We currently have Inflation at the highest rate ever seen in America.
16% last week. Inflation at the same time as a SHRINKING GNP (Gross national
product!) The chart above shows you how AMERICAN INDUSTRY has no longer
attracted investment, to put it mildly. As the economy shrank, salaries
shrank. Gas prices soared.
People are going nuts from the stress at the pump as Gas is over
3$ a gallon, more like $3.50 in big cities. Workers lose money when they
make the commute to work! Truck drivers are going bankrupt. We are putting
our families in jeopardy of starvation or bankruptcy just to fill
the tank of our aging gas hog SUV. FOOD has become hard to put on your
table. At the same time, the values of our home has fallen into the MUD
beneath our feet. MORTGAGE payments skyrocketed at a time when we could
not sell our HOUSE for what we PAID! If we could sell it at a profit, nobody
was buying!
There is PANIC everywhere, depression, everywhere. 
Funny
how those two words moved from being human, psychic condition into common
terms that are used for national FINANCIAL RUIN. BANK PANIC, THE GREAT
DEPRESSION. Well, people in this condition need church basement meetings,
living room groups, maybe "STRESS GROUPS", maybe PANIC MEETINGS but
groups which also engender solutions, that also are COMMUNITY ORIENTED,
that are able to start workers off in MOONLIGHTING BUSINESSES, (services
or products,) that are needed, and which will be a hit. We need groups
that INSTRUCT in the ART OF GUERILLA
CAPITALISM.
Rught now, as a challenge on the best way to use the next hour of your life, Google up the brains, the statistical analysts from ACADEMIA! Run the actual current STATS on joblessness, kids decreasing acculturation and education. (Save the results to cache as a text file starting you on your new hobby of collecting information.)
You will find new tests done by psych depts which have tested subjects and found increasing panic, alienation, all of which contribute to madness and crime. Use the internet to find local psych department university researchers who have their fingers on the WRISTS, ON THE PULSE of SOCIETY! These would be psychologists and sociologists who are also statisticians. Invite them to your meetings.Invite Cops who know crime and become (yourselves,) cataloguers of SYMPTOMOLOGY ...how to read a culture. How to read flaw and cause. And wreak CURES, SOLUTIONS!
THE PROBLEMS OF THE TECHNOCRAT SOCIETY are increasing capitalistic panic about debt, credit card debt, putting a stop to rampant consumerism in our kids so they don't drain us. We want to PUT AN END to the need for mom/pop to work two jobs. We want to see the return of stay at home nurturing. How can that be when kids are bling oriented. We need stats on how the economy has risen up like a boa and is swallowing mankind whole.
How easy would it be to share FRUGAL LIVING TIPS at our meetings? Talk about the OPRAH debt diet. The Psychic disarray of the ordinary working class family.
We know the ENEMIES of our sanity. The Gov waging a Nazi Genocidal war on Civilians in oil rich countries --a war that had nothing to do with the l9 Saudi/ German living terrorists that hit the WTC on 911. That war was an excuse to get BUSH's OIL CRONIES hands on the MIDDLE EAST ---to go IRAQ back to the DOLLAR instead of using the EURO for oil. It was a way to strangle OPEC. Get BUSH CRONY hands on the best oil which was IRAQUI oil as it didn't have to be refined as much ... so that the oil CEO's could make more money.
Today we face DOUBLE DIGIT INFLATION! 16% a yr at last calculation> Our typical family's double job 80 hour work week places us in the path of MADNESS. Each householder has survival jeopardy concerns: house payments doubling because of interest rates soaring, a new lack of nutritious foods, utility bills soaring. And a new demon, POVERTY. Folks get panicky, stuck in what FREUD also called "survival center modes of terrified thinking. Which leads to "I'm alright Jack, screw you, Iraq." IT's ME AND MINE.
