economic difficulties may help in choosing a better way of life.
- Daddy, take me in his arms?
- Rosie, you're already big enough to go all the way on foot. These are just a few blocks away. He
a beautiful morning. Following their estate, dad and daughter waved friendly to people working in their home gardens.
- I wish my grandmother did not live so far away! - Said the Rose.
Dad laughed. - You are lucky that my grandmother lived just a few blocks away. When I was your age, my grandparents lived two thousand miles from me!
- Two thousand! - Milton and Rose's older brother, until speechless. - Have you ever widywałeś with them?
- Well, some once or twice a year. We flew to visit them, and sometimes they to us. But then flying it got too expensive, and terribly spóźniały aircraft - and that's no fun for either children or parents. We tried to go to my grandparents car, but there were difficulties with the fact that both my parents at the same time get a vacation from work. Arrival took us four days back - the same amount, and all to see with my grandmother and grandfather in just five days. Besides, petrol has gone up so that, even riding it became too expensive. So then we saw them once in about two years.
- But why grandparents have lived so far away from you?
- Due to the work of his grandfather - and my mom too.
- Why do not you lived closer and did not occupy themselves with something else?
- Good question. They had to stay close to the companies for which they worked, because they paid for their treatment.
- Dad, or grandparents were slaves?
Dad laughed. - No! Not that I had ... Location. - But I thought: "Maybe in a sense they were."
Milton said
- Why did the fly, such expensive?
Tata said:
- Well, that was when everything more expensive. Not only fuel - food, too. It began when the Federal Reserve prints more money to finance expenditure that the government was doing, despite the budget deficit. Spending money, despite the hole in the budget lies in the fact that the government spends more than it collects in taxes, and the government seemed a huge sum. On the cap it did nieudacznie, financing a stupid war, and this has led to rising prices of everything - from food and fuel.
Milton said:
- It sounds awful. What did you do?
Tata said
- People stopped doing what is past, and they asked why they live in it, not the other way. They asked why the airplane treat them like cattle. Why is peeled away from them at a gas station and supermarket. Many people wanted government to do something to help them, because I did not understand that it is the government was the cause of their problems. But others, like your grandmother, they started to work.
- What did she have? - Milton said.
- Well, you see all these people working in their gardens? These gardens once were not here. People had grass and walked among themselves in competition over who has the most beautiful and the greenest grass. But your grandmother came back from the supermarket one day, she sat down and said: "Enough of this. We will have our own food. " And next spring at the place where the grass grew before, my grandmother set up a vegetable garden.
So you only saw what some of the neighbors got mad grandmother. Community Housing sued her to court, claiming that her garden spoils the view and that will drop the value of other properties. But a year later more people started up their own gardens in place of lawns.
I did not end up on the same lawns. People started to make improvements in their homes to save more energy. Did not do so for the sake of the environment, but for his own pocket. Neighbors began to share their ideas with each other and work together - whereas previously they were right not to open to each paragraph.
Many other things, people also began to do otherwise. Previously, went everywhere cars, used the elevators and escalators, to then pay for the opportunity to squeeze the self-sevenths sweating in the gym. But the need for conservation has led to the abandonment of the gym. People began to use their cars less, and more often to walk and ride a bike, and the exercises consisted of floor stairs. Some families gave up their cars, opting to buy a van together with neighbors and where they could mutually podwozili. Many twentieth-century inventions, thereby avoiding the effort was available to draw hand, but people realized that if they start to work again physically manage to burn more calories and save money on energy bills. Previously, a lot of people were very obese, but schudli. And it's not because they were starving, but because they changed their lifestyle.
They also benefit from markets, buying milk, meat, eggs and other products directly from local farmers. What is offered to farmers was fresher and healthier than processed foods. People understand it better come out on this, if revenues remain in the community local, rather than wander far away to a big corporation.
That was when your grandmother, my mom, threw their work so far and opened the home baker. This violated the local zoning plan [ zoning laws ], but the people voted on the side of my grandmother, and against the government. When the government realized that it is powerless and not able to deal with this new way of life, people realized that they need not fear the government, and they became free. More and more people started to work, therefore, in their own homes and on their own account. Previously, moms and dads occupy different positions in different places, but now more and more of them working together in their own home, and this allows them to be close to their children - instead of giving them under someone else's care.
nearer and more distant family members decided to stick together. No more senseless long-distance travel to meet. In the days of my youth, many families distribute the long-distance, but now these separated families is less.
Milton said:
- It seems that has happened to you then a lot worse than today. But some say that our country is in crisis, that we are no longer are rich as ever. They say that we must "restore the size of our nation." Is this true?
Tata said
- It depends on how you understand wealth. In fact, people now do not earn as much money as before. But I do not need this. If you are manufacturing the same things for which you paid once, you do not need the money. If you have close friends, family and work, do not need a car or airplane tickets. People who want to define the standard of living based on amount of their money, they do not understand what the thing is. It is the quality of life is important - and this is now better than ever. People who want to "restore our nation to greatness", do not even know what makes a nation great. They are the "size" of soldiers' uniforms understand, political speeches and big businesses which employ numbers of people to build tanks, prisons and rockets. They talk about "freedom", but really want the government was so powerful as ever - and that is the opposite of freedom. Do we really free, and our nation does not become a really great, as long as the government is not bankrupt and collapsed. But here we are on the spot, the home of her grandmother. God bless America!
_______
Translation by:
James Leroy Wilson, Standard of Living Vs. Quality of Life , http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2955&RSS=1
Standard of Living Vs. Quality of Life published at The Partial Observer 29 May 2008
James Leroy Wilson blog maintained by the Independent Country .
