Bob,
I'm no sure myself how this became a multiple posting, but we can break
lose in due course. I must have replied to a multiple poster without
realizing it.
Some years ago, I had a radio program called "From the Radical Center".
I pointed out that I was in neither the Left Corner, with the
Sally,
I am philosophically opposed to a "Basic Income", for it seems to indicate
that some people are getting an unfair and even criminal share of the pie,
and that somehow we should take it back and share it out.
As radical centrist, I would suggest that a better direction for effort
would
Robert,
You suggested:
"society's rationalizations for not being able to solve its problems?"
I suspect therein lies the problem. Society doesn't solve problems though
it may create them.
You and I solve problems. However as said Einstein (I think) in a quote
that I enjoy:
"Solutions are ea
>years later in his comment on his approval of the massacre at Wounded
>Knee even as he lamented the loss of life amongst the soldiers who
>murdered the women and children on Christmas.
>
>All of which is to say once more. If you control the history and define
>th
p 30% in the
> same period and said that it was truly the increase in beer drinking.
> >
> > By the way, no one has ever been able to show any relationship between
> health services in the US [except for immunizations] and improvement in
> health [except for the health of health
". They stole two tractor-trailer loads of product
>(natural gas fireplaces) from my employer 70 miles north of Toronto. It was
>fortunately recovered when a Toronto cop spotted the cartons in a warehouse,
>and a wiretap (requiring a translation from the Russian) led the police to
>t
Bill,
Thank you for not resisting: "another simplistic explanation of a complex
problem."
You didn't much like my "find out why the peasants are inefficient
producers." and proceeded to explain to me how efficient they were.
It seems to me that if they are so efficient, they shouldn't need th
Ray E. Harrell wrote:
>My apologies to the list for not being able to punch the
>spellcheck button on the last two posts. It's the Neurontin.
>Makes me woozy but fun.
Ray,
I've already said you write well.
You write even better when you are stoned!
But, get off it as soon as you can.
Harry
Ray wrote:
>To the list,
>
>This is long, (since my mother taught typing). So if it bothers you just
>cut to the next post. But the article at the end is an important one, I
>hope you will read it.
>
>REH
>
>Harry Pollard wrote:
>
>(snip)
>
>And w
Arthur, et al,
Don't we pine for the days before globalization, when there were no poor in
the world, everyone had a living wage, there was no unemployment, and
corporations weren't making exorbitant profits?
But, they were the good old days. Now we have this enormous international
WTO that t
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Chris wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Harry Pollard wrote:
> > Every year a bunch of US cardiac specialists went to the Soviet Union and
> > for two weeks, they would work solidly in a Moscow hospital doing, I
> > suppose, triage as they to
how incumbents stay in office.
Harry
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Brad wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Victor wrote:
>
> >I am by no means a communist or socialist, but this looks like
> >propaganda-sriven tunnel vision to me. Comments follow.
>
Victor wrote:
>I am by no means a communist or socialist, but this looks like
>propaganda-sriven tunnel vision to me. Comments follow.
I rarely find a genuine communist or socialist. Lots of waffling liberals,
but hardly any genuinely philosophic communists, or socialists. It's a shame.
Meanti
es
them - and it does - so will we become less effective.
Harry
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Ray wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
One major warning! Socialism and Communism and their spin-offs have proven
themselves to be hopeless at increasing production. The international
co
Steve,
You worry too much. You said:
STEVE: "is that there is adequate fertile soil, sufficient moderate
rainfall (irrigation ultimately ruins soil), sufficient sustainable energy
for warmth & cooking, and climate conditions conducive to production of a
healthy diet. A small % of the planet f
Steve,
Your quote suggests why the problem will never be solved (which will prove
the prophet of doom and gloom is right). His web page is below.
Look at the mindset.
"The more people living in a country, the harder it is to provide proper
services and health care to all."
While these people
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>simply in the hands of the free market, and you don't
>keep an eye on what is going on, you will wind up
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Bahar wrote (see below line):
Mass production is a useful way to get a lot of goods at
lowest cost.If the conditions of work are pretty bad, just
get a different job.
Harry Pollard
>
> Thoughts on the character o
fail to benefit the poor.
The more Capital we have, the more trade we have, the more wealth is
available for all of us. But it doesn't reach everybody, either in the US
or in the third world.
For heavens sake, ask why?
>We are seeing with globalization of trade a rapid increase in the gap
&
y make the number of paying jobs drop down to way too few?
>
>Isn't the most important work unpaid?
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Sally wrote (see below line):
Sally, I enjoy your posts. This one is particularly good, and I've saved it.
Keep them coming
Harry
>I made a print copy of this one - don't want to lose it or forget about it.
>Canadian
Michael wrote (see below):
Chase Manhattan Bank had a program for hiring 'disadvantaged' workers, but
found they were ill-educated. It instituted a 6 week course in basics for
the new employees.
During the 6 weeks, students, on average, improved by two full grades.
Draw your own conclusions.
Charles Mueller
You wrote that I put words in his mouth. I couldn't understand it.
Now I see.
I wrote:
Charles wrote (see below):
None of the problems would arise if the Patent Office were
abolished.
So, that is the answer.
The (see below) referred to your post which I appended to my remark
Charles wrote:
>Harry:
>Wrong Charles. I've never suggested abolishing the Patent Office.
>Charles Mueller
No, I did - but you should.
The power of Microsoft and many of the other monopolies rests on their
patent ownership. Get rid of patents and copyrights and the mon
Charles wrote (see below):
None of the problems would arise if the Patent Office were
abolished.
So, that is the answer.
And before anyone starts worrying about people not inventing
things without patent protection, remember Wordstar.
