Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Hysterical


GOP Debate Summary
Didn't watch the #GOPDebate last night? Here's what you missed.
Posted by Fusion on Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

'So Here’s A Common Sense Budget Fix, Sen. Marklein'

My Man Mark Doing His Thing!

‘Call’ Readers Write: So Here’s A Common Sense Budget Fix, Sen. Marklein

Hello, Senator Marklein:

I am sure we all would like to see these words – Budget Surplus – when looking at the means available to our state. But the likelihood of that ever happening is not good so long as the state uses private financing to supply whatever it does not raise in taxes. However, one must ask the question about why this is looked at as the only option.  More than 100 years ago the farmers of the State Of North Dakota realized that private finance was not the only way to fund the activity of The People.  They determined that so long as the banking method of supplying money to the economy was going to be used that The People should be the ones that owned the bank!  Simple idea, and very effective.
You see, if The People of the State of Wisconsin own the bank then the proceeds from banking (all the repaid loans and the interest) go back to The People, to the budget of their own economy!  In the scenario of private ownership of banking the proceeds from banking will not go back to The People and will, in fact, be a drain on the economy that can never be stopped unless The People do not need money to do the things they do!
So, I am writing to ask why the Joint Finance Committee goes along with the private sector financing of that which is not raised in taxes and has not assessed the situation with a more positive approach such as was determined by the people of North Dakota over 100 years ago?  Since the institution of The State Bank Of North Dakota formed that state has had a budget surplus!  Yet we in what claims to be a progressive and well educated state continue to wrangle over budgetary items living with these silly notions that we do not have enough to do all that We The People can and need to do.
The absurdity of this situation goes beyond the Joint Finance Committee and makes one question the legitimacy of a so called ‘education’ from our university system that is also wringing its hands about how to fund its activities while none in that circle seem to understand that We The People can actually own and control our own bank and can use the proceeds, that one can see are drenching Wall Street bankers in money, to finance our own activity instead of theirs!
So I challenge you and the rest of the Committee to question the assumptions under which you are working and discover that a simple establishment of a State Bank Of Wisconsin that is owned by and works for the benefit of We The People would allow you and the rest of the Committee to stop the wrangling and hand wringing about budget cuts and actually supervise the phenomenal economic strength of our state.  It is really just a matter of knowing that The People ARE the economy and that they should rightfully be the issuers and controllers of Their Money and that the proceeds from the issuance of money should come back To The People.
Please do not let another 100 years pass before you and the rest of the committee come to this discovery and progressive action taken by the farmers and ranchers of North Dakota 100 years ago.

For more information on Public Banking please visit The Public Banking Institute: www.publicbankinginstitute.org

Mark Heffernan
Richland Center, WI

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Saturday, March 1, 2014

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement



"If, on the other hand, we stop taking world leaders at their word and instead think of neoliberalism as a political project, it suddenly looks spectacularly effective. The politicians, CEOs, trade bureaucrats, and so forth who regularly meet at summits like Davos or the G20 may have done a miserable job in creating a world capitalist economy that meets the needs of a majority of the world’s inhabitants (let alone produces hope, happiness, security, or meaning), but they have succeeded magnificently in convincing the world that capitalism—and not just capitalism, but exactly the financialized, semifeudal capitalism we happen to have right now—is the only viable economic system. If you think about it, this is a remarkable accomplishment."

"It does often seem that, whenever there is a choice between one option that makes capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and another that would actually make capitalism a more viable economic system, neoliberalism means always choosing the former. The combined result is a relentless campaign against the human imagination. Or, to be more precise: imagination, desire, individual creativity, all those things that were to be liberated in the last great world revolution, were to be contained strictly in the domain of consumerism, or perhaps in the virtual realities of the Internet. In all other realms they were to be strictly banished. We are talking about the murdering of dreams, the imposition of an apparatus of hopelessness, designed to squelch any sense of an alternative future. Yet as a result of putting virtually all their efforts in one political basket, we are left in the bizarre situation of watching the capitalist system crumbling before our very eyes, at just the moment everyone had finally concluded no other system would be possible."

Thursday, November 14, 2013

I salute you Ken O'Keefe...A REAL SOLDIER!

"Understanding of the truth leads to a developed conscience, a connection to our source and the wisdom of oneness; only in this state will we catalyze the unity of purpose that marks the end of humanities prolonged state of collective insanity." -Ken O'Keefe: Ex-Marine, current Activist

World Citizen (O'Keefe's website)