- Daddy, take me in his arms?
- Rosie, you're already big enough to go all the way on foot. These are just a few blocks away. He
a beautiful morning. Following their estate, dad and daughter waved friendly to people working in their home gardens.
- I wish my grandmother did not live so far away! - Said the Rose.
Dad laughed. - You are lucky that my grandmother lived just a few blocks away. When I was your age, my grandparents lived two thousand miles from me!
- Two thousand! - Milton and Rose's older brother, until speechless. - Have you ever widywałeś with them?
- Well, some once or twice a year. We flew to visit them, and sometimes they to us. But then flying it got too expensive, and terribly spóźniały aircraft - and that's no fun for either children or parents. We tried to go to my grandparents car, but there were difficulties with the fact that both my parents at the same time get a vacation from work. Arrival took us four days back - the same amount, and all to see with my grandmother and grandfather in just five days. Besides, petrol has gone up so that, even riding it became too expensive. So then we saw them once in about two years.
- But why grandparents have lived so far away from you?
- Due to the work of his grandfather - and my mom too.
- Why do not you lived closer and did not occupy themselves with something else?
- Good question. They had to stay close to the companies for which they worked, because they paid for their treatment.
- Dad, or grandparents were slaves?
Dad laughed. - No! Not that I had ... Location. - But I thought: "Maybe in a sense they were."
Milton said
- Why did the fly, such expensive?
Tata said:
- Well, that was when everything more expensive. Not only fuel - food, too. It began when the Federal Reserve prints more money to finance expenditure that the government was doing, despite the budget deficit. Spending money, despite the hole in the budget lies in the fact that the government spends more than it collects in taxes, and the government seemed a huge sum. On the cap it did nieudacznie, financing a stupid war, and this has led to rising prices of everything - from food and fuel.
Milton said:
- It sounds awful. What did you do?
Tata said
- People stopped doing what is past, and they asked why they live in it, not the other way. They asked why the airplane treat them like cattle. Why is peeled away from them at a gas station and supermarket. Many people wanted government to do something to help them, because I did not understand that it is the government was the cause of their problems. But others, like your grandmother, they started to work.
- What did she have? - Milton said.
- Well, you see all these people working in their gardens? These gardens once were not here. People had grass and walked among themselves in competition over who has the most beautiful and the greenest grass. But your grandmother came back from the supermarket one day, she sat down and said: "Enough of this. We will have our own food. " And next spring at the place where the grass grew before, my grandmother set up a vegetable garden.
So you only saw what some of the neighbors got mad grandmother. Community Housing sued her to court, claiming that her garden spoils the view and that will drop the value of other properties. But a year later more people started up their own gardens in place of lawns.
I did not end up on the same lawns. People started to make improvements in their homes to save more energy. Did not do so for the sake of the environment, but for his own pocket. Neighbors began to share their ideas with each other and work together - whereas previously they were right not to open to each paragraph.
Many other things, people also began to do otherwise. Previously, went everywhere cars, used the elevators and escalators, to then pay for the opportunity to squeeze the self-sevenths sweating in the gym. But the need for conservation has led to the abandonment of the gym. People began to use their cars less, and more often to walk and ride a bike, and the exercises consisted of floor stairs. Some families gave up their cars, opting to buy a van together with neighbors and where they could mutually podwozili. Many twentieth-century inventions, thereby avoiding the effort was available to draw hand, but people realized that if they start to work again physically manage to burn more calories and save money on energy bills. Previously, a lot of people were very obese, but schudli. And it's not because they were starving, but because they changed their lifestyle.
They also benefit from markets, buying milk, meat, eggs and other products directly from local farmers. What is offered to farmers was fresher and healthier than processed foods. People understand it better come out on this, if revenues remain in the community local, rather than wander far away to a big corporation.
That was when your grandmother, my mom, threw their work so far and opened the home baker. This violated the local zoning plan [ zoning laws ], but the people voted on the side of my grandmother, and against the government. When the government realized that it is powerless and not able to deal with this new way of life, people realized that they need not fear the government, and they became free. More and more people started to work, therefore, in their own homes and on their own account. Previously, moms and dads occupy different positions in different places, but now more and more of them working together in their own home, and this allows them to be close to their children - instead of giving them under someone else's care.
nearer and more distant family members decided to stick together. No more senseless long-distance travel to meet. In the days of my youth, many families distribute the long-distance, but now these separated families is less.
Milton said:
- It seems that has happened to you then a lot worse than today. But some say that our country is in crisis, that we are no longer are rich as ever. They say that we must "restore the size of our nation." Is this true?
Tata said
- It depends on how you understand wealth. In fact, people now do not earn as much money as before. But I do not need this. If you are manufacturing the same things for which you paid once, you do not need the money. If you have close friends, family and work, do not need a car or airplane tickets. People who want to define the standard of living based on amount of their money, they do not understand what the thing is. It is the quality of life is important - and this is now better than ever. People who want to "restore our nation to greatness", do not even know what makes a nation great. They are the "size" of soldiers' uniforms understand, political speeches and big businesses which employ numbers of people to build tanks, prisons and rockets. They talk about "freedom", but really want the government was so powerful as ever - and that is the opposite of freedom. Do we really free, and our nation does not become a really great, as long as the government is not bankrupt and collapsed. But here we are on the spot, the home of her grandmother. God bless America!
_______
Translation by:
James Leroy Wilson, Standard of Living Vs. Quality of Life , http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2955&RSS=1
Standard of Living Vs. Quality of Life published at The Partial Observer 29 May 2008
James Leroy Wilson blog maintained by the Independent Country .
