To answer that, one needs to understand one thing - - -
THE MADNESS OF MONEY
Most readers are aware or at least suspect that collectivists (socialists, marxists, leninists, communists) are enemies of property owners. That’s the root of their ideology - collective ownership of the means of production - land, tools, jobs, everything.
But one of their weapons is wielded by their alleged rival, the so-called “capitalists” - bankers, stock corporations, underwriters, and such.
The weapon is money madness - the belief that money has intrinsic value independent of the marketplace of goods and services. Under this insane system there are only THREE ways to acquire the money tokens:
1) trade (labor, property)
2) charity (private, public)
3) crime (extortion, theft, etc)
The “socialists” argue that once workers lose their jobs, can’t find another, and exhaust all private charity, they would be forced into a life of crime to survive. So the only remedy left is public charity - entitlements - relief - unemployment insurance, etc.
Some would counter argue that unemployed labor should simply find any job, no matter how low the wages or mean the labor. However, thanks to money madness and the scarcity of money tokens, there is real obstacle to that.
Skeptical?
● Ask the unemployed, why no one is hiring, and the usual answer : not enough money.
● Ask the factories, why no one is hiring, and the usual answer : no one is buying because there’s not enough money.
● Ask the retailers, why is no one buying, and the usual answer : no one has extra money to buy more.
● Ask prospective employers, why they are not hiring, and the usual answer : no one has extra money to hire more.
GRAND SECRET
As stated before, there are only three ways to acquire money tokens. But WHO has the power to create more? Governments? Not in America. Congress has the power to “coin money” [stamp bullion] or “borrow money” [made of bullion]. Congress has no power to create bullion, nor does any bank.
Using IOUs (debt) as a money token isn’t too wise, since the interest (usury) requires more money tokens to be created. So Congress must have deficit spending to authorize more IOUs to pay the interest owed on existing IOUs. Insane? Yes. That’s why we call it money madness.
Another reason why it’s madness is based on the function of any money token - to pass value to a future trade when barter is insufficient. An example of a sane money token is the humble private promissory note - the coupon (cash value 1/20 of a cent). If you received a coupon valued at “One Mickey D burger” and tendered that, for one juicy burger, you’ve completed the process. What does the retailer do with the coupon once it is discharged? Destroys it, for it has done its job - passed value and now is worthless - UNLESS re-emitted with a new promise to the eventual holder.
But let’s use a money token - a bill or coin - instead. When you tender the money to the retailer of Mickey D burgers, the business does not destroy the money - for it has intrinsic value. WAIT. WHOA. STOP. The money “passed value” -and- “retained value” at the SAME TIME. That’s iNsAnE!
To illustrate the dilemma, consider a whole country, that upon the end of the trading day, all transactions are complete, so no one has outstanding obligations. All the money tokens have “passed value,” so they should be worthless. How do they get “refilled” in value? There is no correlation between the number and value of circulating money tokens, and the sum of labor and its production, as multiplied by tools, machines, and power. In fact, there’s a money drought, since few people have “enough money.”
What ever happened to inflation caused by “too much money chasing too few goods!”
POVERTY AND MONEY MADNESS
Many people believe that poverty is due to a lack of money, but that is not true. It is easy to illustrate. If money was the cure for poverty, simply credit everyone with 22 billion billion credits, so that everyone is equally wealthy, and no one ever “needs” more money ever again. If everyone has all the money they can ever spend, who will bother to work, sweat, struggle, and toil for MORE money they don’t need? If no one bothers to fill the shelves of the markets, all that money is worthless, useless, and meaningless. Even the starving children are phenomenally wealthy.
Only the “NEED” for more money seems to compel people to trade their labor, property or production for those scarce money tokens. That’s why rich people don’t have to work or give up their property - they have more than enough money.
How did they get that money? We’ll touch upon that later.
REALITY AND PROSPERITY
In reality, prosperity is based on prodigious production of surplus usable goods and services, equitably traded and enjoyed. There is no need for money except to facilitate trade where barter is insufficient. In fact, if all trades were barter, there would be no way to account for them under current money madness rules.
Under reality economics, doing more with less so more can enjoy is superior to doing less with more so few can enjoy. When a company can produce more with less labor, that doesn’t trigger economic suffering by shedding workers. Because those workers can create the medium of exchange with which to hire them.
THE FOURTH WAY
As stated before, under money madness there are only three ways to acquire money tokens - trade, charity or crime. But there is a fourth way - CREATE new money tokens. Under American law, no government can accept anything but gold or silver coin in tender for payment of debt. But since 1933, and the “Emergency” that rule has been ignored. No one is “paying debt” with lawful money.
The remedy has always existed under the current law - private promissory notes - the humble coupon (cash value = 1/20 cent). Free Americans can emit notes denominated in goods and services and use them in trade, when barter is insufficient. Since the trade via coupons is not a government privilege, no excise (sales) tax can be imposed. And as long as the party emitting notes can redeem said notes, he can keep spending them into circulation.
