10 Easy Tips How to Swing the Balance of Power from the Crony Corporatists back to you.

1. Do not borrow money from banks, stop using credit cards and use cash or debit card only.
2. Learn how to barter for goods.
3. Shop and trade at locally owned businesses
4. Avoid as much as possible Large Franchises that sell mostly imported products (look for the made in America label)
5. Garden… Grow as much food at home as you can
6. Buy used, reconditioned, refurbished instead of brand new
7. Start a local business producing real physical goods and sell locally
8. Recycle old items and freecycle unneeded items.
9. Avoid fast food and larger restaurant chains
10. Get everyone you know involved, especially those in your neighborhood (which means you might have to get to actually know your neighbors)

Fighting with your wallet is the only way to get their attention. They need you far more than you need them. Through advertising they have convinced you through repetitions conditioning that you need their mediocre products.

Logically, if the products they advertise were everything they claim they are; why would they need to spend millions of dollars per quarter trying to convince you???? Word of mouth is the best most effective form of advertising and it was a core tenet that the free market was built on. If it doesn’t work, people won’t buy and they tell their friends and so on, the reverse is true as well. Think about that the next time a catchy jingle from a commercial gets in your head.

Keeping the money circulating locally helps lower inflation, and taxes by keeping local workers and manufacturers employed. Employed people pay taxes, employed local people help keep both the local and national economy going. We may save a little more in the short term buying from COSTCO or a major franchise chain, but those savings end up getting swallowed up in taxes which go to unemployment entitlements, infrastructure, etc.

Ultimately you have to do what works for you, but if you are tired of the way things are, feel like others are controlling what you can buy, how you buy, etc. – making this paradigm shift in lifestyle can help balance the power and give you more control over your life.