THE MONEY POWER
Comprehending money will enable us to issue it to create the world we know in our hearts we desire.
WHAT DO WE DESIRE?
What do we desire for ourselves, our family and friends, our community, our township or city, our County, our State, our Nation, and the World?
What do you desire?
WHY ASK?
Two reasons: First, knowing what we desire is the first step in getting what we desire; and Second, the Union Team knows how to issue the money to pay for everything that we desire!
As preposterous as it may seem, we can issue the money we need, together!
HOW?
We can issue the money we need on the basis of a very straightforward comprehension of money.
When we comprehend the nature of money, we will know that we, as a community, can have everything that we agree would be good.
Our vision is that we can heal and transform the world together by issuing the money we need to do it.
WHY CAN WE CREATE MONEY?
Money is an agreement in a community to use something, such as shells, or paper notes, or a robust accounting system, or a digital database, to measure the value of the real goods and services that we make available to one another, so that they can be exchanged transparently and fairly.
The point is that money is an agreement, not something in itself!
THE PRIMARY TOOL OF THE SOVEREIGN
Politics is all about deciding what we desire and allocating the resources - in the form of money - to accomplish what we desire. Congress is the presumed sovereign, but it is borrowing the money from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is the hidden sovereign. If the Federal Reserve System is not serving us, then we will need to make a new agreement to issue money for what we desire. When we do, We, the People, will be sovereign.
INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY
Sovereignty means being in charge of and responsible for the cultural, social, and economic conditions of our lives. If we are sovereign in our own life, we will be continually discovering all the things that influence the choices that we make and we will take responsibility for those choices.
COMMUNITY SOVEREIGNTY
When We, the People, assume that each of us is capable of and willing to be aware of who we are and what we really desire, we will create satisfying, wholesome, fulfilling lives. We will sit together and share what we believe would benefit everyone.
Using the primary tool of the sovereign, we will issue the money needed to fund all the things we recognize would be good.
THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY
No one wants to be told what to do by their community or the government, and most everyone wants to pursue the transcendent purpose they feel called to serve.
The ‘powers that ought not to be’ have money working for them, but most of us will need to do something to earn the money we need to live. Hopefully it will be something that aligns with our purpose. Oftentimes, we will be doing something that someone who has money wants us to do, the way they want us to do it, because we need the money to live.
If you had a right to an unearned income based on the productivity of the economy you participate in, and you did not have to ‘earn your living,’ what would you do?
Everything and anything voluntarily! The individual needs a Jural Assembly Community to exercise their individual sovereignty. No Masters and No Slaves. Everyone needs to consent to what is happening to create the conditions wherein they are living. And do all that needs doing voluntarily as inspired.
TOO IDEALISTIC?
If that is too idealistic, then what do you think the Declaration of Independence promised and the Constitution attempted to implement?
If it is too idealistic to imagine that we, the people, could govern ourselves and create a society to benefit everyone, why do we feel it is so important to try?
We really will have to get ourselves to a place where we can converse about what we would like to create together.
WE, THE PEOPLE!
A government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as Lincoln put it, was worth fighting the civil war over! What is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people if not deciding together what we desire with the power to fund what we desire? When we can issue money, the question will no longer be “Where are we going to get the money for what we desire”? It will just be “What do we desire?!” Deciding what we desire is the political question and the political challenge. Are we up for it?
HUMAN NATURE
Human nature is such that every freely entered into honest exchange - using money - benefits both parties to the exchange. We each get what we desire (the good or service, or the money) and we are both better off. With all the exchanges that take place every day, every year, every lifetime, we should all be increasingly better off!
RISING STANDARDS OF LIVING
Abraham Lincoln was fond of saying that the only proper role of government is to provide the infrastructure so that the people may enjoy rising standards of living. On the day after Christmas in 1839 when he was 30 years old, he gave a speech in which he said:
“Broken by it, I, too may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”
Was he talking about slavery? NO! He was talking about Banking!
Lincoln on the Bankers
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, (and) more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe...corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
The Lincoln Quote regarding Greenbacks
ABRAHAM LINCOLN on the subject of Constitutional Money; from an address to Congress in 1865.
