[GJM] World Wide Injustice At The Local Level of Government
Thomas Greco -- CIRC2
circ2 at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 21 10:31:31 MDT 2006
I've been monitoring these dialogs for some time but have not been inclined to respond. I do not wish to get entangled in religious arguments, but here is my two cents worth, which is an item I just posted to my blog Tom's News and Views, http://tomazgreco.wordpress.com/.
"It was more than thirty years ago that I embarked upon a journey to discover the root causes of the world's problems. I think I've made some progress in that. There are so many things that separate us from one another, from God, and from nature.
I think John Lennon was inspired when he wrote the lyrics to the song Imagine. Along those lines it occurs to me that much of the problem derives from our being overly identified with inherited mindsets. Each of us is born into and indoctrinated in a particular nation, culture and religion, all of which shape and color, and even distort our perceptions of God and reality. But the true nature of God is revealed from within, not from without. The true Self, or Divine Self, cannot be realized by following ANY particular set of rules, rituals, and formulas.
I think the current wave of "fundamentalism" represents a desperate search for answers about how to live, how to avoid divine punishment, and how to guarantee one's reward in some imagined afterlife beyond death. While the various "wisdom books" can be helpful in affirming ongoing revelation, they are no substitute for it and should not be worshiped as icons."The way" cannot be contained in ANY book."
Let's try to be a little less doctrinaire and rigid and more tolerant.
Tom
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"Generosity is the virtue that produces peace." - from a Buddhist Sutra
----- Original Message -----
From: Muhammad Mukhtar Alam
To: Discussion Forum for Global Justice
Cc: Arshi Aftab ; Arshad Aftab
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [GJM] World Wide Injustice At The Local Level of Government
Dear Wes,
You have rightly pointed that US government needs to correct the social policy with reference to your wellargued and empirically supported propositions. I would like to however note the following for the some positions of Norman Kurland..
We have problems due to lack of piety in many of the leaders..The issue of 'terrorism",insurgency, revolutions needs to be also addressed through ensuring distributive justice at least for the renewable resource based livelihoods..Your proposal I believe emanate from the communications of the Allah/God..and there is a need to generate a consensus for that. I have seen the commands for zakat ,sadaqa in Qura-n.I donnot think inclusion of a mere declaration of war on terrorism is sufficience for justice unless there is substantial progress in addressing the issues of social and ecological justice. G-8 meeting postponed the discussion on climate change. There is no reference for deceleration in the consumption of nonrenewable resource based services and utilities.
ARP, I beleive ought to get more concerned with the peoples issue and address them.
We have this interesting convergence and I would like to incoporate the learnings..Organised religion can not be denouced without seeking the specific reformation..I have concluded for monotheistic framework for global unity..We need to focus on this rather than advancing 'nationalist' dreams that is a part of the problem as the seperation of 'church' and politics is responsible for lots of disease in polity . I would like see the "church' as a group of men and women who communicate the words of Allah..Muslims globally are part of the groups communicating for the word of Allah for temporal and eternal wellbeing. We have a world where men and women supporting the culture of prayer are in conflict with atheistic exhibitionist consumption ,behaviour and production pattern that is ecologically hostile..
I guess , I am making some sense..Norm, I would your formulations to be more pious and more wellinformed with reference to the communications of the words of Allah/God//..///
With best regards
Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam
uno.com wrote:
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/abrahamfederation-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/katrinaplan050907.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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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