Sunday, December 7, 2008

A Bailout Riddle


Huh?

Why do we borrow money from banks, to give that money back to banks in the form of a "bailout" - so that we can "free up the credit markets", so that people can borrow some money from the banks, and then pay it all back to the banks, plus interest?

Saturday, December 6, 2008

So, How Many Bridges Need Repair?


150,000





A Trail of Bread Crumbs

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They say, "follow the money".

If you follow it to where it "becomes" money, you will be in a bank, as a loan is made.

"Money is created when loans are issued... ;
money is extinguished when loans are repaid".

  John B. Henderson, 
Senior Specialist in Price Economics, 
Congressional Research Service, 
Report No. 83-125 E 

Friday, December 5, 2008

America's Best Days Are Ahead.


But only if you get informed.


"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Consider who you are as an American. Consider requiring your government, and the banks, to fulfill their responsibility, by not hindering the Rights that are yours. You may have to learn what those Rights actually are. Do it.

Ask yourself, do banks, lending at interest and generating unpayable debt, hinder your Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?
  1. Life - 24 hours in a day. How many hours do you have to give, in order to pay interest and taxes on debt that starts out as electronic computer entries, lent at interest? Do you trade 8 hours a day? More? Do you work one job? More? How much money do you need to make things work in your household? More? When you trade your life for unpayable debt, you may want to ask this question: If you do all of the work and someone else gets nearly all of the benefit - what is that called?
  2. Liberty - "Freedom from arbitrary or despotic control and the positive enjoyment of various social, political and economic rights and privileges". Does this economic system, where you do the work and the banks get the profit, while many elected officials are sitting by (ignorant) or actually support it (complicit), deprive you of Liberty granted to you by The Creator, as noted in the Declaration of Independence? Perhaps some of them need to change the way they handle the Rights of The American People, or go get an honest job.
  3. Pursuit of Happiness - Financial stress is a major contributor to divorce in the US. Do the resulting broken homes cause devastating harm to large numbers of young people? Does this have any effect on our crime rate? What would our country look like after 4 generations with families able to make ends meet on one income - a parent able to afford to stay home, a vacation for the family or enough money to have an elderly parent cared for? Problems? If your "problems" can be solved by $15,000 in cash - they are not problems - they are cash flow issues. 
If you choose - and I mean choose, because there is enough information, on this Blog alone, to fix this problem - to stay ignorant on this issue, then who will there be to blame when they take your Rights (they have already taken your money)?

Our best days could be ahead, but you have to learn how to fix this issue, and help out, not just stand by.

Email to find out how to help:  moneyaswealth@gmail.com


Bankrupt


When a person or business declares bankruptcy, the money they borrowed stays in the economy - because, as in Chapter 7 filings, those debts are "discharged" and the money does not get paid back to the bank.

Because it does not get paid back, it is that money that some will be able to get ahold of (maybe they sell a product or service) and can pay their interest.
So, bankruptcies provide money in the economy to pay interest on loans.


Here's where some of the money to pay interest on our debt comes from.



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Thursday, December 4, 2008

A Serious Question


Honestly, name 5 things that there is a real shortage of - not an imagined or manufactured shortage.


Except for money.


We create money - why should we ever be short of money?

Think, think, think.

Why are we short of money?
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Global Infrastructure Data

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Is there a global need?

Check these reports:

REPORT

REPORT

Trillion


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

WWSAS



What Would Sam Adams Say?

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are the evident branches of the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature."

and

"If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

If All You Have is a Hammer...

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...Everything Looks Like a Nail.


OK, so, today's headlines read:


FORD Requests $9 Billion Loan in Plan Submitted to Congress...

BAILOUT MONITOR DECRIES LACK OF COHERENT PLAN...

PELOSI EYES $500B MORE...

Data signal deep global downturn...

Manufacturing hits 26-year low...

Schwarzenegger declares fiscal emergency...

Treasury Yields Plunge to Lowest on Record...
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In the face of this financial dilemma, caused by too much debt, 
what's their proposed solution?
"Let's borrow some more!"

All they know how to do is:
BORROW / BOND / TAX / BAILOUT / BANKRUPTCY.
That is their entire plan.

Watch your thumb.
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The Great Chase



Some say that inflation is caused by "Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Goods"?

