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The Occupy Movement needs to demonstrate its economic power. What if everyone took every single one dollar, five, ten, twenty, or other bill and wrote, "WE ARE THE 99%" AND "OCCUPY THIS" as well as Enter this @ wheresgeorge.com? Can one even do such a thing? If it were legal and possible, then it would be important to enter the bills at Where's George before entering them into circulation, so that all could see just how far and wide our money travels throughout this nation.

We can't fix the machine until we have brought it to a halt. We have to transfer our money from big corporate banks and into credit unions...or socks under the bed. We should make as many of our transactions cash-only that way the 1% doesn't know what each of us personally has or what we are doing with it. We desperately need to limit ourselves to a cash-only personal economy: the 1% calls it an Underground Economy because they have no way of controlling it themselves. Ditch the institutions. Cash only. Better yet, when and where possible, we should make use of barter to conduct transactions between ourselves and others. What the 1% doesn't know doesn't hurt anyone. What they do know only hurts us, the 99%. Read more at:

Move Our Money: Will You Do It? Why? Why Not?

To summarize: we need to ditch the electronic economy because it only makes the 1% wealthier. We should do as many transactions as possible in cash or in the form of barter. The Undergound Economy is what the 99% need. We are the 99%.

UPDATE 11-07-11 Dan W. has commented elsewhere, "Defacing US Currency is a violation of Federal law."

Thanks Dan, we certainly wouldn't want anyone violating federal law nor would we want anyone to think that this article advocates, implies, or intends such a crazy thing. One does have to wonder if anyone has told the folks at Where's George . Go to Where's George , and decide for yourself.

We, the vast majority of the American people ought to know who the 1% are...after all, they've robbed us blind for decades:

Income Of The Top 1 Percent Grew 275% Over The Last Three Decades

That's right. We've been working harder and harder and earning less and less while the fat cats grow positively obese with wealth from the sweat of our labors. And, they accomplished this theft by robbing us of more than our rightful wages; they've been stealing our rights, such as the right to collective bargaining:

Skyrocketing Income Inequality OR How The 1% Profited By Robbing You of Your Labor Rights

Worse still, they have completely subverted the political process to their ends. No matter how we vote, or who wins any election, the wealthy 1% always get what they want:

How the 1 Percent Rules

The question isn't just how can we take back what is rightfully ours. We have to first ask ourselves, what do we want?

The 99% Seek a Just Economy, Not Just An Economy

That's right: WE THE 99% want economic justice. We want social progress. We want our children to have a better life than we have had.  Getting these things, however, won't be easy. The wealthy elites and their corporate-owned and operated government are corrupt, self-serving, and unlikely to see any reason just to allow us any participation in our own nation. There is one thing that they haven't considered:

What Can Stop the One Percent?

The answer: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE ARE THE 99%