“Money is the creature of law and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national Government. Money possesses no value to the State other than that given to it by circulation.
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money.
No duty is more imperative for the Government than the duty it owes the People to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, and of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency, and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.
The available supply of Gold and Silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money of intrinsic value that may come into use.”
Lincoln on Greenbacks cont.
The monetary needs of increasing numbers of People advancing towards higher standards of living can and should be met by the Government. Such needs can be served by the issue of National Currency and Credit through the operation of a National Banking system. The circulation of a medium of exchange issued and backed by the Government can be properly regulated and redundancy of issue avoided by withdrawing from circulation such amounts as may be necessary by Taxation, Redeposit, and otherwise. Government has the power to regulate the currency and credit of the Nation.
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the Bank deposits of the Nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency or Bank bankruptcy.
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by Taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing Governmental work and public enterprise. The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of the consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity.
Lincoln on Greenbacks cont.
By the adoption of these principles the long felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprise, the maintenance of stable Government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration.
The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own Government. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.”
A Greenback from 1862 Issued as a receipt for services rendered to the Administration of Abraham Lincoln
This is a Greenback from 1861, issued by Abraham Lincoln’s Administration as a receipt for goods or services rendered.
The Greenback circulated as debt and interest free money but only $495 million worth was ever issued.
Bismarck Agrees with Lincoln
There appeared in The London Times during the Civil War the following from Otto Von Bismarck:
"If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic (the public issue of usury-free currency called Greenbacks) should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
In 1876, Bismarck explained further: "The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial dominance over the world. The voice of the Rothschild's prevailed. They saw tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies, indebted to the financiers, for the vigorous Republic which was practically self-providing. Therefore, they started their emissaries in order to exploit the question of slavery . . . Lincoln's personality surprised them. His being a candidate had not troubled them; they thought to easily dupe a woodcutter. But Lincoln read their plots and understood that the South was not the worst foe, but the financiers."Lincoln agreed: "I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions in the rear. Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy." and
The Historical Evidence that historians ignore!
"As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless." : U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 - (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) - Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
$495,000,000 in Greenbacks have circulated since the Civil War! All the rest of the money is created as tribute to the banks.
MONEY EXISTS BY LAW
Money is not valuable in itself, it measures value; it is the placeholder to make payments easy and fair; it is a social technology. The Bankers want the money to be gold so they can issue certificates for gold they don’t have! They only need enough gold for the rare occasions when their certificates are redeemed. If you think the money is gold (even if it is a certificate for gold), you will think of it as valuable in itself.
WHY GOLD AS MONEY?
Gold has characteristics which make it suitable to serve as money in the form of coins. Gold has a high value relative to its size and weight. Gold has religious significance throughout the world, it does not tarnish, it is not consumed, it has many significant uses such as wedding rings, as an electrical conductor, etc. A gold bar is valuable because it is of a specific purity and weight. But it is not money until it is declared money by the law giver and its value set higher as money than its value as gold!
GOLD AS MONEY? cont.
Problems with gold being declared money by the law giver includes:
Instead, money, as an agreement, should represent the value of the goods and services being exchanged in the marketplace, and not be valuable in itself.
The deception is easy to see when we look at cash and what is written on the bills.
FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE
“REDEEMABLE IN GOLD ON DEMAND AT THE UNITED STATES TREASURY OR IN GOLD OR LAWFUL MONEY AT ANY FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.” SERIES OF 1928 (Redeemable in Gold is a lie. Only a tiny fraction of the necessary gold existed.)
FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE
“THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, AND IS REDEEMABLE IN LAWFUL MONEY AT THE UNITED STATES TREASURY OR AT ANY FEDERAL RESERVE BANK”
SERIES OF 1934 (Note the date: No longer redeemable for Gold.)
SILVER CERTIFICATE
“THIS CERTIFICATE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” SERIES 1957
“ONE DOLLAR IN SILVER PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND”
(Also a lie. There is nowhere near enough silver for redemption.)
UNITED STATES NOTE
“THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER AT ITS FACE VALUE FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” SERIES 1953
(This is real money, the Greenback, no debt, issued as a receipt for goods or services authorized by Congress.)
