Shenna Bellows on Corporations

Stop propping up big businesses that are "too big to fail"

• We need to stop spending billions of dollars on a surveillance industrial complex we can't afford and start investing in entrepreneurs.
• We need to stop propping up big businesses that are too big to fail and start investing in local economies.
• We need to eliminate the sweet-heart deals that protect large corporations and stop writing new rules that block entry for small entrepreneurs and farmers.
• When I think about Maine's economy, it's those small entrepreneurs and farmers who are critical to our success.
• Young people are staying in or returning to Maine to farm in record numbers. The local food and economy movement--built in our communities, not in Washington, is thriving.
• We can learn from this model and bring rural innovations to the rest of the country.
• Politicians in Washington have failed to be forward thinking in their approach to the economy, so our communities here have picked up the pieces and thrived where Washington has failed.