[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '.').. buy more plants, like Arbosana olives that can take colder weather, quinces & quamash.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', '
')But seriously, we Boomers were for the most part just very lucky. We were born when the empire was at its height after the victory of WW II and we benefited greatly because of it. It's just the way the world is/was and now you and the following generations will just have to eat the scraps from the feast. Had I and most of my generation known what was going to happen we might have changed when we were younger. We did try to effect change but everything else in our lives told us to go in a certain direction. We're not (weren't) prescient just fallible human beings trying to make our way in world we hardly understood; just like you.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')I know everyone on this forum can think of *something* to write on a sign. You've got to be for re-enacting Glass-Steagall. Right or left, you must surely be against the bankster bailouts. There is no position other than against,

If just a small percentage of Americans could do that we'd have change tomorrow.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'T')here is actually a chance the Glass-Steagall ACT could be brought back. The Return to Prudent Banking ACT introduced by Marcy Kaptur D Ohio, which has many co sponsors. The media is not talking about it because the special interests don't want it to pass. I think writing my representative to support the The Return to Prudent Banking ACT would be more productive than sign waving.

[Duende]

Sixstrings wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ign holding, protesting.. if more people would do that we'd have change tomorrow. I probably won't again, this was a symbolic thing for me in the face of things that won't change and will only get worse but at least I did something.

[DomusAlbion]

I find common ground with some of the points. This is from a recent guest blog on CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44989010/

1- Campaign Finance Reform
To me not only does the financing need reform but the actual campaign process as well. Limit the campaign to a few months. Stop incumbents from using public money to promote themselves. No more "fact finding" junkets, the president can make all speeches from the White House or Congress. He doesn't need to travel to make announcements. All these trips are all just self-promoting wastes of tax payers’ money.

2- Reinstating old Laws
Reinstate the Taft Hartley Act, and the Glass Steagall Act. YES

3-Tariffs
Any US Company manufacturing abroad then bringing their products domestically. Good idea

4- Tax Reform
The current code is much too Baroque. It could be simpler. I also advocate a national consumption tax.

5- Judges
All Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges will have 10 year term limits. Maybe

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Duende', '[')b]Sixstrings wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ign holding, protesting.. if more people would do that we'd have change tomorrow. I probably won't again, this was a symbolic thing for me in the face of things that won't change and will only get worse but at least I did something.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'I') find common ground with some of the points. This is from a recent guest blog on CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44989010/

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'I') find common ground with some of the points. This is from a recent guest blog on CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44989010/

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', '
')2- Reinstating old Laws
Reinstate the Taft Hartley Act, and the Glass Steagall Act. YES

[dbruning]

I'm pretty sure we're too focused on the 1%.....

What about the 2%?

[Pops]

Some comments here on the list that I thought were pretty good...

Other general comments...
Younger generations are designed to challenge authority and the older generation is obliged to fight to keep what they wrestled away from the oldsters when they were young. It's why youngsters are more progressive/socialist/anarchist leaning and oldsters more regressive/conservative/curmudgeonly. It isn't anything new, heck it isn't even confined to humans.

As far as boomers go, I can't see that we're that much different than previous (or subsequent) generations in our waste and greed. We took advantage of the opportunities offered. We actually prompted quite a few positive changes but we couldn't have done that without the exceptionally widespread wealth of the postwar era - Oops, there's that income inequality thing again.

As far as attending the protests, that's a youngsters game.
And besides, one of my main criteria in choosing our current location was to be as far as practical from large urban areas because of potential unrest when PO impacted the economy - I sure ain't gonna drive there to take part!

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'I')'m pretty sure we're too focused on the 1%.....

What about the 2%?

[rangerone314]

This song seemed apropos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn3O6aaMNc