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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

several ripples. If two people do this, you multiply the ripples – and

so on. Each person’s contribution to the economic pond helps it
grow. In capitalism that often does trickle down; however, it

certainly cannot trickle up. What the investment capitalist does is
actually begin a ripple effect. The jobs they create are more stones

skipped across the pond.
My concept of the Ripple Effect Economy is the circles. Circles

are perpetual, until broken. Perpetual is infinite, until broken. Every
economic microcosm is a series of ripples – circles. We can begin

that economic system at any point – and it will end at that point, or
begin again. It is like the ecosystem – ecosystems consist of multiple

smaller ecosystems, and economies consist of multiple smaller
economies. Ecosystems are self-reliant, producing all they need to

survive internally and contributing to the larger ecosystem – one
cannot begin to take from the other, it disrupts and destroys the

ecosystem. We are an economic system – individually we contribute
to our families, and as families we contribute to our communities, as

communities we contribute to our counties and states, and our
states contribute to our Country. In return, our Country provides for

our general welfare and defense, and so the systemic cycle
continues. One analogy is the natural food chain or cycle. Sun and

water provide for plant life (which, incidentally, provides oxygen)
and that plant life is eaten by insects and smaller herbivores. Those

insects are eaten by larger animals, primarily omnivores, and so on

through the larger and primarily carnivorous animals. When
animals die, vultures consume them and when plants die insects eat
those. Soon decomposition takes over and contributes to the

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