A professor of mine once articulated a rule of thumb that, when trying to change a system, it was useful to first make the change that makes it easier to make the other changes. When one surveys the things needing change, whether they be the environment, income distribution, healthcare, off-shoring of jobs, etc., the common obstacle to correcting all these problems is undue corporate influence over our economy, politics, the media (and, thereby, the voting public), etc. So, it seems to me that reducing that influence is the change we should seek first. This does not mean that we should abandon other objectives, it simply means that reducing corporate influence should have a favored place in our efforts.
How do we do that? The answer, I think, is in reducing the money power concentrated in our financial system because that power has become the organizing principle by which the media, politics, etc., are all controlled in disservice to the people. At the center of this money power is the unconstitutional, privately owned Federal Reserve. It is fortunate that we now have a situation that is opportune for ending the Fed: it's record of gross mismanagement of the economy, public revulsion at the bailout, and crises on many fronts indicating that our current economic system is unsustainable. A good means for accomplishing this, The American Monetary Act (http://www.monetary.org/amacolorpamphlet.pdf), has been developed. I think we could accomplish a lot by working together to have this bill passed. Peter Hollings _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
