LAWS MOTIONSLINKSThe one thing I have learned in my oh 40 plus years is that no one is ever wrong all the time. I once thought that Ross Perot was the inevitable exception to every rule. It was not to be. Ross Perot was right! We should be living in opulence and not sewage as we do now. Our government has stolen our lives and left us to live in conditions that the rich would not let their dog live in.
I believe we could very easily change our social underpinning and successfully protect all of our society. It would be much better for us to guarantee that all Americans receive Food, Clothing, Shelter, Health Care, and social Counseling, than to let capitalism force the underprivileged to starve. The starvation of the masses is how epidemics get started. Typhus and Typhoid do not recognize the rich or distinguish the poor. Further the growing threat of chemical and biological weapons of war are becoming increasingly real threats to our security and health. Smallpox is not eradicated as once was thought. The government of the United States has recognized the problem and is actively devising strategies that would bring the public under close scrutiny of the Feds. Israel during the Gulf War actively taught there public how to use gas masks and breathing apparatus. The Israeli Government actively educated the public in the protection from biological weapons. Should we not do the same? How would we be able to provide education and training to the average American?
It would be simple to open up all public buildings 24 hours a day. The Homeless should have a cot, or sleeping bag provided to them so that they could sleep in a shelter and not outside in zero weather. The Public should be encouraged to come to the public schools and receive free meals, and a nurse should be provided for preventive health care. Social problems with the less than fortunate should be addressed and identified. First the government must identify the problems of the public before it can address these problems. Upon identification of the problems we should go about solving these problems. Works programs should be instilled, such as a motor pool, roads, construction, but most of all the public from Los Angeles to New York should become involved in gardening, and the canning that goes with it.
Rural garden coops should utilize the additional labor that could be provided from the feeding and clothing of the indigent. Urban garden coop's would and should have all the labor needed to keep every garden in good shape. Gardeners would only do what they could and we would have plenty of food. The excess food could be canned and sold on the market for all. Rural America should never do without the basics of survival. I would agree that the urban population, upon chaos, would be in the least advantageous position. If the rural American can not provide for themselves how can we expect them to feed the urbanites, or for that matter the world.
Mass Transportation is in effect all over the country right now. School buses run everyday. Why should not the society as a whole be able to access these modes of transportation. It would be little to start the universal use of public property. Upon the acceptance of the policy the government could for relatively little increase in investment maintain the motor carriers. The same principle would apply to all public buildings being used for multi purposes. The country is poor from specialization. What we need is common sense and the ability to more fully utilize our present capital.
Our Country has created an illusion that we must all farm the same way. We plant millions of acres of corn, and soybeans without the markets to purchase all that we produce. Archer Daniel Midland brags about what they can produce from one bushel of corn and soybeans. Many of these products have to do with ethanol or oil from these grain crops. Yet, much of the marginal land presently used in agriculture can not produce at the capacity to make the land profitable. The American farmer and land owner could be better served by an arboreal agriculture.
Arboreal Agriculture is the cultivation of trees instead
of grain and grass. I am not saying that we should do away with the
conventional agriculture practiced now. We should however, limit
it. Marginal lands that are now cleared and in pasture, or cannot
make a profit conventionally should be planted in trees in rows so that
the acorns, nuts, or fruits could be harvested. Oak trees could not
only provide lumber the mast, acorn, crop could be collected and sent to
a refining factory and have the oil pressed out to be used as a fuel from
a renewable resource. If ADM can do it with a soybean could they
not do it to an acorn. Eventually, the groves of planted trees would
grow to 50 feet tall and provide an increasing oxygen manufacturing environment.
I could see the day when these small trees once planted and cared for would
grow not only into lumber, and fuel, but through careful pruning these
same trees could be used as towers for wind generators that could supply
electricity. One could bolt a small generator into the trees 20 feet
above the ground. The trees would eventually grow over the supports
for the wind generator and the generator would actually become part of
the tree. It would be labor intensive to maintain a grove of trees
in such a way, but look at what that tree would provide.
1) oil from the crop.
2) livestock feed.
3) electricity
4) lumber
5) oxygen
Isn't it really about time that we started taking a look at what else we could do through diversity? Instead of plugging down the same old road. Especially in light of the failings we have inflicted on the family farmer to date.
Lee Martin
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