71. Let Us Find Balance.

Let Us Find Balance.
Bob Komives
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There is a true rule of balance.

An organization,
biological or political,
tends to survive
if self-organized and self-taxed
to be productive and resilient.
It balances its budget
with the wealth
that productive organs return
from the energy spent
to create and maintain them.
So, yes,
a government cannot spend
what it does not have.
However, what it must have
is access to the wealth
in the organs of its economy.
It has such access
whenever it fixes a policy,
or passes a law,
or, even,
when it spends newly printed money.

Let us end monetary recall

and the fantasy that it is a tax
that balances our budgets.

Let us find balance

investing communally
in the growth of knowledge
within ourselves
within our biosphere.

Let us recycle the effort of the intelligent people

trapped in non-production
calculating
collecting
debating
and avoiding payments
under a futile system of monetary recall.

Again, let us remember

that war is the age-old medicine
to counter peacetime fantasies.

from: A War Rages

:: Bob Komives, Fort Collins © 2006 :: Plum Local IV :: 71. Let Us Find Balance. ::
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