Current national leadership is out of touch
02/February/2010 08:26 Filed in: Oikos
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The
President has issued his new budget for the new
fiscal year. From the conservative Republicans we
hear that the deficit spending will sink the
country into a morass of unsustainable debt. On the
progressive Democrat side, they imply that the only
way forward is through more government spending as
the only way we can again obtain prosperity.
What is never discussed is the fact that before the recession began over 70% of the American economy was based upon consumer spending. It is assumed by both sides of the budget debate that if we just follow their perspectives, which can be summarized as tax cuts or tax increases, all will again be peachy keen in no time.
The meltdowns and the bailouts were enacted, because a consumer economy based upon cheap debt, fueled by a housing bubble, has run out of gas. To assume, by either plan, and a whole lot of positive thinking we will find our way out of the deep woods has no basis in real reality.
Both parties recent political histories of either tax and spend or tax breaks and spend are based on a dumbed down views of not only human enterprise but also human culture. The basis in both of these paradigms is that we are smart enough to manage everything, generally under the faith in the premise that we specifically are promoting alone, and really not much else.
What both concepts do is combine leadership principles of power and authority essentially in the Federal government. First of all, authority means you have the lawful and common right to lead. Power means you have the actual ability to make it happen. The U. S. Constitution really rests very limited authority in the Federal government and even less power. Most of both are left to the states and to the people themselves.
Finally natural ecosystems grow to maturity and then reach a climax state, where energetic utilization becomes greater essentially through true diversification. This means that naturally we will find ways to replace the material consumerism if the politicians and their special interest get out of the way and let the system work. If they do not the whole culture will collapse and we will have to begin again at some lower level of both information and energetics. That is not spin just the wisdom of Deep Woods Moola.
What is never discussed is the fact that before the recession began over 70% of the American economy was based upon consumer spending. It is assumed by both sides of the budget debate that if we just follow their perspectives, which can be summarized as tax cuts or tax increases, all will again be peachy keen in no time.
The meltdowns and the bailouts were enacted, because a consumer economy based upon cheap debt, fueled by a housing bubble, has run out of gas. To assume, by either plan, and a whole lot of positive thinking we will find our way out of the deep woods has no basis in real reality.
Both parties recent political histories of either tax and spend or tax breaks and spend are based on a dumbed down views of not only human enterprise but also human culture. The basis in both of these paradigms is that we are smart enough to manage everything, generally under the faith in the premise that we specifically are promoting alone, and really not much else.
What both concepts do is combine leadership principles of power and authority essentially in the Federal government. First of all, authority means you have the lawful and common right to lead. Power means you have the actual ability to make it happen. The U. S. Constitution really rests very limited authority in the Federal government and even less power. Most of both are left to the states and to the people themselves.
Finally natural ecosystems grow to maturity and then reach a climax state, where energetic utilization becomes greater essentially through true diversification. This means that naturally we will find ways to replace the material consumerism if the politicians and their special interest get out of the way and let the system work. If they do not the whole culture will collapse and we will have to begin again at some lower level of both information and energetics. That is not spin just the wisdom of Deep Woods Moola.