***| They are talking about a BIG paid from taxes. |***
Which is why it will never go anywhere or accomplish anything, because it would require either more taxes which are impossible to collect to fund the BIG, or the diversion of taxes already being collected from other programs that have entrenched constituencies that will not let them go. The BIG effectively neutralizes the movement for reform.
***| What I suggest is just a simpler way of allowing some to benefit from the dividend and others not. |***
The simplest way is to simply target the dividend in its initial implementation to those most in need--the first desideratum. Why make it so complicated? What pitiful excuses for revolutionaries are the present leaders of South Africa! And so unimaginative in a land that is inherently one of the richest in the world. This deplorable situation was recently reported in the New York Times:
"Like most squatters, Thabang's mother, Mosele Malakoane, lives in a shack of caked mud, dung and rusty sheets of corrugated tin, its meager roof covered with black plastic weighted down by stones. Inside are a few sticks of wooden furniture, a shred of curtain hanging off a tiny window, a paraffin stove and the double bed she shared with her son. Thabang had two worn toys: a steam shovel and a small gray airplane."
***| I would be quite happy to give indiscriminately to all, but we will never achieve that. |***
Who says "indiscriminate"? And who says "never"?
***| In the South African political field we still have very strong feelings about the injustices of the past regime. There is still a strong desire for redress, which in effect means to withhold from the previously-privileged and give positions, status, services, social security, etc., to the previously disadvantaged. |***
And in doing so they have achieved a regime that in financial terms is substantially more orthodox than before. In this regard it is perhaps the most conservative regime in the world. In every statistical measure except for what we call in America call integration, the situation in South Africa is degrading.
***| We have an active Labour movement and a vibrant Communist Party whose constituencies are drawn from that previously-disadvantaged segment which constitutes about 90% of our population. |***
Not the ideologues and demagogues but the rank and file can be recruited to social credit, for it offers the real prospect of improving the situation. South Africa faces a fork in the road that will determine its destiny and perhaps the destiny of the world. One direction is increasing stagnation. One direction is increasing prosperity. It is up to us who see the truth to show the way because there's nobody else to do it. South Africa is at present in revolutionary ferment. It is a critical moment in history where bold leadership can make a real difference.
***| So they delisted. Their stated policy is that they are not out to make a profit, which is what shareholders would demand. |***
You still don't get it. The controlling block of shareholders names half the directors. The government probably ratifies their nominations for the other half.
----Original Message Follows---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] National Dividend Means Test? Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:56:41 +0200
A couple of points in response to Bill. [snipped]
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