
The other day I was driving along, minding my own business, happy to not be thinking about the extremism of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney or about Obama's latest betrayal of his base. So I didn't mind when a story popped onto NPR about how Greece's head statistician was a crook who was cooking the books to make it easier for Germany to take over the country and depose the Socialist prime minister, replacing him with a
fascist-oriented "technocratic" government. It was a short piece, less than 5 minutes-- and quite interesting. You'll enjoy it... give it a listen.
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Re: "both Republican and Democratic, have been cooking the books on inflation, money, unemployment, and the GDP for decades."
True that.
Who cares it's all made up anyway. Thankfully we still have the Sun and all the stuff we see. Fields full of cars. Empty houses everywhere. Half of the desert full of airplanes that no one needs. Stores and warehouses full of all kinds of things (furniture, tv's,cloths, Don't like em for $100. go to thrift store and get them for a $1. Roads, highways and bridges, airplanes, Stuff to go to outer space (rockets and space shuttles), Office buildings, ships for war and pleasure, enough atomic bombs to blow up the world, Hospitals full of medical equipment, fields full of wheat, corn, soy beans, cruise ships full of people who can eat more food than half the people in India, oceans full of fish and plankton, with a few mammals thrown in should I go on?
Nothing is so invisible as the obvious.
Half the people on earth live better than the richest monarch did prior to 1900. Let's put our best minds into figuring out how to bring everyone else up to the highest standard of living possible and quite worrying about debits and credits and paper money. Making money and making sense are mutually exclusive. It's time to start making sense. We need a plan, a Critical Path. Put the questions and information into the computer (our most value tool) and the correct answers will begin to pop out. We've gone to the Moon.
The answers will have nothing to do with the euro or Greece. They will involve a new accounting system based on what is here. Energy should be the accounting unit as it has real meaning and it exits in our physical reality and it is abundently available from our star Sun from which most of our wealth comes (we get a little star dust too). And, we will never owe the Sun.
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