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OPTINOMICS VERSUS PESSINOMICS!
Generally speaking, people fall into two categories. They are either
optimistic or pessimistic. The economic pessimists or Pessinomics are lost in the past. They hold on to old school
thinking like war is good for the economy, money needs to be backed by gold and silver and that our demand is greater
than our ability to supply it. Hey if war is so good for the economy why not have New York declare war on California.
With 50 states we can create 25 wars?
I call this new economics Optinomics because I am an Optimist who believes
there is a solution to any problem. We just need to find it. Most of us know in our hearts that the problems that
exist in America today should not exist. If you agree you are Optinomic too!
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OPTINOMICS VERSUS PESSINOMICS!
Who can justify hunger in America when we have such an abundance of food?
Who can understand the homeless problem as they see building after building being vacated? How do we justify going
to war, hunger and denying health care to our fellow Americans because we place the importance of money over the
loss of lives? What we need to make perfectly clear is that these problems are the results of our insistence upon
motivating people to be productive based upon limiting supply. The real problem is that the solution we use to
cure our ills is also the cause of them. This is we why can't find lasting solutions. How can we find lasting solutions
if we keep using economic policies that cause them.
What we must all realize (or at least the majority of us must for things
to change) is that we cannot solve an addition problem by applying the laws of subtraction. You cannot create more
by producing less. When it comes to the necessities of life we can produce more than we will ever need or hope
to use. Our hunger problem, as we all know, is not due to a lack of food. We have even instituted economic policies
that pay farmers not to grow food. Our homeless problem as we know it, has nothing to do with an inability to build
homes. Any contractor will build you anything you want. All you need is money. We all know this is true, and if
we can't blame the politicians because after all who is it that elects them? Then just what is it that's wrong?
What is wrong? In this opinionated world of ours, probably the only thing
we all agree on is that something is wrong. The question is not one of what, but why? The answer to this question
lies within the economic policies we use today. Economic policies that are Pessinomic in nature. Though these laws
of limited supply were once necessary, they have now reached the point of diminishing return and should no longer
be used. The reason why we should no longer use them should be abundantly clear. It is because they are not the
cure for the problems we have today, but the cause of them!
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