Stop Using Credit Cards Today - Why?

When this economy that we are all under, that is driven by the two percent that rule us, the middle class and the working class suffer when the wrong switches and levers are pulled that benefit those two percenters. The banks and 'investment bankers' that turned houses into short term profits for themselves and then had to have the 'government' - taxpayers, you and me pay them to stay in business, it left the middle and working class with fewer jobs and the real prospect of starvation.

That's because the sweat of hardworking people are nothing but wage laborers and our work has become another way to make profits from - and can be discarded at the whim of the corporate oligarchy that has developed in the U.S. and the world.

We have no say regarding how our economy is used and manipulated, the people that do, you and I don't see, because it happens in rooms with no numbers, in buildings that have no names by people who pull those switches and levers, the very people that got us into this mess in the first place.

They are the ones that pay the politicians and media mines to make sure you and I have no chance, no chance at all. It's the media that is the lap dog of these two percenters. It's not a 'liberal' media; it's a corporate media that wins big when the political campaign season comes around and who pays this corporate media, the multi-national banks, oil, pharmaceuticals, and mega mega corporations. It's all about profits for the billionaires and starvation for the working people of this country.

... and most of us buy this corrupt system. How stupid is that? Really stupid.

So for a start, here's one idea. Start paying for things that you buy - in cash. That effects banks in a big way, stop using credit cards as much as possible. By doing that simple act you and I can begin to transform this stupid system over night.

If you can’t do that, write more checks, just stay away from credit cards.

economics

The world economic system is in the process of being reinvented. It is taking place by people in sectors of the economy that don't know they are really on the cutting edge of that change.

They are questioning some of the most rooted ideas that have been around for hundreds of years. In the world of science people are questioning the existing incentive mechanisms, the open access to information, the ownership of intellectual property, does innovation drive technology or is it the other way round?

Was the industrial revolution a technology movement or a social movement? It appears that the industrial revolution was really a social movement that introduced, for example - the creation of a class of poor people, the idea of industrial jobs, capital flows. A social movement that created our existing economic model that we are all ruled by.

Here are a few more questions just for starters. Is there such a thing as venture capital philanthropy? Can our present economic system grow forever or are we faced with replacing growth with development?

The people of the world are facing massive change one way or the other, are we going to except the change that is happening without our understanding of what we are doing that is making this change or are we going to assess where we presently are and chart a new course. The course has to start with an economic system that is more democratic than the present one, for the ever expanding idea of growth is just not sustainable and the waste and sacking of the earth environment will only in the end reduce the human population in a way that is going to create massive dislocation and world wide die offs.

It's up to you.