Greetings good citizen,
Took a mental health day yesterday but the madness just keeps on coming…with the difference being I didn’t write about it.
Hopefully today’s topic will prove therapeutic. Instead of just pointing to the problem, today I’m also going to provide the solution!
So we begin with something that has been drummed into your head since childhood, the concept of ‘debt’…and how others take advantage of this ‘mis-education’.
Let’s consider for a moment something you have been taught was impossible, imagine (if you can) a world without debt.
It actually should be easy to do. MOTHER NATURE DOESN’T HAVE A CASH REGISTER!
The (alleged) ‘owner’ of resources doesn’t have to pay for them so why should you?
(Stupid question, the owner makes his money selling what you need to you! (If nobody needs it what’s the point in owning it? Talk about carts and horses!)
EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET is ‘free’…but it is not ‘infinite’…and that’s where they get you!
Money is the ‘regulator’ that is supposed to insure everybody gets their ‘fair share’…but that’s not how it works, does it?
Especially when money is used to ‘penalize’.
[Note: This can get real confusing quite quickly so I’m going to intentionally keep the variables to a minimum.]
The truly insidious part comes in when pay is linked to the ‘class’ of a worker as opposed to the kind of work they do.
A woman is paid less than a man and a colored is paid less than a white.
When neither one has anything to do with anything except the prejudices of (…mostly, the personnel department!) Why they are not prosecuted for their crimes remains a mystery…
But the desperate need to redefine the term criminal is the subject of another essay!
Possibly the next essay.
So debt is created when one’s source of income does not meet one’s needs. Which makes for a pretty damning statistic when 45% of the nation’s households qualify for and receive SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance…program.)
But this isn’t the EMPLOYER’S problem…it’s YOURS! (For not preventing the employers from buying the politicians...)
And no, that time I didn’t digress.
So who among us treats you like a criminal if you owe them money? It’s the employer’s financial partner, the Banker.
Now the employer owns the politician and the banker owns the employer…which makes for a pretty ‘unholy alliance’ doesn’t it? Remember the politicians control public servants and public servants control the justice system along with who does (or doesn’t) become a judge.
Does anyone else see a problem here…considering current ‘conditions on the ground’?
So how do we solve this ‘daisy-chained’ problem? Lawyers are Judge wannabes and politicians are nothing more than greedy actors and bankers…let’s not go there because there’s no ‘reason’ behind a bankers actions that can’t be chalked up to a single motivation…greed.
Because money makes this whole circus go round, how do we put the brakes on this rampant corruption?
We put an end to ‘elected officials’. They only exist to keep YOU out of the decision making loop!
Now let’s ‘solve’ the debt problem (and unemployment while we’re at it.)
Since the ‘purpose of commerce’ is to provide ‘the public’ (and that means ‘all’ of the public) with the goods and services it needs to live as comfortably as possible. (Yeah, my definition is a little more ‘generous’ than the typical ‘more for me’ capitalist is comfortable with. But that’s what we’re trying to solve, isn’t it?)
Debt should be (and will become under A Simple Plan) illegal. You won’t be able to pay anyone for anything because there won’t be any cash to pay them with.
Which is to point out that we would also ‘solve’ crime in one fell swoop and marvel at why we didn’t do it sooner…and the method is to outlaw ‘cash’ and all of its ‘substitutes’.
If you’re caught using ‘script’ you’ll be exiled.
IOU’s, Walnuts, acorns, seashells…they’ll all buy you a one way trip to the badlands if you’re caught trading them! (Just don’t do it.)
YOUR MONEY IS FOR YOU! You will be paid to do what you do by the profession you have chosen to work for…just as EVERYBODY ELSE will be paid by their profession SO THERE’S NO NEED FOR YOU TO PAY THEM TOO!
The proverbial ‘stack of lumber’ will be a ‘gimme’. Maintained by the people who do that for a living…at no cost to you!
How can we do this? MOTHER NATURE DOESN’T HAVE A CASH REGISTER! It’s all FREE!
We do what we do because it needs doing…why oh why should we allow a few pinheads to get rich while the rest of us bust our backsides to make ends meet?
And it all starts with throwing the politicians out of office! [I’m all for making the lot of ‘em ‘take the walk’ too but throwing them out and making them all get honest jobs SHOULD BE punishment enough.]
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Took a mental health day yesterday but the madness just keeps on coming…with the difference being I didn’t write about it.
Hopefully today’s topic will prove therapeutic. Instead of just pointing to the problem, today I’m also going to provide the solution!
