President Obama two days ago in announcing his agenda for re-energizing and reinvigorating his Grass Roots Campaign gave me an idea for what I like to call Grass Roots Capitalism.
How does it work? To understand this concept, you must first understand the basis of our present form of Capitalism and how it was supposed to work PRIOR to Geoge W. Bush’s turn to SOCIALISM by his buying of the Banks, Insurance companies and Investment firms on Wall Street. Prior to becoming a Socialist country, our form of Trickle Down Economics meant that it was our responsibility to make sure that Corporations got everything they wanted or needed to make HUGE AMOUNTS of money and then some of the crumbs would somehow fall off the highest limbs of the trees down to the Grass Roots, us, the little people and as we picked the crumbs off the ground, somehow that would support our families, pay for our health insurance premiums that were gettiing higher and more costlier under this economic scam, or pardon me, scheme and also pay for our mortgages, our retirements, college for the kids, vacations, new cars, big screen TV’s etc.
This system of Trickle Down Economics has its flaws and obviously, as we have seen, the biggest one is that sooner or later the system from the weight of the tallest trees collapses and the whole forest is threatened and now the grass roots are supposed to pay for the replanting and new nourishment of the new trees to take their place.
I propose a new form of Economics and I believe President Obama is in lock step with me. I call it Grass Roots Economics because it occurs to this writer that it’s time to try something new. Let’s give the GRASS ROOTS, all the stimulation we need, let’s make sure we are safe and secure in our homes, in our retirement plans, in our educational system and if there’s anything left over, let’s have it TRICKLE UP to the largest corporations that WE as the CONSUMER CHOOSE to support. Let the billionaires eat cake this time, instead of us little guys stick down here in the Middle Class.
President Obama in launching this new and highly imaginative Grass Roots campaign during his tenure in office and for the purpose of helping him push his agenda has unleashed Grass Roots Capitalism that has the power to replace this Socialist State imposed on us by Bush and his cronies. By this I mean that as we work for Obama, we can help his agenda of creating a new infrastructure and in our daily activities, we can do things that bring us greater financial stability in our lives. Some of us will start new businesses as I have done to push for Solar Power and other Green alternatives and others will devise ways of lighting your home that may end up replacing GE as our main marketer of light bulbs. Others may come up with ways of getting you to your place of business without using any oil or gasoline, and so it goes, until at least all of us in the Grass Roots are well fed and cared for and so are our children.
THEN, while we build this new society of cooperation and green infrastructure, we decide who the corporations are above us who should reap some of the rewards of supporting and nourishing the troops down in the trenches, thus Grass Roots Capitalism can work to completely FLIP FLOP the standard understanding about how things are supposed to work. Instead of the big corporate guys in suits getting all the goodies, we get them first. Then, if there are any acorns left on the ground, we toss them up to the guys in the higher branches, BUT ONLY the guys in the higher branches who work with us, support us, give us good service at a decent price and don’t rip us off. That includes lobbying against us too.
So, this Grass Roots Capitalism thing could take off. It’s all a matter now of how President Obama sees it. If he just wants to use us to get reelected, then, it will fail and the whole system will continue the race to the bottom and we’ll end up dead, dead last in the global competitive thing. IF, on the other hand, President Obama is the man I think he is, the man we all know and trust to do the right thing, then Grass Roots Capitalism could become a reality.
The next several days will tell. Stay tuned to this blog to learn the end of this story. If it is a good one, we may have a job for you. IF NOT, we’re all stuck here in the mud and there will be no way out, none, because this Trickle Down Capitalism Thing is dead. Bush, in his version of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, did it in and it’s laying there in the ditch. There’s not even an ambulance big enough or strong enough to get it into the hospital in time to save it. Trust me .
Tell the The White House how you feel about this and that you support Grass Roots Capitalism.
White House Comments line: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Comments@whitehouse.gov
LET PRESIDENT OBAMA KNOW that you’re on the team and you want to get in on this Grass Roots Capitalism thing. Do it now. We don’t have much time. Remember, prosperity only works for the rest of us if it TRICKLES UP, not down.
Stumble It!
