The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.