment changes its mind, as it must, 
we need to have in place an informed public opinion 
about TOP (the optimum policy) for every industrial 
society.  100% of TOP in the US private sector made the 
US a 20th century Global Empire.  50% of TOP in the US 
public sector erected a 3% of GDP obstacle to the full 
development of US human resources in the 21st century.  
That obstacle (about the size of the DOD budget) has been 
taboo in our schools, taboo in our Media, taboo in our 
public policy debates, and unfunded in our social science 
research since the onset of industrialization in the US.

The Establishment will need all the help it can get to make a 
better policy choice than King Rehoboam and his NeoCons 
made in B.C. 975, (I Kings 12).  That policy choice continued 
in force until the Great Repunlic was founded in 1776, and 
abandoned little more than one hundred years later.

Now, John Watkins, I have a challenge for you: In 50 words 
or less, convince me that you are not one of John Perkins' 
"Economic Hit Men."

Kind regards,

Wes Burt

                                TOP and TWP are cognoscible on
                                   [but not easily understood on]
                                 Dr. W. Curtiss Priest's web site at:
                       <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>
                     Where do you stand on the continuum between 
             TOP (The Optimum Policy) and TWP (The Wrong Policy)?
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