At 09:35 AM 8/28/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>The days of owning one's own property are over. The gap between rich and
>poor increases massively. Well done, socialists...
>
>Simon Worby
Are you serious?
It's just supply and demand. More people want a diminishing
tangible. I've just been reading a bit of family history on my mother's
side. Emigrants settled in the colony of North Carolina and moved to
Indiana after the land was depleted and the British were gone. The kids
wanted a spread as big as their parents, but by that time everyone else had
followed the same plan, so they packed up within a generation and headed
west again.
My great-great-grandfather looked at the vast prairie across from where he
settled along the same river I now live on and said "That ground will never
be broken." Hahahaha. That's where I get my brains in case anybody who
knows me has been wondering.
Seems to me we could use a few good socialists. I'd settle for a
conservationist. Even a conversationalist would do. Sheer unbridled,
unrepentant, amoral greed has some serious limitations as a basic public
policy.
There's a good story in that family history. Out in the middle of Iowa,
there were rumblings about an Indian uprising. The family decided to
build a fort. There were ramparts and bulwarks everywhere, but the very
Indians the family most feared arrived and walked over them all and said,
"What are you trying to do?" They said, "We're trying to build a fort to
keep out the Sioux" whereas of course they were speaking to the very
Indians they most feared. The Indian said, "Well, that's no way to build a
fort to keep out the Sioux. Here's what you what you need to do ... "
We could use a few Indians like that. They were socialists. ;^)
Joel W.
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