People would
see monetary systems for what they are -- systems. Systems invented by humans.
There is nothing sacrosanct about them. They can (and need) to be changed to
serve man instead of man serving them as is now the case. The current system
creates perpetual debt that can never be paid in the aggregate leading us into
times we are experiencing now. The times are ludicrous by the way. We have
banks dictating to nations the policies they must adopt -- how insane is that
considering nations are supposed to produce the money.
It's the
debt and criminal, inflation producing interest charges that make countries go
broke -- not fake debt or over spending. Banks have the entire world tied up in
knots unnecessarily and have inserted themselves in the middle of all world affairs
where they would simply not be necessary, if we were to rebuild monetary
systems to function for the benefit of civilization and not the profit of
bankers. By the way, money should be a functionary mechanism meant to
facilitate positive and just human interaction. There was never any mandate
going back in history that one can find declaring banks should create and
profit from the nation's money supply. Banks should be able to loan deposits
(real already existing money) and make a profit for the depositors and the
bank. Just to clarify - this is far different than banks creating the money as they do now. Banks loan newly created
money not other's people
money. They lend money to counties when countries
should be creating and lending money to them. It is absolute insanity.
The inmates truly are running the asylum.
The fix is
easily done: cease creation of what is
the nation's NEW money as debt by private for profit banks. Government then
creates, and circulates money by: 1.) circulating
it directly to citizens since they are the reason we do anything and they need
to be the catalyst, source and driver of the economy through a smart system of value
creation and evaluation, 2.) spend into
circulation for the commons -- defense, infrastructure etc., and loan it into circulation
as necessary to states and other nonprofit entities and even business when
necessary -- interest free -- (only principle needs paid back) - (If anyone is going to profit on what
rightfully belongs to citizens it should be the nation itself.) This needs to
be done within a context of a process that includes the valuing it against a host
of human necessities -- not gold or some other formal but divisive commodity,
and circulate it directly to citizens as the owner/ operators of the country's
economy and stated above.
It is time
for progressives and all people to focus on the money system. Listen to
successful business people, sports teams, athletes and almost every walk of
life - The overused word is focus in order to achieve. FOCUS is necessary now for all interested
in real and honest freedom and justice
for ALL .
Money is the
most powerful arbiter of justice in the world. Cicero said "Freedom is
participation in power." In this
financialized world more than ever money is power. There can be no freedom without
justice. Therefore freedom is dependent on our direct participation in the
monetary system. Moreover this is the ultimate democratic participation. What
the people do with the nation's money -- their money - will determine the course
of the nation as should be the case. Other necessities may be required to keep
the system from being undermined again by those who use their freedom to amass
money for the purpose of control as through bureaucratic, wasteful mega
corporations dedicated to one purpose only -- accumulation of massive amounts of
money. But deeper democracy, brought to fruition by real citizen participation
in power, will deal will those effectively once all people know justice has
been completely and thoroughly integrated into the systems, culture and
character of the nation. The nation's purpose is not to pass judgment or govern
through behavior control but simply to serve the mandate that the basic needs
of all people are not violated or withheld and that we respect a commons that
all people must decide together on. We ALL share this small planet and many
decisions need to be made collectively. This cannot happen until the issue of
monetary control is functionalized.
I know, I
know -- this all depends on education and over the past 30 years the moneyed
interests have seized it and dumbed it down as well. They can thwart protests
and other forms of participation and they obviously do. This is all the more
reason FOCUS is necessary. We cannot
afford distractions with dozens of vital issues while we ignore the nest of
corruption itself. We must understand the power of this system outweighs all
else. If this remains dysfunctional then strides we make in any other endeavor,
civil rights, war and all the rest will ALWAYS be minimal and marginal
because their money system and its
institutional ownership will divert and bypass anything and everything even
when we win successes elsewhere.
The
government's real mandate in a functionally advanced society is create and
ensure expanding freedom and justice for all. The government's mandate is not
to clear the way for giant unresponsive, unaccountable institutions to
accumulate money, power and control. In the final analysis the government's
functions are pretty straight forward and it has neglected and even devolved
many of its mandates. This seems so simple to the positive thinkers, and those
less consumed by fear and scapegoating. In an advanced society, an advanced
world and for advanced thinkers, the issue of money and especially how it
functions is simply very far behind the
other advancements of our modern world. It only works because we have
integrated its dysfunction into every aspect of life and accepted its
restrictions as the primary obstacle to everything we do. We rarely question
its efficacy while chastising the bankers for wrong doing "within the existing
process" when we need to be questioning the process itself. A few days ago Josh Mitteldorf of OEN
provided us with a concise explanation of what this might look like to a more
enlightened person with little knowledge of our system with this:
An alien lands
in New Orleans and asks an Earthling about the devastation. "So -- is
there no building material for repairing the damage?" "Actually," says the Earthling,
"there are building materials stockpiled just out of town." "
So, there are no workers to do the job?"
"Actually, there are hordes of unemployed workers who would love to
have the work." " So -- what's
the problem?" " Well, the
way things work here, we need these pieces of green paper before we can get
started..." " Beam me up!
There's no intelligent life on this planet!"
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