MONETARY HISTORY
What do Karl Marx and Adam Smith have in common? They both say that only gold is money. The banking cartel has promoted both Communism and Free Markets because their power derives from our belief that money is valuable in itself, like gold. Bankers got their start by lending receipts for gold they did not have. The deception is an open secret but a very closely guarded secret. “Permit me to issue the currency of a nation and I care not who makes the laws.” - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
FUNCTIONS OF MONEY
If we agree to issue money together, it will be necessary for us to have a firm grasp of the functions of money. The most essential are unit of value and means of exchange. The unit of value makes everything available in the economy commensurate (comparable) so that they can be exchanged fairly. The means of exchange is the system we use to effect payments.
ISSUING MONEY
When we issue money, we will issue the exact right amount of money to facilitate the exchange of the goods and services we make available in our community (or nation). We will issue the right amount of money and we will regulate the money supply (increase or decrease it) to keep the price level stable. No inflation and no deflation. Stable money is a practical science.
THE SCIENCE OF MONEY
In order to keep the money supply properly representing the value of the goods and services that are actually valuable and in demand, we keep three variables in balance.
1. The money stock (the amount issued)
2. The circulation velocity (how many trades each money stock is facilitating), and
3. Savings (how much of the money stock is just storing value and not circulating).
STOCK, VELOCITY, SAVINGS
The volume of trades must not be limited by a lack of money nor stimulated by a surplus of money. For example, if the savings rate goes up and/or the velocity slows, more money stock will need to be issued to keep the price level stable. Or, if the savings rate decreases and/or the velocity increases, then some money stock will need to be taken out of circulation. The money must always properly represent the value of the goods and services. Regulating the money supply is the science of money.
THE OPPORTUNITY!
The social technology exists for we, the people, to issue money to fund what we desire! It is called Community-created Credit!
Common Good is a community created credit system with a local payment card that enables us to issue money. It is designed so we can transfer our Common Good currency back to dollars when we need to, and it gives us the information we need to fund the shared dreams of our community, which could include assuring our basic needs, capitalizing what our capacities warrant, implementing parity, and funding worthwhile projects, such as local organic food systems, renewable energy, small business development, social justice, wholesome education, the arts, etc..
We will learn about the particulars of Community-created Credit and Common Good during this session.
THE ART OF MONEY
What shall we issue money for?
What are the values we desire to manifest?
What do we desire our Community to look like?
What is important to us?
Let us imagine together.
WHAT DO WE DESIRE?
Let us ask the question of one another!
Let us ask everyone we know to join us in imagining.
Let us share an ever clearer picture of the ideal social future.
Let us then implement the world we know in our hearts by issuing the money to fund it!
Let us ensure Freedom, Justice, and Community!
Catherine Austin Fitts agrees
Her website is solari.com where you will find many great articles. She suggests the solution is:
She is describing a Jural Assembly Community
In a Jural Assembly Community (or Common Good Community or Jeffersonian Ward Republic), the people in communities or wards know one another and personally provide and perform the functions of governance to and for one another; governance of the people, by the people, and for the people. We, the people at large, decide together what would be good and of value for the community and issue money to fund it.
How does the Community Decide Together?
Active Consent is formalized in Dynamic Governance
(aka Sociocracy) - a well-conceived and supported system of consent-based decision-making in meetings and communities,
and a well-conceived and supported organizational structure
that corresponds to our true nature as human beings.
Repliks (CG) as our sovereign currency
When we govern ourselves, we shall use Repliks (CG) as our sovereign currency in the Common Good Payment System. When we have a sufficient number of individuals and businesses signed up, we shall issue our own currency, fulfilling the vision of a Common Good Economy.
How does the Common Good Payment System work?
So, how does the Common Good Payment System work?
Will it enable us to issue money, namely Repliks (CG), the currency we are choosing as the primary tool of the sovereign?
Will we be able to create a Society to Benefit Everyone?
Let's find out!
The Common Good payment system gives communities control over the local economy, so we can meet people’s basic needs, regenerate a healthy environment, and thrive together.
Here’s how it works:
You open an account at CommonGood.earth, and sign an agreement (basically that you will use the system as designed).
