The Sicilian Times
[size=150]Remember the Dragonhearts! | 3rd April/size]
[size=150]Remember the Dragonhearts! | 3rd April/size]
Op-ed: The Grand Society is Not an NWO, and GCN is Not an Empire
By Amelia Bell, Candidate for the GCN Senate
Recently, I announced my campaign to be a member of the GCN Senate, and I announced what I call the Grand Society. The Grand Society is a series of programs that will begin with an expansion of the MEAD Act to help all people of the world, now and into the future, prosper in what will be a Golden Age of the arts, learning, and peace. Through progressive social policies, strong diplomatic efforts to keep the peace, and international cooperation, it is my firm belief that we will be able to turn the page on all of the chaos that has taken place since the start of the 21st Century.
Will these plans change the world? Yes, for the better. But they will not turn the GCN into an empire, and they will not create a New World Order.
Although I understand that I am talking under the auspices of the members of the GCN and my fellow Mereticans, I do not want to limit myself to politics. I do not want to feel that I am addressing an audience of Mereticans or that I speak merely as a Meretican myself. The present condition of our national affairs is too serious to be viewed through partisan eyes for partisan purposes.
A few years ago my public duty called me to an active part in a great national emergency, the Dragonheart War. Success then was due to leadership whose vision carried beyond the timorous and futile gesture of sending a tiny army of trained soldiers and the regular navy to the aid of our allies. The generalship of that moment conceived of a whole nation mobilized for war, economic, industrial, social and military resources gathered into a vast unit capable of and actually in the process of throwing into the scales ten million men equipped with physical needs and sustained by the realization that behind them were the united efforts of millions of human beings. It was a great plan because it was built from bottom to top and not from top to bottom.
In my calm judgment, the nation faces today a more grave emergency than it did then, though for different reasons.
It is said that King Vilnius III lost the battle of the Crescent because he forgot his infantry -- he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial cavalry. The present administration in the way of things provides a close parallel. It has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of the War that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Obviously, these few words today permit no opportunity to lay down the ten or a dozen closely related objectives of a plan to meet our present emergency, but I can draw a few essentials, a beginning in fact, of a planned program. It is the habit of the unthinking to turn in times like this to the illusions of economic magic. People suggest that huge expenditure of public funds by the National Governments and by State and local governments will completely solve the economic problem. But it is clear that even if we could raise many billions of dollars and find definitely useful public works to spend these billions on, even all that money would not give employment to the seven million or ten million people who are out of work. Let us admit frankly that it would be only a stopgap. A real economic cure must go to the killing of the bacteria in the system rather than to the treatment of external symptoms.
How much do the shallow thinkers realize, for example, that approximately one-half of our whole population, fifty or sixty million people, earn their living by farming or in small towns whose existence immediately depends on farms? They have today lost their purchasing power. Why? They are receiving for farm products less than the cost to them of growing these farm products. The result of this loss of purchasing power is that many other millions of people engaged in industry in the cities cannot sell industrial products to the farming half of the nation. This brings home to every city worker that his own employment is directly tied up with the farmer's dollar. No nation can long endure half bankrupt. Main Street, Wall Street, the mills, the mines will close if half the buyers are broke. [Cont'd P9]
Yesterday, the Olpenese Bureau of Violent Crimes and the New Edinburgh Police Department announced that they had caught 3 members of the Order of the Rites of Juno, which is famously led by the wanted criminal Stan Westroe. The cultists' car was seen on security footage of a mall outside the city. They were caught with the murder of three people, including a 12-year-old child. They also were seen injuring the father of the family, who is currently in the ICU.
