Moving Your Money To Main Street to Regroup

On the one hand globalism driven by the largest companies in league with politicians headed to and from seats on the boards of the biggest companies. On the other hand a quiet rebellion by those on Main Street against the forces of centralization that bring us mass media, punditry, spectacle, the mortgage mess, and a constant parade of whopping liars blaming liberals, terrorists, or anything but themselves for the decline of our civil society, our democracy, and the health of our air, water, and food supply. Here from the Greens a new website on bringing money home to Main Street and so starving the forces of centralization, whether corporate or governmental. Here linked to from the Green site, Catherine Austin Fitts on "Where would Jesus Bank," How to Find a Local Bank that Matches Your Values, and The US Banking Tapeworm.  What is new here is the coalescence of the Libertarians and the Greens.   What we call Democrats are part of the Centralization Party, the moderate wing. Those of us who want to live simply, have family values built on love not hate, on reason not religious fanaticism, and who value community over brands, and who demand a return to a constitutional republic are turning away from both parties in power and their corporate cronies.  To vote against the duopoly in power you have to get local with your money and your political engagement. As to philanthropy, we shall see whether Ford, Soros, Annie Casey et. al. wake up or whether they remain fat, dumb, and decorous as we slide into a corporate security state, via disaster capitalism. As for me, the heck with it. The doctor says the new meds should improve my positive mental attitude and if not, a little shock therapy should do the trick. Millions of marketized Americans can't be wrong. Might as well join them.

Comments

[Gerry]

Ahhh, that's the good stuff. Ultimately main street is much more powerful than wall street, I'll have to take some time to follow all the links I haven't seen yet. Blogging at it's best, thanks.

[Phil]

Thanks, Gerry, a breakthrough post for me. Interesting when different lines of thought finally connect, like a railroad network taking shape.

[More Ado About Nothing]

well done ...

[Phil]

Thanks, little by little you can see the forces converging for a counter-reformation. The liberatrians are fighting mad over the loss of civil liberties. The greens are fighting mad over environmental degradation and "the illusion of news." Progressives are embarassed by any show of ill-tempered emotion and want to make nice with the fantatics to their right. They will welcome a chance to present themselves a peacemakers, deal brokers, traingulators, moderates in the middle. "We don't need the constitution back, but maybe the Decider should be required to attend Nascar events not less than annually to shake hands with ordinary people."

[More Ado About Nothing]

.. early weak signals, pattern recognition and all that .. but no doubt it will all fit nice and easily within "it's all WB, after all ?! "

It's a cash flow world, and whatever it takes to keep the cash flowing, right ?

[Phil]

Catherine Fitts is aiming at something pretty ambitious, reworking the cash flows into and out of small towns. She is an expert in those flows and has tracked how they leave via HUD, the drug trade, other criminal enterprises, taxes, profits by large companies, etc. She understands the Wall St system of buyouts with cheap dollars from Japan, and she understands how our natural resources and small businesses are being rolled up into larger and larger, less and less accountable corporate structures in collusion with governmenent and off the books money. She is working to get local money into locally owned businesses. More than that she is developing vehicles into which ordinary people can invest dollars that will stay down in the grassroots. She is also working on structures that can hold natural resources in public trust. She is one woman with a vision that could take an army. But as we all know, it takes a network to defeat a hierarchy. She is a node on a network, but no more the boss of it than any other node. There is no outside of WB, but if there were, it would be small scale, locally owned and operated, and well-networked with investors and consumers who want a good return on money, but also want a decent community and a healthy life for their kids. That is a vision that can unite people across the current political spectrum. We might even recruit our friend, Bill Schambra. Who knows.