Forum Post: Forget Wall Street, occupy Pennsylvania Avenue
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 5:28 p.m. EST by darrenlobo
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We live in a corporatist state where major industries and special interests write the very laws that regulate them, to their own advantage, setting high barriers against competition and guaranteeing their own profits, and government enforces those laws with their monopoly on coercive power.
As a result ruling class politicians and their corporate cronies grow fat at the expense of everyone else.
Yet nearly all of the Occupiers seem to target everyone and everything except government. They seem to believe in the simple-minded myth that government exists to "serve the people" and if they can just get the government into the hands of the "right people" all will be rosy.
Yes, there is class warfare in America. But the real war isn't left vs. right. It's freedom vs. tyranny, its libertarianism vs. statism in all its ugly forms, socialism and fascism alike.
As Sheldon Richman wrote in "Wall Street couldn’t have done it alone," it takes government and its Federal Reserve System to perpetrate fraud on such a massive scale.
So forget Wall Street. Go occupy Pennsylvania Avenue.
http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-dallas/forget-wall-street-occupy-pennsylvania-avenue
Probably a good idea, especially if it got real traction. Plus, it will be a little warmer there a little longer.
True, it's a "corporatist state", and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
if you want to support a Presidential Candidate Committee at AmericansElect.org in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Atki, I like the idea of setting up an alternative banking system, but that's not what you're doing. If you become a banker within the system haven't you just become part of the problem? For example, one reason to advocate ending the fed is to do away with fractional reserve banking. Not to mention that the Fed is a banking cartel so it doesn't make sense to join it.
I advocate not voting so no thanks about the candidate.
I agree with doing away with it, but you can't do away with the Fractional Reserve Banking System until you own it. The Fed is privately owned at the regional level, with each regional director (or Governor) has a vote on its Board. Consequently, you must own the Board, by 50%, in order to eliminate (or liquidate) the Fed. No law will ever be passed by Congress to do this, only the people as bank owner-voters themselves can.