America’s Mad as Hell Moment
August 10, 2011
I’m mad as hell. And according to the piles and piles of responses I got after my rant, so are you. This is not a joke, trillions are being extracted from our economy by greedy bastards. And if we don’t fix this problem, then we’ll end up seeing what is happening in England – uncontrolled rage-filled riots and looting – happen here.
As Michael Tablan told his readers about my rant: “I promise you its more important than cute fucking cupcakes.”
So what can you do? Well here are some action items, for starters.
1) Understand our situation, and make sure that your friends and family do as well. Our politicians and bankers play on our ignorance, since they think we won’t know what they are doing. That ends now. Watch our Jobs Wanted series on rigged Trade, Taxes and Banking, and forward it to your friends and family.
2) Use your twitter or Facebook account to be mad as hell. I’ve started the hashtag #ImMadAsHellBecause so people can be mad as hell in their own words. If you don’t know twitter is or what this means, don’t worry! Just go here and read what your fellow citizens are saying: #ImMadAsHellBecause
3) Call Congress and tell them NOT to pass NAFTA-style corporate trade deals with Panama, South Korea, and Colombia. The phone # for Congress is (202) 224-3121. If you are not sure who is your Representative, tell the operator you want to talk to “your House member” and give your zip code. You can find a script on what to say here: Speak Up! Take Action!
So that’s a start. If you want to send me a message, use the comment section below. Or drop me an email at ImMadAsHell@dylanratigan.com.
Here are a few more or your responses.
“Worth watching. This guy’s rant is probably the best thing I’ve heard said about the government in a very long time. I used to be really into politics a few years ago, but I’ve lost all faith/interest in our government because of all the dumb bullshit that’s been happening the past year(s). Fuck it, I don’t wanna get into it. Just watch and listen.” – Where’s My Key?
“Say it with me now: I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” – nrrrd.tumblr.com
“I’ve been wondering for years how much it would take for the US to have a popular uprising. It always seemed like such a remote possibility, but now with student loans and the like being affected AND the rioting in England, we might be getting closer to it. :/” - The Note Desolation Plays
Thanks so much for this information, Dylan. It will be very helpful. I'M MAD AS HELL……..
now let's get AT IT, PEOPLE!
Dylan is dead on with his views. The agenda has been in the works for many years designed by the establishment.
Dylan is right and the voters must direct their efforts at the source of the problem: TRADE DEFICIT.
Unbalanced trade is what feeds the corruption in Washington. A China-financed government is good for China but bad for America – that’s what we have now.
There are many ways to achieve balance of trade:
Import Certificates – issued to importers or sold by the Treasury. Warren Buffett proposed it way back when he was with the good guys.
Scaled Tariffs: The higher the trade deficit with a country, the higher the tariffs. Zero deficit = zero tariffs.
There are other variations but let stop here.
Check The Balanced Trade Restoration Act of 2006 by Dorgan and Feingold… many solutions but only TWO responsible and honest politicians. That was in back 2006, today the count is ZERO.
We need to get behind Dylan Ratigan. He's the only media person who dares to tell the truth and perhaps our only hope?
I would say we need to get "beside" Dylan Ratigan. I am so happy to see someone not on FOX telling the public that the powerful are behaving in your best interest. Glenn Beck has also been daring people to wake the hell up for 3 years. I ask that people listen without judgement.
Well thought out Shawn.
Sorry. Should read: the powerful are NOT behaving in your best interest.
I don't believe he was saying that "the powerful are behaving in your best interest", but rather just the opposite. Either you made a typo or you need to listen again, several times.
It was a typo.
That is true!
This is so twenty years ago to me . . . I voted for Ralph Nader in the past four presidential elections–he warned of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as early as 1988 and continues to advocate for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Transform the corporate-run US Government starting October 6, 2011, at Freedom Plaza in Washington DC: http://october2011.org/statement
See Democracy Now for truth also.
Other things you can do… STARVE THE BEAST! Take your money out of BofA, Wells, JP/Chase, Citibank. Buy American made! Stop buying 'Made in China' ! Get out of Debt, Debt = Slavery.
Stop or limit your business with corporations that buy Washington!
Thank You. That has been my position on Banks and products from China since the '90S. People are to selfish to listen to you though.
Already took my money out of BofA and now use a local bank and credit union. Also, never set foot in a Wal-Mart!
Right On!
Asking the person reading to copy and paste and post this on your wall. In three days, most people in The United States of America will havethe message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay
when they are out of office.
2. All Senate and House of Representatives members (past, present &
future) will participate in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social
Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social
Security system, and all Congress men and women participate at the
same level as the American people. Funds collected may not be used
for any other purpose or programs.
3. Congress men and women can purchase their own retirement plan and will pay the same rates as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional
pay will be determined by the individual states they represent every
two years with the raises limited to the lower of CPI or 3%. with no
special adjustments.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates
in the same health care system as the states they represent and the
American people.
6. Congress will equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people. No provisions for special treatment will be
allowed.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective
1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.
Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.
;o) add to that Campaign Funding REFORM!
Congressmen/congresswomen should not be paid more then the meridian income level of the US.
Well thought out Shawn.
Terrific.
I am not the creator A.P. but I am wholeheartedly in agreement and support the goal as described.
Nice job Shawn…. but Public Financing ONLY of Campaigns should be the first step. Not an after-thought. Right now, a politicians first 'order-of-business' is to make their 'big money' campaign contributors happy.
YES, This is more important than any other measure. 100% public financing, and some sort of "revolving door" limitations and other limitations on who an how you can earn money before and after working in government
done… re:posting
and…no millionaires allowed in congress
To all those who agree or applaud this man, you are part of the problem. Stop being stupid. I would say ignorant but the resources are more easily available now then ever before in human history. You're being stupid.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/congressional-re…
Add to that – NO LOYALTY OATHS. They should only swear to protect the Constitution, not Grover Norquist – or anyone else who might get the notion they are KING.
Other things you can do… STARVE THE BEAST! Take your money out of BofA, Wells, JP/Chase, Citibank. Buy American made! Stop buying 'Made in China' ! Get out of Debt, Debt = Slavery.
Other things you can do… STARVE THE BEAST! Take your money out of BofA, Wells, JP/Chase, Citibank. Buy American made! Stop buying 'Made in China' ! Get out of Debt, Debt = Slavery.
Stop or limit business with Corporations that buy Washington!
Other things you can do… STARVE THE BEAST! Take your money out of BofA, Wells, JP/Chase, Citibank. Buy American made! Stop buying 'Made in China' ! Get out of Debt, Debt = Slavery.
Stop or limit business with Corporations that buy Washington!
These are perfect suggestions Rob – however, if Americans don't buy products of China they won't have much to buy – which we might as well get used to because we won't have money to buy anything soon.
Dylan you are great – we need you – greedy bastards are exactally what these Republicans/Tea Partiers are – and look at what has been happening around the world this year – riots in the streets against greedy bastards in alot of countries – years ago an old sage told us to buy land as far away from cities because eventually hungry people would start taking what you have. Well, he was correct.
Dylan is a modern day MUCKRAKER in the mold of Upton Sinclair and Fred J. Cook. It would be a wonderful thing if the people would use the information he digs up to toss these crooked politicians and CEO's into the same holes they have dug for US.
Tuned into your program today. Where did you go? Hoped to see the beginning of a new movement in the direction of reform. Remember when one of your colleagues on CNBC ranted and it sprouted the Tea Party Movement? Has potential.
As you say, one rant (didn't hear it myself) got the tea party going. I agree that Dylan's rant was spectacular and I feel he would be the one I could support to lead the rest of us who who have just plain given up or lazy or just do not know how to get a 'movement' going with Dylan in the lead.
His timing was just great, so if all who agree (I include all commenting on these pages) don't pick up the momentum right now, his words will be yesterday's news!
Kathleen you are right. We could all start by forming small groups of like minded people. We could work to oppose congressmen in our own states that we don't agree with and thereby help whichever candidate decides to run against them in upcoming elections. And as soon as Dylan Ratigan has the admendent ready for us to sign; we can help to get the 100 million signatures on it. Lots of people have lap top computers. We can get together in pairs or threes and take laptop with us and go door to door and help get signatures from everyone who may not have a computer, don't know how to use a computer or don't know about the admendment. These are ways hat each one of us can help. And we can spread the movement to get the signatures by word of mouth etc.
Dylan — Well Said! Simple, straightforward and, yes, stated strongly. But how can these issues not be stated strongly? And more of us must. Applause, applause, applause to you for your leadership on this.
And I agree and appreciate your description and point of view about the problem(s).
Thank you and keep it coming.
Fantastic, well thought out rant Dylan – Thank you! Who do we contact to get you a better time slot on MSNBC?! You certainly deserve one!!
TAX REFORM, TRADE REFORM, BANKING REFORM, HEALTHCARE REFORM, CAMPAIGN FINANCING REFORM, LOBBYING REFORM.
This country needs to be run by the people, not by corporations.
The sad thing is we will still elect career politician's who tell us they fight for us while being in the pocket of these companies, until we reform lobbyist's and campaign financing these conflicts of interest will continue and the american people will lose.
i dont see our current crop of americans marching on washington about this either, we either dont care anymore, or lack the resources. with so many of us in debt or working more than 40hours, just to pay for basic necessities we cannot afford (or we dont get vacation time) to take a leave to voice.
And i sincerly doubt with all the times i have e-mailed congressmen they read past the title because i'm not giving them hundreds of thousands for re-election.
I enjoyed your rant and agree with your critique of our current crisis. However, your solution is unworkable. You are assuming that Obama has some courage. He is not capable of behaving like Teddy Roosevelt. His nature is to waffle and equivocate. Also, like Congress, he is a fully-owned subsidiary of the corporate interests. He will not stand up to Congress. All he cares about is securing a second term and pleasing his corporate masters.
