Monday, January 30, 2012

Is an all service economy good?

Everyone in this country, (U.S.A.) is either a lawyer, a stockbroker, a financial services provider, a physical therapist, a songwriter, poet, an entertainer.....but does anyone ever make anything?

Where are the factories? Agriculture and manufacturing are the pathways to national prosperity. Where is the local food, clothing, and shelter manufacturing?

We need the songwirters and poets and pro athletes, but not at a trillion dollahs a year. And we don't need quite so many millions of them.

A rich country must manufacture wealth. Do  we want all 7 billion of us to have a 4000 square foot house with a pool in back and a jet parked in front? If we do, we need to get started.

Mitt 'n Newt talk about capitalism, and its glories relative to socialism. OK then. Let's get some capitalism going, other than lawyer stockbroker entertainer capitalism. We'll have to have more food clothing shelter capitalism, yes, especially here in America. Right, my Russian friends and readers?

To what extent can a society be a fluffy hedonistic entertain me culture, and be prosperous? Plus, maybe we can compromise a bit on the huge home, jet, and pool for everyone. Perhaps a slightly scaled back lifestyle, but a decent and reasonable lifestyle, for everyone. With 7 billion people, there might be a few too many midair personal jet collisions. Do we possibly need a healthy  and vigorous, but reasonably regulated and planned capitalism, along with a smidge of socialism to stabilize and sanitize (render sane) our economic system? Balance, perchance?

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