Economics without Love to the Poor God Loves
Indeed, something critical may be coming around me, though I am not in a jet plane.
If I write how to earn big money in TSE or NYSE, it might become more critical.
But, I will not for other reason than the one you might come up with to your chagrin.
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There is an interesting opinion about capitalism by a unique Armenian American scholar:
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Rousas John Rushdoony (25 April 1916 – 8 February 2001) was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousas_John_Rushdoony
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He claims that wealth earned and accumulated through good work and good saving with a good mind is good, since Jesus Christ implies and suggests so.
This good wealth can turn to capitalization. Or capitalization is to use wealth earned and accumulated, as mentioned above, wisely and sophisticatedly.
However this capitalization can be degraded to inflation or socialism. Inflation is a result from everybody's turning into a thief or a robber, at least, in his mind. Socialism is a form of an organized crime of theft or robbery.
Especially in a socialist state, capital is depleted and a government tries to create capital through taxation. Accordingly, people will be poor and poorer as observed in the past USSR, China before 1980's, and North Korea of today.
Yet, more grave is that Americans have abandoned Christianity before capitalization turns into inflation or socialism. American people have come to pursue profits through consumption or lavish expenditure than through earning and accumulation of wealth.
American people have come to find more pleasure in pursuing profits through consumption or lavish expenditure than through a family life, faith, and enhancement of personality.
(http://tak0719.hp.infoseek.co.jp/qanda/xntcap.htm)
American freedom is freedom under the God.
But, this freedom now serves as an infrastructure for pursuing profits more through consumption or lavish expenditure than through a family life, faith, and enhancement of personality. To correct American capitalism, it is essential to restore true Christianity again in the American mind.
The economic problems the advanced American capitalism has brought about cannot be solved by applying any economics developed under American capitalism.
That is why you had better forget about everything American economics teaches. You had better read the Holy Book and EEE Reporter to find a right direction in holy economics. It is so, since most of American economists simply tell you to buy cheap and sell high to be rich. Economists should think about what honorable and respectable deeds a rich man, very rich man, or super rich man would do with big money: not making others as rich as he.
Mankind has to create human value as the God created the universe, the world, and humanity. Buying existent value, even if material value, cheap and selling it high cannot be creation of value.
What is worse, there is no ultimate goal, object, or purpose for American economics. Is it to lower an unemployment rate to zero? Is it to make every American to earn $100 per hour or more? Is it to produce 100,000 world richest persons in America? Is it to raise value of the dollar to 1,000 euro per dollar or 360 yen per dollar, ultimately?
It is as if American economists were teaching American billionaires, millionaires, middle-class citizens, and laborers how to run in a race for unspecified length or distance. Are people expected to run a 100-meter race or a marathon by those economists?
The only reasonable conclusion is that economists are irresponsible but clever only in making themselves rich by selling their economics as observed in the summer of 2008. Indeed, they were discussing 0.2 or 0.4% of an interest rate change as well as 50 dollars or 100 dollars of a crude oil price change.
Evil is truly in interest and needs for energy.
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Now the last Sunday of 2009 is passing away in Japan.
The ship in the above picture is an old antarctic exploration ship of Japan. She was built in 1936 and ended its service in 1978. She once sank one submarine during WWII. Indeed, during 42 years of performing a commission, if you can destroy one enemy submarine and more icebergs, you have to be content.
And, while you are in honorable retirement, a new one will take a charge...
(It was just two days ago that Christmas started...
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/xmas/rudolph.html)