tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post6560761308190763745..comments2024-03-29T00:30:39.262-05:00Comments on real economics: #OWS—have they figured it out, yet?Jonathan Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-17253541695614707132012-05-10T12:45:59.230-05:002012-05-10T12:45:59.230-05:00I absolutely agree that the younger generation sho...I absolutely agree that the younger generation shouldn't listen too carefully to the boomers. But I certainly do NOT agree that we shouldn't learn from the past. After all, the financial regulations our grandparents' generation put in place worked very well for at least 40 years. They knew how to take on Wall Street. They knew what needed regulating. It was their good sense we abandoned when we threw out rules like Glass-Steagall. So my advice is: Don't listen to the boomers—listen to the generation that rethought economics in the 20s and 30s. And by suggesting we attack the too big to fail banks, I think Lewis is suggesting much the same thing.Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-76316099634004156982012-05-10T12:26:04.399-05:002012-05-10T12:26:04.399-05:00As one myself, I believe that the self-absorbed Ba...As one myself, I believe that the self-absorbed Baby Boomers have to accept that they rate a massive "FAIL" for this country and its place in the world. All the advice I have heard from the Boomer's plays into the successful strategy of the .1%. As for some examples of appointing leaders with a discreet set of objectives:<br /><br />How has the Sierra Club & The Nature Conservancy done protecting the environment?<br />How has the American Cancer Society done curing cancer?<br />How has the American Red Cross done solving NOLA and Haiti?<br /><br />We should move aside and hang our heads in abject shame, letting the youth try to accomplish what we have completely failed to do. OWS has a clear objective - Occupy Wall Street. They are going back to the basics of what we have been taught works by Gandhi & MLK. Operating on the premise that the only power they have is their powerlessness, they are increasingly prepared to get arrested, assaulted, and abused in a coordinated fashion by the 21st Century Pinkerton's across the USA.<br /><br />OWS vaulted to national attention thanks to Tony Bologna. The entire New World Order is freaking and if OWS sticks to their maddeningly amorphous strategy, TPTB will sooner or later throw the whole deli platter of abuse at OWS. It's not for OWS to act, it is for OWS to persevere and force the NWO to show its real face. This has to ultimately be about the great ignorant masses understanding the brutality of the future the .1% wishes to impose on them.<br /><br />The Baby Boomer's inability to hold their attention longer than the average SitCom not only disqualifies their advice, but is a harbinger of not having much of a contribution to saving our future. If I had to place a bet, our generation is likely to hamper, not help, getting our country back to health.David Bauernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-19737461206651843902012-05-10T10:38:20.596-05:002012-05-10T10:38:20.596-05:00That list of greivances needs to include food sove...That list of greivances needs to include food sovereignty, by which I mean the ongoing effort to rebuild our communities at the ground level, literally, by growing and distributing nutrient dense, sustainably produced food uncontaminated by chemical or GE intervention, in our communities. That can happen by means of small farms, community gardens, back or front yard gardens, or even rooftop urban farming. The occupy movement, so far as I was aware, has been steadfast in its support of the organic and sustainable farming and gardening movement, and of the non-GMO movement in particular. So, I am wondering why Ms. Beattie chose to omit any mention of food sovereignty among her list of greivances.Nastarananoreply@blogger.com