Economic Stimulus – A Garden Hose on a Forest Fire

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While some may consider it in appropriate to write an article like this shortly after Inauguration Day while the ‘warm fuzzies’ still abound – the headlines relating to the world economy continue to tell a story of a system overloaded with debt and politicians trying to solve the problem by getting banks to lend more money. Although to be fair, it’s not just US politicians – its politicians from almost every industrialized country around the globe. It’s a universal political instinct. Got a problem Throw money at it, even if you don’t have it.

By now, the data has shown that the initial bailout offered by government didn’t work. In my view for three reasons.

History of the New Forest

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The history of the New Forest is a history of the struggle for control over land and resources. This struggle plays out between nations as a series of skirmishes, battles, and wars, but the New Forest was under contention by two social groups within the same country. Theirs was a tiny, but devastating, civil war in which the desires of the few in power frequently outweighed the needs of the many. As a result of this unspoken war, the New Forest has had many different purposes over the years, not limited to the frequent sparking of necessary discussions of civil rights issues between commoners and kings.

In The Beginning…