I am neither musician nor videographer, but I would like to see a bunch of wandering, national musicans under the moniker of LACEY FAIR and the Bovines> While banks may think of us as cattle, please look on the positive side. If we are, then that makes us the meat, milk and bone of this nation! Cattle certainly produce a lot , but do gamblers? Only for a short while, but WHERE gamblers would your daily meat and bread be without us? Your funds come from labor, and LACEY FAIR ( as opposed to the French spelling) can have a whole different meaning in the People’s Market Place of the World!

It seems as if the hard work to create a middle class in this country has been destroyed over the last 30 years. We are back to the age of Robber Barons. In addition, we are back to the age of child/slave labor. Granted we don’t have that here but it hasn’t stopped corporations from having their products made in foreign countries that don’t have any worker rights, where they are paid unfair wages just so the elite can get wealthier. The destruction of unions goes hand in hand with the decrease in worker pay and the increase in bonuses these executives are getting off the sweat of the back off of their employees who will only get increases in their insurance premiums as a reward.

That said, this approach strikes me as a gross over simplification of the solution and a gross underestimation of the situation/problem. It’s another flyswatter aimed at killing a Tyrannosaurus size issue. Breaking up “bigness” and keeping the current paradigm of minimal regulatory control only allows for an eventual recreation of the current situation.

Corporations, by charter and law, and required to maximize profits for their shareholders. Without extensive regulations to set the boundaries of what a corporation can and cannot do, consolidation and, therefore, political influence and “gigantism” will be the result and we’ll be back to square one.

If you truly want to fix the problem then have Congress enact laws that pass Supreme Court muster to remove corporate contributions from the political process. Demand campaign finance reform that simply says “no one can directly contribute to a political campaign.” All campaign financing must come from a pool of money, collected by the government through whatever means necessary, from constituents’/taxpayers’ voluntary contributions, distributed to all “viable candidates”* on an equal basis.

* A viable candidate is determined to be anyone who can submit enough verified signatures from a majority of states (50% + 1) equal to 5% of the registered voters in each of those states.

If you don’t eliminate corporate and specific individual financing of political campaigns, you will NEVER end the corruption of a political system whose process is based on which party or candidate has the most money. If we have to see this evidence more than we have then we will NEVER understand the source of the problem.

In summary, this attempt by this organization, though honorable, even respectful, is quixotic and ultimately futile.