To: Stuart Duffin, Director Citizen's Income Study Centre (CISC) London School of Economics and Political Science, and friends on several mail lists. Dear Mr. Duffin: The public debate on a citizen's income and related topics which CISC opened last month on URL <http://citiinco01.uuhost.uk.uu.net/discussion/index.shtml> seems to have run out of debaters without reaching a consensus on the question: "is there an argument for a piecemeal introduction of a Basic Income?" The debate running on Canadian mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is in worse shape than the CISC debate, thanks to the efforts of numerous devious defenders of the status quo (DDotSQ) in both debates. To get the debate restarted in the right direction, I propose that we rename our two hundred year old English/American (E/A) public policy. Let us call it "THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S FULL EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1792," in memory of Thomas Paine's arguments for a piecemeal introduction of a Basic Income in his AGRARIAN JUSTICE and RIGHT'S OF MAN Part 2. This E/A policy of 4-10% unemployment and 2-3% inflation, commonly regarded as an Act Of God, must have been enacted by a parliament of vicious mother-in-laws, singles, gays, lesbians, celibates, and an evil minority of the Whips; all of whom believe the public is doing something "dirty," enjoying it too much, and should be punished for raising too many poor children. Whips, as you know, are the wealthy, healthy, intelligent, and powerful members of society; an evil minority of whom mistakenly believe that the public is not of the same species as themselves, and that the public should live on its knees, with its noses to the grindstone, Its feet to the fire, and its eyes on the mud. The great majority of the Whips seem to be human beings like the rest of us. Unfortunately for the rest of us, however, the two hundred year old English/American public policy of 4-10% unemployment, 2-3% per year inflation, and "increasing returns to scale" for all parenting families does not affect the Whips, so they never think about changing it. We need only get their attention, have them visit the ten figured Global Model at URL <http://www.freespeech.org/darves/bert.html>, and they will carry the argument for a piecemeal introduction of a Basic Income. ~~~~ snip ~~~~~~ 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for I have illuminated the valley before me. ~~~~ snip ~~~~~~ With a child like confidence in PSALM 23, I remain, Yours sincerely, Wesburt