Agree. I mean look who apologized to BP for getting money to clean the spill….
I have always liked Dylan because of his passion and the fact that he goes straight at the root of the problems facing this country. Keep it up Dylan, maybe we can right this ship.
Maybe its tine to charge the republicans who won't do whats best for the country by finding ways to solve the problems of the country with treason.
Entitlement my ***. I paid for my Social Security Insurance! Our benefits aren't some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits – free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days – now THAT'S welfare. And Congress has the nerve to call my RETIREMENT an Entitlement? Re-post if you are sick of their crap, and ashamed of our leaders!!
I worked 38 yrs as a boilermaker (welder) spent 4 years in the navy and paid in to social securty for 42 yrs. — Vote for no one that is in ofice in 2012—–
J. L. Galloway
I spent 21 years in the military and worked for the Department of Homeland Security upon it's inception after 9/11 and as you did, paid into social security all those years. I continue to pay more and more for my "entitlements" in the form of higher medical costs (which I was told if I retired from the military I would receive free health care for life), taxes and I receive NO cost of living adjustments for the last two years because of these greedy bastards. Screw them all and DO NOT REELECT ANY OF THEM!!!! I say lets revolt and take back what is "OURS" not theirs……
You are absolutely correct!! I've been screaming this at my TV and saying it to anyone who would listen. And we don't have a choice about purchasing this insurance, either – we must have it withheld. Now it's all about semantics. They stopped calling it insurance a long time ago. Now, they say 'entitlement' and everyone is saying, yeah, let's stop the 'handouts'. They couldn't cut Social Security Insurance; but call it an entitlement and everyone will get behind the cut. It's all mind games.
What do you mean 3 weeks paid vacation. Every month they take one weekoff. Two week at christmas and two weeks at easter. Off Aug 4th through Sept 5. I know I work on the hill.
I'm an old trial lawyer who's been fighting a losing battle in the courtrooms of Arkansas against banks for their reckless lending practices. I'm sure its the same all over the country. Banks that have screwed their customers are being propped up by the government at taxpayer expense and are being protected by elected judges who either don't understand what's going on, or do understand but are unwilling to upset the status quo. The irony is that the bank customer/taxpayer who would seek redress in our courts end up paying not only for their own lawyers, but for the bank lawyers as well. This is madness. If I have to keep telling potential clients the truth, that there is no justice for them in our courts, pretty soon people will take matters into their own hands. This is clearly a country where you get as much justice as you can afford.
We MUST break the corporate hold on our politicians if we hope to make any progress. Rob Luk had it right when he said stop or limit business with Corps that buy D.C. It is time for each of us to ask what is less convenient, finding an independent source for groceries, gas, and clothes, or watching our economy ripped out from underneath us.
As a collective, we have the power to shut down any corporation we choose, all we need is the resolve to do it.
Pledge to shop at local markets, local gas providers, local hardware stores, etc. as much as you can. If we each cut our corporate support by 30% it would make an impact.
We've sat back and enjoyed the trappings of the corporations, now we need to take control back. Once we have weakened their financial position, we can go after the lack of enforcement of antitrust legislation, which has been a huge contributor to the "too big to fail" existence these conglomerates enjoy. We have privatized the profit and socialized the risk, as we all saw with the financial collapse and auto bailouts.
Share the pledge with everyone you know, and let's see how much we can really do one dollar at a time.
Thank you for truth!! Our politicians lie and steal from the country; banking, energy and health care infrastructures are broken; our trade policy and political election system need reform; and the govt has the nerve to ask me for more money to perpetuate this madness….Infuriates me. Where are the jobs…on vacation like our congress??
Dylan continue being the voice demanding change…Move to prime time…Start a change movement..I will follow you to the White House
I been watching the dylan ratigan show for two years . And now I am mad as hell at our goverment. I thank you for trying so hard to get the truth out about what is going on in our country I will spread the word to everyone I know . Thanks, DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT
You can come up with a million plans to fix the economy but as long as the Democrats and Republicans have a stranglehold on the presidency we have no power. If we truly chose the president, instead of the corporations that fund these campaigns, then they'd listen to us. If someone could win the presidency without having to raise that kind of money, we could choose someone who was beholden to no one but the voters. Someone with a website and a good message could win IF the popular vote was enough. If all the conservatives' votes in Massachusetts really counted, and all the liberals' votes in Texas really counted and all the independents' votes in the country counted they'd have to listen to the people. Right now, they ignore us. And they can. Why should President Obama worry about alienating his base if he knows there's no way in hell they're going to vote for a Republican? and beyond that the idea of voting for an independent candidate is insane because it's throwing away your vote or better yet helping the other guys win. I remember being scolded for voting for Ralph Nader because somehow that made it MY FAULT that George Bush beat Al Gore. (Even if I live in a state that Al Gore was always going to win.) People are programmed to vote for one of two people every four years. And that vote is usually determined long before the candidates even begin their campaigns. I can guarantee that the older generation of my family will vote for the democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election. None of us know who that is, but they will. Just like they have for every other democratic candidate. So when the corporations choose the two presidents they want, the American people can all go out and pretend that they are deciding the election. The red state Republicans and the blue state Democrats can go through the motions and the swing states can actually make the decision between the lesser of two evils. But what if we had more than two choices? and what if they weren't evil?
there are good people in office today that agree… don't vote everyone out… find out who the good guys and gals are and keep them in… DO YOU HOMEWORK… BEFORE YOU VOTE!
The GOP-at-large signed Grover's Pledge (WHO IS THIS GUY ANYWAY and WHERE DID HE COME FROM???). Seems that pledging has become vogue; can't help but wonder who would sign a pledge crafted by Dylan.
i Like that idea… keep at it.
I WILL SIGN.
DEMAND COMPROMISE in We The Peoples House of Rep's and Congress
Mistakes have been made! I suggest that by far, the greatest mistake has been our personal failures to react and stop the escalating costs of mounting political campaigns which has allowed the inevitable selfish few who will always remain in societies to gain unfair government influence to expand their actions.
I'm a quite bystander because of the BS I have to listen to when I get involved. Dylan, what you say is what needs to be said. Good for you and keep it up as this is what will get people like myself to get involved. We need more people involved, but we need to feel our involvement will actually do some good. Our voices and opinions go nowhere without someone like you to reach the masses. Thank you!!
it's about time someone sounded off ! It's time that America knows just what's going one! keep up the good work Dylan!
Freedom and fairness, by our votes 'we use it or lose it'.
Vote independent-ly.
Demand representatives report to us on how they vote in legislatures.
Yes, I'm sure the bought congress will listen to us and do everything we ask of them. Surely you know better than that.
Of course they're not inclined to do what we ask. They will, however, listen to our votes and our demands afterwards.
Finally plain truth from a member of the media. I have worked on the HILL for 5 years serving at political fund raising parties, both for dems and republicans, never once has a guest, along with their donation check, been from main street. Every guest has always been from large corporations. Money talks and politicians listen! Time for a major change!
Well done Dylan, the perennial issues that have plagued the USA since the Gilded Age have come to the fore with melancholy viciousness. Not since Ross Perot, and to some degree vintage Lou Dobbs, has a national figure had the fortitude to try and awaken the sleeping masses with such deftness. Ratigan for President, and Colbert for VP!!!!
The Republican party and the Democratic party are both corporations (really). Their only goals are to dominate the other party. Our welfare to them is only an afterthought. The answers to turn this mess around is clear in my mind : Pull out of Iraq and Afganistan (totally) in the next 6 months.
Use the money (savings) from that "pull-out" to move this country to the next generation of energy technology. The technology is there so every home could generate 40% of its power needs. Solar panels installed on every roof – paid back by one-half of the savings it generates to the homeownerover – until the panel is completely paid for. (Gov't out nothing). Power your (made in USA) electric car with the power you generate from the solar panel (goodbye oil dependancy).
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Modify NAFTA to level the playing field – bring back the manufacturing starting with all the DC voltage appliances needed due to the solar power. Made in USA only!
Sell health insurance accross state lines…medicare cheats should be given 30 days amenesty. After the 30 days, with the savings from the people turning themselves in – go after the rest. Be sure to tell them those convicted will go to Guantanmo to serve their sentence. Again self – funding programs. Prison should manufacture goods for export where our higher wage rate makes us uncompetitive.
Most everything can be self funded – if we get the political corps out of the way.
I could go on and on…and I bet so could you.
Dylan for Economic Advisor to the President (He is too smart and honest to be The President/a politician)!
I outside houston in the country and some how these peopl are tea party fans. They have a deep hatred for the current adminstration for no reason. I say this cause if you ask them….tehy rant about taxes with no concrete facts to support anything.
How do you fight stupidity in todays time. Our freakin Governor is a C- student and yet he keeps on serving our state. We only do well cause of oil prices not because of his policy. We are like Venezuela.
loved it. let's begin with Larry Summers and the asshole bankers who were in his office the day Brooksley Born wanted to push for regulation of credit default swaps in the late 90's. We don't need them.
Way to go. Hope the spark you started turns into a movement. A national bank sounds like the best idea i've heard since the recession started.
When I started looking into where the money was coming from to buy off the politicians and subvert the immigration laws of the world, I came across what may be the root of many of our problems. Fiat Money.
No matter how much real money people can put together to build their countries the way they want there are those that can print up what ever it takes to get their way.
Maybe this will help make the danger of fiat money clear.
Imagine you and me are setting across from each other. We create enough money to represent all of the world's wealth. Each one of us has one SUPER Dollar in front of him.
You own half of everything and so do I.
I'm the government though. I get bribed into creating a Central Bank.
