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
1 posted on
11/22/2001 3:08:53 AM PST by
brityank
(brityank@FReepmail)
To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson; marsh2; dixiechick2000; Helen; Mama_Bear; poet; Grampa Dave...
Happy Thanksgiving turkey's-in-the-oven East Coast BUMP.
May you all share God's and Freedom's Blessings this day and forever.
2 posted on
11/22/2001 3:18:31 AM PST by
brityank
To: brityank
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...
3 posted on
11/22/2001 3:23:46 AM PST by
snopercod
To: brityank
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless America!
FMCDH
To: brityank
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!
9 posted on
11/22/2001 5:39:54 AM PST by
F-117A
To: brityank; All
It's not the top-soil--it's the air!
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
To: brityank
13 posted on
11/22/2001 3:27:34 PM PST by
Helix
To: brityank
The starvation in the Ukraine was caused not by nature but by communism. Peace should be more than the absence of War.
To: tex-oma; LarryLied
Vin...
To: brityank
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)
To: brityank
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...
17 posted on
11/22/2001 10:53:17 PM PST by
Iscool
To: brityank
Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty. And of course, it is only where liberty exists that prosperity can be achieved.
To: brityank
Topsoil, germs, available domesticatable animals and plants, and climate once mattered a whole lot. Now it is more complicated.
20 posted on
11/24/2001 9:27:11 PM PST by
Torie
To: brityank
22 posted on
11/26/2001 5:19:13 PM PST by
redrock
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