Without economic freedom -- which means freedom from tyrannical rule by the big banks -- there is no true freedom. I’d like to hear the peal of a new liberty bell ringing in Philadelphia, commemorating the American people’s victory over the Fed, GS, BOA, Chase, City, and the vile like, and the rebirth of freedom.

I see it as small hometown banks and credit unions are or should be for helping people. Anything else is a terrorist organization and money laundering institutions run by sociopaths meant to put the fear of austerity and worse into people and these traitors to the u.s. more than ever need to be shut down, violently if necessary. That is why the big white boy club banks have not compunctions about cheating people out of their money. The amazing thing is the people whom continue to still bank with these official financial terrorists who don't have to worry about repercussions of what they do to their customer base as they are totally void and bankrupt of moral integrity.

Philadelphia Freedom
Philos and Adelphos- we borrowed those beautiful ideas from the Greek language and blended them together making a wonderful union. This is what we hope to see someday – brotherly love.
What a perfect birthplace for the constitution and American democracy -AND public banking, the best kind of banking. I hope to see it coming to a city near everyone soon.
The origins of a banking model derived from the Quakers who lent government-issued money to their farmers, and.the best part – … the profits returned to the government and the people in a sustainable feedback loop that nourished and supported the local economy.’
I support the priorities of the Public Banking Institute. They rock

The current crisis is the inevitable outcome of two inter-related processes: The protracted decline of American capitalism and a crisis of profitability in basic production that is rooted in fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system. Behind the colossal growth of financial parasitism and outright criminality is the attempt by the American ruling elite to overcome the mounting contradictions of its system by shifting investment from manufacturing to ever more exotic forms of financial speculation. Particularly over the past three decades the financial power brokers, supported by the government, have dismantled much of the industrial base of the United States to seek higher rates of profit from various forms of financial manipulation. The creation of wealth for the ruling class has been largely separated from the creation of real value in the production process.
Now the countless trillions of paper values are collapsing, leaving in their wake an economic and social disaster. To even begin to offset these losses the ruling class must intensify its exploitation of the working class, spreading unemployment, poverty and social misery.
No progressive economic plan to solve the crisis can be developed apart from taking the major banks and financial institutions out of private hands. They must be nationalized and transformed into public utilities under the democratic control of the working population. The vast financial resources that the banks control must be used to provide decent education, housing, health care, retirement benefits and well-paying jobs for all.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/pers-j19.shtml

As an alternative to the Corporate Banksters, the idea of Public Banks has bloomed as an idea that can, along with the OWS upwelling for financial fairness, radically change the way the financial system works in America. It would return control of the Banks back to the people whom it‘s supposed to serve. This type of Banking has already been used in North Dakota successfully for almost a hundred years.
Check out this amazingly clear explanation of public banking at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0rJWnRFUJA&feature=related
http://publicbanking.wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g

Public Citizen has a Petition to "Break up B of A." As a suggestion, in the comments section, I demanded that we nationalize BofA, and then break it up into State Banks, like North Dakota's, giving birth to Public Banking from an institution that has basically already, through bailouts/subsidies, become a public institution anyway. Here's the petition: http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9386

the word public, should be distinctively different than interest of the shareholders positioned at the top of the pyramid skim

We don't need state banks. We have our little credit unions. Their best feature is that they do not intimidate us. It is beyond me why someone would advocate building mega-godzilla monsters and proclaim them to be benevolent servants of the people. Don't mind the monster stepping on your head. And imagine if the author's home state of Kalifornia operated a bank. That would be the bank from hell, for sure. So I don't really get where the author is coming from.

Credit unions are a great model for small, local, nonprofit businesses of all types. Credit unions have excellent track records. Credit unions are much better than state banks simply because state banks are centralized, prime targets for hijack by plotting elites, despots, or wannabes. Other reasons too - we don't need big kredit. We don't need big munny to fund big initiatives/enterprisez that require hierarchical kommand/kontrol structures, enslaving the people. We've seen the corruption and waste, and we know there are no benefits to justify it.

So we see a whole web of interconnected kaka, created by elites, that we simply don't need, and are vastly better off without. State banks are connected into that. They are not as evil as profit banks but just a lesser evil that still stomps on our heads. Utterly amazing that someone would advocate that. When we on the far left say we don't need something, we're actually saying we greatly prefer the holistic sphere of good, consisting of many interconnected goods, over the big rotten sphere of evil, consisting of many interconnected evils. We the people think things through, which is why we are superior stewards of society. We have vision. The elites got nuthin but big fat useless egos.

While they say the elites fear the rabble more than anything, the elites are terrified most by the rabble tending to their own local enterprises, thumbing their noses at or simply ignoring the elites.

Credit unions may be a good place to deposit your personal funds, but that's not what public banking is all about. It's about depositing the local government's funds. We're giving away huge sums in leverage to Wall Street by putting the states' billions in Bank of America and other Wall Street banks. We can leverage that money into credit for our own state/city/county by setting up our own publicly-owned banks. There's no avoiding local government in this; we're talking about the local government's money. And once the bank is set up, it is operated like any other bank, by bankers, not by politicians.

"All Banks Are Not Created Equal"

"Freeing the American people from the economic injustices perpetuated by Wall Street is what Occupy Wall Street is all about. We have become slaves to the economic power of Wall Street and their political lackeys. We now pay obscene amounts of interest to private bankers in exchange for the necessities of life."

It's breaking through
- knowledge of the better ways to do
everything for US and you

Ellen Brown's in fine form these days, serving up good info on how to change over to a non-usurious banking system. (Read her book "Web of Debt" - essential reading).

12 states now have campaigns to form Public Banks. Take a look at the effort in Washington state at: wapublicbankproject dot org

Root out the Good Old White Boys out of our pockets.