Still Want Change?

Still want change you don’t think we are gonna get in the next four years? 

Don’t be so despairing…it might not be as hard as you think. It will only be hard if you THINK it’s hard. How badly do you really want change? Your actions will tell. 

Clearly, the system does not work. On Yahoo news, during the entire voting coverage they displayed a box which was monitoring Twitter and Facebook and recording the mood of the posts with regard to the political situation, in the categories of taxes, jobs, healthcare, etc. represented by circles on a chart. The entire evening, the screen was dominated by a large red circle, representing ANGER. Of the choices confused, sad, happy, worried…the red circle of ANGER stayed way in the lead. 

When you look at the downward spiral over the past how-many elections, you now know that we can expect only more of the same. When you take our monetary situation to its logical conclusion, you know that it can’t last. Of this we can be sure. Will we go to war? Will we turn into a police state? Will the sun give us the spanking we deserve? Will Yellowstone finally say “Enough!”? These things we don’t know. When the money fails, how will we handle that, as a people? Our future – of this Nation, of this planet – depends on your answer to that question.

Perhaps we should reference our Constitution? 

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"

You know, you might want to go read the whole thing, because it sounds like a really good plan…and it sounds like the antithesis of what we have in America today. I don’t like what I see. I did not vote for ANY of the financial deals with the banks, or to go to war, among thousands of other bits of legislation that are balloted about in Washington. According to this document, we have a right to change that if it gets out of hand. “It is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it…”. So says the document which every military man and police officer have sworn to uphold. So, we should have some back-up, here. 

 

Now when we look at our alternatives, to either alter or abolish, one sounds a little harsher. Abolish implies a more negative spin, but alter provides us a little more diplomacy, don’t you think? How, then does one alter their government, so that it again serves the people? It’s quite simple, really. You stop feeding it. And stopping feeding it has nothing to do with voting, or marching, or protesting. Not that there isn’t a place for such…but the real power is down lower on the current totem pole. It’s right down here at home with WE THE PEOPLE. 

Revolution will start in your house. Here’s a few helpful hints to start REALLY altering our government. 

The first thing each citizen should do is educate themselves as to the problem. Now, this can be totally discouraging and depressing. Gives you a hopeless stare and declarations of going down the shitter. But know this – you do not need to know all that much. As Ray McGovern said, if malaria is a problem, you don’t take to the swamp with a machine gun to kill the mosquitoes…you drain the swamp. What is the ROOT of the problem? You can read about the “mosquitoes” of a million political issues…but what you need to do is follow the money. I’m not, by the way, offering that as a hypothesis. It’s quite a fact and hardly a secret. The primary cancer in our Nation is the monetary system and its control of our government, and as a result…the people.

Think about it: Jobs, healthcare, taxes, union issues, mortgage crises…ALL of this is monetarily based and currently benefiting only the banks, and the people are paying for it. Even when you broaden the picture to include the theaters of war…again, it’s no secret that war is perhaps the most profitable endeavor on the planet – again…at the expense of THE PEOPLE. 

SO…enough about that. Now you know the problem. The next step to bringing the solution home is to now CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS. Really…it’s that simple. Fact: Nothing has ever taken place, and nothing has ever been done that did not originate with: A THOUGHT. Never, ever. That’s how powerful thought is. You don’t need to know the quantum mechanics of it – (although I highly recommend its study – it’s amazing science!) – you just need to look around you, see that it is quite evidently true, believe it, and act upon it.

Change your thoughts to what, you may ask? How about a focus on what we are working toward, rather than on what’s fucked up? Yes, you have to look at the problem, but instead of turning your thoughts to the ugliness of it, or fighting against something – begin to think about that which we are working toward. It may take time, but you will begin to see everything in a much better light. So, step one is changing your thoughts. Toward a solution, not away from a problem. Run toward something with courage, not away from something in fear. 

Now about draining the swamp. Step two: Take responsibility. This is OUR country. Bought and paid for with blood, which trumps money. When you realize that YOU and ME are what’s keeping the swamp open for business, feeding the mosquitoes, it’s kind of a bitter pill. We are in homes that cost money, require heat and energy that cost money, eat food that costs money, drive cars that cost money, with gas that costs money, with insurance, title and license that cost more money, to have things that cost money, to buy educations that cost money – and we just don’t have all that money. There is no lack of resources. Exhibit A, a new car lot. How many people need a dependable vehicle, but cannot afford one? How many homeless are there, and how many empty homes because they don’t have money? Almost NO ONE has enough money to buy homes or cars – not paid in full, as it should be. No…we need credit to borrow the money we need for these things. And the interest will cost you better than four times what the cost is. If you spend any intellectual energy on this, you will see that you are, in fact, a slave to the system. Just try and break away. See how long before they “catch” you. Your very life is in the banks hands. 

So what to do? How can you drain the swamp, if that is what we depend upon for our most basic needs of food, shelter and clothing? A little at a time. Need some ideas to start? 

Take inventory of your life. How much debt do you have? How much have you invested in propping up the swamp? Start to back away from it. Get rid of it by any means possible. Test your courage on this one. Too many people feel that money in the bank is some safe-deposit box. It’s not. Money NOT in your hand is no money at all. It can disappear with the click of a “delete” key. Your investments are NOT propping up the “economy” – it’s the skeletal structure of the monster that is consuming us. Take it back.

