What did the wise man do next to save the city?
In Post Two I stated I will explore what the wise man did next after resting 6calm to save the city.
The Purpose of this Post
Is to relate an ancient proverb to what I surmise gives a clue what the wise man did to save the city from the events described as an analogy as I explained in Post One.
King Solomon
Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. (Ecclesiastes 11:2)
What’s My Point?
I surmise after restoring calm to the defenders behind the walls of the city by meeting with them to review plans how to defend the city.
For example, the King of the City was wise and had been prudent to plan for the possibility of a siege or famine and stored a sufficient supply of food and weapons.
The city water was obtained from a deep underground spring fed wells which the invaders could not access to cut off from the city dwellers.
In My Opinion
This analogy compared to our contemporary experiences highlights the folly of USA leaders who did opposite the Ecclesiastes verse and the result is what we are now experiencing with the COVID virus pandemic.
Because past leaders listened to economist theories of globalism and outsourcing manufacturing of 90 percent of USA medical PPE and drugs to sources 8000 miles away, the result of shortages of these supplies and lack of planning and saving for because “you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.” has resulted in spreading the virus and resultant deaths and the need for huge borrowing to add to the National Debt.
In other words, the ancient King who wrote the above verse was wiser than USA leaders.
In My Next Post
I will explore what I surmise the wiseman did next to save the city.
If Interested
Read the Source Links below.
You Decide
Would it have been wise for our leaders to understand the wisdom of Ecclesiastes above verse before they listened to the economists who convinced them that globalism was wise and the USA should change from a self-sustaining and reliant Nation with a manufacturing economy to a service economy explained in a speech given by President Obama?
Regards and goodwill blogging
Source Links
Post One
https://rudymartinka.com/2020/08/29/the-wise-man-saved-the-city-king-solomon-blog-post-one/
Post Two
https://rudymartinka.com/2020/08/30/post-two-the-wise-man-saved-the-city-king-solomon-blog/
Previous Posts – Covid-19
https://rudymartinka.com/category/covid-19/
Biblehub – Gils Bible Commentary of Ecclesiastes 11:2
Rudy u Martinka 
As the world’s population grows political borders shrink as the political and economic effects of one country affect more than just within their own borders. You can’t avoid economic globalism as it also spreads a measure of international prosperity and reduces human suffering. It also reduces political tensions between nations when trade exists and helps maintain the peace. Isolation as a result of nationalism is simply burying your head in the sand. Globalism is inevitable.
Prior to Covid no one cared about strategic stockpiles of PPE…. so to go back now and point fingers to past administrations to deflect blame on Trump’s general ill-preparedness for leadership is nonsense.
Solution for the future… 1. Review all possible strategic threats against domestic economic capacities and assure we have a strategic reserve from certain domestic and international sources and/or domestic manufacturing capability to assume that demand when needed. Threats from global warming and nature’s affects as a result alone are going to toss more crisis into the mix in the future… guaranteed.
2. The U.S. becomes an internationals leader in crisis preparedness in helping nations plan ahead.. and of course selling our own domestic products to them for their own strategic stockpiles.
You don’t retreat from globalism.. you fine tune it.
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Doug,
Thanks for your comment. In regards to your statements”
1. “Prior to Covid no one cared about strategic stockpiles of PPE”
That no one cared may not be totally true. In my opinion no one either listened or understood and wisely discerned the meaning of the Ecclesiastes advice written 3000 years ago. The same advice many investment advisors tell their stock market clients. Not to invest 90 percent of their assets in one source (China) but to invest in eight different sources because “you never know what disaster may come upon your land (USA)
I am not blaming Obama, just stating the truth of how he too ,as well as previous Presidents beginning with Clinton and NAFTA, Bush with WTA decisions also did not follow the wise advice of King Solomon.
2. I also agree with your statement, “You don’t retreat from globalism. you fine tune it.”
That is exactly what Trump campaigned and promised and accomplished by fine tuning the NAFTA and China trade agreements to balance trade.
Check out the numerous post I wrote in my blog for the last five years on the subject of Free Trade and the need to balance trade agreements if you are interested.
https://rudymartinka.com/category/free-trade/
As for Obama, I voted for him and Joe Biden in their first election because the promised to renegotiate all trade agreements. They turned out to be empty suit promises because they were influenced by economist theories that manufacturing would never return to the USA and being a service economy was much wiser.
The reason probably was they had no experience in business like Trump. Their backgrounds were in social issues and politics.
Sad for our country, in my opinion because they now both seem to agree with Trump about depending on China ang globalism was not the wisest course or decisions they made while in power.
