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How to Eliminate the Fed, National Debt, Take Back Our Nation, Print Your
Own Money & Create a Community Stimulus Package
We as a
nation can't continue to spend more than we take in without consequences in the
future.
One side says we need to
cut defense spending. The other side says we need to cut social programs.
Considering that we haven't had a balanced a federal budget in a generation,
I'd say that we need to cut both.
The politicians will say that we can't cut these areas because people will get hurt. In my view, they're partially right. Some people will be hurt. But if we don't quit deficit spending and stop ‘kicking the can down the road’, at some time in the future, EVERYONE will be hurt. And probably hurt badly.
I don't like to see anyone suffer, but when government [mis]- spending (federal, state & local) is estimated to be just under $7 trillion, you would think that we could help the truly needy, pay for sufficient national defense, and have enough left over for basic government services. Source: USGovernmentSpending.com
I've no expectation that our representatives will actually balance the federal (or state or local) budget. They'll argue, blame each other, hype up their supporters, and keep on spending more than they did last year. At least that's what they've done for a generation or more. They are pros at wasting money while feathering their own nests. In too many cases they cannot even account for millions of dollars under their stewardships [the IRS, the Fed, the Department of Defense are prime examples]!
If that's the case, then we all should begin preparation for some tough financial times. I can't tell you when all the debt that's been accumulating will crash, but history shows that it will
The politicians will say that we can't cut these areas because people will get hurt. In my view, they're partially right. Some people will be hurt. But if we don't quit deficit spending and stop ‘kicking the can down the road’, at some time in the future, EVERYONE will be hurt. And probably hurt badly.
I don't like to see anyone suffer, but when government [mis]- spending (federal, state & local) is estimated to be just under $7 trillion, you would think that we could help the truly needy, pay for sufficient national defense, and have enough left over for basic government services. Source: USGovernmentSpending.com
I've no expectation that our representatives will actually balance the federal (or state or local) budget. They'll argue, blame each other, hype up their supporters, and keep on spending more than they did last year. At least that's what they've done for a generation or more. They are pros at wasting money while feathering their own nests. In too many cases they cannot even account for millions of dollars under their stewardships [the IRS, the Fed, the Department of Defense are prime examples]!
If that's the case, then we all should begin preparation for some tough financial times. I can't tell you when all the debt that's been accumulating will crash, but history shows that it will
After you account for inflation, the American
worker has not had a significant raise in 40 years – almost since the new money
system was put into place after 1971.
But the rich – as measured by the inflation-adjusted Dow
– are 10 times richer.
After our politicians gave up control of our money to the
Fed [the wanna-be federal agency made up
of US and international bankers can’t even keep track of their own fiat money]
and the late President’s Johnson and
Nixon decided we didn’t need a gold or silver standard…all of America got
screwed by devious men during a secret meeting held at Jekyl Island* during the
very early 1900s where they devised a plan to take over our treasury and become
our national bank and to “print” our money so we poor citizens could pay them
interest [creating the national debt] and creating a dumb circus of inflation,
recessions and depressions.
It wasn’t long after the creation of this non-federal
group was created and control of our money supply was given to them that a
national income tax plan was foisted on the American public to act as
collateral for the interest debt created by the money we “borrowed” from the
fed. [Despite calls from many in
Congress, especially Ron Paul, the Fed has resisted EVERY effort to be
audited-obviously, they are hiding something from the public and our
legislators].
The American Monetary Inst. has suggested the following
very reasonable plan would resolve the problems caused by the Fed and would
restore the power of control over our money back to the treasury. Termed:
The American Monetary Act, the
plan calls for the federal government to incorporate the Fed.
“Monetary reform is achieved in three parts, which must
be enacted together for it to work. To
do otherwise would cause more harm.
First, incorporate the Federal Reserve into the U.S.
Treasury where all new money is created by the government as money, not
interest bearing debts, and spent into circulation to promote the general
welfare, monitored to be neither inflationary nor deflationary.
Second, stop the banks’ privilege to create money by
ending the fractional reserve system [something which dates back to the Knights
Templar days]. All the past monetized
private credit converted into US government money. Banks then act as intermediaries accepting
savings deposits and loaning them out to borrowers; what they used to do!
Third, spend new money into circulation [stop holding
onto it as they’ve done with TARP money for example] on our small businesses
and infrastructure, education and other job creating plans to re-invigorate our
economy and re-fund local governments which are going to need help with the
retirement plans they over-promised their employees.
The time to start this plan is now but as we know,
Democrats in particular in Washington will fiddle while the nation burns-they
want to see more spending and more debt [actually, both parties do but this
would help stop the bleeding of interest payments on our so-called national
debt…why pay interest on
our own money?]
The Federal Reserve is destroying America.
It might have good
intentions, but it's working with bad models. Ones that lead to truly horrible outcomes.
One of the chief
failings of central banks is that they are slaves to an impossible idea; the
notion that humans are free to pursue perpetual exponential economic growth on
a finite planet.
How you create your own local community stimulus package
BerkShares local currency come out
of a long history of experimentation with local currency and models for
increased economic self-reliance in the Berkshires. Here are some
examples of currencies used in the early 1990s.
Deli Dollars were issued by deli
owner Frank Tortoriello to finance the move of his business from one location
to another.
Dubbed a “great economic
experiment" by The
New York Times, BerkShares are a local currency
for the Berkshire region of Massachusetts. Federal currency is exchanged for
BerkShares at sixteen branch offices of four local banks and spent at 400
locally owned participating businesses. The circulation of BerkShares
encourages capital to remain within the region, building a greater affinity
between the local business community and its citizens.
Echoing the local currencies widely
used throughout the early 1900s, BerkShares serve as a tool for community
economic empowerment, and development toward regional self-reliance. BerkShares
are meant to maximize the circulation of goods, services, and capital within a
defined region, thus strengthening the local economy. Commonplace during the
early 1900s, local currencies are once again being recognized as a tool for
sustainable economic development. The currency distinguishes the local
businesses that accept the currency from those that do not, fostering stronger
relationships between the responsible business community and the citizens of
the region. The people who choose to use the currency make a conscious
commitment to buy local, and in doing so take a personal interest in the health
and well-being of their community by laying the foundation for a truly vibrant,
thriving economy.
Here in Ithaca, New York, we've begun to gain control of the social and environmental effects of commerce by issuing over $110,000 of our own local paper money, since 1991. Thousands of purchases and many new friendships have been made with this cash, and several million dollars value of local trading has been added to the Grassroots National Product.
We printed our own money because we watched Federal dollars come to town, shake a few hands, then leave to buy rainforest lumber and fight wars. Ithaca's HOURS, by contrast, stay in our region to help us hire each other. While dollars make us increasingly dependent on transnational corporations and bankers, HOURS reinforce community trading and expand commerce which is more accountable to our concerns for ecology and social justice.
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--Guide to Self Reliant
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--How I Found Freedom in
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As always, I urge my friends and readers to stock up on food, items for
barter and silver. Personally, I never
fully trust our economic picture or North Korea [they too have EMP capabilities
while working on their nuclear program… so stock up on batteries as they are
not affected by an EMP blast…neither are two-way radios. Your cell phone on the other hand will be
kaput.
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