Wall Steet keeps climbing while 99% of us sink deeper and deeper into the hole.

What is wrong with this picture? We keep on buying more than just necessities of life, we purchase stuff from big corporations and they screw us all by manufacturing this stuff overseas while at home, we are a nation of unemployed folks going into debt. What is happening to the money we have to pay in taxes? Well, for one, two wars are adding to the huge deficit our nation is trying to crawl out from under. For two, the taxes the huge corporations are supposed to pay..do not get paid because loopholes provide shelter from the taxes that they should be paying (these noble job providers) and they locate their corporate headquarters in other countries as a good way to dodge their responsabilites here in the USA. So what to do..? what to do?
Here is a thought…move your money to good credit unions (I did that 40 years ago) for starters. Number two..stop buying from big corporations whenever you can find a smaller provider. I stopped buying Bayer aspirin and buy Anicin for instance.I dont think anicin is part of such a huge corporation (I may be wrong) and I will search again for aspirin that is from a smaller source. I shop for clothes at thrift stores and garage sales rather than Macy’s pr even Target. I buy my gas at Safeway instead of Shell or Exxon but I am sure Safeway gets the gas from an evil corporation. Safeway is pretty bad as it is, so I do not buy my groceries there whenever I can buy from a local farmer or bee keeper ..I grew a huge garden this year and gave most of the produce to the local food bank. If I get short of money this winter I will go back to the same food bank and get food for me and my students that live with me (international students that pay rent that pays my mortgage)…Stop driving your car so much..take the bus or car pool to the grocery store with your neighbors.
Work like mad to get your credit clean and good, but once you have great credit..dont use it. Use cash or your credit union debit card. Save money at your credit union and clamp down on spending on anything corporate. Stop buying goods from China. Try Try Try. If we as the 99% get busy with boycotts, Wall Street will sit up and take notice. Tell your representatives in congress what you are doing. Blog about it. Tell your friends and family how to put the squeeze on corporate America. You can accomplish much by speaking out. And yes, go carry a sign about stopping the wars and changing the law about corporations being people. That law must be repealed!

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