Ok, did you see the CNN story today in which the soon-to-be-evicted home owner chained herself to the porch post? CNN Video In two ways people are starting to fight back: compassionately helping with the purchase like the Foreclosure Angel, and like today's direct opposition...a bit of Ghandi and Malcom X (one of my other heros!)
We need to fight. I have been so troubled in recent years at the passivity that the Bush Et Al fearmongering has produced. It is certainly time for us to fight back. If we are so lucky to have President Obama, perhaps we can begin to climb out of the bunker/hunker position that has been actively encouraged. Whether it has been a purposeful and planned means of citizen control we will not clearly know until the records are opened. But it is clear that many have bunker-hunkered down hoping that the storm would not damage them. And unfortunatly many many have been damaged.
The best book I've read lately on this subject is The Squandering of America, by Robert Kuttner. One of the points he makes is that people tend to attribute their own economic decline to faults within themselves "I didn't work hard enough", etc. But the real reasons lie in the system that has redtributed wealth in an upward direction for many years now. http://www.goldivas.com/articles/article.aspx?id=33. I encourage everyone to read this book, it's an eye-opener!
Posted by: Rita@Goldivas | Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 08:05 AM