Should we use the economic crisis to develop a new, better system for the U.S., or let the rich win?

Ken Burch

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:18 PM
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Poll question: Should we use the economic crisis to develop a new, better system for the U.S., or let the rich win?

This crisis is a chance to create something better. Not old-style "state socialism", which wasn't socialist or worthwhile, but some new model that combines social justice, worker empowerment and personal choice.

Why would anyone argue for letting the existing model survive, after the Eighties showed us what corporate power will ALWAYS be like when they have the upper hand?

We're a creative nation.

Why not use that creativity, that innovative spirit, the tradition of self-invention and re-invention, to make something new?

Economic democracy with freedom.

What do you think?

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Captain Hilts

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:24 PM
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1. We chose to...

FDR & ER: "Build something new!"

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Ken Burch

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:31 PM
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2. We did indeed, back in the day.

I'm asking if we have the will to make our leaders do that now.

We're going to have to be in the streets in the hundreds of thousands, using new and creative means of building support for an alternative, and we're going to have to be able to defeat the "give him time" crowd and the "we can't actually DO THAT" crowd.

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valerief

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:33 PM
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3. The rich will never lose. We just don't want to all become totally destitute. nt

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Ken Burch

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Mon Jun-01-09 07:38 PM
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4. We can reset the balance here. The rich are on the defensive

There's actually the chance now, for the first time, to genuinely democratize this country, which requires democratizing the economic decisions that affect us all.

We have nothing to lose by trying and nothing to gain by settling for the familiar. The market will never allow humane values to survive within it. The Eighties should have taught us all that.

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valerief

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Mon Jun-01-09 08:02 PM
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5. The rich never get unrich. Unless you know how to stop people from dying in the military

for them.

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