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	<title>Comments on: The Earth Rights Institute online education program</title>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
		<link>http://www.theiu.org/learning-resources/alannas-online-education-program.html/comment-page-1#comment-107</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David, I have sent this message to the IU exec and expect Alanna Hartzog to give you a response.</description>
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		<title>By: David Chester</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Chester</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am very interested to read about the &quot;mini-bank&quot; schemes being introduced into Africa. By these charitable means a poverty struck family with ambition to do better can borrow up to about $100 in order to start a small-scale business. Many success stories have resulted with the money being frequently returned for re-use. After some experiment with the basic idea there are today several billion dollars being invested and used in this manner. If only LVT were as fast and as practical!  

My point is that this is a wonderful short-term solution, but as the people become more prosperous so will the productivity and value of the land rise and those poor peasants will eventually become land owners themselves and speculate in its value. Thus poverty will not go away and these past workers will treat others as badly as they were previously once treated. 

Unless the charitable organization of this kind (of small loans banking) cannot prevent the rent from land use to be fairly shared, all that is going to occur is the same in our corrupt Western society! They should work with the various governments with this aspect for legeslation of land ownership in mind. Progress and poverty are not solvable without control of land utility and its earnings. As Georgists it is our responsibility to make these facts known and understood by those whose largesse can be mis-used in a longer run, even as it is doing good for the present generation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am very interested to read about the &#8220;mini-bank&#8221; schemes being introduced into Africa. By these charitable means a poverty struck family with ambition to do better can borrow up to about $100 in order to start a small-scale business. Many success stories have resulted with the money being frequently returned for re-use. After some experiment with the basic idea there are today several billion dollars being invested and used in this manner. If only LVT were as fast and as practical!  </p>
<p>My point is that this is a wonderful short-term solution, but as the people become more prosperous so will the productivity and value of the land rise and those poor peasants will eventually become land owners themselves and speculate in its value. Thus poverty will not go away and these past workers will treat others as badly as they were previously once treated. </p>
<p>Unless the charitable organization of this kind (of small loans banking) cannot prevent the rent from land use to be fairly shared, all that is going to occur is the same in our corrupt Western society! They should work with the various governments with this aspect for legeslation of land ownership in mind. Progress and poverty are not solvable without control of land utility and its earnings. As Georgists it is our responsibility to make these facts known and understood by those whose largesse can be mis-used in a longer run, even as it is doing good for the present generation.</p>
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