To bring it into environmental terms: Tell this same story to the residents of Atlanta, Georgia who depend on the current-day disaster of Lake Lanier that dried up several months ago leaving them in a water crisis.
“Silly little story huh?” Folkerth said. “Replace the inflow water in that lake with oil, timber, natural gas, clean air, copper ore, iron ore, fisheries, productive farm land, and every other finite natural resource on earth. Reality? The lake is drying up fast and the outflow of the now dry stream represents good U.S. jobs.
“That is where we find ourselves isn’t it? U.S. jobs that pay a living wage that would support our current living standards have dried up. And, you may have noticed that no one has a plan to change that. Rhetoric yes, a plan; nada!
“Math is the exact science and 100 gallons in and 150 gallons out, equals a sum total of negative 50 gallons available for future job creation. But, as Greg Easterbrook said, “Torture numbers and they’ll confess to anything.” The numbers are being “water-boarded” in Washington as we speak. So here we are all dressed up and no place to go.”
As I read Folkerth’s book, it dawned on me that Condi Rice, Greenspan (now retired), Bush, Congress and our presidential candidates either don’t know the facts, don’t understand our predicament or won’t explain the truth—or, they are just plain stupid. Even worse, the America people stupidly believe those leaders.
While we pile 2.1 million more immigrant people into this country annually: 1. We’ve outsourced, insourced and offshored over 3.1 million of American jobs. 2. We jack-up consumption while we jack-down manufacturing jobs. 3. We borrow $2 billion daily from foreign investors to float our false economy while we spend $3 billion a week in Iraq and Afghanistan. 4. We suffer a $9,240.00 balance on the average credit card holder in this country while we witness a $2 trillion consumer debt. 5. We spend $1 trillion annually on 700 military bases worldwide with 572,000 military personnel around the world while we watch our own borders being invaded by thousands nightly. 6. We watch $100 a barrel oil prices with no U.S. energy policy of any kind. 7. The U.S. federal debt stands at $8.8 trillion with no plan for dealing with it. 8. Lake Lanier, Georgia’s current water crisis illustrates the kind of environmental future we all face via unending growth.
Growth is the most dangerous word in the 21st century.
“THE BIGGEST LIE EVER BELIEVED”
Author: Mike Folkerth
ISBN # 0-9779965-3-0
Publisher: Lifetime Chronicle Press
Available: www.kingofsimple.com
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website
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