Imagine groups that encourage GUERILLA CAPITALISM, MOONLIGHTING, COTTAGE INDUSTRIES but also work on that panic. Not only will guest lecturers give business ideas, wake up our kids and inspire them to getting better grades, getting grants and scholarships for college, but they will share the lastest stats / trends. Also of course, the members themselves can google up stats at the BEST SITES, on our own.
LIFE ON EARTH REALLY does seem to be getting WORSE but let's research that. Such enquiry should make this group interesting to SOCIAL WORKERS. FOSTER FAMILY SERVICES. UNIVERSITY PSYCH DEPT and CHILD REARING SPECIALISTS, i.e. parents! When the family professionals know about your meetings, you can bet they will send their clients to join!
EACH meeting will also offer business solutions: Networking for COTTAGE INDUSTRY business information, communal chum clusters for doing small wholesale businesses.. CHUMCLUSTERS for family moonlighting or friends or neighbors linked in a communal biz. Become anl authority on how society is being torn apart by the dollar, by techno panic, which we want to end as frightened parents hurt their own children. THE signs are there now, an increasing incidence of children being brutalized, high incidence of parents killing their own children, (or vice versa ) locking them up, starving them, although hey, just not saving cash to put the kid through college is bad enough!
One of the most successful activism groups around now is the H20 MOVEMENT (Rajendra Singh,the GANDHI of water.....) fighting the CORPORATIONS like BECHTEL and THAMES WATER who are buying up all the CIVIC, PUBLIC water systems of different cities and especially in the bread basket areas....to privatize them. They just bought STOCKTON CALIFORNIA, and will soon be buying YOUR WATER. Read up on the WATER THIEVES. If this were brought up at a group (*say, after you'd all had the email file sent you,) you'd sure be on the look-out when BECHTEL bought the water system in farming region nearest to YOU! Read up on FARMER SUICIDES, google those words, particularly looking for the work of VANDANA SHIVA.
TRANSNATIONALS located in AMERICA have locked out third world farmers across the planet. CEOs/ OLIGARCHS have put AGRIBUSINESS in the regions they wanted to be in at the cost of locals. The transnationals immediately caused inflation to become rampant there. BOLIVIA once had 10000% per annum INFLATION! US CEOs put food prices in third world villages at a higher level. If you depend on beans and they go from 1 dollar a kilo to 3 dollars a kilo, overnight, people immediately starve to death because it takes them a year to get a bean field going.
FACE IT! Corporations are not known for their generosity. Look at what the OIL industry has done to your weekly commute costs, making 78 billion off our kids not going to college cuz the school money is gone to EXXON.
We need PANIC MEETINGS, built around solutions like prosperity, business, trade. This GROUP could become the hottest fun lecture in town. A church basement group that is popular will create activism. It could become an OPRAH frugal living tips group that sidelines as a political activism and PR/ lobby. A grass roots HEROES movement never happened in history of world. UNLESS you count the FRENCH REVOLUTION where the starving peasants rose up and MURDERED THE ENTIRE artistocracy. This GROUP might become a pressure valve to prevent all that happening here if the COOKIE ever hits the fan. NEW HEROES IS NOT AN AGITATING group. IT IS A STUDY/ philosophy activsm group. A 'lean on the media'-to-get-support-group. But other miracles could happen. We could actually inspire heroes, or create businesses that lift the cottage industry skills of its members.
GUERILLA CAPTIALISM of some sort will be the solution. Creating the groups that help people create those businesses, with inspirational information, along with PANIC MEETINGS, to control fear, stress and to INSPIRE MOONLIGHTING SOLUTIONS.
This would be a kind of PRO GRASS ROOTS CAPITALISTIC ACTIVISM. Done on the community level, such groups will put back much needed 'oxygen' in the air you breathe, oxygen stolen by organized thieves at the level of the IRS, government, Military and Trasnational Corporations. We will survive the conspiracy at those levels which has been to use only the people they need and use them like slaves, destroying unions, and then paying those workers just enough so their noses are out of water whle letting the rest rot in jails for victimless crimes.
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