Whatever happened with all those Occupy Wall Street study groups about Alternative Banking Systems? In the face of the continuing pillaging and criminality by the Wall Street criminal financial cartels, and their protection by our government officials, it seems to me that these types of study groups or think tanks would be flourishing across the entire country.
I've been having this discussion with my wife, and she thinks I'm crazy for even thinking about it (some of my critics are not the only ones who think that!). I tell her, "Okay, so exactly what would prevent a group of 'visionaries' to set up some sort of non-profit organization in order to start an Alternative Banking System to be crowdfunded?"
For the life of me, I find that concept so straightforward and simple, and the moment so ripe, that I'm dumbfounded that nobody has done it.
I don't have the wherewithal or resources to do it being just a joe-six-pack living in a working class neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but if I did, here's how I would proceed...
I would put together a group of social justice entrepreneurs/visionaries. We'll do all the necessary research regarding any legal requirements, regulations, filing fees, yada-yada-yada, whatever. It can't be that hard.
Then we'll come up with a business plan (maybe take half a day to put it together), and in the marketing plan, we'll recognize that people are so fucking pissed off at these criminal institutions, and a government on the take, that it should not be that hard to tap into that deep vitriolic and viceral hate people feel towards these gangsters-banksters to create a powerful advertising and marketing campaign for it.
About "We understand that in today's day and age talking of guillotines for criminal banksters is not cool. About something they would fear even more? Let's defund them," or something like that. Make it fun, interesting...
Form the non-profit, then come up with a powerful ad campaign, and reach out to the citizens so it can be crowdfunded.
Then start with three objectives: Funding employee-owned businesses from coast to coast (bakeries, car dealerships, delivery companies, manufacturing, service, food, on and on); Fund sustainable, locally-produced food collectives; Fund sustainable housing projects/programs from coast to coast.
Then the organization keeps working really hard, reaching out to the public, placing ads in newspapers from coast to coast, TV, radio, facebook, twitter; make it a "social justice movement."
Then people start contributing to the bank... First 100 people, then 10,000, then 100,000, then 1 million, and on it goes.
Then work as fast as possible to fund the employee-owned companies, and the different projects, and set up a public relations department and highlight the successes, the stories of small employee-owned companies producing great products and services across the country...
I'm done. Writing this took me 10 minutes.
Now, if any ten readers out there want to do this, set it up, contact me and I'll be the first to donate/contribute/deposit/invest a little something. Then you'll have to only worry about the other 999,000. I'll help with that too.
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