Subject: The Lost Science Of Government TOP Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 Hi folks, My sincere appreciation to Lowell Manning and John Herman for putting Doug Everingham in touch with C. H. Douglas' A + B theorem. But we should not be using this open forum to debate what Mr. Douglas left unfinished. I was careless in my note of Jan 2, 2005, when I wrote: "TOP is the complement to The Lost Secrets Of Money." My apology to Stephen Zarlenga. I meant to write: "TOP is the complement to his book, The Lost Science of Money." I have been reading Stephen's book since January 2003, and have concluded that "The Lost Science of Money," like its complement, "The Lost Science Of Government," were the only two sciences that have been perfectly preserved and consistently practiced by the Kings of the Bible, by the Priests of Rome, by the Merchants of Venice, and by the Merchants of Wall Street. Only the public lost these two sciences. If we want them restored to the public sectors of our national economies, we need only extend the standard operating practices (SOP) of our corporations to the SOP of our governments as regards the development of our public assets. If our present day monetary reformers ever hope to place "The Science Of Money" back in the public domain, they must first place "The Science Of Government" back in the public domain by conducting an open debate on the question: "Should the three fixed and unavoidable expenses of the human life cycle be charged to the public revenue, or, be privatized to household budgets?" In the following tabulation of three life cycle expenses, the $ values are for the 2003 US economy, but the values expressed as (% of GDP) will fit any economy well enough to facilitate an open debate on the question. ~~~~~~ Tabulation of life cycle expense ~~~~~~ Annual expense for developing the US work force, given the population of 285 million in 2003 with a life expectancy of 78 years and a GDP of $10,000 billion/year. In the order of their occurrence in the human life cycle, here are three items of fixed and unavoidable expense: 1) Subsistence of dependent children age 0 to Myers = $5,000/yr/child X (17/78) X 285 million = $310.6 billion =3.11% of GDP. 2) Twelve grades of universal public education = $6,500/yr/student X (12/78) X 285 million = $285 billion = 2.85% of GDP. 3) Tuition + subsistence for two years of college = $15,000/yr/student X (2/78) X 285 million = $109.6 billion = 1.10% of GDP. Notice that expenses 1, 2, and 3 are incurred before the dependent person enters the work force and becomes self sufficient, so the dependent person cannot pay his/her own way. In a properly governed society, with a balanced market economy, each self sufficient member of the work force will pay his own cost of subsistence and save for his retirement during his working career. Welfare, charity, and old age benefits would be needed only for persons who were injured or for persons who were mentally or physically defective. But, the most advanced industrial nation, the United States, has not enjoyed a "properly governed society with a balanced market economy, since the frontier closed in the 1890s. The question to be debated is illustrated on the attached file Fig11d.gif by the exceptional location of the United States about midway between the underdeveloped third world nations and the recently developed industrial nations of Europe and Asia. I can understand why the Canadians, AustraIians, Asians, and Europeans won't lift their little finger to cure what ails the US economy. But, I can't, for the life of me, figure out why the US WHIPs insist on continuing the present trend toward an economic crash, when a tiny 4.2% of GDP increase in the tax rate, invested in our parenting families, would allow the economy to climb back out of the "deficit/debt" hole it has been sinking into for the last hundred years, and sinking more rapidly for the last thirty years, according to the profile of the US CPI, 1870 to 2002 in Fig10d. More tax cuts, budget cuts, and injections of new money will not reverse this trend, because these fiscal and monetary corrective actions do not address the systemic moral defect of omission in US public policy. That defect of omission produces a $420 billion/year, 4.2% of GDP, shortage of purchasing power among US parenting families. Shall we increase the shortage to $705 billion/year, 7% of GDP, by privatizing our public education system? Or, move in the other direction toward C. H, Douglas' CANNON? Looking forward to reading your comments. Kind regards, Wes The Optimum Policy (TOP) is shown at and discussed on list . Please join in the discussion. Source: Subject: The Lost Science Of Government, TOP Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:18:47 -0500 From: wesburt@juno.com Reply-To: cyber-soc@topica.com To: Discussion@globaljusticemovement.net, mai-not@globalproblematique.net, prompt@copsewood.net