We could agree that in the Society to Benefit Everyone we desire to create, everything is a voluntary initiative as inspired.
We could agree that everyone is free to do what they are inspired to do as long as they do no harm.
We could agree to make public our commitment to our community in the form of a statement of intent and we could agree to pay attention in the meetings we agree to attend.
We could agree that everyone should receive a dividend income based on the productivity of the economy we create together. And we could grant each other the right to the capital our capacities warrant.
We could agree that we will issue money to implement the values we agree to.
And we could agree to manage the money supply so that it always represents reality and does not create reality.
The agreement that we make with one another is what makes us sovereign.
The agreement is an expression of our common values.
We could make the following agreements:
You get a card in the mail, and you put some money on it from your bank account.
The Community Fund, or dollar pool
That money goes into the Jural Assembly Community Fund -- a bank account owned together by members in your area, and you get that much Repliks (CG) on your card. We just doubled the money supply.
$100 worth of Repliks (CG)
How do we use the Common Good card?
You use the Repliks (CG) to buy something at a participating business. The business uses a smartphone to scan your card or your phone, at no charge to either you or the business. Businesses like this because it saves them thousands on credit card fees, attracts customers, and provides an ever-growing set of features, requested by members, to support our local businesses and nonprofits, including an easy invoicing and collection system.
The business can then use the Repliks (CG) it got from you to pay its employees and suppliers.
Those suppliers can pay their employees and suppliers.
Then all those employees become customers again, and the money goes in circles.
Meanwhile, the money you put in from your bank account is still there in the Community Fund.
We also call the Community Fund the Dollar Pool and we need to manage it so that there is always enough so that members and businesses can transfer their Replik (CG) back to their conventional bank account. There can get to be quite a lot of money in the Community Fund -- for example in Greenfield, MA in January of ‘21, there was over $200k with over 400 members but only 160 active members shopping at 86 businesses. The potential is enormous.
The Community Fund Grows as the demand for Repliks (CG) grows
When someone gets more Repliks (CG) than they can easily
spend within the Common Good system, they can choose to exchange Repliks (CG) for dollars from the Community Fund. So the amount in the Community Fund goes up and down a little, as it’s growing.
How Do We Fund What We Desire?
The Common Good community can decide to issue Repliks (CG) for what the community agrees would be good (a new business or project) based on the solvency (more dollars are coming in than going out) of the Community Fund (dollar pool), as well as based on the viability and potential success of the proposed business or project.
Common Good members issue Repliks (CG) with the expectation that the Repliks (CG) issued will create value.
What Criteria Can The Common Good Community Use To Issue Repliks (CG)?
The Common Good Community is responsible for determining how much Repliks (CG) can be issued. As such, the Common Good Community shall ask such questions as:
The community is there to offer support and help, with the objective of granting everyone the capital their capacities warrant.
If the Common Good community agrees that their criteria is met by, for example, answering the above questions, the Common Good community issues the appropriate amount of Repliks (CG) to fund the good idea.
Let’s get together! Repliks (CG) are circulating and the Community Fund is growing! What do we desire to accomplish?
When we are deciding how to manage our community money, we have all the information we need to judge the health of our system and its potential.
Growth and the Dollar Pool are two graphs that show us details of our success.
Bank Transfers: Green shows the demand for CG greater than the demand for $s.
The Transaction Volume: is something we can easily influence by encouraging members to use their Common Good card more often and to help us recruit more businesses.
In 2017, the Greenfield Common Good Community put out a request for proposals to the members asking for suggestions about what to fund. They decided that it would be safe to issue 10,000 CG since it was very likely that even if the entire 10,000 CG were cashed out immediately, the Community Fund would likely grow due to all the new people who came onboard as a result of this first funding round. The following eight projects were selected after a week of ranked choice voting. Equipment upgrades at the pay-what-you-can Stone Soup Café; Rooftop Solar at Ashfield Lake House; Community-shared solar through Co-op Power; A town-owned edible permaculture garden; Revitalization of the Shea Theater Performing Arts Center; 5 low-income farm shares through Just Roots; Community art-making to benefit local nonprofits; and a worker-owned Compost Cooperative, empowering former prison inmates.