You're not doing what I want you to be doing so I print up myself eight more SUPER Dollars to manipulate you with.
All of a sudden your SUPER Dollar only represents one tenth of the wealth of the world!
That isn't the only thing though. You need to get busy and get to work because YOU'VE BEEN STIFFED with the bill for the money I PRINTED UP to get YOU TO DO what I WANTED.
That to me represents what has been happening to the economy, and us, and why so many of our occupations just can't keep up with the fake money presses.
We are going to have to regain control of our government before we can regain control of our currency. We are going to have to regain control of our currency before we can regain control of our country.
good for you Ratigan! You aroused the citizens! I loved your rant. I think it is completely applicable and all the reasonable people in the country would agree. Moveon and others are trying to start a movement. It is time to look beyond the propaganda and see the truth and you told it. America! Speak up!
Our politicians, bankers and the other greedy bastards marginalize those who fought to keep this country free. They also marginalize those who died on 9/11. Think of it! Al Qaeda failed to bring down our financial system. Within a few months after 9/11 our economy was back on track. Now, here we are approaching the 10th anniversary of 9/11 AND OUR COUNTRY HAS NEARLY SUCCEEDED IN DESTROYING ITSELF! And, to make matters worse, our leaders do not care. What makes me the sickest about all this is the Republicans (and I am one, voted for the illustrious Mr. Bush twice) blame President Obama for all the ills of the country. Bush inherited a budget surplus and a strong economy. When he left office the economy was in a shambles and we had a horrendous budget deficit and ballooning debt.
im canadian and im behind you guys ! For to long your country has really been praying on your people. Take action and use your vote as a weapon! I think in your next election you should try and get your poiliticians to act on a platform for capturing the corrupt politicians in your political houses. if even a handful of politicians take this stand point it could RADICALY change your governing system!
Here is a list of many of "the bad guys" (if you are not sure who they are or why they are bad guys, do your homework) in no particular order: Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank, Hank Paulson, John Boehner, George W. Bush, Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs, All Hedge Funds, Tim Geithner, CNBC (for perpetuating fear, "Is Your Money Safe?"), Gary Gensler, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Kantor, the Tea Party, Dick Cheney, Angelo Mozilo, George Soros, John Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein (despite "doing God's work"), Peter Schiff, Michele Bachmann, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell
We cannot forget about impeaching the two Supreme Court Justice's that gave us Citizens United. That is a major problem now in our politics.
Thanks Dylan I enjoyed the passion in your Rant…I too am Mad As Hell and I am going to share this site with my Friends…As much as I love the Constitution I think we do need to move to a totally Publicly Financed Election System, the rich and the Unions have more free speech than I do guaranteed by on hand cash…I also think Congress should end Baseline Budgeting ASAP…Every Agency should not be guaranteed 4-7% budget growth every year…
We are all hurting, no doubt. I think that this well placed, hopefully super viral, video is just what my generation needs. Lets face it folks, we are so caught up with Facebook, and bullshit (like commenting on blog posts) that we forget that without action, there is no change. If all we do is get pissed on the internet, who cares? Congress doesn't, because it doesn't change anything. Want to make a change? Hurt the wallet. Stop the bitching, and get out and do something. I have closed every bank account i have but one trade account, and use pre-paid visa cards for purchases, or cash. Stop giving the people that got us into this situation the money. Take a stand, when i go to cash a check, and they ask me if i would like to start an account, i look them in the eye and say, i don't trust you as far as i can kick you. Your bank is the reason we are in this situation in the first damn place, what makes you think i want to give you any of my money. Why don't YOU give ME money for bailing out your poorly placed bets. Sorry for the rant, but its time we did something. Get pissed! Do something! Stand up for yourself, or please, shut the fuck up and get out of our way.
It is imperative that we have caps on campaign spending whether it is publicly or privately funded. Spending multi-millions on campaigning is simply just feeding the beast and does nothing for clarity on the issues. I heard that the British have only two months of campaigning and I think that time limits for campaigning is an excellent thing to institute as well. Say no more than 6 months and one year for Presidential campaigns. *********************** My edict, if I was dictator <grin>, would be no more than $1.00 spent on campaigns based on how many legal residents are living in each district of each state where the candidate is running for all races. This would be for the Presidential race all the way down to dogcatcher. ……… So if you are running for Mayor of a city with a population of 5,000; $5,000 is all that can be spent. ……………….. There would be free town halls and debates carried out at state colleges and local schools for the candidates to meet and greet and explain what they will do once elected and what they believe relative to the slot they want to be elected to serve. All candidates must legally agree to appear at these free publicly accessible town halls and debates or they lose their right to be put on the ballot. If they accept other money, it will be viewed as a bribe and they will be taken off the ballot. ………………… This is a brief sketch, but we have to limit the power that political donors have over our elected officials. …………….. Dylan Ratigan needs to keep the pressure on with his Mad As Hell message. …………………. If he could also endorse programs such as the 1930's government funded and run employment programs known as the Civilian Conservation Corps or Works Progress Administration that would help get the message that many of us believe that such stimulus programs would be welcomed and an idea that I and many others have been pushing for a few years now. ……….. Keep up the good work Dylan.
Dylan – Your comment that "Congress is bought." hits the nail on the head. I posted your "rant" last night and have received amazing feedback from a wide array of friends from all different political viewpoints – staunch conservatives to true blue liberals. Your message has struck a chord in our society and needs to be heard. I have been a supporter of Fix Congress First who has been beating the drum around the corruption surrounding money and our government officials (and the inherent conflicts of interest money in our system creates). I would recommend you check them and Dr. Lessig out to see if you two could join forces to "unbuy" Congress. A good start is to support the Fair Elections Now Act. Food for thought. Keep up the great work.
I would not call Dylan Ratigans recent commentary a rant!!! He nailed financial problems in the United States in a correct and passionate manner. Entities outside our political system definitely call the shots. My family and friends are decent people and U.S. tax payers. U.S. tax payers are expected to be responsible citizens and expected to do our part. I believe my government should also be expected to be responsible. This is the job they agreed to take and we are expecting them to perform. I have voted Republican and voted Democrat over the years and the problems have been created by both parties and should now be resolved both parties are our President. This will require unity and U.S. citizens will have your back with progress. In World War II – I believe a Japanese Admiral made the following quotation: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant" The sleeping giant will still be the United States, but unfortunately I fear U.S. citizens will now be the GIANT. Look what is happening in Great Britain and around the world. U.S. Politicians – We need to painfully get this fixed. Not when the next administration takes over – NOW!!!
I AM FUCKING PISSED!!!!1
Revolution! The only solution!
Nice work, Dylan. HR 1489 — Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2011 (Glass-Steagall) is the fix the banking system requires. There are 32 co-sponsors presently. There need be 10x more.
I love mathematical fact.. (and ranting) so if the world can sustain the human race, what do we need money for anyway? Can we simply embrace technologies to enhance our lively hood? The only thing money is good for is to fuel greed. People will do things with out it, and people will get things with out it, and it should be just fine. There is enough for all. Get over some of the status bullshit. (If one more Lexus or mercedes or the like fails to indicate their intended direction with out a turn signal, it proves again to me how careless and self serving people generally really are.
ENOUGH With OIL! it's done. Time to make vehicles that don't need gas, or retrofit industry. Wanna get madder? Understand gravity, and simple physics and take a close look at 9-11. Of course the Gov't didn't have a hand in it, but they sure don't ask the right questions and let us believe utter fantasy.
IT seems to me that if one really looks at the facts, institutes some common sense, and then ask what the hell are we wasting are time with all of this when people are starving, wasting valuable resources and completely distracted by anything that allows escape from realities like Japan' Tsunami, the Gulf spill (the second one) —- oh my god, 8th grade science, oil and water don't mix!! why do have dispersant chemicals????!!!!!
There is simple mathematical fact everywhere Dylan, I am so glad and proud that you have used your television show for this type of independent awareness, I hope you don't lose, I presume any sponsorship for calling to action upon the viewing land. I also hope that everyone who reads your site will inform and share knowledge amongst themselves and inevitably with others, enlightening them all and maybe, the world would get a long.
John Lennon wrote a great song about this.. imagine, really people. Zeitgeistmovement.com
By the way, I have $387 in my checking account, no debt and happy, otherwise. It's a beautiful county, it's a beautiful planet. Let's preserve it, cause we can't move off it. (silly monkeys)
Watched your comments after seeing a link on the social news website reddit.com. If you search the site for your name you’ll see you’re getting quite popular over there and I can see why.
Between you and Keith Olbermann’s recent special comment, I think the rational people in this country finally have someone to rally behind. Please don’t stop! We’re with you! We need you!
On a side note, Reddit has a special section dedicated to this called “I Am A” or “Ask Me Anything” (AMA). Please consider doing one if you get the chance. We’d sure love it. Reddit’s AMA section can be found here -
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/top/?t=all
oops. Correction -
“…has a special section dedicated to Q&A’s…”
Sorry. It’s late and I’m tired.
ANGRY VAGUE GENERALITIES!!!!
AM I POLITICALLY COOL YET? GUYS? GUYS?
