Counts hoard the Public Gains of America. The Counting Class withholds trillions of dollars, throttling opportunity and limiting freedom. Counts break the promise of the American Dream.
And this violates
fundamental
American values.
We use American-made wealth to regenerate American Life for future generations. All Americans deserve equal opportunity, equal security, and equal freedom to pursue the American Dream.
Extreme money can turn any regular problem in America into an extreme threat. Elite, entitled Counts endanger America by wielding extreme E8, E9, E10, E11 Money Counts to:
- Drain down the Public Gains of America. Counts collect and keep the Public Gains of America. That’s the value created by Public Knowledge, Public Investment, Public Resources, and Public Extensions. That’s the value of America’s KIRE Engine of Prosperity.
- Wait for hoarded money to increase automatically. The money hoards of Counts increase automatically, like clockwork, fed by Free Income. The larger a Money Count gets, the more Free Income is collected. No work, skill, merit, or effort of any kind is required. Only time.
- Amass far beyond what they can ever use. The hoard of a typical E9 or E10 Count is beyond any sense of enough. It’s far beyond what any single human can possibly ever use. The lowest E11 Count could spend $1 million every hour and not outpace his clockwork gains.
- Withhold Public Gains from America. Counts have the power to choose to do nothing at all with extreme money. It’s the power not to use. They don’t have to do anything useful. Their hoards increase no matter what. But that withholding throttles the American Dream.
- Turn America’s Public Gains into extreme waste. Movement of money stops with Counts. Their hoards of money build up as waste—stagnant and unused. The Contributing Classes make good use of America’s Public Gains. But too often, Counts are just a dead end.
- Cut off the regeneration of American Life. Hoarding by Counts limits freedom, security, and opportunity for all Americans. Keeping the promise of America alive is about cycling America’s Public Gains in order to regenerate American Life for future generations.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Big Woods Declaration (BWD) renews the call for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money.
The BWD is a First Amendment petition to the American people and our government. It is not limited to any political party or group.
The BWD is a total of 60 pages: the Core Declaration (4 pages), the 13 Notes, the 27 Dangers to America, and the 16 Solutions for America.
The BWD may be shared and reused under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. View a copy of this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The BWD was created without the use of any AI, opinion polling, or focus groups. The BWD draws on many core American ideas as well as the work of Thorstein Veblen, America’s visionary from the Big Woods of Minnesota.
All photos in the BWD were taken in the Big Woods. The BWD was framed by Erik Christopher Sahlin with Alyssa Beth Wulf.
