-Caveat Lector- At the risk of being "off-topic" (again..) When we use that same kind of "big picture" viewpoint that is required to understand the big picture drug smuggling/money laundering, S&L scams, etc... with which we are somewhat familiar- AND apply this kind of vision to the corporate media's sponsoring of a monetary "bottom line" profit evaluation as the "definitive valuation" of practically everything in "mainstream society" and see that this is co-creational of/with corporate ownership of the marketplace and means of production/distribution- we should see that big business begets bigger business, while ruining smaller businesses and communities- and common DECENCY. The ONLY solution is to stop eating wheaties. Most of the corporate crap products that are foisted on the public by the corporate crap media are too expensive, and in some way or other BAD for people (DE-valued: chemical additives, preservatives, stripped of nutrients, etc...) not to mention the fact that all of the MONETARY valuation for these most products has been appropriated by the big businesses- chain stores, processors, factories, sweatshops, etc- while the LABOR of women & men, and the fruits of the earth are DEVALUED by this marketplace "economy." Cocaine is a big problem, and contributes to bigger problems in many ways- but it is SYMPTOMATIC of the deeper problem, imho. I think we need to hold this in mind, as we consider how to combat this problem. If we lived in happy, productive, tightly-knit social structures- there'd BE no major drug problem. It is the alienation and fragmentation of society -which is the fruit of the fractional reserve banking system and of the ever-larger agglomerations of wealth under practically invulnerable and immortal corporations who have become gangster owner-operators of the tools of government- which is the moldy soil where the rotten spores of drug smuggling mushroom in the dark. The solution is community based. Communities will need to retake their economic base. A community that grows and harvests wheat needs some millers and bakers, not "wheaties" and General Mills ! Somehow.... somehow, people must turn their backs on the hatred and violence and indifference to suffering that the corporate media thrusts upon them- must reintegrate themselves as functional members of a whole and healthy society- and disengage themselves from the role of "consumer" of corporate mind/body/social --- poisoning. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -----Original Message----- From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:55 AM Subject:FW: Crying in the Kitchen with Jane -Reply From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Follow up to Heritage Post. >>> "catherine Fitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/30/99 07:00pm >>> R I went out to Hickory Valley today to show Jane how to get on the internet and how we could use it to figure out how to finance the small farmers and to figure out what is going on and reengineer their farming business so that there might be more profit and less risk. We caught up on family. Stella feels blue. Jane's mother is dying it looks like. Willa Louise is real upset about it. Her cousin died last week. Lots of folk are sick. The draught and the market have folks worried. We went to Amazon and e-bay and I talked about the spread between Wheat and Wheaties and how we could use networks and optimization technology and things like this to vertically integrate and produce a better product at a more competitive price on a sustainable basis. We went to Thomas and looked at upcoming legislation and hearings. Then we went to the websites for the Congressman and Senators who represent Hardeman County. They all listed their important issues and legislation on their pages. Nothing on agriculture. Nothing. Meantime the drought is putting people out of business. Some people have no way to meet their every day expenses. The congressional representatives have been telling folks how much they care. Jane found out the meeting that they had was invitation only. Turns out it looks like it was only major donors. Jane asked me what was going on. I tried to tell her. I told her the story of how the black ministers came to HUD and after Kemp promised them a bunch of things, they left and Scott Reed said to the group, "Can you believe those guys really believe that we are going to do that stuff.". Jane burst into tears. Then I burst into tears. So we sat in the kitchen crying because it hurt so much. Jane said to me "I know that nothing that is not decent can last." She is right. It is why I will invest in her and Billy on spec and not on the corporate system...even for money. For all the times I tried to get people in Washington to understand that every dime was real, and that decent men and women like Billy and Jane Powell can not carry this kind of overhead for decades straight, I felt the full pain of the systems and my failure. As I go to Joe's Cafe, and Haven of Flowers and Boliver Printing and I see how hard everyone works, and how frugal they are and how they never give up, the meaning of Mena and what is happening in Washington is that much more painful. I think of Larry Storch when I was concerned about how much money the special master was costing the American people and the insurance company and he said "what do you care, it is not your money?' It is my money. It is all of our money. If no one watches the money the covenant that holds us together in trust will break. Rule number one in Bolivar is that the circle go unbroken. The average person in Bolivar will probably work their entire life to pay $100,000 in federal taxes or less. How many people will work their whole life to pay for the HUD IG's mess? When I see how hard everyone here works to make and save a penny, I want to cry. When I left Janes I drove back from Hickory Valley to Bolivar. Each stretch of road has a volunteer who helps maintain it. The volunteer sign said that the stretch of road was maintained by Corrections Corporation of America. CCA. The corn I passed was dead, the cotton dying. I headed home to read the file that Peg gave me on CCA's operation down the road in Whiteville. 2,400 men behind concrete slits. They bought 250 acres and it looks from the roads the state is putting in that they are planning on many more. They have an office in town on Market Street. I have thought more than once about seeing if I could get a part time job there. Peg says they are having trouble hiring enough people. That is one way to learn about how to undo this. The only thing I know to do is to bring back to the people that I care about the story of how I failed and how and why in the hopes that we can solve the jigsaw puzzle this time together. Tommorrow afternoon, a group of farmers wives are going to meet at the Farm Credit Bureau to talk about what we can do. 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