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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CRUZ who wrote (77720)	6/12/2002 1:44:04 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Good question, CRUZ! A question difficult to easily answer on the quick. But since you asked I'll give you a dose of some things practical and some things seemingly impractical but worthy of consideration. I suppose there's all kinds of stuff we could try to do new or try to do better: * Nothing much is ever gonna change until we begin adopting new attitudes toward each other. * The way we educate folks. Lots of folks, for example, oppose the notion of teaching diversity in schools. Look how busing was met in the supposedly liberal Northeast. What would it have been like had everyone actually got into the idea and embraced it? Instead it became a frictionated and divisive policy and the local politicans lined up according to where the votes were at, not according to what needed to happen to make the policy actually work. I suppose not being afraid of change and a willingness to sacrifice for the sake of others is a pretty good and rather courageous first step. * Voting in massive numbers is also a good beginning. It's so easy for politicians, who well know the demographics which groups vote the most, to appeal only to those groups. Depending on where you live, it's up or down on abortion; up or down on gun control; or up or down on prayer in the schools, or whatever; and then, of course, you get the free-ride drug and crime issue--you appeal to your base with respective party support and you get elected over and over and over. Nothing ever else really has to change for them so long as those elected are reassured they'll be elected because how they appealed to only half of whom vote in national elections; half of the third who vote in statewide elections; and far less than that in local elections. * The money aspect of electoral reform is an important issue: how has, does and will it continue to 'buy' politicians. Although shadowed by the events of 9/11, this issue was beginning to take hold via the Brown and McCain candidacies, among others, but there's still lots of work needed in this area. * Money. I don't know, whatta you think? Does society deal with money in an appropriate manner? Do we educate well in this area? Should emphasis have been on a maximum instead of a minimum wage? Or perhaps an inheritance bank where when you die your money goes into and inheritance bank, government gets funded by the massively-combined interest and where designated heirs can borrow the amount left but must pay it back before they die and what they don't pay back limits the amount left to the next heir? This would change the way silver spoons get passed amongst America's royalty, perhaps create a better incentive for how the 'big money' gets utilized. * End the drug war. This might cure a half-a-dozen to a dozen of society's ills at once. Treat drug problems medically instead of criminally; take the money out of the incentive to push drugs on people (why beef up mobster money?); use revenues from a form of pharmaceutical distribution, one free of stigmitization, to fund medical treatment and education programs; end police and border corruption; change the stakes to weapons and arms sales and how drugs get involved with all of that; provide economy to farmers who could grow marijuana on marginal farm lands; use the oil from marijuna seeds for fuel; photosynthesis from green growth, etc., I could go on and on. How 'bout this for consideration: Youth get lured into drugs in many ways--the money and culture; adults making juveniles dealers 'cause when they get caught they're treated as juveniles not adults ... and how 'bout the fact we can't keep drugs out of prisons, never mind a free society. Again, I could go on and on on this one. Enuff said for now. * Technology. Don't you think technology has gotten to the point where we could feed all of the people in the world? Don't you think better health care delivery systems could be created throughout the world? And don't you think it's possible to provide adequate housing for folks, using recycled materials even? * Alternative Energy. Get rid of the need for America to cozy up with nations just for the sake of oil. Get real on this one. * Time. Why not put the 24-hour day system of time on a computer clock and forget about it. Instead, let's go with seven 30-hour days where a 40-hour work week is accomplished in four days, thereby giviing three 30-hour days, enough time to actually do something, for weekend fun and meaningful time with family, less domestic problems as a result. A typical day would be 10 hours of work; 10 hours of fun and recreation; and 10 hours of rest. * Last, but not least for purposes of this answer: reform Wall Street--lol! I'll let you folks contribute on this one!!! I don't know, Cruz, how do I really answer your question? There really is no one cure-all. I guess I'd have to say attitude is very important. Live and let live. Teach the true meaning of The Smile, what it means and what it can do for someone else, keep it in front of you. If all of the above fails to help, well, perhaps we should all read Marvel Comics--lol! In closing, you or anyone else got any good ideas?