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Economists, talk show hosts and "experts", like to repeat that line. Over, and over, and over.
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But, is it true?
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The Federal Reserve said that in April 2008, our money supply was $7.7 trillion.

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Lately, "financial leaders" (yikes!) have added, or are adding $8.5 trillion to our money supply.


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Umm... I thought we were worried about having too much money?
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Wow. They have just borrowed more money, than we have in our total money supply! And that money was a loan too!

Hmm... do ya think that will be a bit hard to pay off?
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When the new round of borrowing begins to get paid back, prices will be bid up, not because there will be too much money, but because there is too much debt! - they will be sliding the prices upward to capture enough existing loan principal in ther economy, to pay the interest on their own loans.

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You want to see inflation?
Wait until these new loans come due.
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Monday, December 1, 2008

Tip of the Iceberg

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What can debt-free, wealth-based, infrastructure funding be used for?

In addition to bridges and roads and the corresponding sewer systems:


  1. The Electrical Grid
  2. Green Energy
  3. Solar and Wind
  4. Fiber Optic Cable
  5. Energy Platforms
  6. Pipelines
  7. Geothermal
  8. Power Plants
  9. Airports
  10. Rail Transport
  11. Levies and Dams
  12. Ports
  13. Refineries
  14. Upgrades and Maintenance on the Above
  15. Personal Rapid Transit   CHECK IT OUT
Each time we use this principal to fund infrastructure we spend inflation free, debt free money into the economy. In other words, we all get "richer". There is more money to go around and we live in a better society.
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That's just the beginning.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

So, You Think Outside The Box, Do You?




The Ashkelon Desalination Plant



This is a picture of one of the worlds best water desalination plants. It is capable of producing between 100 million and 400 million cubic meters of clean drinking water per year.

With the successful passage of The MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION ACT (MTA), Minnesota will will soon have the most modern transportation infrastructure in the world - debt free. It will also have the most stable banking system, one of the lowest costs of living, the lowest unemployment rate, highest rate of people moving from welfare to work, highest savings rate, lowest gas prices, lowest tax rates, a dominating education and technology sector and some of the most forward thinking leadership in all of the world.

Soon after (I give it 48 hours before the first phone calls start coming in) the passage of the MTA, other states will want to repeat the successful law change allowing them to fix the glitch in their own infrastructure financing. They will repair their own roads and bridges. While Minnesota has 46 bridges that are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete and in need of immediate repair or replacement, Texas has 169 and California has nearly 1,000.

Alongside the roads and bridges that the state will pay for, outright, with newly created, debt free money, other infrastructure will be directly funded as well.

One of the most important projects to move forward on is water. Obviously, essential to all US Citizens. We need a network of desalination plants that can meet the needs of the US population and meet its agricultural needs. It makes great sense to have a back-up for dry times. Not too long ago, there was such a severe drought in Georgia that people were talking about evacuating Atlanta! No back-up is a very bad plan; especially when it comes to essentials like water.

Build them.

Build them so that they can be upgraded as new technology comes online and fund them - debt free - with the same principals detailed in the MTA. Pay the contractors, engineers, designers, inspectors, truck drivers, safety personnel, heavy equipment manufacturers (if you want heavy equipment that runs on hydrogen technology - fund the research!), uniform and equipment suppliers - they will spend that money into the economy and everyone will benefit, twice - first because new money will flow in and second because we get the desalination plants.

1. Build the desalination plants - some could be offshore.

2. Build a water pipeline from the Southern California coast up through the desert, through Nevada, Arizona, Utah, down to New Mexico and across to Texas and Oklahoma .  

3. Build a new freight rail and passenger rail system to several times the safety standards that exist now. Build the most high-tech, mag-lev, solar powered, hybrid, bullet-train system our scientists and engineers can devise.

4. Transform the old rail system into a waste management system and transport all agricultural, rural and urban, non-sewage, non-medical, compostable materials, not used by the localities, out to the desert.

5. Build composting, rotating-drum, rail cars to haul the compost and spray the waste with an eco-friendly enzyme so that the material is ready to till into the sand soon after it arrives.

6. Design and manufacture HHO powered mega tillers to till the compost into the sand - it won't be long before you will have a mix of sand and loam that will grow some of the best high-heat tolerant crops in the world.

7. Irrigate with the water pipeline.

8. Now export this technology to other areas of the world so that they can provide the food and the jobs for their people.