Wordstar had no protection of any kind. All of us used it
Tom Lunde quoted me but ascribed it to Ed (see below):
His Microsoft example doesn't alter the fact that we buy Gates' products
because we are better off. Surely we won't pay money to be worse off.
That's silly.
So that isn't an issue.
However, perhaps we feel we should be better off at less
Neil wrote
>>HARRY: If we run out of something, we'll use something else. We are
>>a small species spread thinly across an enormous planet.
>
>
>Mr. Pollard, what planet is it that you are talking about? Out species
>consumes an immense fraction of the total biomass of Earth. (I could look
>u
Elinor wrote (see below):
World Watch offers a sanitized version of the situation. I assume that
Elinor is countering my suggestion that there is plenty of good space for
peasants to farm in Brazil. I suppose that is politically incorrect, for it
runs counter to the advocates of Pop-Dread, who s
Jay wrote:
>>HARRY: The earth is a veritable storehouse of everything we need.
>>If we run into a temporary shortage, the market will handle
>>it while government is printing the appropriate forms.
>>
>>If we run out of something, we'll use something else. We are
>
>You are probably rig
Tom said:
>First, let me state that
>I am in favour of the tone of Eva's post. There is a tacit agreement
>throughout government and academia that the poor will always be with us and
>it comes out of the total acceptance of the concept of "the economy" which
>is based on the concept of "profit"
1 a gallon or being charged a $2 "service fee" before a station
> attendant will wait on them.
>
> At best, many gas station owners and attendants have become
> unapproachable to strangers; they will wait only on longtime
> customers. Some issue window stickers to the regu
Jay wrote:
>Charles, this "economic" world view -- nothing but
competition
>and consumption -- is at odds with the scientific
community.
>
>Do you really believe that public policy should optimize
>"competition and consumption"?
>
>If not, what should the goal of public policy be?
Competition g
Neil Rest wrote:
>At 11:47 AM 11/24/97 -0800, Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Leo,
>>
>>It depends what you mean by capitalism.
>>
>>I mean this present mixed economy, which is overflowing with privilege.
>>
>>If you mean the fr
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Robert wrote (see below):
One of the major problems is the way we think. The problem is not in any
way overproduction - but underproduction.
Overproduction implies that all consumers have everything they want - an
obvious error.
It just looks like overproduction.
Harry
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>can't afford anyway because in the hierarchy of income, I don't get a
>choice.
>
>Now, aside from all the other problems in the economic world, I would like
>to thank you for giving me a reason for writing this and putting it our for
>criticism and review.
>
>Res
uggest that you don't fight it. It really is a great beginning tool for
analyzing human behavior.
Incidentally, the two assumptions of all science are:
"There is an order in the universe."
"The mind of Man can find that order."
You might like to try that - having failed with t
levels of exertion, depending on the physical
>and mental state of the individual', etc... Now you are, as they say,
cooking with gas. Your examples are all covered by the two Assumptions.
Work on these, for they give all of us who deal with people a beginning.
However, it's important
Jay wrote:
>>Harry Pollard wrote:
>>The Classical Political Economy I teach has two Basic Assumptions. The
>>whole science rests on these two assumptions. In half century of teaching
>>adults, no-one has successfully responded to "Come up with two examples
t was first suggested or proven in 1997 ?
>
>Please email me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> your suggestions by Oct 20th. It's for a
>journal article I'm writing.
>
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At 10:01 AM 10/15/1997 -0700, Leo M. Lee wrote:
At 09:55 AM 14/10/1997 -0700, Harry Pollard wrote: >>>
HARRY: I don't advocate capitalism. I want a free market.
>>
>>EVA: Beg your pardon? How can you have any market
>>without capitalism?
>
>HARRY
Eva wrote:
>(Harry Pollard:)
>> I don't advocate capitalism. I want a free market.
>
>Beg your pardon? How can you have any market without capitalism?
You mean there would be no market in your socialist scheme?
>> >EVA: You name it, it has been tried.
At 08:57 PM 10/5/1997 GMT, you wrote:
>(Harry Pollard:)
>> By far the best system for providing for "human needs" is the market, which
>> is why the most controlled societies allow, or encourage, market mechanisms
>> to make up for their deficiencies in 'gea
s that people are simply
unable to fend for themselves, to make appropriate decisions, to be free
and independent.
Yet, they can.
Harry
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gt;development, along with its Keynesian regulation, has reached its limit.
>
>
>Note: shortage of labour in this case is shortage of appropriately trained
>labour, noticeably the high tech sector which if it had all the labour it
>needs, it would accelerate the elimination of more l
>all the people of the world and strive to make this transition with as many
>souls as possible. However, we have spent the last 2000 years in
>hierarchical models of survival, so I don't expect any change. Those who
>come from a different model, the natives, the Quakers and those of
>communitarian mind, we have done our best to exterminate, convert or
>denigrate. Yes, authoritative governments of the military type, gangs in
>the hinterland, daily grind for those in the middle, massive starvation for
>those who chose the wrong place to be born, as Leonard Cohen says, "I've
>seen the future, brother: it is murder."
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Tom wrote (see below):
Good luck with your exhibit.
The V2s were frightening. People who had endured the air
assaults for several years were scared stiff of them.
As you know they were supersonic. They hit, then you heard
them.
Rather like the frightening aspect of an earthquake.
Suddenly
Gentlemen,
Couldn't get through at the URL mentioned in your message.
Harry
Michael Gurstein wrote:
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:47:38 -0700
> From: mckeever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Academic Council on the UN
er part of
the economy than is perhaps realized.
With regard to service jobs, as the Economist said - advanced economies
always show a large and growing service sector.
Harry
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