Gwen Hallsmith is Director of Planning/Development for the City of Montpelier and has earned international acclaim for her work on monetary issues. She's leading a citizen-businessperson committee that I am part of (along with people like Ben Cohen of Ben/Jerrys and Jeffrey Hollander of 7th Generation) that is working with VT Legislators on creating state-level monetary policy which will insulate VT from Wall St corruption. This movement includes exploring a State-owned bank like the highly successful Bank of North Dakota and also includes the conception of an alternative VT currency that could be legitimized by allowing the currency to beused to pay VT taxes.
Economic lifeboats are being built as the Titanic US financial empire sinks in front of our eyes. Stay on the Titanic if you think it's unsinkable!