The First Phase    

The first phase of  The Peaceful Revolution requires a major redesigning of the American financial system.   Why?  For several major reasons:   

1)    Because the present financial system is grossly unfair.   It's filled with serious conflicts of interest.   

2)    Because it's fatally flawed.    It's NOT sustainable as it is presently structured!   

3)    Because the core problem is debt and the debt problem cannot be solved by more deficit financing!   

4)    Because, as most economists agree, in order to resolve this financial crisis, we must resolve the home-foreclosure problem and we must re-empower the engine of the economy  -- the working class.   The present system is doing almost nothing to accomplish either of these two tasks.

5)    Because without a sound economy, we will not have the capacity to reverse global warming before it becomes unstoppable and before it produces major disaster and destruction.  (This proposal includes a detailed explanation of why we have only about five years within which to begin major changes in the way we treat the environment.) **en1

6)    Because the financial system is one of the fundamental underpinnings which supports the functioning of everything else.   

7)    Because it's the interactive highway that connects everything to everything else.   

8)    Because it's a fundamental tool of social creation.   With every exchange between two people each is better off because each receives something he or she finds more valuable than that which he or she gave.

Resolving our present-day financial crisis requires implementing one of the following three options:   a major restructuring of the management aspect of the financial institutions,  the nationalizing of the financial industry,  or the simple shift by banks and the other financial institutions into the Hybrid Business Structure described on this web page.

The federal government could have done several things to reverse the inequities of the financial institutions.  Unfortunately, bickering, infighting, greed, ignorance,  and self-interest have been getting in the way and continue to get in the way.  

Fortunately, there is a simple but profound way to bypass bureaucracy and make significant and easy-to-implement changes in the corporate world -- changes that can be implemented without government participation or approval -- changes  that can and undoubtedly will have a powerful and positive impact on the economy.   This can be accomplished by joining two existing financial structures  --  by joining a profit-making corporation with a non-profit foundation -- to create a new, more flexible, more efficient, more productive and much less destructive business structure.  The concept and its benefits are  summarized below along with a description of how this is accomplished.   

Please keep in mind that this proposal is not THE answer to our financial crisis.  It is, however,  a major piece of the solution.   

Partnering Non-Profit Foundations and Corporations    

Why Blend Foundations with the Corporate World's Business Structure?  ---  Because there are major and very significant differences between corporations and foundations.  Each provides benefits that the other cannot provide.   Each has tools that the other doesn't have.   For example, corporations are designed to create wealth;  foundations are designed to manage and distribute wealth.   

Their differences can be blended together in a manner that creates a Hybrid Business Structure -- a business structure  that will maximize the best characteristics of each and minimize the highly destructive aspect of most, large, present-day corporations.   That destructive aspect is: "profits first -- profits  at the expense of everything and everyone else."

Partnering corporations and foundations creates a natural blend of energies that simply have not yet been brought together to express the full potential of either.   As they stand today, they are like masculine without the feminine,  or thought without feeling, or knowledge without  experience.   Joining the corporate structure of creativity and intake with the foundation structure of financial management and distribution is like the marriage of two royal families, like joining song and dance.   Each brings in something that the other does not have. 

A Foundation has no profit takers!   It usually  has no money lenders, and most foundations pay no taxes.   This is in sharp contrast to the major corporations including the financial institutions.   Corporations, as they are presently managed,  have a very destructive, ethics-stealing conflict of interest between profits and service.   Foundations do not.  Foundations service their named beneficiaries, while the major corporations, as they are presently being run,  service the top echelons of management and the  money lenders at the expense of everything and everyone else.   Corporations also pay taxes.   

Fraud and Mismanagement:   Another very  important benefit of the Corporate/Foundation partnership is that corporate fraud and mismanagement would be caught and stopped long before it reached a crisis level.   If this partnership system had been put into place ten years ago by the financial industry, there would be no need for a $700 billion bailout.   

Government Contracts:   If local, state, and federal governments were to contract only with corporations that use this blended, win-win business structure,  (the Hybrid Business Structure)  that would revolutionize the entire corporate world and would definitely put a harness on the military-industrial complex.

It's All About the Money 

The core  issue is what happens to corporate profits.   Under the present corporate management structure, profits are used primarily to service a corporation's debt.   It doesn't take much looking to see that the major corporations have been turned into "cash cows" by and for the super-wealthy.  

Presently, corporations borrow money and never pay off their debts.   If you, as an individual, did that, you'd either stuck hopelessly in debt or desperately in need of serious financial counseling.    Imagine living your life for the soul purpose of making money for someone else.   That's exactly what the major corporations are doing right now!   Of course, corporations are designed to produce a particular set of products and/or services, but doing so has become secondary to making money for stockholders.   

When a corporation pays off its debts, it becomes a group of people working collectively for themselves.   They are no longer controlled the money lenders.   They can "kiss Wall Street goodbye."   Under the new Hybrid Business Structure, the people in that corporation are then able to work as a team for the foundation's five beneficiaries -- the corporations employees,  its management,  its customers,  the environment,  and its remaining stockholders.  

When it's necessary for a corporation to borrow money, it does so and, if sensible,  pays it back as quickly as possible.   However, as they are presently being run, the major corporations never pay off their debts.   As a result, producing short-term profits at the expense of everything and everyone else has become the norm.   It has become their reason for being.   Sound financial and business practices  --  employee health, safety and financial well-being --  and the environment  --  have all taken a back seat to showing a profit in the next quarterly report.

