Some say that the plans for the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina resembles the new deal set forth by FDR. At a quick glance it maybe hard to disagree. The clean up efforts, rebuilding and defense system infrastructure, which must be put in place to prevent such a future repeated disaster has been estimated that it will cost as much as $155 Billion dollars and now some news agencies are talking in the neighborhood of 200 Billion Dollars. What do you think of the new deal? Many leaders who study history say they would have done it different. But how would you do it different? My theories are it is okay to invest in capital expenditures of my civilization, providing they hit my theories of ROI in the "Flows of Civilization." It would not be so much a new deal, but rather a "new concept for the future" or a "1000 year plan" but you cannot call it the thousand year plan, as Hitler already used that name and it has left a very bad taste in our mouths. The real problem with spending money in the current reality is that the Federal Reserve is printing money and you are borrowing it. We need the money to stay and circulate in that region, but we have some trade deficit issues now; outflows exceeding inflows, so if you spend it and it leaves you are left with the debt without the use or value of the cash and its economic flows. Whatever you spend it on, it must make for streamlining in the future of your overall system to increase productivity, so you do not have to raise taxes, rely on future inflation and increased productivity to pay for it. Providing you move the bureaucracy out of the way which stifles such, the plan could be very good for America. Again free market thinking. When talking about the New Deal in the present period and referring to the President's strategy for the rebuilding of Gulf Coast, then one would wish to be sure to build it back with community unity in mind and local circular cash flows and not necessarily off shore flows, unless you know how to get the money back in goods and services. Not necessarily foreign investment although really you take it anyway you can get it, get it, if it does leave the continent. So what things can you spend the 155 to 200 billion Dollars on without bankrupting our nation and get back the future benefit of an excellent investment in our civilization? Well you can always play it safe and invest in things like; Transportation, Communication, Infrastructure, Distribution, Education, Common Language, Community strength and character. The reason is you get the money back 10-fold and when you spend it this way, as you did not just spend it, you invested it. Not then realize that FDR was my eighth cousin twice removed, which is pretty far back, but since I share his genes, I think perhaps it is safe to say I have thought heavily on this subject. He was a Democrat and was in quite a pickle, I cannot condemn him for the New Deal, he had to do something drastic and we all understand the real problems of the day if we read history. If you "Invest in the Future" and only invest on things you get an ROI for, that includes the "tion's" such as; Innova-tion, Educa-tion, Communica-tion, Transporta-tion. That is the simplest explana-tion, I can give. We can do better in our Civiliza-tion, what we have is a good 200-year run, which is not done, it is time to have some more fun, move forward and get it done. Quite frankly, we live in the greatest human experiment in the history of our species, but it is not good enough yet. We just aren't there and we really should be. I guess what I am saying is that I love my country, but I am not impressed, we should be further. And then franchise our methods throughout the world to help and teach the rest of the world what we did. Created a perfect model, for the individual and the whole, and the whole of the whole or the ALL or One. Think on this. |
