Hi,
An OPTIMISTIC article in Reader's Digest magazine entitled "We're Better Off Now", by author Matt Ridley, had 17 points about the current economy at various times. This blogger will touch on a few and recommends you read the article in the April 2012 issue.
He makes the point that "compared with 50 years ago when he was four years old the average human now earns nearly 3 times as much money (corrected for inflation), EATS one third more calories, HAS two thirds fewer children, and CAN expect to live one third longer. In fact, it's hard to find any region of the world that's worse off now than it was then, even though the global population has more than DOUBLED over that PERIOD."
He makes a number of good points including the fact that urban growth takes up less land and helps care for the environment, since skyscrapers take up a lot of people in little room. Although as Obama is fond of saying the rich have a lot more, Obama fails to mention that the poor have increased their consumption (indicating less poverty) in the latter part of the 2000s and forward. He says "the Chinese are 10 times richer and live about 25 years longer than they did 50 years ago." This blogger wonders if the Chinese stock market gets some credit for that increase in well being not just the Communist government.
Going back 112 years, the author found that it takes less work and therefore less money for the things we now take for granted such as our necessities and utilities; he cites much cleaner environments world-wide, including waterways and AIR,(LONDON PEA SOUP FOG OF OLD WAS ACTUALLY SMOG) than as LITTLE AS two generations ago, since there is access to more products to help those causes. Economically, the world is probably more able to utilize the things that are produced everywhere which creates a better economy for everyone.
International trading, whether one approves or not, enriches and provides both this country and foreign countries with products they might not otherwise be able to obtain. The computer and its offshoots, the phone and hand-held devices, are certainly instances of a products that have benefited from international trade.
The author points out in relation to the 'GOOD OLE DAYS' that "the biggest ever experiment in back to- the-land hippie lifestyle is now known as the dark ages" (of modern times). The doomsday forecasts of population overgrowth have been reduced by national birth RATES "lower than in 1960, and in the less developed world, the birth rate has approximately halved". He concludes we're not in danger of starving as was once believed. Nor does he believe we are endangered by oil running out; climate; lack of inventiveness; overweening pessimism caused by media that feeds on gloom and doom; or the current depression. He cites that "The Great Depression of the 1930s was just a dip in the upward slope of human living standards. By 1939, even the worst – affected countries, America and Germany, were richer than they'd been in 1930. All sorts of new products and industries were born during the depression. So growth will resume unless prevented by wrong policies." Thanks Mr. Matt Ridley for your positive feed-back.
This blogger felt that this article fed into a whole structure seldom cited by the media or the press and that is the TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION!This blogger believes that no one discusses the technological revolution anymore simply because this blogger believes that most folks see the computer and the technology coming out of that INVENTION as the whole revolution. Trust me – IT IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!or it's the tip of THE rock that the cruise ship off ITALY SHOULD HAVE SEEN BEFORE IT FOUNDERED ON THOSE VERY ROCKS!!!!!!!
The technological changes coming in the near and distant future will cause the NEXT DISRUPTION in the evolution of mankind. Recall that the Industrial Revolution took place over a long period of time and is still, in many instances, ongoing. Much of what will come in the future will concern health as regards to medicine and the ability of research into genes to produce even longer lived people. FOLKS who remain physically well and alert can achieve far more in their longer lifetime. That longevity alone can increase the amount of gain in our society through increased wisdom gained through aging and now allowed to be WASTED. The new generations will have to rephrase the saying of the 60s "never trust anyone OVER 30" to "never trust anyone UNDER 30". Maturity is always hard come by but living as much as 200 years could require a longer maturity as the time necessary for the technology training required.
There's no question that acquiring as much knowledge, training, and expansion of one's intellect will be major requirements as the technological revolution moves into its major advancements. It has certainly been a lesson of past space travel that the few are often more farsighted than the many. The comic strips recognized more about space than most of us and this lack of foresight, of course, creates a great deal of pessimism. As Mr. Ridley said in his article, "for 200 years, pessimists have had all the headlines – even though optimists have often been right. There is an immense vested interest in pessimism. No charity ever raised money by saying things are getting better. No journalist ever got the front-page writing a story about how disaster was now less likely."
No question that Pessimism sells and optimism gets the BRONX CHEERS!!!!!!!!! BUT BE THAT AS IT MAY, the blip in America's history presently being played out by the POLITICIANS in WASHINGTON is just that!!!!!!!!!!!! A BLIP IN AMERICA'S HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!! and if any of the concerned politicians including Pres. Obama consider it any more than that, they have not studied their history well. The Germans took over France and instituted Fascism but France was a free and determined nation and Fascism didn't take. The French came back to their original revolutionary opinions and even Socialism has not been able to enslave them nor will it. It might slow down the true French spirit but not for long.
America has a long 200 year history of a freedom unlike any other in the history of mankind including the early Greeks and Romans. It is possible for the Socialists to hide a good bit of American history, American culture, and American tenacity but Socialism can not EXTERMINATE the AMERICAN DREAM because it is a UNIVERSAL DREAM of MANKIND and America has come closer to achieving it than any other country in the world. That's amazing.
THAT'S AMAZING!!! THAT'S NOT A BOAST-THAT'S THE REALITY!!!!! ASK ANY AMERICAN IMMIGRANT HOW MUCH BETTER THEIR LIVES ARE HERE THAN THE LAND THEY LEFT-LEGAL OR ILLEGAL- AND THEY WILL TELL YOU THIS. THANK GOD, WE CAME HERE . WE LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM!!!!!!!!!!
And although most Americans fail to understand just how amazing its accomplishments have been and how thoroughly they have pursued them as a part of their AMERICANISM, it will once again in future years become very evident. A realization for both Americans and their enemies and friends; the former, WHO will plot against America, the latter, WHO will emulate the USA . THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION will reveal the great and important contributions made by AMERICA and the new ways that will make life far better for all countries, not through SOCIALISM, but through the REALIZATION OF FREEDOM OF IDEAS, INVENTIONS, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE. THE WAR AGAINST POVERTY, ILLNESS, IGNORANCE AND MORAL CONFUSION will be WON THROUGH THOSE REALIZATIONS.
THE AMERICAN DREAM WILL REMAIN ALIVE AND WELL IN SPITE OF THE FOOLS WHO WISH TO DESTROY IT!!!!!!!!!! This reporter believes that with every ounce of her being.
Cheers, Connie
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