[GJM] World Wide Injustice At The Local Level of Government

[wesburt at juno.com]

Dear Norman Kurland,

This note will acknowledge your prominent role in 
the quest for universal justice and ask for your help 
to integrate my simple contribution to the quest.

Your recent responses to e-mails from Muhammad 
Mukhtar Alam, Mr. Kaplan of  the Washington Post, 
Ms. Premilla Dixit, Rodney Shakespeare, and Robert 
Searle were inspiring, comprehensive, and sincerely 
welcomed by this war weary world citizen.  My thanks 
also to Dr. Robert D. Crane for his timely presentation 
of your 1978 position paper, "The Abraham Federation" 
A New Framework for Peace in the Middle East,   
http://www.cesj.org/homestead/strategies/regional-global/abrahamfederatio
n-nk.html, and for reminding 
me of the universal premises on which you more 
recently founded "The American Revolutionary Party,"
http://www.americanrevolutionaryparty.us/partyplatform.htm, 
and its network of supportive think-tanks. 

Last Sep. 2005 you responded to my note on "The 
Biology Experiment On US Citizens," by inviting my 
attention to two of your latest presentations.  You 
wrote in part: 

"Here's a power point presentation of my testimony 
before the President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform. 
http://www.cesj.org/homestead/reforms/tax/kurland_052005.pdf.  
And here's our Katrina Plan for Regional Rebirth that 
is now circulating in activist circles.
http://www.cesj.org/homestead/strategies/regional-global/katrinaplan05090
7.html

Is there anything in either of these two pieces that 
you would object to?"
~~~~~~ End excerpt from 14/09/05 response ~~~~~~

Then, and now after you have enriched your web site 
at http://www.cesj.org with another year's labor of 
love for justice, there is nothing in your web site that 
i could object to.  Neither do I find anything to object 
to in Stephen Zarlenga's proposals for monetary reform, 
in John Bunzl's development of a Simultaneous Policy 
to drive elected politicians towards promoting the 
general welfare of their constituents, nor in any of 
the other multitude of web sites which claim to 
promote "liberty and justice for all."  

What I need you to do, Norman, is to help me learn 
why all of these scholarly authors have remained 
either oblivious of, or in complete denial of, the one simple defect in
public policy which has caused the 
failure of all US "nation building" initiatives; such as reconstruction"
1865, "Perestroika in Cuba" 1899, 
"Perestroika in Haiti" 1915, the "New Deal" 1932, 
the "War On Poverty" 1964, "Health Care Reform" 
1994, Afghanistan 2001, and Iraq 2003 to date. 

That simple defect, of course, is the failure of US 
local governments, or any other local governments, 
to capitalize the expense of subsistence as adequately 
as they capitalized the expense of education for that 
20% of the population which is in development.  The 
effect of that failure at the local government level is 
to bring every parenting household into the labor 
market with "increasing returns to scale," thereby 
making a stable and efficient operation of the labor 
market impossible.

At today's prices, subsistence is about $5,000/year
and 1-12 public education is $6,500/year per dependent. 
So the US economy is tilted against parenting families 
in favor of the rest of the work force by about 3% of 
GDP, about the amount of the DOD budget.  Parents 
proudly and instinctively pay this $5,000/year/child 
"tax."  But the unexpected consequence of This Wrong 
Policy (TWP) is a 3% of GDP shortage of purchasing 
power among young parenting families; a 3% of GDP 
excess of purchasing power among the rest of the 
population; destructive competition; and growth 
without a natural limit of money, debt, waste, and 
inflation.  
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This Wrong Policy (TWP) has its determined defenders 
however, because it expands the market for debt, 
increases unemployment to hold down wages, and 
enlarges the welfare class to provide employment 
for social scientists.  A few nations, and each of the 
ten corporations I worked for had rejected TWP and 
adopted The Optimum Policy (TOP) by the time I 
retired in 1985; but they each regarded TOP as their 
proprietary secret, and terminated the employment 
of any economist, engineer, lawyer,  or politician 
who cared enough to bring this subject into the 
public debate. 

Returning now, Norman, to the purpose of this note. 
The "core values" of your interfaith Center for 
Economic and Social Justice (www.cesj.org) are 
splendid.  They capture the  "Principles of Social 
Reconstruction" enumerated by Bertrand Russell 
in his 1915 book of that title, and likewise the 
principles invoked by the Founding Fathers in 
their "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," 
as understood by the best minds of a thirty 
centuries old agrarian society before the onset of 
industrialization.  Recall that Franklin Jefferson, 
and Paine had no more experience with industry 
than Abraham and Melchizedek, but the obligation 
of local government to its citizens remained 
unchanged through the ages from Genesis to date.

You write: "We, American Revolutionaries of the 21st 
Century, stand for the preservation of the following 
social guidelines: 

    1,  Promote Harmony in the Relationships Between 
the Moral, Religious and Political Orders 
    2,  Strengthen the Family as the Basic Social 
Institution of Society 
    3,  Favor a Culture of Life over a Culture of Death 
   4,   Fund and Encourage Educational Choice and 
Responsibility of Parents 
   5,  Support Private Universal Health Insurance and 
Reduce Costs of Funding New Medical Advances 
   6,   Discourage Judicial Activism that Threatens a 
Just Constitutional Order
  7,  Promote Economic and Social Justice through 
the Just Third Way 
 8,  End Wage and Welfare Slavery through Justice-
Based Incomes for All 
   9,   Expand Capital Ownership through Capital Homesteading  
 10,   Lift Barriers to Universal Access to Money 
Power and Broad-Based Ownership of Newly-
Created Capital Assets 
  11,  Create a Radically More Simple and Just 
Tax System 
 12,   Avoid Concentrations in Wealth Transfers 
from One Generation to the Next 
 13,  Offer More Creative and Just Approaches to Global Conflict
Resolution 
14,   Lead the World in Restoring A Fixed and More Just Global Standard
for Foreign Currency Exchange Rates 
to Avoid Wage Arbitrage 
15,  Expand Global Markets for Commercial Uses of 
Advanced U.S. Technologies 
16,   Help Accelerate Third World Development and 
Debt Relief 
17,  Address Global Warming and Stewardship of the 
Global Environment 
18,  Transform the United Nations and Global Politics 
to Spread Economic Democracy as a Pre-Condition for 
Spreading Political Democracy Globally 
19,  Improve National Security by Winning the War on 
Global Terrorism 
20,  Change TWP to TOP in the USA first, then the 
rest of the world.

What is the obstacle, Norman, to enlisting public 
opinion to correct the simple defect which has, 
for over a century, placed these nineteen "social 
guidelines" at risk?  Why not add TOP and make 
it an even twenty.

Kind regards,

Wes Burt
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                 TOP and TWP are cognoscible 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 and TWP (The Wrong Policy)?
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