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Jubilee will defeat big banks & corporations.

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Here is an amazing power that the People of the world have to kill the corporate monsters.  Give this some thought, please.  If the People will agree to work together on this we will win.
 

There's a debt relief idea that I've been hearing proposed more & more often.  I think it merits discussion in the General Assemblies at the Occupy councils, in homes, churches and in the workplace under the heading of "possible long term solutions."

 

"Jubilee and Debt Cancellation"

"In the Jubilee Year as quoted in Leviticus, those enslaved because of debts are freed, lands lost because of debt are returned, and community torn by inequality is restored."

 

I've heard Jubilee suggested by people who knew that it was not in their financial best interests but thought that, logically, it was the fairest solution. 

 

'Jubilee' is an Old Testament, (Leviticus 25,) remedy for debt relief.  The overall idea being, the slate is wiped clean and everybody starts over with what you have at hand.  No more debt, period.  People out here in the hinterlands are talking about that as the best possible solution that will help the most people.  We were conned into living in a 'debt based' society.  We need to go back to when being in debt was a bad thing, as it was 30 to 40 years ago before TV & modern marketing practices corrupted centuries of intelligent thought and wisdom.  

 

After Jubilee on Jan. 1st, 2012, the residence & car you have now is yours, no more payments or rent.  Whoever legally, technically 'owned' that building / residence before is SOL.  It might just be an apt. in a 5,000 unit building but it's your apt.  You are responsible for it from now on & it's up to you to work out the details of maintenance, etc. with your neighbors.  The employees of any corporate owned restaurant (i.e. McDonalds) now own the restaurant.  It's their business on equal shares.  They either run it successfully or when the business goes bust, they are out of a job.

 

People who already own & operate a personal business keep their personal business that they go to every day & run.  A chain of corporate hotels would be broken up & owned equally by the workers of the individual hotel, as in the McDonalds restaurant chain example.  The current chain owner (Mr. Hilton) would get to pick ONE business in the chain to keep & work himself.  (The best one, of course.  That is his inalienable right as an owner / worker.)

 

 

There is an article at the purple link below, calling for Jubilee based on reasoning / logic as to why it is necessary.  I've thrown together a few thoughts on how it could possibly be implemented with the least disruption to the people.  The entire exercise is to do the most good for the most people with the least pain & disruption possible.  We ALL know the current situation is coming apart at the seams.  Nobody really knows what to do except pray & be ready for anything.  The ONLY consensus that I've found is that we have to do something else because what is going on now is not sustainable.  This is an attempt to get us through the coming meltdown without martial law, looting & killing in the streets, etc.

 
 
 
http://www.goldstockbull.com/articles/endgame-when-debt-is-fraud-debt-forgiveness-is-the-last-and-only-remedy/

 


 
If you're at all interested in applying a few minutes to this idea I'd appreciate it.  Not for my sake so much as for the rest of humanity.   

 
Just for a general point of reference in all of this discussion, when I say "Abolish corporations", Break up the banks", it DOES NOT mean that people will lose their mom & pop business that has incorporated for tax & liability purposes.  "Abolish corporations", etc. is referring to GE, General Dynamics, Coke, Caterpillar - any corporation that is big enough to be traded on Wall Street because Wall Street must go away into oblivion just like the too-big-to-fail banks (GS /BoA / Wells Fargo, etc.) & the too-big-to-fail corporations, (i.e.  Boeing / Walmart / etc.)

 
We have some good infrastructure in place that we don't want to destroy.  Juan Valdez still wants to sell us his coffee & bananas.  The ship's captain & crew still want to transport them to the U.S.  We want to drink the coffee & eat the bananas.  We want people to have property & carry on commerce for reasonable profit.  We want innovation & progress.  We just want to start over with a more level playing field & a fairer system.

 

IF the People the world over will all participate in this and refuse to make any more loan payments to anybody (and who can refuse a deal like that?) there's nothing that the banks can do about it.  Without the current massive debt burden our economies would flourish.  There may be a little chaos & confusion at the beginning but we'll work the kinks out.  Remember, Juan still wants to sell coffee & you want to buy it.  It CAN happen in a new system that does not rely on a stock market.  For example:  The illegal drugs trade continues & flourishes IN SPITE OF the govt.'s best efforts to stop it.   (sic.)

 

 

 

JOBS

 

There is a great side benefit to this plan besides debt relief.  Because many people will retire almost immediately when they have no debt, a great many jobs will be opened up or created for the intelligent, energetic youth who brought about this great change.

 

If this is truly a worldwide movement, this idea could go viral & we might move the date up to Nov. 1st.

 

What do you think?

 

Full disclosure:  This plan would have little effect on me.  I owe no money.  I own my home.  I own(ed) a small home repair business.  I possess no rental property.   I like the idea of a Jubilee, but I'm in sort of a unique position.  It would hardly affect me except as to my interactions with my community, and whither the entire community flourished and prospered so that there would actually be goods & services & adequate health care available.

 

Michael Morgan  

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"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government."  -- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.

 

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He sums it up real well.   (Both above & below.)

 

http://libertytreefoundation.org/publications-talks/protest-wave-why-political-class-can't-understand-our-demands

 

 

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occupytogether.org    to get the latest updates on locations, number of ongoing events, etc.


 


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