Reforming the US Economy
In the US, and the rest of the world economy it seems, corruption and mismanagement are running rampant. It would be much to cover the entire scope of this topic, but in short, it would seem that there is a fundamental lack of transparency, greed and self interest that knows no bounds, and astonishing little attempt at regulation. The “solution” seems to point out the worst offenders, and hand out fines or punish with an increase in taxes. We Amerindians are quite frankly baffled by this limp slap on the wrist, and surprised that it’s not obvious that the cost of any punitive measure will be passed on to those who are paying too heavy a bill already.
We feel that it might help, even if governments don’t, if people get together with their own solutions. The main idea is to keep money from reaching the pockets of big interests in the first place.
1. One way is to focus on buying locally. Besides cutting the energy footprint of purchases, many middle men payments will be eliminated, as well as the insane super payments to corporate giant leaders.
2. Invest in farm shares or local markets. Or at least patronize them. Again, this eliminates the middle man price increase, and cuts into the control that giants like agra business (ConAgra) have over what we eat, what we know about what we eat, and what we pay for the privilege of ingesting food products that are often less nourishing than the over-packaging that they are delivered in.
3. Social Lending. This can be avoiding large banks (like the ones too big to fail) in favor of small local banks, co-ops, credit unions, and even person to person lending with no banks involved.
We think that of course there are many other ways that could be suggested. But the basic idea is not to punish big corporations, but to think carefully about what we need to buy, where we keep and manage our money – and keep it close. In other words, don’t let it get to the big interests whenever there is another option.
The Queen of Amerindia