Food shortage?
Water shortage?
Unemployment?


The MTA is a multi trillion dollar, world wide solution.

Box? Bah!
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Friday, November 28, 2008

10,000 People In A Room - Work is Not Money.


Let's suppose that you have 10 people in a room and that each of these people has ten 1 dollar bills - that's $100. They can buy, sell and trade and seem to have enough money. Some may have a few dollars more, but there is enough to go around - the money supply is adequate for commerce.

Now, imagine adding 10,000 people to that room. Would there be a shortage of money? Of course; $100 is not enough money for 10,000 people to conduct their business.

Now, suppose that the 10,000 people work very hard, 20 hours per day and that they produce multiplied truckloads of wealth - good products that everyone can use.  How much money is there in the room?

Still $100.

Work does not increase the money supply.
Producing wealth, sometimes referred to as "production", does not increase the money supply.

In today's system, only borrowing increases the money supply.

Folding Our Way Back From The Sun

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Q:  If you could fold a piece of paper that was .05 mm thick, in half, 50 times, how tall would the resulting stack of paper be?

A: Roughly 100 million kilometers, or 2/3 the way to the sun.  Fold it once more and the stack would be 50 million kilometers past the sun.


In terms of solving a problem that is working against you exponentially, reversing the process can yield very large gains.  In other words, unfold the paper just one time and the problem is half the size.

Our debt is growing exponentially.  "Compound interest" is working against us. We need to undo the damage.  
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The MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION ACT will begin to unfold our debt crisis, restore stability to our banking system, create jobs and reduce taxes. In addition, it's such a simple change and we could see results the first week it's passed.


Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion?




"Of course I can drink myself sober -

they are trying to borrow us
out of debt, aren't they?"
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Today they are announcing that they will borrow more money,
so that they can "unfreeze credit markets" - so that they can borrow some more.
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Blink... Blink...


CBS News hits an "inside the park triple"!
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Not quite a home run, but still, they are getting close to the answer.

Now, we just have to change a law allowing banks to do this without increasing the debt or taxes.

This is an idea who's time has come.






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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Time For An Upgrade?

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Fact:

The Federal Reserve Act passed the same year that sliced bread was invented - 1913.

Just The Interest!



U. S. Family of 4 Average Income
&
Share of Interest on America's Total Debt

By 2016, Average Household Income in America, 
will not be enough to pay the INTEREST on America's Total Debt.


Sources: 
Debt, Income & Interest, M W Hodges 
and U.S. Department of Commerce

Trouble at the Lemonade Stand


A game of lemons


Friday, November 21, 2008

It's This Simple


A. If money exists, it was created. All money is created by banks, when they make loans. They create brand-new money; they do not loan out deposits. If they did, you could not get your deposit until the loan was paid back!

B. Banks only create the principal when they make the loan - never the interest that needs to be paid back. Since banks create all of our money, and only as a loan, there is no money created to pay interest.
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C. Money to pay interest comes from a loan made somewhere else in the system. So, we borrow to have money, then we have to borrow to pay interest on the borrowed money! And we wonder why we are in so much debt?
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Lessons From Katrina

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Sow the Wind,
Reap the Whirlwind.









"Naa... We've seen this before. Nothing to worry about."

"I know it looks bad, but what can we do?"

"Yeah, but, these types of things are natural."

"I just don't think about it..."

"I'm not a weather expert, so..."

"I don't know what to do!"

There is a financial storm on the horizon.
We are feeling the initial gusts now.
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You can make all the excuses you can think up, and excuses that someone else thought up too. But sooner or later "We The People" will not be able to pay the INTEREST on our debt - no matter how they twist the dials or pull the levers. Forget ever trying to pay off the principal. Just the interest alone, estimates show, will be unpayable, by 2016.
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Let that sink in.
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What does our economy look like when over $100 trillion in debt collapses? Remember, 1 trillion seconds is 31,688 years. In some circles they are talking about a Quadrillion dollar derivatives market folding under the pressure.
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Folks, seriously. We need immediate intervention; and it can't be in the form of any sort of loan - you cannot borrow/bond/tax your way out of debt.
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Finger pointing, feet-dragging and jaw-jacking are not enough! Neither is claiming ignorance.
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If you are an adult, it's time to have big-people thoughts on how money is created, how it's done now, and what to do about fixing it. Don't fold by saying "I really don't get it." Get it. It's your country.
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There is enough information on this web site to fix it. Read it until you get it. If it just did not make sense - reread it. Email us to set up an appointment with your church. Send this site to a friend. Get the education, on money, that you were never given! It's really all right here, on this web site. Do it before you are neck deep in water and looking for someone else to blame.
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Without a wealth based money system - one that is debt free and spent, not loaned, into the economy for the benefit of all Americans - we will take a direct hit from the certain and approaching storm.
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Then what?
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

If Milk Were Money...


