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come to Main Street for solutions. For all the talk the finance and investment sectors make about creating jobs, they really are scrambling to find a way to maintain the status quo for their own comfort. Moving the chairs around on the deck of a sinking ship is not only an exercise in poor judgment but in a lack of vision. We here at DU over the past 8 years have repeatedly learned of innovators on the cutting edge of green technology who have been working in their communities on shoestring budgets and doing excellent community work on Main Street. For Wall Street to bring investment to these Main Street concerns means that they would have to really let the "free market" work and allow some of the gigantic brands to fail rather than keep sucking resources and air out of the economy. Main Street has been sending up a huge shout for a while now and it has fallen on the deaf ears of the protectors of "because that is how it has always been." Sacrifice, as defined by Wall Street, is for the little guy--you know, the ones for whom taxes are mandatory and breaks are called "welfare." To redeem and renew itself, Wall Street must come to Main Street for a new source of ideas and to relearn the morality of responsibility. This is not to say that Main Street does not have its own responsibility but its denizens are more likely to understand sacrifice, community, and innovative spirit when times are hard, something yet to be demonstrated by denizens of Wall Street.
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