The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 3–Time For A Bakesale

I was talking to my mother the other day about  the Marie Antoinette theory of leadership wherein world leaders  sit around drinking $500 wine while the economy goes to hell in a handbasket and wise woman that she is, she suggested that maybe what we need to do is to hold a bake sale.

After all, it is usually women who run those sugar-laden fundraisers for desperately needed programs that are routinely left out of our national budgeting priorities and whose voices are routinely left out of the economic decision-making process.  If ever there was a time to bring them to the table, baked goods in hand, this is it.

Another woman whom we should all be listening to is Naomi Klein who is the rare voice of courage and clarity when it comes to understanding the current economic crisis.  Listen to what she has to say about the culpability of the Democrats in enabling the continued treasonous plunder of the economy:

“Despite all of this potential lawlessness, the Democrats are either openly defending the administration or refusing to intervene. “There is only one president at a time,” we hear from Barack Obama. That’s true. But every sweetheart deal the lame-duck Bush administration makes threatens to hobble Obama’s ability to make good on his promise of change. To cite just one example, that $140 billion in missing tax revenue is almost the same sum as Obama’s renewable energy program. Obama owes it to the people who elected him to call this what it is: an attempt to undermine the electoral process by stealth.

Yes, there is only one president at a time, but that president needed the support of powerful Democrats, including Obama, to get the bailout passed. Now that it is clear that the Bush administration is violating the terms to which both parties agreed, the Democrats have not just the right but a grave responsibility to intervene forcefully.

I suspect that the real reason the Democrats are so far failing to act has less to do with presidential protocol than with fear: fear that the stock market, which has the temperament of an overindulged 2-year-old, will throw one of its world-shaking tantrums. Disclosing the truth about who is receiving federal loans, we are told, could cause the cranky market to bet against those banks. Question the legality of equity deals and the same thing will happen. Challenge the $140 billion tax giveaway and mergers could fall through. “None of us wants to be blamed for ruining these mergers and creating a new Great Depression,” explained one unnamed Congressional aide.”

While we all have high hopes for the Obama presidency, we cannot be complacent.  We need to insist that our budget priorities be completely revamped to be supportive of sustainable economics for those of us who don’t drink $500 wine.

And who says you can’t have have your pie and eat it too?  Just in time for the holiday season, Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND) has launched the Great American Pie Campaign, call it the nutritional antidote for the economic pyramid that is eating up our well-being!

The Great American Pie Campaign is about raising awareness of how our federal budget affects our everyday lives. And the lives of people around the globe.

It’s also about know-how and action.

And it’s about women — because women are big stakeholders, and women have what it takes to turn things around.

The Great American Pie Campaign is about you – your vision for a better world, your contribution.

We are baking a new American Pie:

  • Smart defense dollars
  • A nuclear weapons-free world
  • Women at the table
  • Investment in people
  • Less national debt
We are reaching out to:
  • Women’s organizations
  • State and local elected officials
  • Schools
  • The media
We need you. Contact field@wand.org to bring the Great American Pie Campaign to your town.
Now that is something we can all digest.
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