CHANGE NEEDED TO SAVE THE ECONOMY

The idea that you can fix the economy and create sustainable economic growth without first dealing with the underlying causes of the problem is completely insane and yet that is what the government is doing and opposition parties are proposing. They serve a bitter soup, but with different spoons, when, in fact, a new course is needed.

No amount of policy tinkering will have the desired effect because all economic systems in use today are fundamentally flawed. None serve all the people all of the time, as wealth, privilege and political control are inevitably conferred on the few at the expense of the many.

In this country wealth is concentrated in the hands of the top 1% and our personal freedoms and democracy are continually being eroded. In accordance with the second law of thermodynamics, which states that all imperfect forms will eventually be broken down to their base state, our economy and society is on the verge of collapse.

Our salvation lies in the words of the great spiritual teachers like Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and Krishna whose basic message was that we are individualisations of a greater whole and that we cannot raise ourselves up without first raising all life.

For our economy this means that we must embrace and enfranchise ALL members of society so that everyone has an equal opportunity to ‘multiply their talents’ without being exploited, oppressed or enslaved by any individual or organisation or by any imperfect mechanism built into the model.

It is a philosophy which states that personal freedom and abundance are our divine right but we cannot receive them at someone else’s expense.

I call this economic model ‘Enlightened Free Enterprise’ and believe that if it were adopted planet Earth would immediately enter into a new ‘Golden Age’.

Kim Andrew Lincoln

Telford, Shropshire, England

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This is the unedited version of a letter I wrote that was published in the ‘Shropshire Star’ daily evening newspaper on 5th November 2009.