Archive for August, 2009

“Caritas In Veritate”: Pope Benedict XVI on Economics

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Life is a gift bestowed by God upon man.
Therefore each of us must adopt an attitude of giving in relation to all other men. This attitude must include activities involving the economic life of individuals, nations, and the world. Economics is not just a search for efficiency or profits.
Such are among the lessons to be [...]

The Purpose of Money

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

What is the purpose of money?
This question has many theoretical answers but only one practical one–it’s to get what we want.
So the question really is what do we want.
And what we want depends on what kind of person we are.
If we are greedy, violent, and selfish, we will do many underhanded and dishonest things to [...]

How to Finance the National Dividend?

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Response to a Reader:
The question is always the same–how to finance the National Dividend, which would be somewhere in the range of $2-$3.5T U.S., depending on whether it is taxed and if there is an allowance for children.
To be brief, blunt, and brutal–the government would print it and give it away. When people stop swooning, [...]

Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.