Where Does Milk Come From?

If you think that money comes from your job, do you think that milk comes from your refrigerator?

Seriously. Think about where money comes from, not just where you get it. And it's not "The Fed just prints it up", (see below).

Money is not created when you "work for it". Instead, your employer just pays you some of what they already have; they got that when they captured someone else's loan principal by selling something (commerce).

If your job doesn't already have someone else's loan principal, that they captured through commerce (so called, "profit"), then they borrow some, to make payroll. So, you see, the money that you get paid, is not a loan to you, but it is to someone. Now, money only exists when it's borrowed.
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When you get paid, the reason they can pay you is because someone upstream took out a loan. It's the way they do it now.
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You personally may not be in debt, but someone is (even if it's "the taxpayer") for you to have money. At its genesis, money comes into existence at a bank, when a loan is made.
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If they can't capture someones loan principal through commerce, or can't borrow (or won't, or shouldn't so they don't), and they don't get a bailout (ha), and the employees won't work for free, then the business goes bankrupt.

What happens when there are fewer loans upstream? Turn on the news right now. Everyone is talking about it. But, nobody in "the media" is talking about how to fix it (we do). Instead they want to "inject" the economy with "liquidity" and ease the "credit markets". Or they want to "borrow money from the taxpayer" for a "stimulus package". Or they want to see widespread business failures because they are sure that those greedy businesses have overspent. They may have, but that is a separate issue. The main problem is that all money is created at banks when that new money is loaned, at interest.

What if the cows loaned all the milk?
You would have to pay it all back, in milk, plus interest.
Impossible for everyone.

Milk? It comes from a cow.
Money? It comes from a bank when a loan is made.
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Proverbs

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...the borrower is servant to the lender.



You Can Help

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How?


Send Us An Email.
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moneyaswealth@gmail.com
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We'll tell you how to help.
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or find the "Contact Us" section
on the left side of this site.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tic... Tic... Tic...



Time makes the debt grow.

Time does not make the money supply grow.

Monday, November 17, 2008

An Elegant and Powerful Concept

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Let Us Introduce an Elegant and Powerful Concept:

CLEAN CAPITALISM

Clean Capitalism is where the people own their production, the means of production and their money.

It's positive, forward thinking and pro American.

Honestly, what we have now can hardly be called Capitalism, when the people are forced to rent both their money (interest), and their property (taxes). Instead, it has become synthetic and dirtied over many years. That was not The Framer's intent; you and I, both know that.
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It is our right to own the fruits of our labor. It is our responsiblity not to leave a mountain of unpayable debt to burden future generations. .It is our duty to fix it.
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The good news: We Can Fix It.
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Clean Capitalism, where the people own their production (property), the means of that production (business) and their money (medium of exchange), will unleash the leadership, creativity and growth of the American economy like never before - while promoting liberty, financial responsibility, and limiting massive government bureaucracy. We'll be discussing the concept on this site, using the principals laid down from the first entry and building on this elegant and powerful concept.
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Read this blog from the bottom to the top - carefully, thoughtfully. Email with questions. There is high-performance, low-drag information here.
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"If It's Such A Good Idea, Why Didn't Someone Think Of It Before?"


Whenever there is a break-
through idea, there are the naysayers.


What does so-and-so say about the idea?

That's never going to work.

Why, that's not how we do things around here!

You and your ideas! You'd better let the "experts" handle this.

That project of yours will never amount to anything.

The chance of it working are so slim, one might as well not even try.


Maybe they are so beaten down, it's easier to criticize a good idea. Or maybe they are out of ideas, or they are wedded to an idea that is obsolete. They either can't see it, or won't; either way, we should not look to them for leadership. They are followers. Perhaps disgruntled followers. But, followers just the same.

