Never Underestimate The Power Of A City

While You Are Looking, You Might As Well Also Listen, Linger And Think About What You See.

In Trading With Each Other Cities Can't Be In Too Different Stages Of Development, And They Can't Copy One Another. Backward Cities, Or Younger Cities, Or Newly Forming Cities In Supply Regions, Have To Develop To A Great Extent On One Another's Shoulders. This Is One Of The Terrible Things About Empires. Empires Want Them Only To Trade With The Empire, Which Doesn't Help Them At All. It's Just A Way Of Exploiting Them.

Subsidiarity Is The Principle That Government Works Best Most Responsibly And Responsively When It Is Closest To The People It Serves And The Needs It Addresses. Fiscal Accountability Is The Principle That Institutions Collecting And Disbursing Taxes Work Most Responsibly When They Are Transparent To Those Providing The Money.

There Are Still An Awful Lot Of Intelligent, Clever Constructive Americans And They Are Still Doing Clever Constructive Things.

The Primary Conflict, I Think, Is Between People Whose Interests Are With Already Well-established Economic Activities, And Those Whose Interests Are With The Emergence Of New Economic Activities.