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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] A Crash or A Soft Landing
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:32:01 -0700


from US Economy: A Crash or A Soft Landing?
By Richard C. Cook 21 January, 2010
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook210110.htm

The short and simple answer is that we have to rebuild our economy, and our
lives, from the bottom-up. We have to relearn how to do manual work like what
we have mainly been asking immigrants to do for the last couple of decades.
We should rebuild our local farming sector and get rid of bloated
monstrosities like Monsanto... It will not be easy to do these things. It may
not even be possible. We have forgotten how to work because we have wanted
our money to “work for us.” But that money, which only ever existed on paper,
is gone. Our population is aging and not too healthy, making care of the sick
and dying the only growth industry. And the young people who come out of our
schools have few practical skills with which to earn a living. This must
change too.
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paul tradingpost@lobo.net

How do you move from a system which has built in destruction of the planet
and built in devastation for local communities and local economies and
transition back to systems which formerly worked and new environmentally
sustainable systems? That’s the project of our time.
- Jerry Mander





  • [Livingontheland] A Crash or A Soft Landing, Tradingpost, 01/21/2010

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