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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Teamsters endorse Obama
  • Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:09:45 EST



> >I have more citrus than I will consume before it rots. How shall we
> >solve the 2,000-mile transport energy issue?

Personally, of course, you won't. But it is a proper use of whatever
transportation we have to ship citrus in season to places where it is
impossible to
grow. People have been doing such for thousands of years. When transport
was
oar powered boats and ox carts, wine and olives, tea and chocolate, etc. were
marketed thousands of miles from where they were produced.

>
> >Consider, openly, that we are free to live as we do, largely because
> >we are impregnable to invasion. That impregnability comes from massive
> >economic strength. Much of that strength derives from petro-profits.


Our massive economic strength has feet of clay that of late have shown
unmistakable signs of crumbling. We don't have, as we once did, the strength
of
being the major producer of goods in the world and the major agricultural
country. Now our "strength" is all on paper (blips on the computer) and is
backed by
nothing real. The world seems to be wising up to us.

And I'd add that part of our impregnability is due to a horribly beweaponed
citizenry. </HTML>




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