From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: Re: reagan - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.705
Posted: Sat Feb 26 18:05:07 1983
Received: Mon Feb 28 19:22:11 1983

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hp-pcd!courtney    Feb 24 08:21:00 1983

Reagan is no more likely to solve the problems of our economy any more
than the (wo)man in the Moon....   Reagan's election was a symptom of
a anxious society.  People are afraid that they might be losing their
Presto-Burgers, their three-car garages, their world "domination"...
Inflation is a symtom of a finite world being scoured of the wealth of
resources that it has developed over the millenia, not to mention the
fact that the US economy accomplished much of its growth by importing
cheap raw materials and labor (a practice that many differently-developed
countries have been trying to curb).  It is silly to think that we can
continue to consumed more "stuff" every day without banging our heads on
the ceiling...not to mention the cost of defending such a material-wealth
differential between US and our many poor neighbors.

    Rather than spending our political time and energy to try to continue
to increase the rate of despoilage of our common home (the Earth), we would
be much better off to take a closer at what quality-of-life really means...
Is it really more important to have that extra toy than to spend the extra
time and energy to develop better relationships with our friends, neighbors,
and people that we don't even know?  What level of material wealth is a good
balance between being physically comfortable and being continously and almost
totally pre-occupied with increasing the store of our personal "stuff"?

    Without answers,....

                                Courtney Loomis