PUTNEY — Sometimes, what we feel is right is quite different from how the federal government wants us to behave.
The government wants to trump our duty to look out for our own best interests. It says it knows better what is good for us, and it can be speculated that control of our behavior pleases the government's purposes.
When Vermont passes the Green Bank and the Vermont Public Bank, and the Vermont Currency bills, we will be able to at least make credit available for the activities we feel need to happen in Vermont.
I truly want the federal government to behave quite differently. I do not believe the methodology of creating law that is going on in Washington is correct. Why? The spiritual intent of the rule of law allows no one to oppress, step on, or misuse another. It is there to protect us from the lower expressions of the human condition.
But what happens when the lawmakers are themselves experiencing a very low expression of human experience?
They write laws that oppress, step on, and misuse everyone but themselves. The economy and legality of for-profit corporate banking and business violates the spirit of the law.
It isn't money itself that is the problem, it is how constricted its supply has become and, importantly, who is constricting its supply. By limiting the flow of its supply, the results are murderous and violent.
People die on minimum wage because they cannot exchange for the basic goods and services they need to live.
A livable wage is twice that of a minimum wage. In the interest of profit, the spiritual content of the law has become base and violent. People of Vermont should uplift the quality of law through discarding all law that does not serve the good of all.
When the rule of law is perverted, as it is now - poisoned by addiction, selfishness, and violent intent toward the majority - how many agree that it is time to review our subservient attitude?
The people in Washington are not like us. Who gave the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the right to determine all nuclear safety? Government itself gave that right! Now this question arises on a myriad of fronts: Do we need to give ourselves rights as a matter of self-preservation?
Perhaps we should have the right to review all federal law created over the past 200 years and to reject laws that have been improperly created for the good of the few. I would hold that laws penned by corporate lawyers are a violation of the spirit of our agreement to be in a republic.