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To: que seria who wrote (9232)	3/30/2003 4:16:51 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 39344

Yes, well said .... we don't disagree on much if at all que sería, the bit with which you 'take issue' is less my own personal view than an attempt to pose a broader outlook held by the said billions .... just as it is a naturally human reaction to concentrate power in their own hands, for those able to so, it is an equally natural human reaction for the rest to resist power held over them ... with a few details thrown in for colour, that's the course of history We likely all agree that government is a necessary evil ... where any of us part would be in defining the terms 'necessary' and 'evil' in that statement, distinctions will be in degree, not in kind .... oh right, we'd have to define 'government' too .... also, being human, i guess we'd have to spend about a century and a half working out what means the verb 'to agree', lol .... geeez eh The urgency in forming a workable parliament of governments is to check the power of a single government currently dominating .... to accomplish that, this parliament must itself become something of a government, and have power concentrated to a degree, with resulting reaction to that concentration ... so there's the catch22, yes i do see it .... none of this is ever going to be easy, given the nature of the species See how i used your term 'governments' in place of 'nations' .... yes, works well, better in some ways I've screwed up russ' thread by replying to Howie in that manner, turned it all political .... the original comment, in re this being entirely unlike 1991, was meant to refer to the effects on the price of gold, more than anything ... as many others think here, i believe the situations are quite distinct, they are opposites in important ways .... also, the overall trends in other facets such as currency revaluations have far more effect on where gold is going, so any ebb and flow in 'war premium' will be no more than small bumps on the medium term chart of Au/usd So here's a plan, that could have worked well maybe up until a couple weeks ago - forget the tanks and artillery and marching over the border, just use the B-52s, get them doing slow circuits all over Iraq spitting out individual 20-dollar USD notes ..... slash the 'war' budget by three quarters, you've still got enough to average over usd1000 per iraqui .... this accomplishes several goals in one bloodless move - first it empowers individuals there, always a scarey thing for government that ... and second, the printing and distribution of that much will help a lot in evading deflation .... too late now of course, we'll never know how it might have worked .... perhaps other plans for printing and distribution could be made, hmmm eh ..... cheers