Wow Dylan I enjoyed your passion, it would be nice if the majority of the public were aware of the criminal injustice being perpetrated upon them, but it's just not so. I've read most of the comments on this blog, and to be up front I don't share much confidence in our Government nor the people. If it's the Fundamental nature of the system which causes the problems. Then tinkering with the system can never solve those problems. The system itself must be replaced. Hint! Go back to the original Constitution & Bill of Rights. Here's a quote " Some of the Biggest men in the United States, in the field of Commerce and Manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere, so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it" Woodrow Wilson, Former President of the United States. For the record this organization is now under attack to be dismantled. And although I AM. LIKE YOU AS MAD AS HELL!!! We must be watchful of our hateful behavior this is there plan. The creation of TERRORISM is to create chaos, so that we fight each other and not focus our efforts towards peaceful solutions. Another aspect to make us fight each other is to state you believe in (Sovereignty). People who state this are now put on a Terrorist list. Which does not make any sense considering The Declaration of Independence. We are all Sovereign's with unalienable rights under God on this Land. It is when you get elected into office that you give up your Sovereignty and become a servant of the people. Benjamin Franklyn stated "The inability of the Colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hand of George III and the International Bankers was the Prime reason for the Revolutionary War". In American History there was only ONE President who beat the bankers, that was President Andrew Jackson. And in the times of FDR there were Laws in place to disallow Monopoly's in the U.S.. And FDR through the Nuremberg Trials tried to expose the American Elitist for financing 70% of Hitlers war efforts. You will find this information in a new book. (America's Nazi Secret) When Eisenhower left office he warned us, and I quote his original speech " Military Industrial Congressional Complex". Which was out of control then and is still out of control today. So I ask you Dylan is the Network you work for willing to support a Media Blitz of solutions? For the past 20 years many organizations from around the World were aware of the problems. So they started to work on projects for recovery. In fact I am aware of 5 monetary solutions which are going to be announced soon. So in the foot steps of John Lennon, Martin Luther King & Gandhi, we must move quickly towards peaceful resolutions. Just imagine a Media Blitz of Solutions!!! Like Monetary solutions, Alternative Medicines, Free Energy Technologies, Abundant Water supplies, Organic Agricultural solutions, etc….
There is a growing base of people on the internet that are looking for direction. Some are lost in the vast amounts of incorrect information being spued out by big media groups. More specifically the 30 and under demographic. For change and reform to take hold, we need to create a party for the people. On that represents us all without huge polarization. The tea party took hold and brought change. Lets get together and build a party of well informed individuals that can debate with FACTS, MATHEMATICS, and SCIENCE to show the truth about whats going on. The People's Party was established 1891 to help farmers combat the wealthy banks from the hostel leading techniques they used in a time that didn't have much regulation. I suggest bring that party back with the purpose of getting the country back to the populous and not the upper .1%. They have their club, they push the dream of becoming apart of it, but its a pipe dream. We have to make our own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Party_…
I am all for being apart of something that can bring our country back to where it should be; for the people.
Hi Dylan: Alyona Minkovski gave you a plug on her program the RT network. Look her up. I doubt seriously Obama will use the bully pulpit to rally anyone. He is not a strong president or a leader.
Good job Dylan. You’re mad as hell, and you’re not going to take it anymore!
Let's face it, all three branches of our gov are screwed up. Come on, expanding emminent domain to include private development? Corporations are people too and have the right to contribute to political campaigns? No American citizen voted for these clowns in black robes. So what the F. I think the best we can do is ask for term limitations for all executive branches including Supreme Court.
Very nice rant. About time something honest is aired. But the options provided doesn’t really result in anything. We can’t bark up the tree that is behind all this. It may even be unreasonable to flush out all elected leaders, but within the existing system we need to make drastic changes. It’s not about NAFTA, NAFTA is a symptom of an entire system gone wrong a long time ago. The 300 million need to make changes that 1,000 won’t. For one, tie elected officials salaries to the average income of the American worker, that would guarantee an incentive to increase quality of living across the board.
Dylan, you are the first Public Figure to identify the Root Problems and to offer some viable (albeit difficult) Solutions…that are "better" than the other choices we face. The System broke in late 2007…and has been in a slow-motion train wreck to the inevitability of total systemic collapse ever since. We have no good options…but we have "an" option that will actually fix things long-term…and that's a major reform of the System as you propose, which includes breaking the unholy alliance of Big Biz and Big Govt. I love your idea about Canceling the Debt and about setting up a new Banking System that will lend to the little small biz owner like me at low interest rates like the Big Banksters enjoy (ZIRP). Cancel the Debt, close the Big Corp tax loopholes like the Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich (no way GE gets a refund and Google pays only 2.4% effective US tax rate, bogus). Create dis-incentive for behemoths like Apple from setting up shop in China and paying Slave Wages and then reimporting the crap and selling it back to us at Wal-Mart, cutting our own Avg. American worker's throats. So much more…but that's enough for this post
Keep blaring the horn Dylan!!!
There is a growing base of people on the internet that are looking for direction. Some are lost in the vast amounts of incorrect information being spued out by big media groups. More specifically the 30 and under demographic. For change and reform to take hold, we need to create a party for the people. On that represents us all without huge polarization. The tea party took hold and brought change. Lets get together and build a party of well informed individuals that can debate with FACTS, MATHEMATICS, and SCIENCE to show the truth about whats going on. The People's Party was established 1891 to help farmers combat the wealthy banks from the hostel leading techniques they used in a time that didn't have much regulation. I suggest bring that party back with the purpose of getting the country back to the populous and not the upper .1%. They have their club, they push the dream of becoming apart of it, but its a pipe dream. We have to make our own.
Get rid of Finney, Del Percio and Williams. They add nothing, NOTHING, to the show. I always just fast forward through that section and only caught your rant by picking up on comments later in the show. When you are arguing daily how screwed up the system is why would you bring a lobbyist on your show? Williams is one of the smuggest, know-it-alls I have ever listened to. GET RID OF WILLIAMS!!!
''DYLAN RATIGAN FOR CONGRESS '' I'M SERIOUS THIS OHIO STEELWORKER IS FED UP !
everyone is mad as hell they just don't know where to aim it and the only ones that used to be able to do something are wholly owned by the wealthy. Aren't 44% of the members of congress millionaires? No wonder they have such great representation and the great unwashed have none. It is really time to take things back and generate an "American Awakening" . I hope your rant starts us down that road. BTW I belong to the throw the bums out – every time party- that should get their attention.
Keep ranting. Someone in the White House saw it. It's long overdue for President Obama to start leading. He told America to stand up, he should do the same. Take every item of Robert Reich's list he outlined on Hardball yesterday and implement them.
1992 — The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Earth Summit takes place in Rio de Janeiro this year, headed by Conference Secretary-General Maurice Strong. The main products of this summit are the Biodiversity Treaty and Agenda 21, which the U.S. hesitates to sign because of opposition at home due to the threat to sovereignty and economics. The summit says the first world's wealth must be transferred to the third world.
July 18, 1993 — CFR member and Trilateralist Henry Kissinger writes in the Los Angeles Times concerning NAFTA: "What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system…a first step toward a new world order."
The DISEASE must be addressed not only the symptoms.
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN
United States out of United Nations.
Then,
Ban the Federal Reserve Bank.
Ban Fiat currency.
Ban fractional Banking.
Then,
Close 90 percent of military bases.
Reduce Military budget by 80 percent.
Enforce our borders.
Allow alien entry by green card only.
Then,
Eliminate Homeland Security.
Eliminate criminal CIA activity.
Eliminate war on drugs.
Legalize marijuana.
Free non violent prisoners.
Stop all privatization of government functions.
Then,
Term limits for Politicians.
Repeal Electoral College.
Limit political campaign funds.
Ban all professional lobbyists.
Then,
Restore funding to Social Security.
Begin single payer universal health care.
Eliminate useless government agencies.
Line by line review of pork.
Review Politian’s benefits and salary.
Tariffs on all foreign manufactured items.
Then,
Prosecute governmental Traitors.
Eliminate CFR, IMF, Bilderberg, Trilateral, etc.
Enforce the Constitution.
http://www.bookofdaleth.com
America needs to go on strike, we all need to just STOP!
Dylan
You say that trade, taxes, and banking are rigged, how can we get more info on this arrangement? Also, I do not know what you are hearing about your high energy moment, I believe it was genuine. I have always believed that anger is an indication of concern.
When I enter the voting booth next year I can't in good conscious pull the lever for either Obama or whichever republican nutjob ends up opposing him. My vote will be a write in for Dylan Ratigan.
Dylan, when I heard you rant, I was hollering BRAVO!!! Finally somebody has the GUTS to SAY it. The rich & corporations are becoming a dictatorship by purchasing legislators. Corporations are NOT people, they have a place in society, but when they abuse it something has to be done before they take away the ability for us to correct it.
Aren't we entering a hypocrisy hell? Our country suffers from lack of proper education. Too many know what's going on with music and pop stars but can't tell you the basics of democracy, the constitution, or even know who represents them and what they stand for. So…. we cut education. Duh?
In the "ownership society" how can the working class possibly save enough for retirement, medical care, etc, while wages are stagnant and prices rise? If everybody had a 6-figure income that would not be such a burden, so the ruling elite want to dry up the programs (health care, social security, etc.) for those who have worked but never earned huge salaries. Fair? Well, they win if they can get rid of the sicker slaves. Our legislators have an outstanding benefit package while a large group of the people who paid for it can't afford it for themselves.
When conversing with people, it's astounding how uninformed (or worse yet, misinformed) they are!
And they vote! Scary stuff, to be sure……
What happened to the Golden Rule? Why isn't the "religious right" up in arms about not caring for people, or fairness, or anything else but abortion and gay marriage? Religion has become a corporation also, and they need to go back to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. Once a person becomes militant about their religious views, they're no better than radical muslims or any other belief. The growing ignorance and hypocrisy in this country is worrisome.
I'm glad you give a damn….. now if you could convince the rest of 'em…..
Dylan. You have to make it even plainer to these clueless people. They have a system of government that is base on legalized bribery!!! Gee, that will work in a fair and efficient manner right? It doesn't matter who they elect they are all taking bribes for the same people. They could elect Santa Clause and it wouldn't make any difference. The only thing he would change is the size of his sack to hold more bribe money. The system is totally corrupted and the only result can be corrupt officials. Duh!
