Dear Patriots,
It's a new year and back to the drawing board.Hopefully we can collectively chart a brighter course for creating a world that is more peaceful, just and fraternal. We can only achieve this by challenging longstanding traditions concerning economics, people and profits.
Economists and world leaders have adamantly taken the position that solving monumental problems like starvation, mass unemployment, oppression and war are complex problems that are virtually impossible to tackle.
The truth is that many of societies social ills can be addressed by "pyramidic power structure" of banks, corporations and governments. As a visual aid let's draw a triangle and call it option (a). This symbol is representative of the majority of our institutions. At the top of the pyramid we find the elite ruling class.
It is important to recognize that every country has an elite ruling class and aristocracy. They have always been there. Even America's Republic Constitution did nothing to change this fact.
America has a capitalistic class society. The political/corporate elites wanting to insure a permanent separation of income classes gave the corporation human personhood during the Lincoln presidency. This happened after the emancipation proclamation that freed the slaves. From that day forward the majority of workers in the USA became slaves to labor.
The corporation is all powerful and during the U.S. industrial revolution there were a large number of corporate barons that abused the workforce with long hours and slave labor wages. This inhumane treatment resulted in the labor union and collective bargaining.
Once again the political/corporate elites were forced to act by enacting the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. The Federal Reserve is responsible for "regulating the economy" by raising and lowering interest rates which includes artificially engineering recessions at the request of Corporate America. This justifies wage cuts and concessions because orders are down.
Additional corporate barriers exist to insure this separation of income classes such as making it difficult to launch new products and inventions in the marketplace, charging absurd fees to patent inventions,paying low inventor royalties and embracing the "not invented here" attitude.
This general lack of mutual cooperation and stifling of creativity and entrepreneurship is detrimental to national economies because it is new products and new technologies that drive them. The U.S. Federal Government makes it difficult for poor and disadvantage inventors to participate in the entrepreneurial arena.
The truth is that America and many other countries need poverty and low wage jobs in order for their class system to function properly. Thus, upward mobility is stifled and limited to a lucky few who manage to succeed through perseverance,perseverance and more perseverance.
The political/corporate elites will do anything to protect this pyramidic political/corporate system based on centralized power. But, in order to straighten things out we need to flip the triangle over so that the point is at the bottom.
This is (Option B) and it is the way that the majority of banks, corporations and governments need to be structured. Governments have limited power. Corporations are employee owned and banks are community owned institutions that invest in their local economy.
If WE THE PEOPLE do not unite and take immediate action than America will continue to be forced to lower our living standards and way of life. Federal Government will not rein in ruthless corporations who will continue to seek to maximize profits by relocating to Third World countries with no boundaries or accountablity.
Deindustrialization and unchecked globalization affects all of us and it must be effectively challenged by an alliance of like minded citizens, inventors and business owners at the grassroots level. As a former elected shop steward for a labor union I assure you that there is strength in numbers. In joining together we create leverage and serve as a vehicle for transforming our political and corporate institutions into ones that are more fair and just for all of us.
In peace,
Daniel E. Moore,President
(Project for New America)
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