STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 22 January 2014

[Demeter]

8. I hope so, for all our sakes

but it won't happen by itself. Exactly how to effect change?

Well, I am doing it on the condo board---because there's no personal gains to be made from serving as a community volunteer, almost nobody runs. Well, that's not entirely true....there were a few individuals who thought there were ways to personally gain from ordering the operations of the association to their liking, not towards fairness and effectiveness. And there were others that felt they could fill a seat, get whatever glory there was, and not do anything....

I personally drove them out of office. With a lot of help from other board members and staff that were fed up with the corruption, dysfunction, and waste. It was a personal vendetta on my part, because I didn't have a lot of time to massage egos. As most women learn in life, there's no percentage in that, anyway.

Last night the board had one of its most productive, effective meetings ever. It took a long time to get to this point. I'm not saying that previous boards didn't do big things, but they did them half-assed and in really bad and ugly, destructive ways. This board did it with purpose and unity, fully-informed, thoughtful, trying to do it right so we don't have to do it over.

Lots of what we did last night was fixing previous boards' mistakes.

A condo board is perhaps the purest form of democracy there is, if the community is oriented that way.

Each unit of government just has to do the same thing, scaling it up for the size of each successive unit of government.

This would involve a couple thousand people PER STATE (even the smallest states). Plus the voters.