So we begin with something that has been drummed into your head since childhood, the concept of ‘debt’…and how others take advantage of this ‘mis-education’.
Thought debtor prison ended in the 18th century? Think again.
February 3, 2013 |
Editor's note: America has a long history of treating the poor like criminals, from legislation banning the transportation of poor people across state lines to anti-vagrancy laws that could land you in jail if you didn't have a job or a home. We've come to rely on the criminal justice system to deal with the poor, even as more and more Americans fall into poverty. The following is part of a series that looks at the diverse ways poverty is criminalized in America, such as laws targeting the homeless, the surveillance of welfare recipients, the re-emergence of debtor's prisons, and extreme policing tactics like stop-and-frisk.
Let’s consider for a moment something you have been taught was impossible, imagine (if you can) a world without debt.
It actually should be easy to do. MOTHER NATURE DOESN’T HAVE A CASH REGISTER!
The (alleged) ‘owner’ of resources doesn’t have to pay for them so why should you?
(Stupid question, the owner makes his money selling what you need to you! (If nobody needs it what’s the point in owning it? Talk about carts and horses!)
EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET is ‘free’…but it is not ‘infinite’…and that’s where they get you!
Money is the ‘regulator’ that is supposed to insure everybody gets their ‘fair share’…but that’s not how it works, does it?
Especially when money is used to ‘penalize’.
[Note: This can get real confusing quite quickly so I’m going to intentionally keep the variables to a minimum.]
The truly insidious part comes in when pay is linked to the ‘class’ of a worker as opposed to the kind of work they do.
A woman is paid less than a man and a colored is paid less than a white.
When neither one has anything to do with anything except the prejudices of (…mostly, the personnel department!) Why they are not prosecuted for their crimes remains a mystery…
But the desperate need to redefine the term criminal is the subject of another essay!
Possibly the next essay.
So debt is created when one’s source of income does not meet one’s needs. Which makes for a pretty damning statistic when 45% of the nation’s households qualify for and receive SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance…program.)
But this isn’t the EMPLOYER’S problem…it’s YOURS! (For not preventing the employers from buying the politicians...)
And no, that time I didn’t digress.
So who among us treats you like a criminal if you owe them money? It’s the employer’s financial partner, the Banker.
Now the employer owns the politician and the banker owns the employer…which makes for a pretty ‘unholy alliance’ doesn’t it? Remember the politicians control public servants and public servants control the justice system along with who does (or doesn’t) become a judge.
Does anyone else see a problem here…considering current ‘conditions on the ground’?
So how do we solve this ‘daisy-chained’ problem? Lawyers are Judge wannabes and politicians are nothing more than greedy actors and bankers…let’s not go there because there’s no ‘reason’ behind a bankers actions that can’t be chalked up to a single motivation…greed.
Because money makes this whole circus go round, how do we put the brakes on this rampant corruption?
We put an end to ‘elected officials’. They only exist to keep YOU out of the decision making loop!
Now let’s ‘solve’ the debt problem (and unemployment while we’re at it.)
Since the ‘purpose of commerce’ is to provide ‘the public’ (and that means ‘all’ of the public) with the goods and services it needs to live as comfortably as possible. (Yeah, my definition is a little more ‘generous’ than the typical ‘more for me’ capitalist is comfortable with. But that’s what we’re trying to solve, isn’t it?)
Debt should be (and will become under A Simple Plan) illegal. You won’t be able to pay anyone for anything because there won’t be any cash to pay them with.
Which is to point out that we would also ‘solve’ crime in one fell swoop and marvel at why we didn’t do it sooner…and the method is to outlaw ‘cash’ and all of its ‘substitutes’.
If you’re caught using ‘script’ you’ll be exiled.
IOU’s, Walnuts, acorns, seashells…they’ll all buy you a one way trip to the badlands if you’re caught trading them! (Just don’t do it.)
YOUR MONEY IS FOR YOU! You will be paid to do what you do by the profession you have chosen to work for…just as EVERYBODY ELSE will be paid by their profession SO THERE’S NO NEED FOR YOU TO PAY THEM TOO!
The proverbial ‘stack of lumber’ will be a ‘gimme’. Maintained by the people who do that for a living…at no cost to you!
How can we do this? MOTHER NATURE DOESN’T HAVE A CASH REGISTER! It’s all FREE!
We do what we do because it needs doing…why oh why should we allow a few pinheads to get rich while the rest of us bust our backsides to make ends meet?
And it all starts with throwing the politicians out of office! [I’m all for making the lot of ‘em ‘take the walk’ too but throwing them out and making them all get honest jobs SHOULD BE punishment enough.]
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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