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Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)
8. Change the system or create a subsystem.
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 12:30 PM
Nov 2013

Use the money coming back from Banksters to buy up land and properties to form Commonwealth Properties whose sole use is to turn renting into equity, like a condo.

Update those properties with the labor of the participants, sweat equity, into Energy Free or as close to it as possible units with solar and wind turbine power being developed everywhere to end this problem of people who need energy assistance dying in frozen climes or desert ones. Training adults in new energy crafts that requires intelligence and ability to labor replacing a lot of the factory jobs we've lost.

Purchase large hotels with their many common rooms and parking ramps. Make those into community zones to train on clean energy platforms and even put in hydroponics or small dirt urban gardens with vines of tomato's and cucumbers scaling the main atrium up to each successive floor and the residents who live there harvest the food and use it for members in the commonwealth properties, selling some to the residents in the neighborhood and setting up vouchers for food shelf users to come and get some Fresh N Greens with their bags of cans and boxes.

People at many income levels can participate, but they have to engage in a high percentage of green behaviors to remain in the program and contribute their outside wages into a plan to get themselves out of poverty or out of crises and into a state where they have voucher specific monies available for a years worth of expenses and some rent equity to take with them whenever they leave the program.

Say someone's house was being foreclosed, they could apply to make their home a commonwealth property and the FED buys it up and rents it back to the homeowner, basically a refinance and gives them more ways to make the rent. Valuing sweat equity behavior in the range of $10 an hour people get paid to do what makes the world a better place and brings the cost of living in their home down in energy savings, availability of healthy food. Their own energy needs could be met and the energy put back into the grid to offset costs and be a source of some income.

The Commonwealth Resource sites could also have electric shuttles, little electric cars to rent and the solar panels and/or wind turbines to power them. Greenhouses growing fresh spices and veggies for the restaurant use and some dried or fresh off to the Commonwealth CoOp as well.

Shorter work week, higher overtime rate, mandatory annual leave. lumberjack_jeff Nov 2013 #1
Your solution would only increase profits because this productivity rate would soak up that 10% CK_John Nov 2013 #3
Beside helping environment we need to crash human population on point Nov 2013 #2
That is why I think it will take 50yrs for population to level out with productivity. CK_John Nov 2013 #4
Make it up as we go The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #5
How about a no-growth (steady state) economy based Ron Green Nov 2013 #6
That's what it going to take, new ideas, new ways. CK_John Nov 2013 #9
Passions and dreams don't require growth when confined to the imagination The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #11
Higher pay and expansion of service economy bhikkhu Nov 2013 #7
This leads into my idea of new type schools for what we use to call shop, less CK_John Nov 2013 #10
Change the system or create a subsystem. Tigress DEM Nov 2013 #8
"Productivity" needs to put down like an evil vampire. Drive a wooden stake through its heart. hunter Nov 2013 #12
Where is the money coming from for the subsidy? The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #14
I talked about "money" where??? hunter Nov 2013 #15
That's what subsidy usually refers to The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #16
Let's say we passed a law that deveoloped property left "fallow" for more than a year or two... hunter Nov 2013 #17
"Jobs" are just stuff that needs doing. CJCRANE Nov 2013 #13
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