We Already Paid
In the wake of loss of net neutrality, as the internet becomes super slow to sites that aren’t paying what Google, Verizon, and Comcast do through their political purchases and tax incentives, I want to point out that we already paid for the internet. We paid through our taxes and additional fees for services per month to lay fiber optics and spy-lines. It should be free.
Who Paid?
Annie Leonard, in her brilliant “story of stuff” films takes us through the production of a $4.99 radio at Radio Shack, and asking, “Who Paid?” For 10 years, she researched that linear production line, noting that it missed many points, the most glaring, its effect on people and planet. She shows how government keeps businesses happy, ignoring their main job of caring for the people.
People all along toxic production lines paid with the loss of their natural resources, and with the loss of homelands that have kept them sustained for generations.
People and planet already paid with the loss of our clean air, clean water, and healthy living soil. We paid with the loss of our health from the toxic industrial food system.
We paid monthly premiums and co-pays at hospitals and clinics keeping us sick for profit. We paid with the loss of healthy lives because we can’t afford to go to the doctor. We paid again for alternative and traditional health not covered in our expensive health care plans.
We paid through the loss of connection with our families, communities, and each other. We paid with the loss of time and energy we spend to keep ourselves housed and fed.
Those of us who have toiled, gone into debt, educated ourselves, worked, raised our families, or just tried to breathe and eat and live have already paid.
Those who have had to give up homes that have sustained them and move to cities for scarce jobs have already paid.
Children who lacked the presence of unstressed caring adults already paid. Those parents who couldn’t be there for their children already paid.
Leaders who were threatened, corrupted or killed by the oppressors already paid.
The war-torn, who have lost lives, homes, land, resources, environment, freedom, and safe sleep at night already paid.
Those employed in jobs they knew were killing people and planet, but put food on the table, already paid.
Those stuck working too hard to do anything about it, because they don’t have enough to meet their family’s needs already paid.
SO LETS JUST STOP
We’re kept on a treadmill, running so fast, working so hard, with systems in place to keep us thinking it’s just the way it is. But we can just stop. We can learn a new way. The monetary system is just an idea. Ideas can change to align with the ways that mother nature provides resources.
Our bodies are fed by the soil beneath our feet. We are of and continue to be part of the soil, water, and air. A healthy earth loves and sustaining us. What we put into our mouths and on our bodies should be healthy love from our mother, not the toxins of greed.
We live in a lie that the source of our natural resources has no value. The resources we extract cannot have more value than their source, but that is how our economic system is set up. It is time for change.
We can regenerate degraded environments.
SO WHO SHOULD PAY?
It is time for those who have benefited exploiting our oppression and the destruction of our planet to pay for the transition into better. This film is long and pretty shocking. Watch it anyway.
Big Commercial banks wrestled the power from the people for profit. They make money out of thin air, entering numbers in electronic ledgers counting debts. But there are huge flaws in the system. The interest is not created, so there is never enough. The banksters can, at their whim, expand or shrink the money supply to rob us of homes, properties, farms, and livelihoods.
They pressured politicians they bought to bail them out when they mess up, so that we are continue paying taxes for debt outside of our control or influence. Oh, and the banks make the interest loaning the government to bail them out of debt.
Our oppressors have deep pockets. It’s their turn to pay.
SO, HOW SHOULD THEY PAY?
Anonymous hactivists break in to make a few tweaks to provide a number for all those oppressed to charge it to the Rothchilds and their like. For as long as it takes, until we establish systems aligned with nature to support the needs of people and planet, the Rothchild’s and their friends in the 1%, will repay with their vast fortunes stolen from the masses.
For cleaning up the environment, charge it.
For transitioning into a healthy food system, charge it.
Needs for your family; food, housing, clean water, education, communication, transportation, livelihood, charge it to their accounts, because we already paid.
Can I have an AMENdMent?!
