Dear T,
Admit it, it's a raquet. 20% vested? It's simply a legal sort of crime a slightly less sophisticated employment of the principals behind pump and dump. (Visionary Activist/ Sep 6th, 2007 / Caroline Casey, Catherine Austin Fittz) Of little consequence to you (for now), you just wait and monitor the sequence of events here on this planet over the next few decades -T, the burdened diplomat. I'll be the first to call it unbelievable, but the network of systems that have come into being recently are at risk of failing to operate in symbiosis with each other, and have already more than demonstrated their inability to coexist with some of the more well-established systems that came in the box when we inherited the earth. And institutions with emphasis on the establishment and maintenence of power and finance have set the user guide, authored by our ancestors, in the town square and charged you and I an admission fee to stand by as they turn our hope of balance to a smoldering heap of ashes. We are, if you will, in an accelerated state of deterioration, and these are precisely the sort of dealings that are to be blamed for it. I, can afford to take the hit. However, in an indirect fashion, I, you, everyone's potential is limited and tied up at the starting gates, with agonizing and hand wringing over petty injustices such as these! and where does this remaining 80% go off to? Rwanda? or into the gastank of some CEOs learjet. SB, I'd venture to guess, cannot possibly need this money as much as the average sub-saharan African, or even an up and-comer like myself, although, of late, I'm finding it more an more difficult to make a case for participating in this. After a few years working for a company like SB, I'd have to spend 10 earning my soul back from the devil. In short, I'm not comforted or moved in any way by your response, although I appreciate that you were good enough to provide me with a response at all. If anything I'm only more outraged at the lack of concern and subdued complicity you demonstrate in the face of such miserably damaging business practices. You have to understand that our US economy, is part of a single international economy, economies are intimately interconnected, and that singular economy has considerable bearing on the well-being of the planet's constituents, and the health of the earth itself, which supports you and i in a way that SB could never do. We are all in this together. You and I and everyone else. don't let them let you forget that. Maybe this job isn't your bag. Have you looked into the condition of domestic education lately? Get a teaching job or something, dump your money in a local credit union, support local business, check out a couple town hall meetings -see what's happening to us. you too could be just as outraged as I am. I bet, there are at least 3 or 4 forces that are cooking up deals that threaten the sanctity of your comminity as we speak, trying to cut down trees or build shopping malls, or add another Wal-Mart. They've already met with stunning success, and it's only because we're allowing ourselves to be bound and powerless, writhing in shame and self-doubt, in occupations that fail to fulfill us. Forget (your employer), guilty without trial, a wretched facilitator for a whole host of these organizations. And for what, to what end does it operate? Money, that's it, no service, just blood-spattered bank notes. T, we love you, I'll put up with this vanishing sum of money, just whatever you do, don't do this to yourself. I beg you. -Asa