Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she could; for she was glad that the Wicked Witch had decided not to kill her.
-- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Friends and fellow citizens, the economic system we live and work within has been designed and amended by vulture capitalists and international pirates to enslave us to wages, taxes and debt. The financial sector has worked itself into a controlling position and in its single-minded pursuit of easy profits allows greed, corruption and immorality to drive it to manipulate currency values, markets, governments and the global economy in whatever manner favors them best. With petrodollars and other currencies being traded as commodities, a plethora of creative and overlapping financial instruments, and computerized accounting where phantom money transfers around at the speed of electricity, the situation keeps getting exponentially worse for us all.

"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britan's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."
-- Nathan Rothschild

From surveying current events, news headlines and history, we see that our political leaders are impotent at best. Even those with decent intentions and policy ideas are unable to affect meaningful change within the big government bureaucratic machine, especially with the vulture capitalists pulling the puppet strings. We find ourselves in need of sweeping policy change and reform, but with ineptness, inefficiency, under estimations, foolishness, mismanagement, dumb mistakes and its own doses of greed, corruption and immorality, enough of the right things never get done, except of course for the top priority interests of the vulture capitalists. Whatever the leadership does manage to get done is usually either too little too late, or the result some minor concession by the banking elite in exchange for something of more value to them.

"While our principal men are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism. By thus dividing the voters, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us."
-- The Bankers Manifesto of 1892

While these issues are certainly high priorities to brainstorm, debate and tackle, they are not given enough public attention and focus. When they do attract our gaze, it is then quickly diverted by distractions, scandal or other issues of non importance. The financial puppeteers love and encourage this as it enables them to go quietly about their business of economic manipulation and profiteering without interference.

"If I cannot harness you", said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, "I can starve you. You shall have nothing to eat until you do as I wish."
-- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The militant capitalists brought the Mexican economy down in the 1980's, the Russian economy in the 1990's and now have had their way with the US economy. Of all the financial trading and transferring that goes on every day, only 2% deals with actual product or tangible assets. The other 98% is all about speculation, gambling and manipulation. Given this, it’s a wonder that any sort of actual commerce still takes place. But the bankers are smart and know that they too have a dependency on economic machinery and that it must keep running in order for them to practice their insideous craft.

"No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
-- Dorothy to the Scarecrow - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

When we get up and go out to work each day within the economic environment as it's been shaped, we remain optimistic, hopeful and persevere. We seek solutions and inquire as to what actions we can take as individuals to improve the economic factors for ourselves, friends and family, since it's clear we can't count on our political leaders to reshape things as they should be. With that in mind I offer these suggestions:

·Work towards living debt free
  Don’t support the debt economy
  Pay off old debt - prioritize by highest interest rate
  Avoid incurring new debt, especially for non-essential or luxury items

·Circumvent the established systems
  Join and participate with a bartering organization in your business

·Organize in a collective effort
  Join one or more of the organizations fighting for freedom and liberty
  Support good economic ideas or policies (Safe Banking Act, Audit the Fed)
  Don’t support bad economic ideas or policies - boycott

·Control your loss
  Smart shopping - coupons.com
  Credit unions instead of banks - Pentagon Federal Credit Union was chartered to serve the military and has very good rates and terms. There is a loophole where non-military applicants can get an account by signing up as a "concerned citizen".
  Minimize your tax obligation

·Increase income
  Get a second job
  Start a small business
  Get additional education
  Negotiate a raise