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Great points 2BNCR! I’ve made many of the same points and perhaps been a little “over the top” in my words.
I think one of the major point people are missing is that in the US this change in people has been around a very long time. The values people have are SO out of whack… and as things get bad (as they are now and going to get worse) people will have NO ability to fall back to any other way of living… because they don’t know any other way! The generation of our grandparents is long gone… sacrifice, hardwork, determination, and a sense of community. There is hope in CR… perhaps the global meltdown will be a wake up to those people in the world that haven’t yet fallen into the trap of consumption that being able to take care of yourself without all the “things” is a much better and maintainable lifestyle! I hope so!
I agree with the spirit of 2BNCR points. This is one of the reasons I bought land in CR and intend to live there. Consumerism and lassaiz fair capitalism are destructive not only to the planet, but also to the human spirit. The point I was making is that human nature chooses these destructive paths whenever they are offered and Ticos could easily succumb to them. Only by the force of an enlightened, freely chosen government by an well educated public can an economy be properly directed away from those destructive philosophies.
To quote “the great communicator” Ronald Regan, approx, “Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” It is mind numbingly simplistic to blame laissez fare capitalism for what ales the world. The essence of a free market economy is the individual purchases of everyone in the economy without constraint. Either we each get to choose what we want or the government chooses for us. And what makes anyone think the bureaucrats are any wiser than the rest of us? Just more elite types who think they know better and want to dictate what should happen. They are simply flawed humans, just like the rest of us, but with a lot more power.
” . . . government is the problem”, eh? Tell that to the citizens of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Tell it to the citizens of Love Canal. Tell it to all your friends who are basking in the benefits of a financial “system” run amok who have lost half the value of their retirement savings.
Government doesn’t have to “choose for us”; it need only restrict or prohibit some of the most dangerous choices and level the playing field to protect the individual against the combined forces of greed that would otherwise gleefully gobble him or her up.
And, by the way, like Martin Sheen and Geena Davis, Ronald Reagan acted like a great president. There’s a difference.
Edited on Feb 09, 2009 05:31
Edited on Feb 09, 2009 05:32
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