Social and Economic Growth, Human Rights and Maintaining Property Rights

Social and Economic Growth,
Human Rights and Maintaining Property Rights

Nipawin - February 12, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

confusion
There is a lot of confusion these days, about what our political and economic directions

should be, and this state of confusion is reinforced by our politicians, business leaders, top

bureaucrats and academicians. In Saskatchewan, while we experience a suffocating

democracy⁽¹⁾ and an unprecedented marginalization of our Aboriginal people, we have new

Premier Lorne Calvert who is heralding the Workman Way, after Roy Romanow's

Saskatchewan Way.

dichotomy
In Canada, there is a resurgence to go back to the old times and play the governmental

dichotomy of socialism versus capitalism. So we have our health economists headed by

Dr. Michael Rachlis rallying around socialist medicare, and our rightist Albertan professor

Tom Flanagan preaching the gospel of maintaining property rights, free contracts and free

market prices.

finding
synergy
Our economic growth is not naturally motivated by the demagogic doctrines of socialism and

capitalism. Our economic growth should be motivated by our creativity in finding synergy

among our competing economic interests within a social system which supports the checks

and balances designed to ensure governments of, by, and for the people⁽²⁾.

checks and
balances
In Canada, as we are concerned, these governmental checks and balances have been broken,

and this is why there is an ongoing social concern about social equality, and this is why in the

course of writing our social and political failures in Saskatchewan I coined the term "a World

for the Few and Privileged⁽³⁾."

creativity
We must stop cheating ourselves and say that the United Nations says that Canada is the best

country in the world⁽⁴⁾, while in reality we have been losing social and economic grounds, year

after year in the last some thirty years. Synergy of work and creativity lead to a vibrant social

economy, and this is not accomplished by preaching the falsehood of either capitalism or

socialism, but by ensuring our democracy, that is basically by having equal human rights rather

than maintaining property rights.

------------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1.
The right to tell the truth in peril!, Injusticebusters

2.
Business Dynamics, by John D. Sterman, 2000, The Rules of the Game, page 380

3.
A World for the Few and Privileged in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, February 18, 2000

4.
-
A Saskatchewan Way Of Economic Growth: Good Psychology, by Mario deSantis, October 16, 2000

Social and Economic Growth, Human Rights and Maintaining Property Rights

Nipawin - February 12, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

confusion	There is a lot of confusion these days, about what our political and economic directions
	should be, and this state of confusion is reinforced by our politicians, business leaders, top
	bureaucrats and academicians. In Saskatchewan, while we experience a suffocating
	democracy⁽¹⁾ and an unprecedented marginalization of our Aboriginal people, we have new
	Premier Lorne Calvert who is heralding the Workman Way, after Roy Romanow's
	Saskatchewan Way.

dichotomy	In Canada, there is a resurgence to go back to the old times and play the governmental
	dichotomy of socialism versus capitalism. So we have our health economists headed by
	Dr. Michael Rachlis rallying around socialist medicare, and our rightist Albertan professor
	Tom Flanagan preaching the gospel of maintaining property rights, free contracts and free
	market prices.

finding synergy	Our economic growth is not naturally motivated by the demagogic doctrines of socialism and
	capitalism. Our economic growth should be motivated by our creativity in finding synergy
	among our competing economic interests within a social system which supports the checks
	and balances designed to ensure governments of, by, and for the people⁽²⁾.

checks and balances	In Canada, as we are concerned, these governmental checks and balances have been broken,
	and this is why there is an ongoing social concern about social equality, and this is why in the
	course of writing our social and political failures in Saskatchewan I coined the term "a World
	for the Few and Privileged⁽³⁾."

creativity	We must stop cheating ourselves and say that the United Nations says that Canada is the best
	country in the world⁽⁴⁾, while in reality we have been losing social and economic grounds, year
	after year in the last some thirty years. Synergy of work and creativity lead to a vibrant social
	economy, and this is not accomplished by preaching the falsehood of either capitalism or
	socialism, but by ensuring our democracy, that is basically by having equal human rights rather
	than maintaining property rights.

------------References/endnotes:

	List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com

1.	The right to tell the truth in peril!, Injusticebusters

2.	Business Dynamics, by John D. Sterman, 2000, The Rules of the Game, page 380

3.	A World for the Few and Privileged in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, February 18, 2000

4. -	A Saskatchewan Way Of Economic Growth: Good Psychology, by Mario deSantis, October 16, 2000