It's time to abolish debt slavery
The United States and most of the world suffers from debt slavery.
Student loans, the IMF, credit cards, the World Bank, home loans and the list goes on and on and on.
Slave owners get super rich off the inexpensive labor and debt of their slaves. In the same way, it is our poverty or low standards of living, exposed to the harsh light of reality through things such as the immense trauma of our current financial crisis that makes some people very rich.
To get an idea of how vast this is, read a book called "The Student Loan Scam" by Alan Michael Collinge or "Democracy For The Few" by Michael Parenti. Apply what you read there to what you see all around you - from health care to your telephone bill - and it will become abundantly clear that we are almost all slaves to debt.
Literally.
Once in debt we are easily controlled and kept from demanding better lives, from having a good, free education, health care and so on. And a select few continue to profit handsomely.
It's time we all stopped being slaves.
Take the money we waste horribly on the industrial military complex and use it to pay for good, free education for everyone.
Take money we waste allowing credit card companies, crooked bankers, or vermin on Wall Street to profit so grotesquely and use it to give everyone good, free health care.
We should never let "solutions" be about tweaking the system to make it a more "fair" form of slavery. If we really think about it, abolishing these systems of debt slavery for good is the only truly fair thing to do.
It's time to end corporate/banking rule over our lives.
We need to stop focusing on the symptoms of the illness(es) and start focusing on the root causes.
— Peter Theis
Beaver Dam