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Subject: #180-7d, Epilog to #180-6
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On 9 Nov. 1995 the chief programmer for lists BRIDGE-L
and WISDOM-L replied to #180-6, "The No-Fault
Solution," as follows:
"Wesley,
Would it be possible to post some excerpts of previous
posts on other lists to BRIDGE-L? If not, could you
briefly summarize your position to allow for greater
participation. I suspect that the lack of response has less
to do with "faint-hearted" subscribers than it is due to the
possibility that you may have launched a salvo right over
everyone's head."
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What "C" grade mechanical engineer could refuse to
comply with such a complimentary request? Bill, the
"Laws of nature, and of Nature's God" were old and
unchanging long before Ezra compiled and edited the
Pentateuch in 457 B.C., after the remnant returned from
exile in Babylon. By complying with these laws, the
American work force from the1620's through the 1890's,
except during war time, delivered to American
consumers a "baker's dozen" for each dozen input of
labor and materials. When those same Divine
Laws were not observed during industrialization, the
performance of the U. S. workforce changed in the
1890's to delivering only 98% of a dozen for each dozen
input of labor and materials.
By 1976, 13th tribe members, Harold Van B. Cleveland
and W. H. Bruce Brittain, knew enough about inflation
and unemployment to write THE GREAT INFLATION
(National Planning Association Report No. 148) and
show the American public that their economy was the
only one powerful enough to cause the worldwide
inflation that was finally returned to 3%/year in the1990's.
Since the output lags behind the input, in point of time, in
every human activity from the family farm to the national
economy, neither the "Gates of Hell" nor the American
establishment can eliminate the very human tendency
toward public deficits and private business failures,
without first correcting the systemic mechanical defect of
omission in America's domestic policy.
The following 1993 snail-mail letter to the late Rabbi
Eugene J Lipman briefly summarizes the scope of all
previous snail-mail letters and posts since 1969:
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October 27, 1993
To: Eugene J. Lipman, Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Sinai,
and list L
Subject: #137, The Zero-Sum Society---34 centuries of
priestly self-delusion.
Dear Rabbi Lipman:
I only recently had the good fortune to read your YAMIN
NORA'IM Sinai Sermons, 1987. We seem to share the
conviction that members of the American establishment,
like the Children of Israel, were chosen to teach the
Mosaic Law to all nations and both refuse to do it. They
say, one to another: "Moses commanded us a Law for
our inheritance, it is our inheritance, not theirs."
From the death of Moses, B.C. 1451, to this
morning's issue of THE WASHINGTON POST, the
priestly establishments have regaled the public with
tales of Mighty Men and the exhortations of Patriarchs,
Prophets, Priests, and Protestants that the public's
whole duty is to obey the Ten Commandments, obey the
Golden Rule, pay the three tithes enumerated by TOBIT
and the late Rabbi J. H. Hertz, and keep its collective
nose out of the priestly establishment's business.
If Madison, Hamilton, and Jay had explained the attached
Figure 4 in the Federalist Papers and included the Three
Tithes of Moses in the Bill Of Rights, as Thomas Paine
later suggested in AGRARIAN JUSTICE, 1797, the
world today would be calling the U.S.A. "The Promised
Land," instead of "The Great Satan."
I hope you will forgive this uncultured mechanical
engineer for basing such a critical presentation on the
graphical model in Figure 4. I have neither the wit nor
the time remaining to surpass the many eloquent authors
who, over the past 34 centuries, have failed to focus
public attention on this priestly delusion.
Today, the whole Mosaic Law is applied to Pope John
Paul II's "society of capital goods" at 90 degrees in the
model, while Congress applies Tobit's Law to the
"society of persons" at 270 degrees. Help me to focus
public attention on the ZERO-SUM mentality that makes
Congress: (1) withhold public revenue from First Tithe
investments in the development of human assets and
the satisfaction of Say's Law, (2) carefully protect the
Second Tithe for executive compensation of the
establishment, while (3) busting the budget with futile
Third Tithe remedial programs for society's underclass.
Sincerely,
Wesley S. Burt
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To my great regret, I learned later that Rabbi Lipman
was terminally ill at the time I found his book of sermons
and wrote the letter. Only God knows how he would have
replied to my letter, if I had found his book of sermons a
few years earlier.
But, I know from recent experience with my e-mail posts
that this subject evokes the fear, loathing, and hatred of
discussion list hierarchies who have established their
lists to promote other objectives than the general welfare
of the United States. In a serious way, and very contrary
to my own interests, I have abused the hospitality of
those hierarchies that kept their lists open, while at the
same time, I have felt abused, and my purpose insulted,
by those hierarchies which closely moderated their lists,
and rejected my posts as inappropriate to their
objectives. After posting this note, I will follow the good
advice of several founders and list owners and
un-subscribe from all lists, with sincere apologies to all
those who have been offended by the subject.
The burden of making "The No-Fault Solution" politically
correct is mine, but I need all the help I can get. The
acceptance or rejection of the only technically valid cure
for the social pathologies caused by a century of 5-10%
unemployment is the public's responsibility, and they
will need all the help they can get. But the benefits of
restoring the American Will to produce a "bakers
dozen" would be shared by the whole world.
Happy holidays Bill,
Wesley S. Burt
Connoisseur of Fine Cosmographies
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