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My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this post. My server faltered on the attached file three times. You can view Fig7-9B.GIF at URL <http://www.freespeech.org/darves/bert.html>. WesBurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To: Fred Foldvary, Prof. of Economics, and subscribers to several mail lists. Good day Prof. Foldvary, In reply to my "Macro & Micro Models of a Nation" you write: >> I got a forward from Harry Pollard. Can you boil down your model to a theory that can be explained briefly and simply? What is this story about? << ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your questions, Fred, are the ultimate test for any serious reformer, and I have been failing that test on this Teflon Topic for thirty years. But I'am failing in good company. Thomas Paine addressed the topic at some length in his AGRARIAN JUSTICE and again in his RIGHTS OF MAN - PART II. Henry Carter Adams addressed it in his1887 monograph, RELATION OF THE STATE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION. Bertram Russell said it all again in his 1915 book, PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION. And after World War II, the industrial nations, except the U.K. and the U.S., all supplimented their existing public education systems with family allowance systems to fully implement the first of the three tithes prescribed by Moses in the Pentateuch. But the global inflation of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s seems to have swamped those family allowances, along with income tax exemptions in the U.K. and the U.S., and also removed all recollection of these family allowance systems from the public mind. As for formulating "a theory that can be explained briefly and simply," the following excerpt from a six month old post is fairly brief and the attached file <Fig7-9b.GIF> puts the whole topic on a single sheet of paper. >>>>>>>> Begin excerpt from a six month old post <<<<<<<<<<< Subj: The Whole Divine Law (Fig7-9b.GIF) Date: 99-01-03 15:25:38 EST From: WesBurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since the word, CAPITALISM, has been made meaningless by the advocates of postmodern relativism, we might find it useful to call our present condition, commercial democracy, as Henry Carter Adams did one-hundred and twelve years ago. That is to say, we live in a society that has all of the mechanisms for effective democracy still in place, and still in working order, but yet the commercial interests exercise an undue influence on public policy, to the detriment of the environment and our quality of life. The closest analogy I can think of to illustrate our condition is the biology experiment which begins with a stable and healthy colony of laboratory rats. Rats, as you know, are in the middle of the obnoxious species continuum, somewhat larger than cockroaches but smaller than poor people, and we can learn a lot about poor people by experimenting on rats. Anyway, the experiment calls for restricting the rat-colony's living space and reducing its daily food supply. I have never seen the experiment performed, but I hear that all sorts of social pathologies are demonstrated and I also hear that it takes a strong stomach on the part of the experimenter to continue the process to its logical conclusion, or "die-off." Our human condition is much like that of the rats. There is no direct connection from the experimenter to the individual rat, nor from our public policy to the individual citizen. The experiment imposes less space and less food. Our public policy has imposed for the last hundred years, and more, 4-10% unemployment and a 2-3%/year decline in the value of our money. But the single imposition on either the rat colony or the nation produces a different response in each rat, and a different response in each citizen, so it is a mind stretching intellectual effort for the rat or the citizen to reason from his own experience back to the root cause of his experience. People can see the cause of the rat's experience because they are outside the system. They cannot see the cause of their own experience until they find a conceptual framework, and make the intellectual effort, that lets them view the whole system from a vantage point outside of the system. This is what drawings, charts, and visual-aids help people to do, that is, to stand outside the system under discussion and look at the whole system in operation. Notice that the system operates, regardless of whether or not we look at it, understand it, neglect it, or change it to our heart's desire. The attached file Fig7-9b.GIF has been re-sized to display properly on your monitor and print properly on 8.5x11 inch paper, so the outsized image of previous posts is no longer an excuse for not discussing the systemic defect of omission in our public policy which is illustrated by the three charts. That defect of omission is the lack of a dependent allowance adequate to remove from the family budget the "head tax" on parenting families of $5,000/year/dependent, which is the root cause of social disorders in a society founded on a well developed division of labor, a circulating medium of exchange, and free markets. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>>>> End excerpt from a six month old post <<<<<<<<<<< If this does not illuminate the forward from Harry Pollard, let me know who Harry Pollard is and what the forward consisted of, and I'll do my best to close the gap. Sincerely, WesBurt %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%