Robin Hood Party

Who needs a new party? We do, the left needs a new party. The right has its - the Tea Party, so why can't we have on the left have a party. So I suggest we have a Robin Hood Party.

A party of taxing, the opposite of the Tea Party, the party of no taxing. So who should get taxed? Obvious corporations like GE who didn't pay any taxes last year and probably did pay any taxes for years past.

Let's not forget the super rich, they've moved the billions over seas so there's no hope of taxing any of their ill gotten gains because they don't exist in the eyes of the tax mavens in Washington, DC, mainly because they have made it possible for the super rich to play the game of make it here and there and keep it there.

So it's time to tax, or take it from the super rich corporations and the super rich super rich and turn around and give it to the poor. There's more and more of the poor in this country, it a growth industry if you can call creating more poor a growth industry.

So what to do.

Start spray canning the media with Robin Hood logos. That's a beginning. Create a Robin Hood Logo - maybe a hoodie with no face, just the hood, so when people see it they know what it means.

The hoodies rule.

Robin Hood rules.

Path of Sanity

There are many people of like concerns that are traveling on a path of sanity. Their individual concerns all add up to the making of a path of sanity. Each person or group know that there needs to be solutions to these concerns but what they might be are not foreshadowed for many reasons. I have many issues of concern and as I travel along this path I look forward and I see people that are farther along the path than I, look back some who are just getting started, but we are all on this path to sanity.

I think we need a spokes person, one who could speak to a larger crowed and tell them about our path. We need a person that we look up to, respect and would voice our needs, hopes that would foreshadow what our individual stories are in a compelling way.

I think that person is Van Jones and I think we should ask him to take on the task of telling others about our Path of Sanity.

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.