Traditional jobs in agriculture, manufacturing and service industries are phased out through corporate restructuring . Chains and franchises replace local small businesses. Agribusiness eliminates family farms and small towns. Almost invisibly, yet inexorably, the local economy loses its ability to meet the basic needs of its people. This process damages not only a community s self-reliance, but also its families.
Divorce rates soar.
Many children do not receive the care they require. These children will remain unskilled the rest of their lives. In the international arena, the multinational banks continue to centralize power under their control. They create the money, control its distribution, lend it to us and hold us and our governments in their debt. They are above the law and they do not believe there is a place for ethics in economics.