You can see the dip in the Community Fund Balance in April May and that it more than recovered by August. This happened again the following year with a 20,000 CG issue for more great projects.
Example of how the Common Good system works
Let’s walk through the Common Good system based on $100?
The Common Good Community Fund is a reserve pool to facilitate members desiring to exchange their Repliks (CG) back to dollars, or bank credit. In the example, you could exchange your 40 Repliks (CG), and the co-op could exchange its 60 Repliks (CG) back to dollars.
Based on experience, investing in the Common Good community adds new organizations accepting Repliks (CG) payments, resulting in Common Good members on average putting more money in their accounts, resulting in more Repliks (CG) circulating, and more dollars in the Common Good Community Fund. In a short amount of time, the Common Good Community Fund could be higher than it was. This is demonstrated on the How Much Can We Fund page https://commongood.earth/communities/how-much-can-we-fund.
Every new thing that we fund by issuing Repliks (CG) could bring new people and businesses into the system who would be putting more dollars into the Common Good Community Fund than dollars coming out.
Everything depends on increasing the places that one can spend Repliks (CG), so that it readily circulates in facilitating the exchange of goods and services, and it becomes largely unnecessary to cash out.
Example of how to solve a problem by issuing community created money!
Let’s walk through an example of how we could help increase the amount of locally grown and processed food available in the Pioneer Valley and assure that it is sustainably produced.
The Problem
The price that the processing plants, wholesalers, and retailers of food grown in the Pioneer Valley pay the growers does not give the growers parity. Parity means that the income of the grower is comparable to the income of similarly qualified people in other parts of the economy. In not receiving parity, the growers are subsidising the cost of food and the processors and wholesalers are unduly benefiting from the volunteer aspect of the growers labor. If we would like to increase the local supply of organic and sustainably produced food, we will need to solve the parity problem.
The Solution
The first step in solving this problem is to decide together what parity is. “The state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay”, is generally best to think of in terms of an annual amount of pay.
The next step is to survey all the growers in the Pioneer Valley to get a sense for how much of their labor is voluntary, and their expectation for what parity would be. There are many ways to assure parity, such as grower cooperatives for wholesaling and distribution, multi stakeholder cooperative food processors, etc., but in this example, we will subsidise the cost of local, organic, and sustainably produced food.
Once we have a figure for what parity would be, we can calculate (approximately) what the various foods being produced would need to sell for.
Since our currency is digital, and most of the growers have accounting programs, we can know how much of each food product was sold by each participating grower. At regular intervals, say quarterly, we issue Repliks (CG) into the accounts of the growers to give them parity.
The amount that we issue is a percentage of the amount being transferred into the dollar pool quarterly and we could use that percentage to represent to the growers, processing plants, wholesalers, and retailers as the percentage of Repliks (CG) we request they make sure they spend as Repliks (CG) and do not cash out of the dollar pool.
We will also need to create a Parity Circle in our community to pursue all the issues that arise from our efforts to implement parity and come up with a long-term solution that does not involve a subsidy. Once we have a Parity Logo and criteria to qualify for it, then all the food processors, wholesalers, and retailers that belong to our Jural Assembly Community can be encouraged to pay the parity price our Parity Circle recommends each quarter. Just as we rely on our member owned retail grocery coop to only stock healthy food, we could rely on all of our member businesses to pay parity prices.
All this is possible and more, once we have a committed group of people willing to take responsibility for their community.
What problem would you like our self governing, money issuing community to solve?
In sum
In sum, the Common Good system through a sophisticated software accounting system facilitates the exchange of goods and services in a community and allows communities to decide together what would be good to fund.
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To review: Transfer money from your bank account to the Common Good System and get the same amount of Repliks (CG) which circulate in the community making everyone that much better off. The dollars are available
for issuing Repliks (CG) for what we agree would be good.
The Potential of the Common Good System
Let's say that we got a vibrant Jural Assembly Community going in a typical county in middle America. There would typically be about $200 million changing hands every month, and we might be able to inspire about half of that to take place with the Common Good System. Therefore there would be around $100 million in the Community Fund and 100 million in Replik (CG) circulating.
What would be possible every month in just one County? Just imagine.