Now, the unemployed worker has put into circulation the means by which to hire him. Regardless of the scarcity of official money tokens, anyone who acquires such a note can “hire” the unemployed worker, and pay him with his note. He’s already received value when the “spent” the note into circulation so there’s no controversy or contention. What happens to a community that has a “surplus” of promises to work? Engages these workers to generate goods and services! Need help cleaning the garage, tending the garden, working in the yard? There’s plenty of things one can get done when one can “afford” help.
That’s prosperity unleashed - the prodigious production of goods and services.
And all of it is OUTSIDE of the money asylum. And such a system is the bane of usurers. Usury, the fee in money, for the loan of money (or extension of credit), has a long history of condemnation - 3500 years or so. It’s not only proscribed by all religions, it’s mathematically unsustainable in a finite money token system. Doubly dangerous when the money token system is severely constricted. Why? Compound interest requires an infinite supply of money to function, due to the exponential equation used.
The practice of usury requires debtors to find MORE money than already exists, with which to pay off the principal and interest owed. Of course, a portion will default and lose pledged collateral, blaming themselves for their woes. But in reality, it was the usurers who were engaged in a vile scam.
We know that the USA was “conquered” by the usurers, as early as 1787, via the constitutional limitation to gold and silver coin. At that time, there were no domestic sources of gold nor silver bullion, hence all coinage had to be stamped from bullion acquired from European sources. (Wink, wink, nod, nod) And to further insulate the usurers from their irate victims, the federal government claimed the power to administer bankruptcies - breaking contracts - at the petition of the bankrupt. So now the victims had to pay for their own execution, so to speak, as their properties were portioned off to pay their creditors. No longer did the usurers have to engage ruffians to break legs (unless they were free lance loan sharks). “Servant” government was now the agent for the creditors.
Of course, if everyone started using private promissory notes, instead of borrowing credit at usury from bankers, their scam is kaput. Which may explain why any attempt to bypass “legal tender” is thoroughly vanquished by any means possible. All local attempts at making alternative money tokens is slapped down. Can’t have productive people making their own mediums of exchange. Sets an unpleasant precedence. How can one get rich skimming billions from the (m)asses when productive people don’t need “your” money tokens?
NO ONE ESCAPES MAMMON
A modern example is the Amish. For generations, these agricultural communities were self sufficient and prosperous, until money pressures forced more and more out into the workforce, where they could be “skinned alive” like everyone else. Once they had higher tax burdens, and inflated costs, their “primitive” low yield agriculture could not keep pace.
Classic economics states that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. Well, who has all that “too much money”? Bill Gates is NOT bidding up the price for milk and cookies. In reality, the culprit is the socialist income tax system, where taxing labor and industry INFLATES the price to hire labor and buy production. Where else does the tax money come from if not the retail price? This common sense concept is missing from “classical” eCONomics curricula.
The irony is that socialist taxes were to provide “public charity” for the unemployed, yet created more unemployment and drove away industries who couldn’t be profitable. And the inflation penalized Americans while subsidizing foreign producers who had no American taxes in their pricetag.
Recapping, money madness, the belief in money having value independent of the marketplace, combined with usury and socialist taxes, is the basis for the decline and inevitable collapse of the united States of America. The current debt-credit money token system is about to collapse (leaving Americans owing 26.5 trillion dollars), while there is insufficient bullion to return to the old constitutional money system.
Reform within the democratic system would require a repeal of the 14th amendment, voiding the public debt for fraud (26.5 trillion was never lent), thus voiding all dollar bills (which are part of that debt) and dismantling the socialist insecurity system, as well as ceasing to enforce contracts for usury in a court of law. Very unlikely to happen.
Reform via a return to the republican form is more likely. The remedy of withdrawing consent from submission, usury, and socialism will have severe repercussions, as those who are enriched by the current system, will fight to preserve their wealth and power. In fact, they’re behind the current incitements of civil unrest, knowing that “the end” is nigh. (Why else would governments act impotent and incompetent to stop the rioters if they weren’t tacitly permitting them?)
● Can’t get rich when no one needs to borrow from you
● Can’t get powerful when no one submits to your magnanimous administration
● Can’t get tax revenues when endowed rights are tax exempt
● Can’t do mischief when governments are limited to securing rights (i.e. defending against all enemies, foreign and domestic - and nothing more)
But at least we’ll know who the real adversaries are:
[] Usurers (bankers, corporations, insurance underwriters, etc)
[] Collectivists (socialists, communists, marxists, progressives, etc)
[] Zealots (ideologues who attack the person, liberty or property of others)
[] Accessories to the above (minions, lawyers, collaborators, allies, etc)
Their weaponry relies on scarce money driving up demand for credit, which in turn strangles trade, and causes economic suffering, which in turn, drives the demand for public charity (socialism), and further divides the nation into “Takers” versus “Makers.”
When free Americans can trade using their own Liberty money, and no longer need to rely on public charity, the money masters and their collectivist allies are kaput.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Predators hate the former, and want the latter.
Portents of Doom or Hope?
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