Thoughts Jul. 12th 2015

So many people underemployed or unemployed. Many getting by with food bank and friends. We have to take a look at what were doing wrong.

To begin with we bailed out the wrong people when the banksters crashed our economy. They should all be in jail for running criminal enterprises instead of still committing crimes and getting bonuses. Besides they create money out of nothing and charge us interest on it. The money is backed by nothing, did not exist without a bookkeeping  entry and  More money exists on paper the is in circulation so we can never pay the debt off. Bank of America, Wells Fargo and others keep falsifying cheating and getting fined but nobody has gone to jail and allof the big banks keepup their crooked ways.

I have 11.6 acres here,about seven are capable of growing crops. I am willing to let a CO-Op grow here rent free for a year if they will uses hoop houses, cold frames and  so on to grow and harvest year round.
I am sure many other locations outside of CA are capable of doing the same.I know of one such operation in Down  East Maine.  It just depends on people willing to give their time,effort and a little money to get started. Better food, locally grown and  provide income for out of work people at the same time.

In the same spirit, Wal-Fart has raised their prices here now they do not have local competition. So why not start a Co-Op buyers club to compete? They can buy stuff at wholesale, bring it into the local community to a distribution point and people can go and pick up what they ordered. You prepay, and get your stuff cheaper.

I  don't know  about where you live but here we have factories shut down and buildings sitting empty. We have experienced worker, managers, sales people and maintenance people out of work. All we need is a CO-OP to use those resource and make stuff we can sell within a hundred miles.

We already have a Farmers Co-Op, Credit Unions and so on here, just expand on the idea. We even have a local dairy here but very few dairy operations.Most of the farmers still in business here are raising beef cattle.

Anyone else have any ideas, even a arts and crafts Co-Op would help?

Bob Smith 7/12/2015