"Oh the World Owes Me a Living": A Fatal Fault in
Our Financial System Jeopardizes Democracy
Carlton W. Laird
Paperback, 5.5x8.5 in, 136 pages
Wheatmark, June 2009
ISBN: 9781604942675
Description
Our political and financial systems, and particularly the
latter, have fallen so short of expectations they deserve to be
questioned.
The United States is experiencing a very serious disruption of
its economy that will affect every other segment of human affairs
and endeavors. The universal question is: how did this happen?
"Oh the World Owes Me a Living" notes some of the causes,
but more importantly, suggests what we can do to correct
long-standing abuses to our economic and political systems. For
decades these abuses have been controlled by special interest
groups. Author Carlton Laird provides the tools needed for the
public to take back their government through voter initiative.
According to Laird, the public needs to be in command of their
financial system. It should be viewed as part of the public domain.
This is the only way that the monstrous public debt can be
eliminated. Although we have never had a true, fully-operative
democracy, it is still possible to have a government of, by, and
for the people.
About the Author
Mr. Laird is a graduate of the School of Engineering, University
of Wisconsin. He was a manufacturing engineer and served over a
period of thirty years as city manager for six municipalities. He
was also editor of The American City magazine, a consultant
for a proposed new town development, a utilities consultant for
Addis Abba, Ethiopia, and on the staff of the Commercial Fisheries
Division of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In 1952 and
1954, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. House of
Representatives from the fourth congressional district of
Nebraska.
