Talk To Them...
You write angry emails to elected representatives; you call and leave irate messages with screeners whose own paycheck depends on preventing you form getting through to speak in defense of your own paycheck; you march in protests; you attend endless meetings in church basements...And nothing changes. Are you being ignored? Of course! What did you think? They save your words and replay them over a glass of Montrachet and a Cuban cigar...Yes, Virginia...They are ignoring you. But the thing is you are not speaking to them in their language. They simply do not understand the words that are coming out of your mouth. They are not able to read the signs you made, stayed up all night to make.
You have got to speak to them in their own languge: Money. Banks and Wall Street speak Money. They do not hear, understand, read, speak or write anything else but Money. They do not feel your pain because your pain does not feel like Money. They do not hear the raised voices of the 99 percent who are suffering the results of post-democracy Capitalism dbecause human voices do not sound like Money.
If you want to communicate with the big banks and with Wall Street you are going to have to speak to them in a language that they understand: Money. And tomorrow is a good day for a crash course in Money. Oregon Banks Local is sponsoring and, indeed, facilitating
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