Re: [CPF0000] The globalization of COMMON, or is this the right direction?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great!  Pete, as always you hit the nail squarely.

Of course, my own preference is that a rising tide raises all boats, 
including ours.  This does not have to be a zero-sum game, with us being 
losers.  This, to me, is all about leadership and not about building walls.


Pete Hall wrote:
> I've just gotta get my ultra flaming liberal, Viet era USMC 2cents worth 
> in, and I'll go away. It seems to me that we in the US have been living 
> pretty unreasonably well since WWII. It's not a natural state, and it's 
> coming to an end. We don't have to like it, but we do need to accept it. 
> It's not unfair for people in India, Pakistan, China or Mexico to want 
> their share. They're just looking out for themselves, same as us. Our 
> standard of living, and indeed the world dominance of the US is in 
> decline. It happened to the Greeks, Romans, Hapsburgs, Britts, and it's 
> happening to U.S. To paraphrase another button toking new age radical, 
> whose name, for the life of me I can't recall at the moment, "You 
> shouldn't worry about how you're going to make a million dollars. Worry, 
> instead, about how you're going to provide something worth a million 
> dollars. The money will take care of itself." Sounds kind of phony, and 
> I'm not rich, but I've tried to do that, and it hasn't hurt me. I've 
> also got a son-in-law who's an illegal alien, and a son whom I've known 
> was gay since he was 8 years old. They're two of the hardest working, 
> most upright and righteous people you'd ever want to meet. If we could 
> all be like them, the US congress wouldn't need to waste its' time on 
> meaningless tripe instead of tackling the real problems that confront 
> the human (collective  M/F implied) brotherhood. Ok, I'm going back into 
> my paisley palace now. Peace.