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 #R:dadla-b:-32300:hp-pcd:17400005:000:1517 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