Money doesn't always have to be the bottom line

"Our gross national product (GNP ) now is over $800 million dollars a year, but that GNP - if we should judge the USA by that - counts air pollution & cigarette advertising & ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors & the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods & the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm, & it counts nuclear warheads, & armoured cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts the television programmes which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the GNP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, & it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud we are Americans."

Senator Robert Kennedy, March 1968

The health & wellbeing of our society, our community, our loved ones, & ourselves should not be measured in terms of finance alone.  Whether the government gives money & priority to banks / business or healthcare / education is ultimately a simple choice - or idealogical statement… click here or here & here as well