Finally , An American who has the "Guts" to tell it like it is . If you ever run for President , You've got my vote.
My respect for Dylan Ratigan is confirmed and I view him as possibly one of the most patriotic Americans of our time for passionately verbalizing the truth about out current system and how fraudulent it is. To buy "Made in America" goods just visit local second hand stores. While the quality of the items varies from area to area depending on the wealth of the community, they are still a great way to buy quality "Made in America" items at excellent prices and still well below the cost of any new junk you could purchase that is "MADE IN CHINA".
I am incapable of expressing how appreciative I am that you stood up and called it like it is. The scary thing is that the underlying frustration you exhibit is just below the surface for most Americans, spanning almost all of our socioeconomic groups. I fear that many will not express it as you have but will instead resort to violence. I sincerely hope we can resolve this before we have to deal with revolt as is currently underway in England and elsewhere across the globe.
How dare you! How dare you! How dare you tell the truth, and over the tv airwaves. You, Mr. Ratigan, are today's greatest American. Thank you for your refreshingly honest tirade. Anymore I feel like I'm in some bazaar Disney cartoon where everyone is in on the script except me. Everyday everyone continues playing their roles as if we are still living in the country established by our Founding Fathers when, in truth, it's fast slipping away from us. You've given the truth validity and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Keep on fighting for America. I'll be there with you.
You know you are now at risk of being targeted. After all, if what you've been saying happens to start spreading, it could end up costing some very powerful people a lot of money. But I'm banking on you sticking to your guns and that's why I'm so grateful and willing to do my part for my country. God bless you.
it is time to storm the castle….pitch-forks & torches….I am MORE than mad as hell…The homeless should permanently move to THE MALL in D.C. How long would THAT take Congress to realize that a million poor living on the Mall was unacceptable…..JOBS & DECENT wages….THAT is ALL we want!
Dylan, I've been waiting for you to go off like this. I was just saying so the other day. Either way, I'm glad that you did, and I hope that people will keep talking about your rant. This kind of insanity that has been going on within our political system must stop, and with people like you giving a voice to the millions of us who do not know how or what to say, maybe we will succeed.
Maybe you could be the frontman for a serious political change. Someone like you could easily reach out to the many of us who want to do something but just don't how to do it. We need to get organized! Neither the democrats or the republicans are willing to do for us what they were elected to do, and with that, we are left standing in the headlights.
1: Stop saying that America is being extracted. The appropriate word is plundered.
2: The problem at root is not the men and women of congress. it is the men and women of the boardrooms who have the power to buy them. Reform corporate money in politics, close the revolving doors between government and industry, and congress will reform itself.
3: Term limits are not the answer. Without seasoned incumbents secure in their jobs there would at this time be NO truthspeakers in government at all. I value Ron Paul and Barney Frank equally, each an incumbent.
Dylan, PLEASE find a way to get your message out to a wider American audience – perhaps radio or interviews with local tv stations in the biggest markets, etc? Capital can NOT form, and wealth can NOT be created in our present environment whereby resources are being misallocated – both FINANCIAL (e.g. Quantitative Easing, bailouts going to Too Big To Fail Banks instead of that money going to rebuild infrastructure and/or start small businesses, etc) and HUMAN (e.g. TSA, Homeland Security, Military Troops at perpetual wars, engineers and bright talent working on Wall Street, etc).
Failed capital enterprises MUST go bankrupt in order for the capital to be efficiently reallocated into productive and profitable ventures. The big banks NEED to FAIL and let the regional and community banks get back to making home and small business loans. Until these systemic flaws are corrected, we will NOT recover. Bernanke and Krugman can agree to print all the money they want and it will NOT make one bit of positive change, except of course, for themselves and the evil bankster puppetmasters pulling their strings who will continue to make fat bonuses while getting free money at ZERO percent interest. Gosh, I would be rich too if I could get billions of dollars at 0% interest for YEARS and all the while turning around and loaning that same money back to the taxpaying suckers (who gave it to me) at 4% or more for a loan, mortgage, etc, and even up to 29.99% for a credit card. Hey, who at the Federal Reserve do I have to have sex with to get a deal like that?
I agree Brian, the banking sector is broken and needs to go back to the COMMUNITY. Fuk Jamie Dimon and his speech about opening braches. He and the Rest should be gone like Lehman and Bear Stearns…Stupid, BIG Govt, Central Planning, Federal Reserve, Communist Asses. Reference S&L crisis for proper Capitalism. Risk failures are punished with PRISON.
Man, I am your new biggest fan. With your Beale moment you have given me hope. Between you and Krugman, I now have something to look forward to reading. Now, I like all of us, need to take some meaningful action. We need to make this rant go viral.
Dylan is right that the corporatization of America and The Second Gilded Age are the results of bipartisan efforts. Our elected and appointed officials continue to put corporate profits over the public good. We need to pressure the Corpocrats and Republicorps. We need democracy, not corporatocracy.
Andrew K Post: a few hours ago…
When I enter the voting booth next year I can't in good conscious pull the lever for either Obama or whichever republican nutjob ends up opposing him. My vote will be a write in for Dylan Ratigan.
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I agree… I am writing in a vote for Dylan Ratigan too!
Dylan, have you considered running for the presidency yourself? I sincerely believe you'd have an army of impassioned supporters. I would certainly be among them. We don't care about any peccadilloes you committed during your college years :O) We care about your ideas; your passion; your intelligence; and your devotion to this country.
Dylan,
I have been proud of you for some time now,( I feel I can say that since I’m probably old enough to be your mother) and also a bit apprehensive what with the disappearance of K.O. and C.U. recently. I had a thought about what needs to be done to get more people energized and quite frankly ‘pissed’, and that is: Where are the pictures and stories of the HOMELESS in this country? Where are all these people whose homes were foreclosed on LIVING these days? Some of them must be homeless!
There are very old pictures of breadlines and hobo camps from the Depression, but where are the pictures of the new jobless and homeless?? Numbers are fine, but they ARE numbers, and numbers are words… a picture is worth a thousand words…. Give this Second Gilded Age a FACE!
Apathy/Frustration
I suspect many people are past the point of thinking they have any influence on local, state or federal policies reflected in voter turnout and party support. Many are focusing attention to alternatives for change, survival and vision.
How does one fight the influence of 3000 lobbyists per congressman?
How can real change occur when money promotes debt, inequity, false scarcity, greed and corruption?
Revolution? Greece, Spain, Riots in England, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Pacific
“Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09)
Obama has caved in or was bought. Whomever we elect have they not been corrupted. JFK was assassinated when he tried to shutdown the FED.
Erosion of Community/Family and our Environment
Using media, money, politics has successfully exported our wealth, dumbed down the populace, destroyed both unions and community, broken family stability to create an easily manipulated workforce and/or military that does not question authority.
Fear, intimidation, are promoted to install continued new restraints on personal freedom at the false pretense of protecting the public.
Collusion among industry, countries to extract wealth and resources for banks and power elites has increased since last depression using government agencies as vehicles for control, intimidation and influence. see The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins
The ECONOMIC & POLITICAL threats
I. ECONOMIC – The Destruction of the Middle Class
Unless America's middle class receives a fair share, it cannot consume without going into debt. Debt which is unsustainable.
II.POLITICAL
Big government & big business are in cahoots to make the rich even richer causing resentment, anger, demagogues, movements and perhaps even revolution.
Temporary Fixes:
1. A Reverse Income Tax, workers earning less than $20,000 would receive a wage supplement of $15,000. Supplements would be scaled up to those making $50,000 where it would reach $0 for F/T workers.
2. Cut Taxes to 10% for those w/ incomes between $50K-$90K. Those making $90k-$160K taxes would be 20%. In addition a carbon tax [starting at $35/metric ton of CO2 up to $115/ton], and higher taxes on the top 5% of incomes; example: top 1% pay 55% tax, top 2% 50% tax, top 5% 40% tax. Revenues could reach nearly a trillion in the first year and surpluses used for reemployment.
3. Reemployment system rather than an unemployment system. Free education, 90% of former wages are paid for a minimum of 1 to 2 years during retraining.
4. School vouchers based on family income.
5. College loans linked to subsequent earnings. Tuition should be FREE at all public colleges and universities.
6. Medicare for all. As of 2010 almost 50% of Americans already receive some form of public health care.
7. Public Goods. There should be a sizable increase in public goods such as public transportation, public parks,recreational facilities, museums, libraries all free of charge to users.
8. Get Money Out of Politics.
Excerpted from Robert Reiche's book AFTERSHOCK
How to Get It Done?
Politicians and media can't keep saying it's getting better, when it's not. People feel the heat from housing foreclosures, high unemployment, lower earnings, less economic security, widening inequality, soaring pay on Wall Street and they are angry. Another deep recession might be enough to trigger reform but a mild recession may not be enough to upend vested interests that can too readily hold on to their power and anachronistic views.
Pretty soon Wall Street banks and corporations will become concerned about their inability to generate profit, as the middle class cannot afford to purchase their products and services.
If nothing is done to counter present trends, the fault line will go beyond Democrats and Republicans to the mad-as-hell populace determined to take back America. None of us can thrive in a nation divided. The lopsidedness not only diminishes prosperity but tears the fabric our society. Stability rests in a system that operates in the interest of us all. Any loss of such trust threatens the well-being of everyone. We will choose reform, it's the only sensible option we have.
THE REAL SOLUTION
Establish a Resource Based Economic Model
(1) No money or market system.
(2) Automation to replace labor in every occupation possible.
(3) Technological Unification of the planet in a “systems” approach.
(4) No property – Universal Access.
(5) Self-contained/Sustainable/Streamlined City Systems.
(6) Science as the methodology for all social decisions, including the approach to problems regarding aberrant human behavior (or what we refer to today as"crime").
