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

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

Money is a mechanism for control.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

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

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.