tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post2951351877381118857..comments2008-07-29T21:06:50.265-04:00A Jesuit's Jottingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09175611377070738049noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-30780826368066130162008-07-29T21:06:00.000-04:002008-07-29T21:06:00.000-04:00Hi Fr.,<BR/><BR/>Just thought you might like to know that old Rod Steward got another million dollar for singing at another billionaire's birthday party. It was last weekend and they won't say who the "bagman" was other than his house was right over the Illinois border in Wisconsin.<BR/>Who could it be???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040306.post-76007014061835619622008-07-12T00:38:00.000-04:002008-07-12T00:38:00.000-04:00Might I propose a very old idea, unknown to the vast majority of even well-read people, which I believe holds the key to solving much of what underlies our inequality problems.<BR/><BR/>Its goal is not equality of results, but genuine equality of opportunity, including opportunities with respect to natural resources, including land itself, air, water, the entire natural creation -- and that which the community has created together.<BR/><BR/>If we create genuine equality with respect to the earth ... which we proclaim to be the Lord's ... we will go a long way toward creating a just society.<BR/><BR/>The ideas to which I refer are the ideas of Henry George (b. Philadelphia, 1839; d. NYC, 1897). You might explore http://www.wealthandwant.com/ (the URL comes from the subtitle to Henry George's book, Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth ... The Remedy).LVTfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17172522529549663162noreply@blogger.com