(1) A no money or market system.
Market theory assumes a number of things which have proven to either be false or only marginally beneficial, while often ignoring many of the socially detrimental consequences inherent.
The central problems to consider are the following:
A) The need for infinite growth, which is mathematically unsustainable and ecologically detrimental. The entire basis of the Market System is not the intelligent management of our mostly finite resources on this planet, but rather the perpetual extraction and consumption of them for the sake of profit and "economic growth". In order to keep people employed, people must constantly consume, regardless of the state of affairs within the environment and often regardless of product utility. This is the absolute reverse of what a sustainable practice would require, which is the strategic preservation and efficient use of resources.
B) A "Corruption Generating" Incentive System. It is often said that the competitive marketplace creates the incentive to act for the sake of social progress. While this is partially true, it also generates an equal if not more pronounced amount of corruption in the form of planned obsolescence, common crime, wars, large scale financial fraud, slave labor and many other issues. Well over 90% of the people in prisons are there because of monetary related crime or non-violent drug offenses. The majority of legislation exists in the context of monetary based crimes. Also, if one is to critically examine history and peer into the documented biographies/mentalities of the greatest scientists and inventors of our time, such a N. Tesla, A. Einstein, A. Bell, the Wright Brothers, and many others – it is found that they did not find their motivation in the prospect of monetary gain.
The interest to make money must not be confused with the interest to create socially beneficial products.
C) A disjunct, inefficient industrial complex which wastes tremendous amount of resources and energy. In the world today, with the advent of Globalization, it has become more profitable to import and export both labor and goods across the globe, than to produce locally. We import bananas from Ecuador to the US, bottled water from Fuji Japan, while western companies will go to the 3rd world to exploit cheap labor, etc. Likewise, the process of extraction, to component generation, to assembly, to distribution of a given good might cross through multiple countries for a single final product, simply due to labor and production costs / property costs. This is extreme inefficiency and only justifiable within the market system for the sake of “saving money”.
In a RBE, the focus is maximum efficiency. The production process is not dispersed, but made as centralized and fluid as possible, with elements moving the very least amount, saving what would be tremendous amounts of energy and labor, as compared to methods today. Food is grown locally whenever possible (which is most of the time given the flexibility of indoor agriculture technology today) while all extraction, production and distribution is logically organized to use as little labor/transport/space as possible, while producing the *best possible goods. (*see more below) In other words, the system is planned, to maximize efficiently and minimize waste.
There is a build up of frustration everyone is feeling. Dylan vented it, and he not only had the frustration, but the jumping off place for solutions. We have to step away from the dogged insistance that corp. america is our salvation. One side of our governement subscribes to that. The other knows that that side will take ANYTHING as long as it is not nailed down. (And if they can pry it up – it wasn't nailed down). They will marginalize the very work force that brought them wealth and they will do with the same mathmatical precision you referenced.
We have to be just as vigilant. Just as dogged in our determination not to let it happen. We need to have a leader who will blaze that trail. And if we don't, we have to take to the streets and do it from scratch.
These politicians and banksters must be laughing their asses out.
They are stealing in front of our nosses, ruining our world, and people does not care, they are silent and happy or completely ignorant with the situation.
It's incredible.
Dylan, think of those who have Truly sacrificed defending the idea of America. They gave their lives for the US & our Capitalistic way of life. Capitalism is the best system to create humanitarian wealth on this planet (Peace Corp, Red Cross, the UN, harnessing electricity, innovations, medical services, making life better in general) than all the other systems (Socialism, Commission, Warlord) combine. It's time to Hammer the BIG Govt, Central Planners once and for all…stand up for those who have truly sacrificed for our way of life and tell those who want Big Govt Central Planning that they are Communists.
WAY TO GO DYLAN! You are my "First Watch" on MSNBC – was very upset at the firing of Cenk, and his replacement dismal.
In the past, I found msnbc was far to left for my beliefs and stopped watching the station for news and commentaries years ago. But I happen onto this clip of Dylan. I've complained about this for years, and finally, heard someone with a spine say it on television, I will start looking into watching his show. It seems msnbc finally has someone that talks for the people, makes sense, and doesn't seems to only promotes msnbc's companies political beliefs.Thanks Dylan. If this is what your show is about, I've set my tv to automatically record your show and not miss a single one.
I'm mad as hell too! Lost everything to this damn banking/investor industry. I'm too old to start over, I hope their karma reminds them of all the people who have paid the price for their greed. And where is the government on this?…. helping the culprits. We need to rethink the entire system. That means new government leaders that will work together to solve these problems for the people of this nation. There is no room for political division at the top, it's time to learn what compromise means and to remind those that are responsible for governing it that it's OUR country, We rely on them to run it with integrity and to the betterment of all not some. We need to make it possible for an honest person to be able to lead, regardless of his wealth…..and let's see some resumes so we can make better decisions.
We must change the way we elect our government. Parties will always be here. Make a system with more, clearly defined parties so you know better what you are getting. Take redistricting out of the hands of politicians. Let's try proportional representation as do most other advanced nations. No more winner take all. Let us get rid of the presidency and replace it with a prime minister. No more divided government. We want one that is not only authorized to solve problems but if it does not advance solutions it is removed with a 'vote of no confidence'. End fixed terms. These parties pass legislation in sync with the elective cycle. Canada is doing better than we are despite our belittling them. They have 7 year maximum terms. Yes there is a chance of chaos with rapid turnovers but what do we have now. Now we get stagnation and if the politician has a personal agenda or party agenda, we are stuck with them as in the case of the Florida governor.
I had a similar "conversation" with John Boehner's aide today, when he came to the Senior Center. Here we are in the WORST conditions of modern time, & these seniors sit there playing cards, while the Congressman's Aide reads his paper – because no one bothers to talk with him. I decided it was overdue for "$2 dollars worth", so I sat down and expressed my dismay with our "broken system". We've got wars that have gone on for decades, funnel tax money to no bid contractors (Republican donors) at the rate of $10-$12 BILLION each and every months for 10 years now, Corporations (General Electric) who don't pay taxes because of our warped tax system, etc etc etc. "We middle class feel betrayed, sold out, helpless, DOOMED and HOPELESS, WE are DISGUSTED with ALL of Washington, that you refuse to do anything, won't compromise on any issue, and we are stuck with the wreckage of your incompetence". Dylan, keep ranting – maybe Americans will wake the hell up!
what most people don’t realize that this fight among the parties has been going on since before the constitution was signed.
The fact that the Constitution did not include a bill of rights to specifically protect Americans’ hard-won rights sparked the most heated debates during the ratification process. To the Federalists, those who favored the Constitution, a bill of rights was unnecessary because the Federal Government was limited in its powers and could not interfere with the rights of the people or the states; also, most states had bills of rights. To the Anti-Federalists, those who opposed the Constitution, the prospect of establishing a strong central government without an explicit list of rights guaranteed to the people was unthinkable. Throughout the ratification process, individuals and state ratification conventions called for the adoption of a bill of rights.
the birth and development of the steel industry has shown that the parties were trying to destroy labor as early as the 1900′s.
so what is new now, i see nothing. the demise of the American steel industry. that brought foreign imports of steel in the 1970′s was the beginning of economic collapse.
Dylan,
Call them out … one by one …. do they support a law that would overturn Citizens United and make all campaigns supported only by public monies? Call out Eric Holder. Each Senator and Congressman should be prosecuted for accepting bribes. Companies should be prosecuted for making bribes, for engaging in extortion (threatening to withhold funds if the rep doesn't vote properly) and for influence peddling. Let's FINALLY treat it like it is … bribery of all of our public officials.
I was overjoyed to listen to Ratigan's rant! Still one reporter left standing in a sea of corporate hires! Let's carry the message to the people. They may be too lazy to think, listen, react. We can only try!
Another serious problem we have to deal with is closed primaries where the candidates for the highest office in the land pander to their party's fringe supporters to get the nomination. We need open primaries for all nominees to force these people to respect the moderate independent voters that make up most of America but whose voice is being drowned out by these shrill opinionistas.
Dylan Ratigan's television & website commentaries are unadalterated truth. Having worked in industry for a number of years I've witnessed the root-cause of what's wrong with America. Jobs and wealth are being moved out of the country and the American worker's value reduced to a minimum. What politicians may not be aware of is that we are not as naive as they would like to think we are. So much detriment to public welfare has been done behind closed doors that it's become obvious. Government has to take a stand in the public's interest or the public eventually will.
Until people who are found guilty of these graft and coruption activities are sent to JAIL, these activities will continue. The filthy rich who embezzel America's tax dollars usually get away with a relatively small monitary fine. Put them in Jail!!!!! All the laws in the world are usless unless they are equally ENFORCED.
Dylan I agree with you and have been in the Fight for over a year.
Our Country CONTINUING with NO revenue increase. Corporate Republicans Refusing to give up even One Penny of Tax Breaks for Top Profit Making Big Oil Company's, Mega Corporates " LoopHoles ", Hedge Fund Millionaires & Billionaires, Koch Bros., Offshore Billions hidden from U.S. Tax Payers, Corporate WAR Republicans Skimming Billions of Tax Money in Overpriced Government Purchases and More.
Boehner, Canter, McConnell, Tea Party Rep's are Irresponsibly putting the entire American economy at risk of Ruin because of their insistence that Millionaires and Billionaires should keep getting Tax Breaks then holding our Country and Citizens Hostage during a National Emergency and sending more Ripples of hatred and contempt around the world for the U.S. while 74% Americans struggle to make ends meet fighting back Poverty and Homelessness.
Tea Party Republicans Recklessly slashing Social Security and Medicare to make sure their Special Interests Donors never have to pay their fair share.
