"Mental Shift: We are citizens, not consumers"

[Harry Monroe]

This is from a Facebook group I belong to "Join the Coffee Party Movement"

"A democratic government is a privilege and a responsibility. It is currently dysfunctional in part because we see ourselves as consumers, not citizens. That is, we expect service. We don't feel compelled to participate in the well-being of our community or our country.

We, as citizens, like the private and public sectors, have mostly lost the sense of what it means to work towards the common good.

Imagine if President Bush had asked us to serve our country as caring citizens instead of asking us to go shopping soon after 9-11.

Let's change that. Can we work together as citizens for the common good? We can be the model for others - including Congress - to follow."

http://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty#!/note.php?note_id=467287128538&id=304981108326

http://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty

[ixion]

1. That would be great. The first step is to stop the Feds war on said citizens

because it's going to be hard to get any momentum otherwise. You can't 'feel good' about your community if there are jack-booted thugs just waiting to kick in the door.

[EarthFirster]

2. No, Consumers all

We went from farming to consumerism after WW2. We are products of a plastic society. The BIGGEST problem we face is that they now want CHINA to REPLACE US as the world consumers. So we must become a third-world country, through overpopulation, and middle-class devastation. This is what is happening now, and I don't hear anyone trying to stop it.

When they have us starving for food, and there are huge food production problems, grain in Russia, and Rice in Asia, they will try to rule over us as a third world dictatorship. The walls are falling, and everyone is asleep.