It Just Ain’t Economically Correct

In order to fix this economy, we need to ‘fix’ how we LIVE in this economy. In school we learned all about ‘supply and demand’. But, something about that ain’t economically correct!


Is it ‘supply and demand’
Or ‘demand and supply’?
I think that supply and demand
Was a well perpetrated lie.

Maybe our educators were mis-educated
And a subliminal message was intrunkated
As our texts
Contain facts
That are whack
And our industrial giants are
Spending the money that we lack!

Because MY demand, Mr. Industry,
Is no longer based on what YOU supply.
I will no longer stick my head in the sand
And refuse accountability for accepting your lie.
With business handled your way
The world’s gone awry!

I won’t support the methods you use
Or the products you choose
And I won’t stand by as you continue to confuse
Others who may snooze
And don’t see your henchman’s hatchet.
We should stop buying your widgets and gadgets,
Your gizmos and devices.
And my insistent advise is…
For consumers to use thought and care
On how they buy
And know ‘when’, ‘why’ and ‘where’
Regarding the sources it takes
For you to create
the products we THINK we need and
you generate.

If we want to go ‘green’
We should not remain ‘red’ (with blood on your hands)
We should keep in mind - the destroyed lands
And the animals that bled…
(Just for the sake of a decorated paper wrapper adorning a burger in a Happy Meal.)

If we want to minimize wasteful products
We should stop spending our bucks
On meals and merchandise
That come with a price
That we won’t want to pay
When Karma-comes-a-callin’ one day!


Mr. Industry,
I demand and YOU supply!
Don’t get it twisted
Or try to sneak things by
We won’t keep walking down the same path that you lie!
(and you do lie)



Now, the money you made from which you invest
Spend for redevelopment and clean up your mess.
.

Out of respect for OUR ancestors,
Refrain from your dirty, little industrial secrets
And make it happen with ‘clean’ green…
The transition will be more profitable than it seems.
And, if you refuse
Methods and products I choose
Nothing you attempt to industrialize
Will ever be realized
Because a new world of consumers
Will make materialize
A Change…
of their Own …

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Economical correction would call upon a new and necessary way of thinking. Well, the philosophy itself isn’t new; but, for it to be truly practiced and positively functioning, it would need to be incorporated by many people and held on to for dear life. Make ‘the changers’ of industry make a change! … and THEY will be grateful for it in the end.

My perception of a correct economical answer to today’s economical challenges would be “commu-nomics”….. As a poet, I have the write and the responsibility to make up new words (smile) if I maintain integrity while doing it.

If you look up the definitions of the words community and economics and put them together, you will have the answer. I won’t give you my perspective because I don’t want to influence my readers who may not have given this idea though. Develop your own understandings. But make sure you step quickly and definitively towards committing to your ideals and allow the transformation of your family, community, and country to begin and to be complete.


Definitions from Rhymezone.com:

Economic:
adjective: financially rewarding
Example: "It was no longer economic to keep the factory open"
adjective: concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
Example: "He wrote the book primarily for economic reasons"
adjective: of or relating to the science of economics
Example: "Economic theory"
adjective: of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
Example: "Economic growth"
adjective: using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
Example: "An economic use of home heating oil"


Community:
noun: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
noun: a group of people living in a particular local area
Example: "The team is drawn from all parts of the community"
noun: a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common
Example: "The Christian community of the apostolic age"
noun: a group of nations having common interests
Example: "They hoped to join the NATO community"
noun: common ownership
Example: "They shared a community of possessions"
noun: agreement as to goals
Example: "The preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
noun: the body of people in a learned occupation
Example: "The news spread rapidly through the medical community"
noun: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

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peace,

shyne