Forum Post: Mass confusion among Occupy Wall street movement.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 11:38 a.m. EST by Dutchess
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Capitalism is when the markets react to supply and demand and it is backed by sound money to keep capitalism accountable.
What we have today is Corporatism, the merger of BigCorp/Banks in bed with corrupt Govt and the endless printing of fiat money through the Federal Reserve System ( money not backed by anything).
Do you understand your income tax goes solely to pay interest to the Federal Reserve on money they never had in the first place and merely ordered to be printed off the printing press?
There are numerous vids on the Fed. Edward GRiffins 'the Creature of Jekyll Island, based on his book I read. The movie Zeitgeist...etc etc. youtube is full of info on the Fed and it is time people wake up and become literate on the most important subject of our time.
There is actually a video on UTUBE about the federal reserve that is about 29minutes long in amination.I forget the name of it,everyone should see it. I saw it the begining of the year.
Civil liberties and economic freedom go hand in hand ( see Hayek, Road to Serfdom). Unless people understand that the frame work for true liberty is our Constitution and that central planning always leads to tyranny , no matter how well the intentions are, can there be no change. Hitler had a chance to rise to power because the Weimar Republic ( Germany) had very strong socialist tendencies where people looked at a central entity to solve their problems. Power to the people means, give them control back at the local level ( See Antonia Juhasz "the Bush Agenda, invading the World one economy at the time') Your Individual Rights are protected by the Bill of Rights, your economic rights should be in your hands at the local level. Both the left and the right recognize....its about local markets,local control over government and local solutions..... We need to open our eyes to reality and recognize that Global Economy is the race to the bottom on wages and livelyhoods of populations.
Agreed.
the next step is one potent idea to loosen the grip of corporatism.
One Common Interest: End Corporate Lobbyists from there all these other issues can be raised, debated, and voted on based on our representative government weighted one vote per one citizen. Corporate lobbyists serve the interests of perhaps 1 in 1,000 of us. with those numbers I can imagine an end to the practice. One issue, one focus nearly all of us will agree on that will open the door to all the other issues being negotiated with our common interest in the forefront. I think the next step in this process is for a single potent idea with broad support to emerge. agree? have another idea you think will do the job?