 And it’s worth mentioning, that YOU are NOT your credit rating. So what if you lose that? Does it REALLY define you? If it does, you’ve just got another symptom of swamp-dependence.  Start small. Close big bank accounts, and go local if you still need a bank. Get rid of credit cards, one at a time. Slowly withdraw your support. Take your tangible assets, then – a.k.a. CASH, and turn it into a means of supporting yourself. Got a nice 401K nest egg? Take it and buy that land you always wanted to and get out of town. Put solar panels on your house and get off the grid. Now THERE is a retirement program – providing your own energy. Buy everything from now on as if it were the last one you ever purchased. You will look for quality and durability, and will utterly avoid all items engineered for planned obsolescence. Begin to work your way toward the door of this place, into a place of freedom. In order to be free, you must learn to take care of yourself. 

If you’ve done that, by virtue of having changed your thoughts on the matters at hand, you are well on your way. If your neighbors, family and friends saw you solarizing your house, getting rid of your energy bills, your debts, your STUFF that you simply don’t need in favor of quality items that give you control back of your life, you think they won’t follow suit? If you did this today, while money still has the place that it does, you would be in great shape financially. So many less bills! So much surplus cash! 

With surplus cash, you can begin to truly take responsibility for yourself. You will begin to see how many parts of your life are really NOT in your control, and you will be inspired to take those back, too. 

As people begin to unplug from “nanny government” and the banking cartel, it will begin to collapse. It’s going to ultimately anyway…why don’t we opt for a controlled demolition? When it falls, it must not be allowed to rise back up with some new idea that will crush us all even more. And those who have already divorced the system will have all KINDS of ideas as to what actually works. They will have been doing it. 

If you need a precedent to look at, think about the depression. Plenty of farmers and people who still took responsibility for themselves were not affected by it. They saw the failure of money, and simply said, “Bummer”, and carried on with the way they were already living. Think the tribes in Africa with no electricity will care if the grid goes down? No…they take responsibility for themselves, and their families, and their tribes. Something we’ve kind of gotten away from, but if we take out of the giant that which is ours, we can currently purchase all that we need to be in the same shape when it all comes apart. 

And while you are starting this revolution in your home, be aware of opportunities to NOT go it alone. Co-op a garden, if you don’t like to play in the dirt. What do YOU have to offer someone else? Begin to see not the monetary COST of things, but rather change those thoughts and look for the intrinsic VALUE. You could not GIVE me a brand new flat screen TV for anything I have of VALUE. Your TV is worthless to me. I don’t watch TV. Now, if you had a set of cast iron cookware, I’d be happy to trade you something for that! 

While you are at it, learn to cook. Learn what it is you are eating. If I showed you the ingredients on a package of “Lunchables”, and asked you to feed it to your child, you’d have no problem saying no way. You won’t believe how much better you will feel if you take but a small step toward providing your own food. Weight will drop, as will your blood pressure, your cholesterol, while your energy level will only rise. This is a subject that requires its own post, but suffice it to say, you will realize how much you have missed being healthy. 

If the very idea of slowly but surely de-coupling from the monetary system that has both us and our government by the balls is not something we are willing to entertain, then we will never be free. We can never reclaim what has been lost so far, and we will watch a “New World Order” consume the planet, with us on it. 

Each American today must ask themselves this question: DO I REALLY WANT TO BE FREE? 

Don’t just pop off, “Yes, of course”, until you have contemplated the COST of your liberty and freedom. While we cite the blood of our forefathers as bearing the cost of our freedom, the whole point of this “revolution” is because the current system makes their sacrifice null and void. And WE THE PEOPLE are responsible, having allowed ourselves to have been lulled into a materialistic Neverland, and did not seem to notice as so many freedoms have been taken with the stroke of a pen, and with no vote by the governed.  In other words, we’ve sold our freedoms to the lowest bidder – and I’m afraid we are going to have to buy them back, as they don’t seem to be in much of a giving mood. 

But we don’t live in the 1770s anymore. We don’t have to sail all the way across the Atlantic just to deliver a message. This is 2012. I’d like to believe we are a little smarter now, with the technology that serves us. There are better ways to freedom than war and death. There is a way to peaceful abolition, and in this case, it’s simply a matter of taking back that which is ours…one at a time. Talk about trickledown economics. Simply stated, if we aren’t buying what they are selling, they are out of business. 

It doesn’t need to cost us blood this time. What it will cost is our consumerist lifestyle. Imagine a world where we have everything we NEED, instead of everything we WANT. Once your revolution starts, you will be very, very surprised and how many wants are running around your head and house disguised as needs. 

If we want REAL change, then we will have to change it ourselves, OUTSIDE of the current system. If we TRULY want to be free, then we will do what is necessary to secure that freedom, and it starts right in your own home, with YOU. We don’t need a show of hands or a vote to see who REALLY wants freedom to ring. We will know by your actions. 

There is much more to be said on this subject, but I will stop now with these thoughts for you to consider. What is the true VALUE of your very freedom – your very life, and the state of this Nation that our children and grandchildren will inherit? Do we have even a smidge of the intestinal fortitude of the founding fathers? They gave up their lives, breath and blood for it. Are we willing to give up the hind-tit suckling off a very sick cow for it? Are we willing to give up the tinsel and the trappings of our wants, for the very NEED of freedom? We all need to honestly answer that question.

We, the people, have the right to determine how this story is going to be written. But it won’t write itself. We don’t need to wait for some organization or group to “start a movement”. Just do it. Start today. Start small. See how good it feels to start moving toward independence once again. One at a time…we are the people, and we are powerful. We all need to be reminded of that.