Economics of Chaos

The Chaos of Hunger By James McDonough The allocation of scarce resources to satisfy the seemingly insatiable needs of the people has been a challenge for societies since people started hanging out together. One would think that we could have gotten pretty good at Economic Systems by now but no such luck---sadly the economics of chaos still seems to rule. The most glaring failure of the current age is starvation. Put these two facts side by side: Thousands of our fellow humans starve to death every year. Yet, in the United States, obesity is one of our major health problems. Obviously, we have a system here of chaos. The Chaos of Death instead of plenty. We could, and in fact we do, grow enough food to feed the world. Distribution, profit motive and the political wills of the corrupt leaders of most of the nations of the world stand in the way of solving the famine-starvation problems, the oldest economic dilemma of mankind. The political leaders of the world must be prevailed u

PLEASE...Send this along, I've sent it to my entire list of over 700. This is a perfect nonpartisan issue. 2010 is an election year for 1/3 of the senate and 1/2 of the house of representatives. It would be nice if congress got the message; the voting taxpayers are in charge now. LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. If you agree with this idea, copy it and send it to your contacts. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT! We need a BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY... Our Senate and Congress members do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all

Part IV of the Health Care Chaos There is a pattern that has been going on in our country for generations. The focus on a problem comes and goes but only the incremental changes and improvements that time brings actually solves most problems. In the case of health care, we should not allow this to happen. It amazes me that only incremental changes in the system have been made in the American Health Care system since the Clinton Team tried and failed to change it twenty years ago. Meanwhile, costs have skyrocketed and the burden on individuals via raising costs, higher insurance premiums and higher taxes and deficits have increased dramatically. We have already pointed out two solutions; increased competition and tort reform. Now, we must focus on the groups that are doing a great job and emulate and learn from them. We'll also look at one of the worst performers so that we can get an idea of what to avoid. The Cleveland Clinic Founded in 1921, this hospital group consistently