THE OWNERSHIP- MONEY CIRCULATION PRINCIPLE

For the last 20+ years, I've focused on ownership; and although there have been trials and tribulations along the way (and continue to be trials and tribulations), I still believe that ownership is key to a diverse/vibrant community/city where residents thrive.  With ownership comes/or should come pride and stability. 

As a New Progressive, I believe in the "Ownership-Money Circulation Principle" (OMCP). 

The principle holds true no matter where you live (with rare exceptions).  New Progressives, while embracing the OMCP, also believe in "Medicare for All" and "Social Security", and would never want to privatize either.  Even more awesome is residents having ownership in their own non-profit community hospital or non-profit clinic where every resident receives free services .

I'll be talking about the OMCP in the coming months.

Elaine Stone


Related:

5 Reasons Co-Ops Are So Awesome, by Jesse Donaldson


UPDATE MAY 2013:  BioCellars - Reviving Cleveland Neighborhoods: Mansfield Frazier at TEDxCLE 2013
 

MAPLE HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO GO
 

Communities First Association Andy Batten (Plain Dealer article on Batten and Lighthouse Inc)


Pay special attention to question and answer segment:  Dr Joy De Gruy- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (19/19)  


Related articles regarding money circulation (something Maple Heights does not do and one reason why this city is in financial trouble):

Black buying power increases, but circulation of dollar within community remains low Nov 30, 2011

'Money is like blood – it needs to circulate for local economies to survive' Feb 20, 2013

Buying Local: How It Boosts the Economy June 11, 2009

Group Economics

Where you spend your money is important | Business Connections July 29, 2013

Black Wall Street

Durham's "Black Wall Street"

Taking Care of Business by Lee Jenkins

Why local money flows matter

New Study: Spending locally generates four times more economic benefit Sept 3, 2012

Know Your Worth: If We Don't Know, We Can't Grow Our Community Sept. 24, 2012


  

MAPLE HEIGHTS LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO GO

The Ownership-Money Circulation Principle


We all know, or should know, that when money circulates within a community/city, that community or city thrives.

We all know, or should know, that when most residents work in the city where they live, and own businesses in the city where they live, that city is more likely to thrive.

If this is not the case in your city (and it is not the case in Maple Heights), then the leadership needs to go.

If your city (community) leaders are not laser focused on making sure you (and all the residents) personally make money, keep that money, and grow that money, then the leadership needs to go.

If your leaders are not laser focused on making residents owners, and talking ownership constantly, then the leadership needs to go.

What does ownership mean? It means you own your home. It means you own your own business. It means you’re part owner in a co-op and credit union.  It means you have a significant voice in the decisions that are made about the community (city) you live in, and the policies and legislation that are enacted in the city you live in, which also includes total transparency in public information about your city.

 

Your mind must be laser focused on ownership, getting (and staying out) of debt, and achieving financial freedom, and your community/city should be focused on helping you do that. 

 

If your mayor and members of council are not laser focused on making sure you have ownership, that you keep ownership, that they will do everything within their power to help you maintain ownership, and that they will help protect what you own, then they need to go.

Ask yourself, .. Did my mayor and city council do the above? If not, then they need to go.

Beware:

Any city or community that is deep in debt, and  where the majority of the public employees live outside the city, is devastating to that community. It means that a large chunk of your money is leaving your city when it should be circulating within your city so your community/your city thrives, and you thrive.

© 2012  Elaine Stone

BUILD A CULTURALLY DIVERSE VIBRANT COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE IS PROSPEROUS, AND RESIDENTS ENJOY THEIR SURROUNDINGS.

OVER 550 FORECLOSURE FILINGS IN MAPLE HEIGHTS IN 2012

Related:


5 Reasons Co-Ops Are So Awesome, by Jesse Donaldson


UPDATE JULY 31, 2013: Richmond's pioneering eminent-domain threat


UPDATE MAY 2013:  BioCellars - Reviving Cleveland Neighborhoods: Mansfield Frazier at TEDxCLE 2013


2012 International Year of Cooperatives

BLACK WALLSTREET


Pay special attention to question and answer segment:  Dr Joy De Gruy- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (19/19)  



Owner of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods Gives Is Company to His 209 Employees

I give a "pat on the back" to:
Communities First Association Andy Batten  (Plain Dealer article on Batten and Lighthouse Inc)

THE OWNERSHIP- MONEY CIRCULATION PRINCIPLE




Related articles regarding money circulation (something Maple Heights does not do and one reason why this city is in financial trouble):

Black buying power increases, but circulation of dollar within community remains low Nov 30, 2011

'Money is like blood – it needs to circulate for local economies to survive' Feb 20, 2013

Buying Local: How It Boosts the Economy June 11, 2009

Group Economics

Where you spend your money is important | Business Connections July 29, 2013

Black Wall Street

Durham's "Black Wall Street"

Taking Care of Business by Lee Jenkins

Why local money flows matter

New Study: Spending locally generates four times more economic benefit Sept 3, 2012

Know Your Worth: If We Don't Know, We Can't Grow Our Community Sept. 24, 2012

Electric Cooperatives


May 2013:  Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Factory Occupation