Comments on: Zen Solution to the Financial Crisis http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com/2008/09/28/zen-solution-to-the-financial-crisis/ "Us nature mystics got to stick together." -Edward Abbey Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:56:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: swan http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com/2008/09/28/zen-solution-to-the-financial-crisis/#comment-498 swan Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:45:12 +0000 http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com/2008/09/28/zen-solution-to-the-financial-crisis/#comment-498 Yikes - I didn't double check it! This was the first comment I saw about "bailing out" ordinary folks when the media was falling all over themselves chanting "bail out wall street, bail out the banks, they're too big to fail!" Now everybody's saying - hey, what about us? Well, a thousand dollars is good. That'll pay a few bills. This whole thing is beginning to sound really ridiculous, like it's not really about money (whatever that ultimately means) but about how we go about in this world. There's enough food in the world to feed everyone right now and yet children die of starvation. Now there's a place to start . . . . swan . . . Yikes - I didn’t double check it! This was the first comment I saw about “bailing out” ordinary folks when the media was falling all over themselves chanting “bail out wall street, bail out the banks, they’re too big to fail!”

Now everybody’s saying - hey, what about us? Well, a thousand dollars is good. That’ll pay a few bills.

This whole thing is beginning to sound really ridiculous, like it’s not really about money (whatever that ultimately means) but about how we go about in this world. There’s enough food in the world to feed everyone right now and yet children die of starvation. Now there’s a place to start . . . . swan . . .

]]> By: virginia http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com/2008/09/28/zen-solution-to-the-financial-crisis/#comment-495 virginia Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:05:00 +0000 http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com/2008/09/28/zen-solution-to-the-financial-crisis/#comment-495 These are lovely thoughts, but I think you got carried away with the zeros! The way I do the math, each person gets one thousand dollars, not one million. These are lovely thoughts, but I think you got carried away with the zeros! The way I do the math, each person gets one thousand dollars, not one million.

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