DEMAND a END special tax breaks for Millionaires and Billionaires and to " STOP " Pushing America's economy to the brink of disaster and placing America's Citizen's into POVERTY.
Thank you, Fellow American's and Legal Resident Immigrants
God Bless The United States of We The Peoples America
Time to Act, get a Home Grown Campaign going in your area of our United States.
our country is only as strong as its people. our current and corrupt system is sapping the strngtrh of our people ; the counrty will ultimately fail, unless there is a popular and massive effort from the people , demanding that our government exempt themselves from the cash fkow of large banks and corporation, the suoreeme court notwithstanding. i am 75 years old and i have never seen our counrty in as dire condition as it looks to be now.
Easy to feel "What''s the use?" But, when we despair & drop out of the public discourse, corporate power-brokers & their lobbyists have a clear field with pockets deeper than ever. I'm with you, Dylan, and enthusiastically sign on to your clarion call for campaign finance reform. Make all candidates accept public fnancing and the networks stop using elections to fill their coffers and give free time to candidates on ballots–hey, remember that we own the airwaves. Keep it up dylan. Got your back
getting money out of politcs is key, but since corp. are constitutionally protected to influence politics how's this for an idea:
as a corp,contribute you all you want to buy po to litics, however any House or Senate candidate could only accept propportionally from sources outside their districts what they get in contributions from the voters in their disticts, Example, for every dollar collected from a voter in their district, a maximum of 10 cents can come from where ever, that would include direct $ contributions, in-kind, ads (pro or con) PAC money
"When will Grover Norquist be arrested and charged with sedition? Along with EVERY SINGLE elected member who signed a pledge to him, rather than to the constitution."
“2012 will be the Mayans Prophecy Becoming Our Unions Reality, if this Corporate Republican Owned Politicians are Not Remove Nationwide in Upcoming Elections. American Citizen Rights to be Individual, Free, Security, Liberty, Religious Freedom, 150 years of American Citizens Fighting for Workers Rights and More are on the Cutting Block of the Dark Side. Protect the American Union of People and States from the coming Apocalypses of our Country and World Nations.”
Bachman, Palin,Perry,Cantor,Ryan,Paul and other Tea Baggers are Afraid of, the Critical Individual Thinkers of America. The Media that tells the Truth is Not their Enemy, The Media and American Citizens who Question them about their Agenda for The United States People, always falls Flat with Lies, Bull and Gotcha. That's the Enemy of these People. Questions? Thinking they Know more than We The People is were it becomes the problem for Republican Tea Baggers. Now it's bringing those who are New to We The Peoples Constitution,Declaration of Independence, Problems and Country then Brainwashing to Tea Bagger Corporate Republican way of thinking, of Screwing the less Advantaged and their Change of who, why and how it's all interpreted. Water-boarding – Brainwashing is all the same for the Entire Country, if they are Not Defeated in the Upcoming Elections. You know the Poison Tea is Brewing, Vote them Out
I worked for it, We The People Worked for Our Social Security and the Medicare Benefits. WE PAID into Soc. Sec. and Pay Premiums each Month for Medicare. How DARE anyone call The Workers Program "Entitlement". We The People PAID into the Program for Protection from Crooked Business Leaders, "A ENTITLEMENT, NO". This PROGRAM is EARNED by the People for Years of Service for themselves. WELFARE, Corp. Jet, Oil Co., Tax Loopholes and Tax Breaks to Company’s WHO are Not Creating Jobs for American and Legal Citizens, But sending them Overseas or ENDING them to PROFIT. " THAT'S ENTITLEMENT
Progressive's are No better or Worse than anyone Else. Progressives are Everyone Else Working Together for Everyone else to Protect Workers Rights, Elderly Rights, Children Rights, Middle Class Rights, the Poverty Stricken, Homeless, Veterans and bringing We The Peoples Rights as American Citizens back to the Peoples Government. Fighting Back to END Corporate Republican amd Tea Puppets Poison Control over Individualism, Liberty and Progress!
“More American Citizens Know Today then EVER in the History of Our Country. THANKS to the Republican Corporates and Tea Party Puppets, that is SHAKING Our Country to it's Core. We the People Want The United States to FOREVER be The GREATEST Country of the Free World. STAND Up! by our President Barrack Obama to Free Our People from Communist China financial Grip.”
You're President Barrack Obama is a leader of a Desperate Struggling People in the masses and Homelessness of Epic Cause and Effect to our Country's Citizens due to the Hostile Nature that's been created by Corporate Republicans and Tea Party Puppets. Our Country has been Robbed by these people to benefit themselves at the Expense of our children, elderly, Veterans and your future also. The President is at odds with the TRUE enemy of We The People. It's Republican Corporate Control and added Tea Poison of the Evil People and GREED!
Small Business could do anything and everything, if they where not put down with HUGH Costs created by Republican Government to Protect the MEGA Corporations from Small Buss. Competition and Need for SLAVE Workers. Feel your Workers Rights Going away yet!
The First Americans had NAMES there Etched in Rocks, Grave Stones and Written into Legal Status by Church's and Town-halls in our REAL PATROTIC History thru-out New England. The AMERICAN TRUTH and The United States TRUE Meaning began Here. Books and Re-Written History coming OUT of TEXAS and the TEA PARTY is LIARS Faulty using The REAL PATRIOTS of America Banner. WARNING: The TEA POISON PARTY is CORPORATE REPUBLICAN PUPPETS taking CONTROL of our FREEDOMS!
VOTE! , American Citizens Save your Country from the Corporate Republican & Tea Puppet Party. In 2010 Mid-Elections YOU Did Not Get OFF Your ASS and Vote. Republicans of all kinds VOTED and the House Lost Democrat’s. If You Don't like Your Elected Officials. GET OUT THE VOTE! Stop this Madness. I TRUST OBAMA, Let's give our President the Weapons to Save us All from Corporate BIG BROTHER and Radical Elected Officials. Support and VOTE to Re-Elect President Barrack Hussein Obama and Vote to Take Back the House and We The Peoples Country from the Tea Puppets.
It Should be $100,000,000 or less cause anyone person Earning this and under would be more likely to Create New Business and Jobs. Our Problem go's to BIG Corporations who Control Our Government with Payoffs, Corporations of CEO'S who want there Company's to be seen by IRS as a Person and Those Wealthy Who PERSONALLY EARN as "Take Home Pay" $100,000,000 and UP to Americas BILLIONAIRS These People Don't Create Jobs ANYMORE. Yet they Control Our Lives, No Wonder there are NO JOBS.
I'm MAD as HELL and have been in the FIGHT for our Country B4 it became a Crisis. I've been belittled by many when in 1999 I said G.W. BUSH would be the DESTRUCTER of We The Peoples Government.
Anyone Miss Al Gore and his LOCK BOX yet? Dylan, let's ROCK this Country and tip it Upside Down and get Rid of the Criminals who have Taken our Government.
DEMAND COMPROMISE in We The Peoples House of Rep's and Congress
Tell John Boehner to END special tax breaks for Millionaires and Billionaires and to " STOP " Pushing America's economy to the brink of disaster and placing America's Citizen's into POVERTY.
SIGN PETITION NOW : Because, Later Will be to Late.
Thank you, Fellow American's and Legal Resident Immigrants
God Bless The United States of We The Peoples America
The Peoples Petitions:
http://www.petition2congress.com/4843/we-peo…
We The People have been in the Fight! Join us, Hope and Change Can Come. more Americans and Legal Residents Needed to Battle for FREEDOM!
I haven't fact checked all of this, but believe most of it is accurate. Also, term limits, term limits, and yes, term limits!
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- Patrick Henry –
I have totally cleaned this e-mail from all other names, sending it to you in hopes you will keep it going and keep it clean. This is something I will fight for and I hope you all read it all the way through. You will be glad you did.
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because of public pressure.
I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete. You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going.
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Let the boomers use their 401K to invest in america by cutting the tax on withdrawls. They could spend billions on houses, cars, etc. My 401K still has some bucks left. I would like to buy real estate for an investment instead of stocks.
DEMAND COMPROMISE in We The Peoples House of Rep's and Congress
Tell John Boehner to END special tax breaks for Millionaires and Billionaires and to " STOP " Pushing America's economy to the brink of disaster and placing America's Citizen's into POVERTY.
SIGN PETITION NOW : Because, Later Will be to Late.
Thank you, Fellow American's and Legal Resident Immigrants
God Bless The United States of We The Peoples America
The Peoples Petitions: http://www.petition2congress.com/4843/we-peo….
We The People have been in the Fight! Join us, Hope and Change Can Come. more Americans and Legal Residents Needed to Battle for FREEDOM!
Finally I believe there might be some hope! I whole hartedly believe that the root cause of the problem is bought politicians. I will do all I can to help. My only concern is that we clean up the mess completely. We are so used to half-baked solutions that take months and months to enact and then end up doing no good whatsoever! Happens all the time in both parties. Push on!
Globalism vs. Localism – Eric Frankson 9/10/10
‘Global-ism’: the current approach.
Imagine a circle within a circle within a circle. Five circles in all. The smallest inner circle is the city that you live in. The next ring covers the region you live in. Next, the ring representing the State. Finally there is the National and Global rings. The New World Order has created a one way flow of Capital, leaving the local sphere, and ending up in the Global marketplace.
‘Globalism’ is indeed what runs our country’s economic engines today. It’s not only how much stuff is on the shelf for us to consume, but how efficiently the Globalists can extract wealth and resources from the center ‘local’ circle. Our earned labor-hours are converted to dollars, that’s converted to stuff. Not local stuff, but Global stuff. Flat screen t.v.’s and foreign cars. It’s a one-way trip from our wallets to some fat Chinese financier’s bank account. Or maybe a Saudi investor’s bank account. Or a Swiss bank account held by an American living in Dubai.