In my opinion, if every politician had taken a course in King Solomon wisdom, we would not be in the sad situations we are now, especially in incurring a National Debt of 23 trillion dollars, and unparcelled in history amount of both debt and folly.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I think one of the more benign cabinet positions that seems to just “coast along” in any administration is Commerce. Perhaps under its auspices we need an agency that addresses future technologies and ramifications to the various levels of American life.. mostly addressing the vulnerability to displace portions of an industry, workforce, etc. As a Republican, I don’t want government involved in free market, but I totally understand the need for regulation where necessary. If an advancing technology has a potential to displace workers then this agency can recommend to President/Congress it’s best projections wherein the President/Congress can address in advance any necessary re-training or re-employment efforts so as not to leave hanging a segment of the working middle class when their jobs fade away.
One of the greatest economic problems I see with a global economy is that of irregular economies.. cost-of-living and thus trade disparities between nations that force. Our middle class is not the same affluence as other countries’ middle class. Over time a global economy might level that out more… but that will take decades.
The important thing about a global economy is that it will also overflow into society and this will cause some tensions between countries wanting to retain certain cultural identities. So whatever is determined to be a path to fine tune a global economic effort for the good of all, there has to be a conscious effort to retain those cultural identities.
As you can as well given your in-the-trenches experience, I could go on and on. But we should not fear a global economy… and whatever is done should be done gradually over time to provide time for adjustment.
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Doug
I don’t disagree with any of your comments. However, my experience for the last ten years blogging, writing to Congress, responding to news columnists is most people have no understanding of manufacturing.
For example, I remember one reply from a globalism avid supporter who gave me numerous explanations of the economic advantages of globalism. I posed a question is what will happen if we outsource a critical component to an only source in a foreign country, we later war with.
The reply was that we will just outsource to another country.
Anyone who has any knowledge of manufacturing would laugh at his reply because as I explained in a previous post about the lack of planning and knowledge on the machinery to produce N95 masks takes six months and 4.1 million dollars to make the machinery to produce a n95 mask.
https://rudymartinka.com/2020/05/06/wise-ppe-masked-fix-king-solomon-blog/
Same applies to the manufacture of many other components to operate military planes and other needs for vital components.
Sad that we had to learn the hard way because of the pandemic that outsourcing 100 percent of our manufacturing was folly. Not to mention the loss of jobs to American manufacturing workers who will neve be able to compete with a source that pays the laborer’s 200 dollars a month while an American has to pay 1000 dollars a month just for rent
Sad. Politicians having no knowledge or experience chose to listen to elite schooled economist theories instead of: in the trench: warnings based on manufacturing experience.
Frankly, I was not the only one trying to warn Congress, there were thousands and perhaps millions of others
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Thankfully, Trump was elected who understood the folly and warnings and did something because he had business experience instead of social or political experiences he gathered “in the trenches.”
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I understand what you are saying.. I truly do. Which is why I am saying that we need some entity in government that watches these kinds of things.. the growing technologies and changing manufacturing processes. I would not doubt one bit that we were made partially complacent toward our strategic manufacturing needs because of how effectively we switched from “butter to guns” to meet the challenges of WW2. The other thing has been the complete surprise of the pandemic with everyone and the entire economy being caught offguard simply because no one had any idea how much of a national threat it has been. .. or could have been to even care to prepare for such contingencies. The real challenge will be to decide in the future what constitutes a “strategic industry”. I mean.. one could argue the military will need paper clips. Where does one draw the line. Before Covid, N95 masks were probably in the same level of strategic importance as paper clips.
As far Trump knowing anything… sorry.. can’t agree there at all. But you and I can agree that far greater attention is needed to assure a better prepared strategic economy.
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Doug,
I won’t dispute your idea. After, all I remember your suggestion about immigration that I frankly discounted, but Trump managed to accomplish same as you suggested.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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In a nutshell, the issue is the story of the two house builders, one built on solid foundations, the built on sand, you have to imagine, what are your foundations, what is the path you laid, did you put enough strength into the layers of foundation, did you leave any gaps. this is the dilemma of today, in our haste to make money, we left holes and gaps everywhere, what else would solomon say, cheers Rudy. forgiveness makes for strong foundations
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bwcarey
Thanks for your comment. Yes I agree on foundations being one of the core issues which I intend to focus on in this series in later posts.
Your comment suggestion about foundations is very discerning in my opinion.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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bwcarey
You may be interested in how I inserted your comment thought about foundations in the final post in this series.
Thanks for your inspiration.
https://rudymartinka.com/2020/09/10/final-post-six-the-wise-man-saved-the-city-king-solomon-blog/
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Rudy, thanks for you kind words, in these times, we need to get back to the sources of real wisdom, that that comes from above, it’s amazing how the old wisdom’s can be applied to everyday problems, particularly in these times of crisis and change which require clear instructions, be blessed
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