The Greatest Blessing: Why do we prosper while others fail? It's not the topsoil

The Sierra Times ^ | 22 November, 2001 | By Vin Suprynowicz

[brityank]

The greatest population densities in the world occur on such rocky islands as Manhattan, Hong Kong, and Singapore ... where absent a single arable rice paddy, starvation is unknown, and even "the poor" are likely to enjoy running water and central heating. On the other hand, the Ukraine has been famously the breadbasket of Eastern Europe for millennia -- yet millions of people literally starved to death there in the 1920s and '30s ... in peacetime.

 

 

Sound familiar?
Do a site search for Klamath or BLM or property rights and be prepared for a lot of information.

Happy
Thanksgiving

[brityank]

Happy Thanksgiving turkey's-in-the-oven East Coast BUMP.

May you all share God's and Freedom's Blessings this day and forever.

[snopercod]

It's so good to see this philosophy in print, somewhere than in one of Ayn Rands books.

people are most likely to starve in nations where the separation of church and state is unknown, where the armed power of the state is harnessed to a compulsive and monochrome ideology (whether actually religious or of a secular "religion" like Marxism or ENVIRONMENTALISM) evincing little respect for individual choice or liberty, driving away those with the ability to "vote with their feet" while swaddling the unfortunates who remain in a stifling cocoon of institutionalized jealousy and greed...

Funny you should mention Klamath Basin...

[nothingnew]

Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless America!

FMCDH

[backhoe]

Thank you, neighbor.... let's all hope for quiet holidays!

[glock rocks]

the young cynics (who can be counted on to volunteer that their personal helping of yams or broccoli would make an ideal donation to the starving orphans of China),

this brought a chuckle. my kids fight over who gets the most asparagus, brussels sprouts,
artichokes, cabbage, broccoli, things i couldn't make the dog eat when
i was little... i'm baffled. my wife says there was a mix up at the hospital...
i think my kids are from outer space.

by God's grace, we are truly fortunate to live in America. thanks for the ping, brityank.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and a prayer for our troops, far from home this holiday.

[KJMorgan]

Great piece, thanks for posting it.

[janus]

by God's grace, we are truly fortunate to live in America.

That should be a "mantra" 365 days a year and 366 during leap years.

[F-117A]

On the other hand, the Ukraine has been famously the breadbasket of Eastern Europe for millennia -- yet millions of people literally starved to death there in the 1920s and '30s ... in peacetime.

They starved because the Communists took the crops the Kulaks produced in order to destroy them and force collectivisation on the people of the Urkaine!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping and Happy Thanksgiving to you!

[headsonpikes]

It's not the top-soil--it's the air!

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

[poet]

Happy thanksgiving to you. My prayer for you and all Americans is that Yashua Messiah will envelop all of us and our loved ones In His Sweet Embrace and protect us forever and a day.

[Helix]

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[hsszionist]

The starvation in the Ukraine was caused not by nature but by communism. Peace should be more than the absence of War.

[MadameAxe]

Vin...

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the ping. This Christmas my daughter and son-in-law have decided to take my oldest grandson to help out in a soup kitchen for a few hours. He has had many questions lately about the poor, homeless, etc. I am very proud of my daughter and son-in-law. They are going to make sure my grandchildren know how fortunate they are...and they are going to make sure my grandchildren know compassion for those who are less fortunate.

I hope you have had a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! ;O)

[Iscool]

Rather, people are largely free and fulfilled and affluent to the point of excess in lands which practice capitalism in combination with a republican form of government which guarantees the enforcement of property rights and other God-given individual liberties -- familiar to Americans from their listing in the first 10 amendments to our Constitution.

I don't know that I entirely agree with this but I have noticed that in places where freedom to worship God in any form is prevalent, the populace in general prosper...

[Humidston]

Thanks for your good wishes, Brityank! May God richly bless you and yours.

[EternalVigilance]

Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty.

And of course, it is only where liberty exists that prosperity can be achieved.

[Torie]

Topsoil, germs, available domesticatable animals and plants, and climate once mattered a whole lot. Now it is more complicated.