Re: I spoke about HG by invitation on Sat

[Scott Baker]

Toby -

Congratulations!  And this sounds like a promising inroad.  I'm letting the rest of Common Ground know by way of this email too.

BTW, there is a new 800-page book citing the land cycle 1830 - 2013 and proposing the Georgist solution form our friends Down Under.  Australia has some of the best land documentation around, so this ought to be a good and useful book, though I've only read the executive summary so far:
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It's got some heavy hitters in the acknowledgments:

Gavin Putland, Bryan Kavanagh, Cameron Murray, Leith van Onselen, Adam Schwab, Denise Brailey, Catherine Cashmore, Bruce Ramsay and Steve Keen.

and it is free for downloading.

Happy Landings....

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On Monday, June 30, 2014 12:56 PM, toby lenihan <tob...@optonline.net> wrote:

  I was invited by my friend   Dorothy (who I got interested in HG from me) to speak & do some of my songs this Sat for a church group dinner.

  It actually went very well. I called my talk " Economics from the Bible & how it relates to today's problems"  First I did some of my HG songs with the guitar to introduce the subject,

 Of course I spoke about the Jubilee law as it related to the land etc. I also  related from HG among other examples  (in regard to how the power to tax is the power to destroy )how when there was a window tax  in England there were less windows in front  etc. And one lady said that she is from Ireland & remembered that her family home had small windows in   front & larger ones in the back for that very reason  & she said she never heard anyone else ever mention that, & that impressed her a lot

 . I talked  about what true ownership means for the individual & the community & the reasons for  the Single Tax & also I spoke about the functions of government from Social Problems etc, & how it relates today  to our drug laws  monopolies etc.

  There were some lively questions put forth which I answered.At the end I  showed them some HG speeches  pamphlets) from RSF which were taken with interest.

  The pastor, a lady, was very friendly & interested & told me that I reminded her of Joan Biez  who she was a fan of.(which people used to tell me a lot when I was younger) I brought a couple of my HG songs cds which she was  very interested in & told me to play on their player & they liked it & had the songs on when I left. And most surprising of all to me is that they actually paid me $25 for coming. I didn't expect to be paid anything.