Madame:
With tongue-in-cheek,
but effectiveness maintained, you have fleshed out my focus point well!
On another note, I was
thinking the other day that the economy is on track to get somewhat
better. But since we are policy-adrift,
the chances of it getting foundationally and structurally better are low. And with it, a whole lot of other things
about our society. At a time and in a
world of SO much promise, so many favorable winds. Wonder how many Romans felt the same way at
one time?
On to other things: Are
you saying that it isn’t the Scandinavians who are responsible for that
colossal island of plastic and other trash floating in the ocean, the one that
is of such unbelievable size (and growing) that it may become “continent X” at
some point? :)
Speaking of the Scandinavians,
how interesting that the “high tax, socialistic” Scandinavian countries don’t
seem to have a significant deficit or debt problem, certainly not like the US
or others who strive to be “low tax, anti-socialistic.” In fact, the
Scandinavians hardly have a debt at all in comparison to everyone else.
While certainly one
cannot extrapolate over-broadly on this, as there are far more factors than the
above, it does indicate that simple ideological mantras are often
self-defeating. Ergo, we should learn
what we can from the Scandinavians. In
doing so, we would be following what some of the most successful people in the
world have said is a simple formula: find who is doing what you want to do and
doing it very well, learn all you can from them, and then apply it as similarly
as you can in your own situation.
We will have to jettison
a great deal of arrogance, conceit, and false pride on our part to do that.
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