Hungar Games

The crumbling infrastructure of our bridges illustrated on 60 Minutes, as a metaphors, reflect our crumbling human resources and our economie's most critical "factor of production," human resources. Hunger Games is all about the wasting of human resources and the hoarding of wealth -- it is us.

John Ise, Kansas' most noted economist, described an agrarian economy that was the heart if not the heartland of Amarica's unstoppable economic machine. Ise's economy and ours was driven by four factors of production: land, labor, capital and ontrepreneural ability. In today's terms, one would include sustainability of resources under land, sustainability of human resources under labor, equal access to capital, and technology under ontrapreneural ability -- all conservative concepts.

Why can we not recognize these four factors of production as the vital infrastructure of our economy the lack of which undeniably sustains this depression.

• The sustainability of our enviroment and natural resources
• Human resources: shelter, warmth, nutrition, health, equality and access to employment
• Capital: equal access and sustainable distribution -- regulated capitalism
• Ontrepreneural ability: education, science, opportunity 

Both sides need to visit the Hunger Games. In a sense both sides are right, but you can't meet one side's set of goals without the other's. Greed, hoarding wealth and government excesses pay little attention to the above. You cannot outsource labor without disastrous local consequences -- the only thing missing from The Hunger Games.