EveryTHING, every institution, BANKS, Government are so corrupt.....

[Mind_your_head]

where do you REASONABLY BEGIN to sort it all out?

[specimenfred1984]

1. At the top, with the war criminals and torturers

It would send the message that America is serious about cleaning itself up.

[Mind_your_head]

7. I agree with you....a good cleaning from top-to-bottom would do this

country a WORLD of good.

[leftstreet]

2. Apparently we're supposed to start borrowing

:shrug:

After 9/11 Bush told us to go shopping.

Now we're supposed to go borrow money.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I have NO clue.

But isn't that what we elected Obama to do?

He knows where to start, and he has the people and the resources to do it...

:shrug:

[Mind_your_head]

5. Well, we've got to support him. He can't do it alone.

Just electing him is NOT ENOUGH! We've got to be right there beside him (and I feel saying this to you Peggy, b/c you've been so faithful to many, many DU'ers!)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Oh, absolutely, I agree!

Support is essential...

Thank you for the compliment...:hug:

[Cerridwen]

4. Learn, talk, teach, educate, lather, rinse, repeat.

Until there is a significant number of people who think the same way, I don't think much *can* change. It's not a quick fix.

The step after that would be people stepping away from the systems; again, in significant and consistent numbers.

As long as there are enough people to support the status quo, the status won't change much. But we will get nicer gilding on our "cages."

[tama]

8. I'm not a fan

of the French revolution. Better than cleanup with the quillotine - and then ending up with Emperor again - would be to start building from the scratch, at the bottom, at ground level, root level. Parallel communities, parallel society, grounded in human scale, human needs and gifts, not empire needs, state needs, capital needs, corporate needs - needs of all the corrupt institutions.

[blm]

9. Start by opening the books to BCCI matters that were deepsixed - we learned about IranContra, S&Ls,

Iraqgate and CIA drugrunning when Kerry uncovered BCCI layer by layer and over a 6yr timespan. We also learned about the funding of global terror networks for those paying close attention at the time. Imagine what we'd learn if all the books were opened on BCCI.