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Roy, I just have to say how nice it is that you are posting as much or 
more than Moon.  Moon, Celia dear, I think you have found a great one 
this time. ;)


Bev

Roy Morgan wrote:
> On May 14, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Don Bowen wrote:
>
> > > The current paradigm of...
> > Our entire system is built on perpetual growth.  It is embedded in the
> > system of credit that funds growth.
>
> For as long as I can remember, I (we) have heard how important, nay  
> essential, perpetual growth is.  And for as long as I can remember,  
> I've harbored a nagging suspicion that it just is not so.
>
> Where I grew up (Northern Mass, near NH and VT), there were folks  
> doing dairy farming, and others making hand tools and machine tools,  
> in basically the same ways that had been used for most of a century,  
> or more.  The folks who had 30 or 45 head of milkers did not want 100  
> head. The folks who went to the Starrett or Millers Falls factory  
> each day and made machinists micrometers or etched steel rulers day  
> after day did not want a Porsche.  A Chevvy or Ford to replace the 10- 
> year old one on it's last legs, yes. But a new Porsche, no.
>
> During a lucky tour of the facility where folks restore the airplanes  
> to be exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in DC, I asked  
> our guide how long it takes them to restore an aircraft.  (We were  
> near the all-in-pieces Enola Gay.)  "Oh," he said without hesitation,  
> "However long it takes to do it right.  There is no time schedule."   
> That pleased me way down inside.
>
> One of my favorite things to do is to restore a radio (transmitter or  
> receiver) from the 50's or 60's. It's a treat to get it running as  
> well or better than when it was new, or to reclaim a sorry batch of  
> parts back into full function again.  The radio equipment made today  
> (almost, not quite, all on the Pacific Rim) perform better in many  
> ways (not all), but have serious drawbacks to the point where they  
> are sometimes not repairable.  In some cases,  you simply cannot get  
> a fancy integrated circuit or mechanical part custom made even a few  
> years ago, when the modern wonders quit.  There are lots of very  
> smart, highly technical folks on the Pacific Rim working hard to make  
> those things ever more complicated and capable each year.  THEY look  
> forward to their new Porches.
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky AT earthlink.net
> Lovettsville, VA 20180
>
>
>
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