What Can Be Done With The WTPC

The We The People Campaign (WTPC) is a comprehensive economic development program aimed at addressing economic, environmental and social problems. It has been developed based on historical examples of very successful implementations of complementary currency programs from around the world.

The WTPC can be used to fund all manner of projects and programs, in a fashion similar to those funded by a national currency (e.g., US dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Japanese Yen, etc.), the key difference being that a complementary currency is issued by a non-governmental entity rather than a government sanctioned one. And that issuer sets their own rules on how that currency is issued and what it can be used for.

Below is a list of various programs that can be implemented using the WTPC economic development program. Although extensive, this list is by no means exhaustive, and many other things can be funded and implemented. Each state or local region can establish its own programs using the ideas outlined on this website, and can pick and choose from the below list, or come up with their own unique applications.

For an in-depth exploration of the many programs that can be funded with alternative money, see this free ebook by Michael Sauvante, the chief architect of these ideas.

What can you imagine?

Possible Programs

  • Poverty Elimination (basic income grants, food grants, transportation grants, education grants, etc.)
  • Infrastructure (roads, bridges, fixing potholes, ski lifts, parks and other recreational facilities, etc.)
  • Blight remediation (removal or repair of degraded residential, commercial and industrial properties)
  •  Environmental cleanup
  •  Care Systems
    • Child Care (from infants to high school)
    • Elder Care (in home care and in facilities)
    • Health Care (medical clinics, rural hospitals and other health care facilities – means tested free health care)
  • Education Systems
    • Teachers (education & research grants)
    • College Students (tuition, books and supplies and living expenses)
    • Pre School (head start type programs and other early education systems)
  • Food and Water Systems
    • Food Systems (eliminate food deserts and build up rural, suburban and urban food generation and distribution systems – vegetable hydroponics, fish production, and other foods – farm to table)
    • Water Systems (water purification, distribution and conservation systems, along with storm systems)
    • Clean Air Systems ( programs to clean up and prevent air pollution)
  • Addressing the Housing Crisis
    • Building low cost housing
    • Converting industrial properties, small and large malls, office buildings and retail spaces into single and multi-family dwellings
    • Prevent foreclosures and aid citizens with  consumer debt, credit card debt, medical debt and education debt
  • Addressing Bad Actor Corporations Who Abuse their Employees, Customers, Communities & the Environment
    • Stop plant and company shutdowns
    • Use eminent domain to seize bad actor corporations
    • Uphold anti-monopoly laws
    • Eliminate slum lords and their holdings
  • SMEs, Entrepreneurism & Workforce Development
    • SMEs (support to small and medium sized enterprises)
    • Entrepreneurism (real and virtual business incubation)
    • Workforce Development (employee training and development)
    • Trade schools as alternative to colleges
    • Encourage sustainable business and manufacturing including renewable energy projects and fossil fuel conversion systems
  • Not-for-profit Organizational Support
    • Non-profits/NGOs (grant programs to support the full spectrum of nonprofit programs – allowing them to improve on what they already do plus start new programs heretofore not possible with current funding options)
    • Local Governments – augment local governments tax based programs with a full spectrum of grants
    • Support for the Creative Arts, Science and Technology