The Named Beneficiaries:   A foundation can be set up for any specified purpose, such as  to service a corporation's employees, its management personnel, its customers, the environment, and the corporation's remaining stockholders.

How to Eliminate Unnecessary Corporate Debt

With relative ease and simplicity, a foundation can replace stockholders in any corporation that has publicly-traded stock.   Corporate debt can be drastically reduced and, in many cases,  even eliminated completely by a simple shift in the corporate management structure.   Instead of a corporation functioning independently,  any corporation can set up its own independent, non-profit foundation and together, as a team, the foundation and the corporation manage the corporation.  Here's how it's done:

1)   As a member of a corporate management team, examine this concept and decide that it's in your own and everybody else's best interest to be a part of The New Corporate World.   Ask your board of directors if they care about the lives of their children and grandchildren.  Then ask them if they'd like to:

a)   Take back control of the company from the money interests,  
b)   Increase their company's profits,  
c)    Expand their power and influence in the corporate world,  
        and at the same time, 
d)   Be in a position to play a significant role in Reversing Global Warming?  

2)    When they say, "Yes,”  have your corporation, by free will choice, set up its own, independently controlled, non-profit foundation.

We offer a set of rules and guidelines for setting up the foundations.   The foundation's bylaw will provide clear rules and guidelines  on where and how the the foundation's money shall be used.   Safety precautions will be included to prevent misuse or misdirection of funds.

3)   Each month, have your company donate a small percentage of its profits to this foundation, such as a portion of the money it normally donates to charity. 

4)   The foundation uses this money to buy stock in its partner corporation.  

5)   The foundation uses the dividends from owning the stock to buy more stock in  its partner corporation.    

There are also additional ways to fund the foundations and ways to speed up the process of the foundation acquiring a controlling financial  interest in the corporation.   

6)    When the foundation has acquired  a controlling interest in the corporation, the  corporation and the foundation, functioning as a team, redefine the corporation's reason for being.   

The corporate focus will shift away from  
profits only at the expense of everything else.    

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This is when the real transformation can begin.

Millions (and in many cases billions)  of dollars presently being paid out as interest on corporate loans (debt service and payments to stockholders) will then be directed to the well-being of  the corporation's  employees,   its management,  the customers,  the environment,  and the remaining stockholders.  

The Result  

Since there will be far fewer stockholders, a significant portion of the company profits that previously went to the stockholders to pay the interests and/or pay off the loan will then be used for whatever the corporation and foundation choose to use that money for.   Here are some of the possibilities:

     To create healthy, safe working environments,  

     To financially reward management and employees at rates that are  just, fair, and equitable, and that are in line with the amount of money required to produce sustainable living conditions,  

     To rebuild, re-model, update, and/or replace the company's infrastructure,  

     Products intentionally designed to break down and fall apart can be replaced by high quality products designed for maximum use and efficiency,

     Milking customers for an extra dollar can be replaced by high quality goods and services,

     Product prices can accurately reflect product cost and be sold at a fair price, 

     Corporation will be able to reduce their carbon footprint and participate in the Reversal of Global Warming.

The constant need to produce a short-term profit will simply disappear.

The Benefits  

It's amazingly simple to set up and use, and yet its implications are far-reaching and profound.   It  has incredible potential for bringing money and financial stability back to the middle class.   It will spearhead the re-vitalization and re-assertion of the middle class.   The New Corporate World Foundation's Hybrid Business Structure  is by far, the best economic revitalization process yet proposed by anyone, anywhere.  Here are some of the benefits it will  produce.  It will:

     Financially re-empower the middle class

A detailed explanation of the benefits, the results, how the program works, and much more can be found  in the full proposal.  Links to the full proposal are included below.

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The New Corporate World  

Any corporation that produces its  goods and service using this  Win-Win Business Structure,  will have a huge economic advantage over its competitors.  Once a single corporation in any industry adopts the this business format, its competitors in that industry will have two options,  follow suit and make the same basic change or lose a significant percentage of their customers. 

Executives who choose to make this change will become leaders in The New Corporate World.   They will be able to run their companies without being dominated by the Wall Street moguls whose only interests are money, power, and control.

In this new format, everyone gets a fair share of the pie.  Imagine a world where domination is replaced by cooperation.   Because this process increases the wealth and spending power of the working class, the area's tax base will also be increased.   

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Examine the Evidence for Yourself  

Why this Change is Both Critical and Urgent

  Because we have turned on Nature's Doomsday Machine and we have about five years to turn it back off.

http://www.HowToReverseGlobalWarming.info#38  ²

The Hybrid Business Structure

  The New Corporate World Foundation's Win-Win Business Structure  is described in great detail on TLC-Life-Center's website:

http://www.New-Corporate-World.info#39 ²

  An "A to Z" description of the project (in an interview format)  can be found on TLC-Life-Center's website:

http://www.New-Corporate-World.info/interview.html#39  ²

Two Additional Websites that Are 
Part of the Economic and Financial  Transformation:  

How to Resolve the Financial Crisis:    http://www.EconomicSanity101.com#83 

Cause & Cures of Our Financial Crisis:    http://www.MoneyGodMoneycom#55

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Two Pages that Offer 
Solutions You Won't Find Anywhere Else:  

How to End the Home Foreclosure Crisis:  
http://www.EconomicSanity101.com/bo-3-how-to-end-home-forelcosure-crisis.html#83 

A New Way to Process Home Foreclosures: 
http://www.EconomicSanity101.com/bo-2-home-foreclosures.html#83 

How to Be a Part of  The Peaceful Revolution

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Notes and References