Leaders and innovators have vision; they have ideas. Sometimes they just need a little help getting the good idea off the ground. They need a few people to work with them, for everyone's benefit.

You can help. Just find the email address at the left of this web site. the Gold Certificate and send us an email letting us know that you want to help solve the economic mess.

It's easy to help.

It's even easier to be a naysayer.
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Man! That's Velocity!

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Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet. Running half sideways and with his shoe untied!

How fast does he need to run around the track, before he becomes two of himself?

Is that possible?

Economists are fond of the idea that if we take loans out fast enough, as the money circulates, there will be enough available for everyone to get a hold of and pay their debts - plus the interest that is owed, but was never created. In other words, if your loan principal changes hands fast enough, it becomes loan principal + interest. They call this concept "velocity".

Money can never go from hand to hand fast enough to become more money. That's like saying a man can run so fast that he becomes two men.

Recent events demonstrate what happens if the loans aren't made fast enough. Words like "credit freeze", "credit crunch" and "credit crisis" are tossed around - and so are trillions of dollars (1 trillion seconds is more than 31,000 years - this year alone, we've borrowed more than $5 trillion. Can we borrow to pay that off too?), to try and plug the obvious holes in the system that the theory of "velocity" can't describe or predict.

Velocity is an interesting theory, but in reality - in the world beyond theory - velocity is not a real answer. It merely covers up the fact that we have no permanent money system, the interest due on loans is never created and there is always more debt than money. Always.
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"The Fed Just Prints It Up!"

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Nope.

The Federal Reserve does not print our currency. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing does; it's an agency within the Department of the Treasury.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing prints, among other things, Federal Reserve Notes, and sells them to the Federal Reserve at pennies on the dollar - roughly 4 cents a piece.

The Federal Reserve, however, creates new money electronically, to buy the Federal Reserve Notes and other US Government Securities - each one representing more debt to the US taxpayer.
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New money is also created when someone takes out a loan at a commercial bank. When a loan is taken out, they can NEVER simply count out the bills to the person taking out the loan, and give them the green paper. No, no, and again, no. The new electronic money must first be monetized through a checking account. Then, if the person who took the loan chooses, they can buy some of the paper stuff (Federal Reserve Notes) with their new electronic, checkbook, loan money. Those Federal Reserve Notes will represent their new debt.
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For example: You can take out a $1,000 loan. The bank creates the new electronic money and deposits it into your account (at 10%, instantly, you owe $1,100). You can now take your checkbook and write out a check for "cash" and buy some Federal Reserve Notes to spend. The Federal Reserve Notes would be "evidence of your debt".

When you spend them out in the economy, some of them might end up in my wallet. Imagine it. Evidence of your debt, in my wallet, that I call money, and that you owe interest on.

We use debt for our money.

We can change that.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

E=MC^2


You Don't Have To Be An Einstein To Understand That

The Big Solutions Are Often Quite Simple.























Over $104 Trillion in debt and unfunded obligations, plus interest! And growing!

There is no way to pay our collective debt by using the formula of:
borrow+bond+tax+bailout = bankruptcy for the American people.

With a simple change in the law, we will be able to fund an infrastructure rebuild, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, drastically reduce taxes, balance budgets, while paying down our debt.

Listen to all of the "experts". They will say that they don't know how much this latest bailout will cost, they don't know if it's going to work, they don't know if this is the "bottom". They. Don't. Know. That's because they don't know what's wrong.

Here's what's wrong: We only use debt for money. We borrow our money into existence. No debt, no money.

Here's how to fix it: Stop. Stop using only debt for money. Begin funding the infrastructure rebuild with debt free money.

That's it.

A BIG idea.
That's simple.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The Songbooks



Find this story by clicking the link:

Read...

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

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"I'm not asking you to give me money, I'm asking you to stop taking it away."
- anon.


How Can This Work? It Can't.

OK, if I am worth only $38. And then I owe $106. And ALL the money I have is $7.70, would you loan me more money?

Or maybe you would say, "You're broke already!"

Maybe you would recognize that my debt already exceeds my ability to pay.

Same thing for our country. Just say Trillions after the amounts - the math is the same.

Q: What is the natural outcome of using debt for your money?
A: More debt.