The very few are financially in control of the World, and they truly don’t care which of our American citizen’s ‘disappear’. We are all just numbers; individual consumption patterns that dictate the direction of the over-all macro-economic machine of ’Global Capitalism’. The human element has been minimized. Life itself now has a price.
To mold the New World into shape, it is necessary to eliminate a Nation’s ability to be self-sufficient. Can’t be self-sufficient and be feeding the Global machine at the same time, can we? So a new re-structuring of classes has happened in the U.S.. We are now a ‘Service-oriented society’. We, in the vast majority, ‘serve’. We don’t ‘make’, or ‘grow’, but act as servants to the top 2% of the World’s population.
Since Reagan, we’ve actively sold off our factories and our locally developed businesses to foreign investors; to foreign real estate collectives and newly-rich oil sheikdoms. Led by Neo-Conservative global industrialists, the movement to overthrow our economy with extreme Capitalism has produced a ten-trillion dollar debt, two World Wars, and untold misery and suffering. We, as a Nation, have forsaken our middle-class and our manufacturing-class. We no longer not only lack the will to be self-sufficient with manufacturing capability, but we lack the capability to manufacture, period.
The darkest part of Globalism is that through greed and bribery, our best and brightest U.S. citizens have bought into the materialistic machine. Where before we had political leaders who were Patriots, we now have ‘bought-and-paid-for’ politicians whose souls are owned by an Oligarchy of Trans-National Corporations and World Banks. Our so-called ‘leaders’ have become mere pawns in a big Global chess game. And they’re losing at the game, too. But in reality, every Country that plays the Global Capitalist game eventually loses. They lose both their natural resources and human resources. They lose their independence. They lose their freedoms.
We are indeed on a treacherous road, and have headed down a very dark ally. We, as a Nation no longer produce ‘stuff’, we produce War. All of our money has gone to the war machine. But it’s a ‘paper tiger’ of a machine, really. We’ve privatized our military to a point where our own Federal government has lost control of our National security. We’re now answering to McDonnell Douglas and Haliburton. Soon enough we’ll be answering to Blackwater and other private armies. They will be in our streets. They will be enforcing Globalist policies that demand that all comply. The Globalists hope to shock-and-awe America into supplication.
‘Local-ization’: The new approach.
To accomplish World domination of Global Capitalism, the master-puppeteers need to have everyone march in the same direction. They do this by manipulating the Trans-National Media, creating fear and misdirection by having ‘We, the People’ focus on issues on the horizon. Things we really can’t have any say over. They tell us to watch Global Warming, the Iraq War, the earthquakes and the tsunamis. They want us to focus on the Federal level of our blessed democracy. It helps to create a sense of helplessness; a feeling that the best thing to do is do nothing.
We focus on the horizon and slowly are led off the cliff, one American citizen at a time. Those that are driving our massive herd of people care not for the loss of life and liberty. For they are in the back, and know they will be the last to fall off the cliff. Those that fall off into ‘oblivion’ are seen as ‘disposable’ by the New World Order. A necessary ‘correction’. An acceptable ‘loss’. A natural progression of losing your car, losing your job, losing your home, and losing everything you worked for. All to feed the machine.
So how do we stop this madness? How do we truly change course and not destroy all? How do we regain our lost freedom and liberty? Burning down the out-house because you don’t like the smell isn’t rational. Crushing Globalism with a single blow won’t happen. But you can beat it into the shape you want it to be. One person can only dent the machine in a small, almost insignificant way. But add up millions of little dents, and the machine eventually changes shape.
To reverse the course Globalism has set us on can only be achieved by doing the opposite. Whatever Globalism demands, do the opposite. We need to strengthen our local governments, in both size and scope, because Globalism needs a weak central authority to prosper. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been fired due to Government downsizing, as an example. Globalists believe that Corporations can run the Government cheaper, and more efficiently. Why employ 200 local people to do a job a foreign worker can do for a fraction of the price? It’s the Capitalist way, work smarter, not harder. Indeed, we have ingrained a new work ethic in America: Have someone else do it for you.
Our founding fathers’ wrote the Constitution and the Federalist Papers with one thing in mind, our personal liberty and our pursuit of health and happiness. But what many forget is that our founding fathers’ also based our unique in-direct Democracy on the premise that American citizens had to hold themselves responsible for the continuation and the strengthening of the government. We, as Americans, need to hold ourselves to the higher standard set by our founding fathers.
If Globalism demands a ‘world-view’, Localism demands a ‘local-view’. We, as a Nation, as a State, and as a City, must stop focusing on the horizon. It’s time to look at our own feet. Think and act locally. Shop locally, buy locally, and develop public policies that protect and strengthen the lives of the local citizens and businesses. Indeed, it’s time to ‘round up the wagons’, and start caring about our own neighborhoods more then foreign neighboring states.
Globalists are like drug pushers. They want you to use so you’ll get hooked. Then they own you. Local municipalities must stop accepting ‘generous offers’ from strangers. Besides Corporate donations, Federal, State, and County grants fill local city’s coffers. The local government’s self-sufficiency is made irrelevant by the rings of government that surround it. Localism demands that less hand-outs are taken from outside sources. Even if the price is to do without, the alternative, accepting money and having to sell the city’s soul, is not an option.
Localism also promotes hiring within it’s own community. Local government officials should be local residents. As should law enforcement officers and school teachers. The familiarity of dealing with neighbors creates a bond among city residents that helps cut crime, increases the size of the social ‘safety-net’ of concerned neighbors, and creates a feeling of ‘family’ or ‘village’ that so many love about our community.
Contracted bids by the local government should give immense weight to the local, versus ‘outside’, contractor. Putting local citizens to work should be the top priority of a local government, not employing those who live outside our city and our region. Efficiency must take second place to local employment numbers. A local municipality should take care of and employ it’s own citizens first, then fall back to outside ‘contractors’ when needed.
Globalist businesses operating in a city should be required to pay more then locally owned businesses in taxes and bond issues. A ‘zero-sum-gain’ would be achieved by lowering taxes on locally owned businesses to offset the additional income received from taxing the outside Trans-National Corporations. A positive incentive is created to operate businesses, and hire employees, locally. A negative incentive is created to limit the scope of Globalist corporations operating within a city.
The ‘localization’ of the local economy creates strong incentives to open a small- or medium-sized business within the city. Additional tax breaks should be considered for hiring locally. The more local employees, the greater the tax break. Property tax breaks for locally centered businesses would also be a positive way to make the city more attractive and competitive then other regional cities, and keep the money circulating inside the city, not flowing to foreign bank accounts.
Localism (cont.)
Localism focuses our attention and priorities at our feet, not the horizon. We, as a Nation, need to stop marching mindlessly forward. We must start looking where our next step is going, and prepare to change direction if we are heading down a dangerous path. We need to start taking care of our neighbors, as we would want them to take care of us. Every city needs to refocus on it’s own needs. Every resident needs to know that their city’s government cares more about them then a Trans-National mega-box store. It’s time for Localism to save our economy and increase our personal security.
How do we go from pissing and moaning on a website to action to get this corrected?
I agree to your campain to get money out of politics.Big money talks.If we could get the perks out,maybe congress would do it''s job.Wear else can you get a job and serve only one term, and keep your pay check??
Give them Hell Dylan. I am here for you!
How do I join this movement?
Am a newcomer to your show but am now totally hooked……couldn't agree more with your thoughts on how to right our country……especially campaign finance reform and term limits……so sad that so many potential great leaders cannot even consider running for office; scared off by massive $$$$$$ needed.
Keep on trucking Dylan…….only in #'s can we become effective in getting the money & power out of government!
Dylan,__Your doing all Americans a great service. Please keep it up. So far you're our only voice. I hope there will be more voices to come._Thanks_An Independent voter!!!!!!!__
I think something should be done with the congress and the senete The President cant do a thing because they well not pass anything they should not get their pay the way they are acting . Why dont they give up some of their pay no they want the poor to get poorer thank you
Hey it’s time to take Congress in hand at the ballor box. They have theirs and they don’t care about us. How can the president do anything when they cancel every attempt he makes to get something going. I’ve been out of work for two years because of them. Food is hard to afford in this day and time how can anyone be so heartless?? I say go occupy Wallstreet. They are doing us all a big service and we should support them and all the factions everwhere in this movement.
Get the money out.
go after them Dylan
I'm a FoxNews Fiscal Conservative White Male Republican (mostly)…. – all those bad and overly simplistic labels. Dylan's rant – and the attention it has drawn – has focused my attention on this site and I'm very happy to have found a group of reasonable people looking for the truth while trying to honor the fundamentals necessary for a healthy country. So, I think this topic not only draws attention to problems, solutions and actions, but I vaguely understand that it could be the beginnings of an investigation where many of us discover commonalities between the Tea Party movement, the Occupy movement, the big Independent voting block (full of intellectually honest and courageous people) and Dems, Republicans, Libertarians, etc.
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Too bad, so sad…the FSA chose an Equity/Admiralty Law-based empire -over- the Natural Law Democratic Republic the forefathers fought and died for.
Guess the the socialist meme "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled MONGRELS yearning to VOTE for free STUFF" didn't work out in practice to become such a blessing after all?
Nice knowin' ya 'MeriKa, and as a former Son of Liberty with three families on the Sons of the Revolution Charter, thanks for nothin'!
Hedge funds are great vehicles for their managers to enrich
themselves while leaving little alpha for their investors. Of course there
are some exceptions but most hedge funds lost money last year.
Mad as hell. That sums it up. They sit on their summit and drop crumbs on our head. That is pathetic. How did we start giving these greedy Bast?!?! our tax money. Thank you Dylan for making their dis-transparency more transparent for us to see.