Thoughts after the http://bailoutthepeople.org/ march on wall st:
I used to work in the very building where the music was set up. It was the most life I've ever seen in that area. I was pleasantly surprised by all the different groups. There seemed to be groups from all over.
I was amazed that the whole area looked very different. It looks more like a war zone than a city. We were herded like cattle by 50 to 100 police officers. There were even officers with rifles behind the enormous american flag that covers the stock exchange. It seems that the bigger or the more the number of flags, the more we should double check what we are being told. It could be a simple formula to investigate corruption.
One thing I'd like to see is the president and politicians should have a similar contract as most workers, that is, "terminable at will". The people should vote each day or weekly (or like the stock and currency market (every millisecond) on the confidence they have in the politician's performance. We could use all the current stock exchange equipment.
Imagine:
People's Ticker: Obama 40 -1.2 (-1%) , Schumer 0.1 -2.2 (-2%) No confidence vote required (4/10/2009), Conyers 90 +1.0 (+0.9)
Chomsky described a process where the neighborhoods and block associations and community boards would interview candidates for office. Give them an agreed upon agenda and ask them if they can implement the agenda. That seems much better than the current system. The community boards would also have the right to remove the candidates if they were not implementing the community agenda.
