Counts can threaten capitalist America. They put their own Money Counts first, ahead of American prosperity. Counts keep collecting Free Income, no matter the harms to American Life.
And this violates
fundamental
American values.
Capitalist America makes incredible opportunity and freedom possible. Americans believe in doing the work to regenerate and strengthen our engine of prosperity for all.
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:
- Create an affordability crisis. Loss of affordability is a symptom of the corruption of extreme money. In our land of abundance, Counts collect much of America’s Public Gains for themselves. Runaway inflation of those Money Counts leaves Contributing Americans poorer.
- Cut off the regeneration of American Life. Keeping alive the promise of the American Dream depends on cycling our Public Gains back into America. But the Counting Class hoards Public Gains and cuts off regeneration. Counts throttle the American Dream.
- Wreck the KIRE Engine of Prosperity. Our engine of American prosperity created Counts. But now they can afford to take it apart for more self gain. Counts close off Public Knowledge, deplete Public Investment, abuse Public Resources, and bloat Public Extensions.
- Wipe out healthy competition. No real competition is possible with extreme money. With Counts involved, there can’t be a fair and balanced competition of efforts and ideas. It’s just predators grossly outmatching their targets and getting to take something for nothing.
- Hollow out American industry. Counts have no real need for America’s productive industry. And so it can just be a target to raid for more Free Income. Counts run up debt, corner the market, pile on prices, and replace industry specialists with money managers.
- Attack the defenders of capitalist America. Brave Americans call out the Counting Class as a threat to our capitalist system. But Counts use scare tactics to keep hold of extreme money. They use labels like “socialist” to vilify defenders of capitalist America.
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.