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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (108192)	1/26/2012 2:00:22 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

.<< Yes, but the MBA "script" is an outer script--not an inner one that would keep one from being pragmatic. MBA people are given real life business cases to solve (or hybrids of actual cases involving real life companies).They are trained to analyze the financial facts and attempt to rearrange them for a successful outcome. They have to be pragmatic. Those skills are very useful in analyzing how to fix budgets,deficits etc.>> An MPA teaches administering govdernments. There is a science to it. What we need is to solve is the social contract as it involves the entire human species. Or we don't survive. simple as that. Dems see it, but pubs do not. <<As much as Democrats would like to, they can't fix everything or solve it with money. They have to learn to live within the constraints of the system or the system itself will not survive. This is the kind of constraint an MBAer is comfortable with has been accustomed and trained to deal with.>> It is how we allocate the money for the good of the tribe. An MBAer is not taught that. How many Republicans have you ever seen discuss the "limits of growth"? <<2. For Republicans the social contract exists, but it is one that sees the government as empowering individuals instead of restraining organizations as much as government has.>> The Republicans take this position because they do not understand democracy. they do not understand we are the government. At ever level fromt he volunteer firefighter to the local school board. The corporations are the danger because we cannto control them. We don't get to vote on them like we do the school board. <3. I think your view of wealth, as you describe it in your message, is that it is a malevolent force (as it consumes resources and pollutes), but Republicans see it no more than a force multiplier, and for Mormons, one that can be put to the greater good of their Faith.>> Which is primitve thinking. We are one species on planet earth and must learn to think that way; and that includes the distribution of wealth i.e. resources. <<4. I myself see wealth as a tool. The goal should be how to figure out to use abundance for the earth's greater good, in a systemic way, without destroying individual incentive. Easier said than done.>> On this we agree, except maybe to the definition of wealth. Clean air and water is wealth.