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.

GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME TOO BIG, TOO BOSSY & TOO COSTLY

Do not be alarmed by government scare stories concerning swine flu because a really serious pandemic is about to break out - an insidious disease called busybodyitus.

This condition is caused by governments who lavish increasing amounts of taxpayer money on trying to control every aspect of our lives and in so doing reduce our rights and standard of living. It is a complaint that will undoubtedly lead to a Great Depression.

Yes, Alistair Darling is at it again with an increase in the tax on flights, but this time he admits that it’s not meant to be a green - though it certainly is greedy.

Not content to take over 40% of our income in taxes he wants more money to balance his books. Having blown over a trillion pounds on the banking bailout, he is introducing more wealth sapping schemes to subsidise our floundering economy - including a 50% income tax rate, starting next April.

Every day we get poorer as this government mammoth grows fatter. As the number of quango’s increase, more busy bodies are taken on to boss us around and drain our freedoms and wealth away.

If we are to claw back our rights and riches, the operation and reach of government must be reined in. Government certainly has a role - as a regulator of the private sector and provider of essential services - but the simple truth is that it has become too big, too bossy and too costly.

We must stand together and halt the legions of state bureaucrats before we are overrun. Governments do not diet easily but for all our sakes this one needs to massively slim down.

I urge readers to write their own prescriptions for less government, more freedom and lower taxes before the next general election.

Kim Andrew Lincoln,

Telford, Shropshire, England

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This is the unedited version of a letter I wrote that appeared in the reader’s letters section of the Shropshire Star daily evening newspaper on 6/11/2009.