A New Deal Now
Agit Pop's slick new video The Next New Deal,calls the $700 billion Wall Street bailout a scandalous waste of taxpayers' money that could and should be better spent elsewhere.
Calling for a "Next New Deal," the film suggests alternative and more appropriate uses for the emergency funds, such as child healthcare, a clean and independent energy grid, and the creation of green jobs to transform and stabilise the economy.
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just an aside...
Sinking Ship
It amazes me, that a $700 billion bailout can go so easily and so quickly to some kind of confused, almost imaginary and fraudulent economic crisis, (my feeling is this bailout has to do, at least in part with something akin to ransom or a mugging.)
Meanwhile, there is an ecological crisis with far more at stake and certain governments and people and so forth hem and haw about what to do about it all. $700 billion would, of course, go a long way and do an immense and exponential amount of good if it were directed towards the improvement of the ecological, rather than the economical.
Clearly there is imbalance and pointing this monetary imbalance out is old news, the same comparision can, has and is being made with the economics of war - so, I challenge all to come up with over $700 billion in imagination capital and invest that imagination into the planet. Not just to "bail out the planet" - but to help build a whole new ship.
Your return on your investment will be immeasruable.
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As David Suzuki has been pointing out lately; economic is rooted in Greek as "management of home" while ecologic is rooted in Greek as "knowledge or study of home".
“Economics and ecology are words built on the same root – ‘eco’ – from the Greek word ‘oikos’ meaning home. Ecology is the study of home. Economics is the management of home. What ecologists try to do is to determine the conditions and principles that govern life’s ability to flourish and survive. Now I would have thought any other group in society would want the ecologists to hurry up and find out exactly what those conditions and principles are, so that we can design our systems to live within them. But not economists. We have elevated the economy above everything else and this, I think, is the crisis we face. The economic system that has been foisted on people around the world is so fundamentally flawed that it is inevitably destructive. We must put the ‘eco’ back into economics and realise what the conditions and principles are for true sustainable living… " - David Suzuki
word to david suzuki