Deconsumption chimes in again.

There are two sides to this New American Revolution. One is to stop supporting corporations, to stop giving them the bullets to shoot you with, and to start buying instead only what is produced and made locally and sold by independent businesspeople. It ain't easy to do, but as the revolution takes root and grows it will gradually become easier. And it's infinitely preferable to actually taking up a musket and abandoning your family and home.

The other side to this insurgency is to stop buying-in to your own enslavement by borrowing money. When you have debt, you're working for another's benefit. If that "other" is a bank or finance company then you've effectively shackled yourself to a self-destructing system. Hopefully most of the readers of this site are debt-free or fairly close. And hopefully most of the readers of this site see that "debt free" is so very way cooler than a new iPod and an Audi A6.