William McKinley (1843–1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his death. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals. McKinley's administration ended with his assassination in September 1901, but his presidency began a period of over a third of a century dominated by the Republican Party. McKinley served in the Civil War and rose from private to brevet major. After the war, he settled in Canton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. His highly controversial 1890 McKinley Tariff, together with a Democratic redistricting effort aimed at gerrymandering him out of office led to his defeat in the Democratic landslide of 1890.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you ... but when you give it,
you have given it. No robber can take it from you.
It is yours then for ever when you have given it.
It will be yours always. That is to give. -- James Joyce ~~~~ Inspiration of the Day: Last year on September 15, people at over 60 locations worldwide handed
out their own
money to complete strangers. Participants committed to give two small coins
or banknotes to strangers, asking these strangers to pass one of them on to
someone else -- as a symbolic gesture, not a donation. Quirky? Yes. Likely
to elicit questions and dialogue? They hoped so. The idea was for this simple
exercise to act as an interruption to our trained response to the prospect of
'free money'. Free Money Day 2012 will again take place on September 15 all
around the world. This article explores the intriguing philosophies and events
that inspired this unusual experiment in unconditional giving.
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I get 301 post in america north, although my global hits are 3 million globally,
instrestingly absent is south american....Russia is exponentially more engaged..
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1 comment:
Thanks so much for posting the Free Money Day content and helping get the word out, much appreciated!
This event is about doing absolutely the most counter-intuitive thing we can do with money in our society. The very act of giving away one's own money serves as a 'signal interruption' to a culture where we've turned everything we value into commodities to be transacted, and have allowed money to define people's health, wellbeing and happiness (or lack of it).
Breaking the spell of money, even temporarily, invites us to think about how we define 'wealth' and 'value'. In no way should this mean dismissing money, because right now, most of us do need money to meet our needs.
But what if money worked differently? What if we had economies in which your status derived from how much you have to share, not how much you accumulate? Not only does the very act of physically handing money to another person create shifts in energy for both giver and recipient, it creates conversations - '...guess what happened today? Someone was giving out money...', 'Really? Who would do that?! And why..?'.
People from places as diverse as Ghana, India, Colombia, South Korea, Egypt, Russia and Thailand will be celebrating Free Money Day today.
Here are some of the creative ways people are coming up with - and one fellow running for Mayor in Bristol, UK, is stashing five pound notes around the city and Tweeting the locations!
http://www.freemoneyday.org/when-sharing-becomes-unstoppable
Thanks again
Sharon
on behalf of the Post Growth team
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