US FINANCIAL STATEMENT


ABOVE GRAPH
$38 Trillion - Value of America's Total Wealth
$53 Trillion - Total Debt (Government/Business/Personal)
$53 Trillion - Unfunded Liabilities (Like Social Security)
$7.7 Trillion - America's Total Money Supply, April 2008
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Saturday, November 1, 2008

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"The Government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest."
- President, Abraham Lincoln

The Creation of Money


It's clear, if money exists, it had to be created. It was not in Eden nor is it a product of evolution. It's man made.

Once it's created, it has to move into our economy.

Consider this: There are only 3 ways to get money into the economy.
  1. Gift it in
  2. Loan it in
  3. Spend it in
Each method has its own set of consequences.


GIFT
FIRST, suppose that money is gifted in.
Gifting money into the economy would mean that they print up a bunch of money and hand it out. Perhaps a wagon load of money is parked on every street corner. You go pick up a handful when you need it. Or they give you money, maybe by check or electronic deposit. But that money does not need to be paid back - it's a gift.

If you did not produce anything in order to facilitate the new money creation, in a very short time, there would be more money than there is stuff to buy. Some economists say, that would cause inflation (later, we will discuss the bigger cause of inflation).

Additionally, many people would chose not to work - why work when all I have to do is walk down to the corner and grab a handful of money? As people stopped working, soon, there would be shortages in food - and everything else too! Lots of money with no production is a disastrous way to run an economy.

CONSEQUENCES: 1. An unmotivated work force. 2. Lack of innovation. 3. Social decay. 4. Severe drop in production. 5. Economic collapse.

That's gifting the money into the economy.



LOAN
SECOND, new money is currently loaned into the economy.
New money is created each time a loan is made.
New money!

When you get a loan to buy a car or a house, the bank creates new money and loans it to you, putting it into your account, so that you can make your purchase. When you buy a new pair of shoes on your credit card, the bank creates new money and you pay the shoe store. None of that money comes from any one's savings account. They never loan out a person's savings account for a house mortgage - your savings would then be unavailable for 30 years! It's not done that way. Instead, what you get is newly created money when the loan is made.

QUESTION: When you borrow that money for the house, car or shoes, does the bank also create the money that you own for interest? Banks are the only place that new money comes from - do they create the interest they want back on the loans that they make?

ANSWER: Never. That money comes from loans taken out by someone else.

That's the glitch. Money to pay interest is never created. Therefore, we can never get out of debt. What we owe is always more than what has been created.

Oh, we can personally shift the debt off of ourselves and onto another. Or, we can get money to pay interest that exists in our economy through massive bankruptcies, identity theft and fraud, but we cannot pay the loans plus the interest due on the loans - with only the loans.

CONSEQUENCES: 1. Ever increasing debt. 2. Financial hardship for everyone. 3. The debt-money system institutionalizes corruption. 4. Boom-bust-bailout cycles that end in economic collapse.



SPEND
THIRD, we can create the money, debt free, interest free, tax free and inflation free and spend the new money into the economy to pay for our infrastructure needs.

That's right. We could create the new money that we need to pay for our needed infrastructure rebuild. How? The same way it's done now, except for one thing - it wouldn't be done as a loan!

CONSEQUENCES: 1. Decreased bank default rate and increased liquidity. 2. Stabilized economy and jobs created. 3. Decreased taxes, increased savings and balanced budgets. 4. Lower fuel costs 5. Increase in overall spending power. 6. Safer, cleaner roads and bridges. 7. Energy independence. 8. Showcase Minnesota Leadership.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Here is the Authority to Fix the Glitch










Article 1,  BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 1.  OBJECT OF GOVERNMENT.  Government is instituted for the security, benefit and protection of the people, in whom all political power is inherent, together with the right to alter, modify or reform government whenever required by the public good.













Article 1, Section 8
  • To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
  • To establish post offices and post roads;

FEDERAL FIX: We can change things to have Congress "coin" money to build roads (infrastructure). Debt free money would flow into circulation.

STATE FIX:  We can pass a law authorizing a small change in accounting procedure, and allow State Chartered Banks to create (just like they do now, except debt free) and deposit new money into the State's Transportation Account.  As the state follows the existing procedure for getting the roads build, new debt free money would flow into circulation. 

The MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION ACT - Text


"Fix the Glitch" 

The MTA in it's most recent form, Senate File 705:

SF 705       
(updated Spring 2009)

This piece of legislation, with true bipartisan support, can help fix our broken economy.
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