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Question:  ... If there are 29,000 starving children in Africa and 10s of thousands of adults out there in the arid, sandy countryside, and the NGOs save them all, where are the going to get the food to sustain all those lives over the long-term?

[Note: I'm just sayin' ...
Starting off on a project without a specified objective is like 
going on a coast-to-coast trip through unfamiliar territory 
without a map.]

Want to play a little game now?  OK, when was the following excerpt written and by whom? (see answer below)

"Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed, clothe, or educate even one half of the number born to them. We see sick, harassed, broken mothers whose health and nerves cannot bear the strain of further child-bearing. We see fathers growing despondent and desperate, because their labor cannot bring the necessary wage to keep their growing families. We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families."
 
"It is generally conceded by sociologists and scientists that a nation cannot go on indefinitely multiplying without eventually reaching the point when population presses upon means of subsistence."  More ...



Answer:
(*) This is a quote from a Margaret Sanger article which she wrote 94 years ago.  Her insights into population growth and control vis-a-vis the ability to care for any excess of children, over two per family, were first published in the Woman Citizen, Vol. 8, February 23, 1924, pages 17-18. 


Related observation:

Famous Alvin Toffler Quotation

Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity.  A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society. "If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it.  True.  But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. "

I may be wrong but ...

Question:  ... If there are 29,000 starving children in Somalia-Kenya, and 10s of thousands of adults out there in the arid, sandy countryside, and the NGOs save them all, where are the going to get the food to sustain all those lives over the long-term?

[Note: I'm just sayin' ...
Starting off on a project without a specified objective is like 
going on a coast-to-coast trip through unfamiliar territory 
without a map.]

Want to play a little game now?  OK, when was the following excerpt written and by whom? (see answer below)

"Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed, clothe, or educate even one half of the number born to them. We see sick, harassed, broken mothers whose health and nerves cannot bear the strain of further child-bearing. We see fathers growing despondent and desperate, because their labor cannot bring the necessary wage to keep their growing families. We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families."
 
"It is generally conceded by sociologists and scientists that a nation cannot go on indefinitely multiplying without eventually reaching the point when population presses upon means of subsistence."  More ...



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Answer:
(*) This is a quote from a Margaret Sanger article which she wrote 84 years ago.  Her insights into population growth and control vis-a-vis the ability to care for any excess of children, over two per family, were first published in the Woman Citizen, Vol. 8, February 23, 1924, pages 17-18. 


Related observation:

Famous Alvin Toffler Quotation

Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity.  A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society. "If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it.  True.  But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. "

The Trouble with "Been there, done that"

After all these years, I seem to have no deep yearnings.
What I have left are only superficial desires.

The "Indian-Giver" & "Itty-Bitty" Laws

The Indian-Giver Law
When administering medication via any route (i.e., oral pills or tablets, injection, suppository, patch, other) always remember: "Once a medication has been given to the patient, it is difficult (if not impossible) to get it back."

The Itty-Bitty Law
Therefore, one should always be guided by the Itty-Bitty Law:
"Always start with an itty-bitty dose, especially of any new medication, because you can always give more, but (see Indian-Giver Law above)."

Corollary of the Itty-Bitty Law
"Just because they make a specific dose size (e.g., a 25- or 50- or 100-mg pill), doesn't mean you have to give that much to a patient."

(see "Appropriate Dose" posting on this blog; see Also: "That's Why God Gave Us Pill Cutters"

Appropriate dose (of anything)

Whether it is medicine, money, wind, rain, shine, sleet or snow, modesty, assertiveness, or confidence, the appropriate dose is:

"Enough, but not too much."

“ ... Summer Roller Coaster” (Investment Newsletter response)

Newsletter text (NL): Summer is a time when many Americans seek out amusement parks for the thrills of riding a rollercoaster. The climbs and drops at high speed deliver an exciting mix of fear and exhilaration. But knowing the extent of the highs and lows, and when it is going to be over, play a crucial role in the fun of riding a metal roller coaster.  Riding a market roller coaster offers no such assurances and is no fun at all ... "

Response to NL (R2NL): however, we do know the highest the market has ever been and that the lowest it can go is to Zero.  That's a paltry 12,000-point range and barely worth the trouble if you are really lookin' for a good time!  (And, don't cha know, we are all lookin' for a good time oncet in a whale.)    

With only 400 to 520-point drops and falls in the current market, I am really not feeling the gut-wrenching excitement, the blood pressure-elevating fear, the terminal projectile vomiting that I really need to get out of playing the market for hard core fun.  Therefore, I would like you to get ready to talk with us about liquidating all of our investments in stocks, funds, Credit Default Swaps, junk bonds and related low-adrenaline pumping stuff and start thinking about moving it all to Commodities. 

I would like to focus on liquid natural gas, copper, aluminum, gold and silver for starters, then using my profits, move into the majorly volatile (e.g., gasoline) ones later.  I am planning on a "buy the market and sell the news" strategy, combined with "buy low and sell high" and other pearls of wisdom I have learned from a pamphlet I got in the mail back in 1984 called "The Burning Match."  

From what I have read, and incorporated into what I call my personal CMS (Commodities Management Strategy) it sounds like I would be in favor of the safest procedure, i.e., taking actual possession of each and every commodity I buy.  I hear people have done that with soy beans and I don't think doing it with LNG would be that much harder ... and I have held a couple of Kruger Rands before which wasn't hard at all (hid 'em in the toilet tank and nobody ever tumbled to where they were).  By taking possession, I don't have to worry about some doofus semi-pro in Conehatta, Mississippi, (locally referred to as Cone-Heads), messing around and losing my gold, silver and liquefied natural gas, etc.  I will have it all right here and can touch it and feel it and show it off to my neighbors.

So, as usual, I have learned a great deal from your investment newsletter and look forward to reading many more.  Thanks so much.

Your loyal investment customer,
Doc

What's Most Important?

When all is said and done: relief is better than happiness.