Remember that everything that normally happens is still happening, and we have a huge amount in the Community Fund, which is proving itself to be “solvent” (more dollars coming in than going out) to back what we could issue for what our Jural Assembly Community agrees would be good.
What will you recommend that we invest in? I will propose we buy a bank!
10,000 dots represent $10,000 worth of CG EVERY MONTH in one county. If a typical county has 100,000 residents with a $100,000,000 surplus, that represents $1,000 per person per month in the community dollar pool to back issuing CG to create the conditions wherein we desire to live. So 10,000 $10,000 projects every month! (Note: If the demand for dollars exceeds the demand for CG, there could be a request to delay cashing out.)
A Community Responsibility
Issuing Common Good or Repliks and developing a Common Good or Jural Assembly community requires conscious and responsive members dedicated to making the Common Good system and the community a success.
Examples:
THE BIG CHANGES
The really big shift in society that would create the Society to Benefit Everyone is implementing voluntarism.
There are aspects of human nature that mean not everyone will want everyone to be entirely at liberty to do as they please, because they will want to be able to compel people to behave in ways they approve; there will be people who have no idea what to volunteer for; and there will those who want to be told what to do. However, our assertion is that the vast majority of us would welcome the liberty that an unearned income would give us, and feel confident we could handle that much freedom.
When transferring Repliks (CG) to dollars is a rare occurrence, it will be because we have a sufficiently large portion of society using the currency that we issue. At that point, we will be able to issue the money supply to the people directly so that everyone is able to buy all the things that the economy is producing as a result of people acting voluntarily as inspired. This will make it very clear to everyone that the standard of living everyone enjoys is a result of what they are doing voluntarily as inspired to meet the needs they are inspired to fulfill.
In order to enjoy rising standards of living, the second element of liberty requires that everyone has access to the capital their capacities warrant. If you have a right to money up front in order to set yourself up to do what you are inspired to do, then the entire idea of volunteerism is realized, and the society we create benefits everyone appropriately. A genuine meritocracy based on capacity not privilege.
What are you inspired to do to provide something that people need? How much capital (credit) do you need to set yourself up to do it?
Voluntarily as Inspired vs. Compulsion
What does “handle that much freedom” mean? Whatever you want it to mean: stay drunk your whole life cause you never run out of money to buy alcohol! The point is that being drunk is a response to fear not inspiration of spirit. Being drunk gets very boring. Especially since there are likely so many people who want to help you overcome your addictions.
Why not ensure people act responsibly? Because we do not want to compel. Instead, everything shall be voluntarily as inspired in creating the society and world of our dreams.
Let’s get to it!
Shall we put a sign-up sheet on the website and ask everyone to sign up and say something about how we should proceed?
Or should we:
- wait until the people who have the gold give it to us to back the Replik?
- wait until the Federal Reserve System is turned over to us by the new sovereign?
- wait for the quantum financial system that is totally opaque and makes the system sovereign instead of the people?
Instead, we could do what we are capable of doing that really would give us governance of the people, by the people, and for the people based on the ongoing active consent of We, the People!
Catherine Austin Fitts SOLUTIONS
“Ultimately, the SEL (“social, emotional learning”) programming is the psychological re-education agenda that goes hand-in-hand with the digital identity to blockchain agenda, and it builds upon one’s social credit score. Once everyone is an obedient digital citizen, controlling them through digital currencies will be a cakewalk. But what would happen if people refused the digital identity applications, built homeschooling networks to get their children out of the indoctrination system, formed their own communities and businesses, grew their own food and/or supported local farmers, stopped funding big box stores, pulled their money from big banks and used cash as often as possible, and didn’t comply with tyrannical measures? What would happen if people fought on a local level to block the federal level from intervening? Boy oh boy would that put the biggest dent in their plan, wouldn’t it? How are they going to control the masses when the masses are no longer streamlined inside their system?
There are a lot of good people collaborating on all of these goals, sharing information with others, and creating change toward a future FOR humanity. It’s important that people stick together and share this knowledge to help others evolve from these trying times. Be sure to bookmark Corey’s Digs “Solutions” tab for ongoing articles and resources – we all need to stick together!”