Things Not Mentioned

I was listening to our Commissioner of Economic and Community Development speak of how happy she is our State and Federal tax revenues now subsidize two, possibly even three, submarines per year rather than the mere one per year of the bad old unemployment days. Her enthusiasm continued over growth in military manufacturing of fission and ballistic pathological outcomes like huge hauling helicopter contracts And all types of war mongering and war supportive nurturing assets, arms racist buildups providing three thousand new jobs in Connecticut. Admittedly jobs at perpetual risk of costing three hundred thousand or more loss of lives of limbs loss of organic livelihood networks for restoring therapeutic multicultural health, Loss of trees and plants, Loss of healthy soil and water and air. This potential liability side she did not mention nor was it clear, from tone and rhythms of BusinessAsUsual voice if she could even see and hear such cooperative economic dissonance with infusing love of public health service reality. She did not mention any growth in natural LEED construction for affordably resilient community housing. She certainly omitted growth of community college training for natural built construction of and by, for and with, cooperative self-help empowerment builders becoming proud co-housing nature-spirit goodfaith residents growing shared organic community developing gardens. She did not mention thousands of new jobs opening up to build bicycle lanes, woodchip and bark trails connecting GREEN EcoSchools to goodfaith community centers perennial gardens grazing greens cooperative Commons permaculture designed municipal parks hosting outdoor classes connecting PositivEnergy CoOperatively Owned Democracy incoming investment for restoring climate therapeutic Continuous Quality Improvement public and private secular and sacred healthy wealth outcomes. I suppose because growth in these sectors is not newsworthy in Connecticut; These cooperatively-owned differences between mere public service non-profit sectors and public nutritional empowerment models toward WinWin ecopolitically fusing health-wealth outcomes Replacing all those unnecessary loud and stinky helicopters and ballistic-disempowering submarines. The happier her competitive WinLose bubble glowed as she enthused on and on about manufactured growth the sadder I became about her ballistically manufactured tumor, her absence of WinWin health service humor.