"One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and
power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a
resignation of power and power with a denial of love....What is needed is a
realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love
without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love
implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting
everything that stands against love." ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


It is interesting and tragic that those at the top have very little
understanding of the need for infrastructure, since their parents built
their lives, education, careers, attitudes, and more than they know.

Those in the middle struggle to be like the rich, but depend upon
education, health, and economics largely provided by the policies of the
nation. As policies worsen, they cling to policies that favor the rich even
though they need to embrace the policies that best serve their own
interests and those in lower income groups. These are policies that move
national investments into education, health, and economics beyond the top
levels.

Those in the lower ends are completely dependent. The best national
policies reward those families and individuals that attempt to move beyond
class, but without early investments in education and child development,
most lower income types look alike to schools, colleges, and professional
schools.

Those in leadership like to use examples from the bottom about how futile
investments in income and education are, but this is because they failed to
impact children before age 8 when all have a similar velocity of learning
and adapting to new and different and better ways.

Sadly all fail to profit from the current arrangement. The rich spend more
on taxes, mainly to separate themselves from the middle and lower income
types for security and other reasons. They spend 5 - 20 times as much on
personal security, education of their children, child development, and
other areas. There is also evidence that they get health care that is
inefficient, ineffective, and provides too much care, which is just as
dangerous as too little.

Better and earlier and more comprehensive efforts make a society much more
efficient and effective and equitable.

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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