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Fully appreciative of the many blessings of the Declaration of Independence
it might now be an appropriate time to draft a
A DECLARATION OF ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE
Whereas the Declaration of (Political) Independence has, without open discussion, been transformed into a Declaration of Personal Independence;
Whereas this ideology has given rise to the Age of Entitlements, an age dominated by the conception that there can ever be rights without responsibilities;
Whereas the lack of personal and civic responsibility has generated the conception of Life as
One-Against-All
;
Whereas this emphasis on our own welfare -- independent, if not at the expense, of the welfare of our fellow citizens -- has created economic insecurity for everyone, rich and poor alike,
we affirm that our greatest political need
is
to build a society
in which
the reality of
Economic Interdependence
is fully acknowledged.
In this society, we declare, the fundamental conception of Life is
One-With-All
-- and we trust that the effect will be economic jubilation for all.
In order to build such a society
we are called upon to realize the political ideals of
Liberty, Justice, and Goodwill toward one and all.
In order to build such a society
our challenge is
to deny
all structures of individual and societal selfishness
and
to affirm
THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE
as enunciated in
A Bill of Economic Rights and Responsibilities
.
This work has uniquely been assisted financially by "The Joan M. Gorga Foundation" and editorially by Stuart-Sinclair Weeks.
First penned by
September 25, 1996
Can the Visitor improve upon this language?
Can the Visitor subscribe to it?
Can the Visitor help to have this Declaration written
into the hearts and minds of other people?
For a fuller explanation of the reasoning on which this Declaration is based, see a volume entitled
The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture.
By Carmine Gorga. Lanham, MD, and Oxford: University Press of America, 2002.
E-mail: cgorga (AT) jhu.edu
Would the visitor help?
The best explanation of economic interdependence that this writer has found is
an article by Leonard E. Read entitled
“I, Pencil: My family Tree”.
It is available from The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. at www.fee.org
A longer explanation of economic interdependence is contained in
The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture.
By Carmine Gorga. Lanham, MD, and Oxford: University Press of America, 2002.
E-mail: cgorga (AT) jhu.edu