Intelligent design (Introduction)

by Abel , Saturday, November 05, 2011, 22:21 (4745 days ago) @ Abel

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Men have also abandoned the tariffs that used to protect their economies so that the rich may prosper from the suffering of the poor. And people cheer. Farmers in the U.S. lobby for a free trade agreement with Korea so they will have a new market to sell their relatively dirt-cheap grains and produce, and ignore the poor farmer in that country that must invest 170 man hours to their one to compete. They also ignore the needs of their neighbors who aren't farmers. Their manufacturing jobs are lost because they cannot compete with a cheap foreign labor pool. And these laborers within this pool don't even prosper. They are paid slave wages and the margin of price between the cost of the product and the price at which it is sold (which is typically just low enough to undercut the local competition) is pocketed by the rich, not the poor. There is nothing free about Free Market economies. They cost jobs and the lifeblood of money that must flow through their local economies. It is much more rational to establish a Fair Market economy, where tariffs are set according to the wages being paid to the local work force. That way the only way for these Third World sweat shop can reduce its' tariffs is by raising the wages of their workers.

Now a word of wisdom for this world's rich. You might think you want a two class economy but you don't. You stand upon the foundation that the middle class has built for you. When you destroy this foundation you will fall. Not because you are rich, but because there are so many poor, whose suffering you have caused, that loath you. It has happened many times. If you don't believe me, read your history books. Dates change, but people, not so much.

Now that I've touched upon the topic of our stupid weapons policies, laws and economies, let me address how poorly humanity is prepared for the future.

I admire the tenets of physicians, I really do. There is wisdom is such policies as "first do no harm" and "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and one would do well do bide by them. And though as individuals some of us do practice these tenets our societies as a whole, do not practice them as rigorously as they should.

There are things that we know about this world and its' past. We know that the next disaster isn't so much an if but a when. We know that this world has geologic and solar cycles that it must contend with as well as an occasional meteorite. To add to this, we now potentially have man-made climate change creating droughts and floods across this world. And to this we must add this world's burgeoning population which now stands at 7 billion. A 2% growth rate would double that population to 14 billion by 2047 and to 28 billion by 2083. By 2119 there will be 56 billion, and in the year 2155 112 billion people on this planet.

But politicians would prefer to ignore the need to solve these problems so they can argue about what God wants while continuing to wage a war on our poor and our liberals which they have already won. I guess its' just for fun and money now.

But let us discuss how a wise leader would address these problems. Of course, a wise leader would restore the rights eroded and "evolved" by foolish "experts".
He would also rid this world of its' MAD policies since they are quite insane.
He would regulate the profit margins of those who barter the needs of his people, while letting those bartering their wants to compete freely. He would establish Fair Markets and rid this world of the evils and burdens exacted by Free Market values. He would tax the rich who are unwilling to support the poor to reclaim for his nation and his people the life's blood that they extract from his society. He would then tax them again in death, so that subversive economic nations do not rise to strike down the sage policies of the government which rightfully binds them. He will remember that men are not honest by nature, they are honest when they are watched. Therefore he would restore the banking regulations that were thrown down by greedy fools.

Then he would address global warming and provide for the ounce of prevention needed to secure the future well being of his people.

He would do this with simple things like converting old-single walled supertankers to a new purpose: "seeding" the barren deep seas with iron oxide. He would also create deep sea "rafts" filled with unwanted scrap iron, that will slowly dissolve providing a long-term supply of iron between super tanker runs. This iron in this relatively barren ecosystem will stimulate the growth of plankton, producing O2 and consuming CO2, helping to balance the equilibrium that man's activities has skewed. Not only this, but these plankton are the base for a whole food chain whose fish could feed the hungry stomachs of our people.

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