14 Reasons for Centrist Ideology
1) Out of control deficit spending
2) Under present system Governments will never pay back the public debt
3) Politicians tethered to the status quo and don’t care how many millions of people and species die every day
4) Business and personal bankruptcies on the rise
5) Bankruptcy laws must be amended to take into account the contribution made by workers
6) Students shouldn’t need to go into debt to get an education
7) Huge gap in income disparity
8) Model would help solve global warming
9) Existing monetary system only benefiting the super rich
10) End the slavery of debt
11) Make money creation the responsibility of the government
12) Cap interest at 6%
13) Simplify the tax system
14) New and stronger regulations for the financial industry
Dear David,
There are many excellent things on your website but effort should be concentrated more narrowly on what is likely to succeed in the immediate future. The Public Banking campaign should be backed, as you do back, because it opens up thinking and practical possibility and the time is becoming ripe for the success of different uses for genuinely interest-free loans.
Season’s Wishes
Rodney Shakespeare.
Dear Rodney
Thanks so much for reviewing my blog and for your generous comment. I know where you are coming from when you suggest that I (we) concentrate on what is doable. My problem is that I see so many things wrong with our economy and I’m impatient and want to see things move along more quickly, even knowing, that it’s not the way things work. I hope you see what I am trying to achieve, which is a balance between incentives for entrepreneurship and sound social policies.
I just finished watching the video, which you were a part of with Mr. Harold Channer and Dr.Edward Wolff and was duly impressed. I could support what you are advocating and would like you to think of the merits of Linking our sites.
Do you know the American author Richard C. Cook and his book “We Hold These Truths” the hope of monetary reform. Richard’s primary advocacy is issuing an annual “dividend” of about $12,000 which he says makes up the difference between income and the cost of purchasing the total of the GDP.
In closing for now, I think the next important issue to tackle is growth for the sake of growth. I didn’t make this up, but I believe we should base our economy on a “wellness” factor, rather than GDP. In your video reference was made about automation and the affect it has in job creation and it’s funny, but on tonight’s news there was a piece about someone in China, having created a restaurant that is totally managed by robots. Again, thanks for your comments and I hope we can keep some sort of dialogue going!
Cheers
David