Time Magazine just released an excellent piece that everyone with a child in school, or that pays taxes should read.
In summary, they expose the ongoing scam of converting our teachers and children into data generators. ‘Education’ is the very last priority in the end. The end goal will reach multiple objectives. Some that are obvious today and others that if you are not watching closely you might not see coming for they are part of longer term plans.
When you own companies that provide these devices or are a trustee, administrator pension fund manager etc. your view and scope must look many years into the future.
My guess is you know the government is pretty big and as odd as it seems that they might do any planning considering how bad their results normally are, one thing they are good at planning is making money for themselves and their buddies while losing it for you. That is the case here with the education system just like it is with the smart grid.
When you read an article like this one here, it looks innocent enough and of course is just ‘looking out for our kids’ in an ‘ever changing world’ to ‘prepare them for the future’
This is an excerpt from the article:
“It’s a bit scary for parents because it’s not how they learned,” she said. “It’s scary for teachers too because it’s not how we learned. But it’s the way of the future. It’s a paradigm shift because we are not seen as the holders of the knowledge. Kids can find things out for themselves but we need to teach them how to validate information they may get from the Internet, how to maintain a balance in an ever changing world, how to listen and work with others. Kids need to learn how to problem solve, they don’t need to memorize steps in solving a math problem.”
(by ‘work with others’ they mean iPads since they will be glued to their screens and not want to talk with anything that doesn’t have bright flashing lights)
What is the truly scary thing here?
Teachers have no idea how quickly they are being phased out of the equation.
Remember, this is about long term planning. You can see this everywhere from large corporations to small businesses. Lawyers, Doctors, Drivers… everything is being replaced by computers.
Teachers, whether you want to believe it or not the bullseye is on you. In BC, my guess is you would know that this bullseye has been on your back for more than a decade, nothing has changed.
The problem for teachers, just like most other jobs in Banking, Finance, Agriculture, Dining,is that now a truly viable low cost alternative that does not want a pension and can be purchased to increase share value of pension fund holdings that never has sick days, never goes on strike and, most importantly can track, log, store, manage and SELL ALL THE DATA on a child, is here.
They are the iPad, Routers, Smart Boards and all the rest of the gears that make up this data machine which your child plays a critical (unpaid) role in.
When you look at the TIME article, you will notice that learning outcomes are worse and the best education systems like Finland… don’t even use this stuff. Just like Silicon Valley CEO students don’t.
At this point I wanted to highlight something you have likely seen before to give you perspective. This comes from the utility side.
We are talking about a $2+ TRILLION a year electricity sales industry, where the industry regulators, in their own words tell us ‘the DATA is going to be worth more than the commodity sold’
We are just talking about data on for fridge open, fridge close, TV on TV off. Basic binary ‘noise’ compared to knowing every single thing about a child from birth to adulthood and beyond.
Recall also the whole smart grid is to ‘prepare us for the future of energy’ (selling data instead of power) and ‘ensure a better world for our children’ (by children we mean us and by better we mean better profits) which are virtually the same lines as the education industry are churning out.
Why might that be? Well, simple: It is the same players at the top of the game in both cases so of course the propaganda machine is the same. They are well aware that slogans like ‘Smart’ Meter or ‘Smart’ Board and the rest are simply interchangeable.
We have ‘Smart Bread’ and ‘Smart Water’ for crying out loud. Smart can be used for anything these days. Anything the makes a buck.
Every single jurisdiction is going down this road. Virtually everywhere, schools are closing and teachers are on strike every other year (it’s not just BC)
Why?
Simple: Attrition.
The goal for a long time has been to weaken teacher unions. Just like the smart grid, it was only a matter of time before a viable option came around to harness the power of that data. Attrition.
Teachers, pop quiz: Can you remember every single thing every child has ever done in your class, every click, thought, word typed, search?
No?
To them you are virtually (no pun intended) obsolete since you can’t perform the above functions.
Another quote from the article: “The teacher’s role has become a guide on the side instead of a director at the front of the class. There is a lot of self-directed learning, teaching creative and critical thinking, personal and social skills and communication.”
Note: There are piles of studies showing how use and overuse of tech is destroying social skills, critical thinking, personal interactions and the ability to communicate. You almost wonder if this person literally read a government handbook word for word to the reporter?
If something is ‘self directed’ does it need someone else’ (Teacher) help?
If helping kids learn is no longer required and that is the primary duty for which you get paid, how long before that which is no longer required ends up being the person getting paid for the job?
If the need for you to perform this function decreases by 50% so does the need for that many employees, or at minimum the total number can stay the same, but compensation would have to shrink to match. Just the numbers talking.
Aside from that, you can clearly see what I call ‘getting pushed off the stage’ It is like an actress who is centre stage, then is replaced by the younger, prettier, smarter, better version of herself, gets a side role, then eventually has no part because she just doesn’t fit the bill anymore and the director lets her know ‘we want to move in another direction’.
None of this happens overnight and just like a long time professional athlete that gets the cut its never ‘real’ until it happens.
Usually starts with less hours, smaller roll, less ice time… which is in line with the theatre/team owner saying ‘you need to work for less pay since now, you are only in this smaller role’ and if they don’t like it, they can walk. (strike) Sound familiar?
No one is saying there is never going to be even 1 teacher in schools. However, if you can pay $200 000/year to get rid of 10 teachers at $60 000+/year and get the iPads, routers, software, cybersecurity, educational programs as trustee, the trustees, administrators and elected officials have a ‘fiduciary responsibility’ to make that happen.
Now, when you look at this outside of ethics and strictly as money, you see the reason for the attrition, so that when this picks up steam, teachers will be at their weakest point to defend themselves due to strikes and their legal costs, and union weakening via school closures.
Yes, it is a long term strategy magically converging perfectly on itself as the software/computers get better, all of a sudden the less teachers and schools we need, the less money we have for teachers while spending on their replacements increases exponentially.
Isn’t it weird how this happens accidentally on purpose?
That’s all this is. Computers remember everything, they are cheaper, faster, immune to microwave radiation (your kids are not) and make Teachers Pension Fund Holdings through the BCIMC increase in value since across Canada, USA and the rest they are ALL buying into the $60 BILLION Hoax.
Teachers and parents alike can do something very simple to see this direction, besides watch it all unfold in the next couple years.
Walk around inside your school. Look at all those CISCO routers, look at the SHAW wi-fi hot spot routers. Step in a class and see the SMART BOARD. Watch a Blue Jays game and see it is no longer pencil crayons that are essential but cell phones for every child.
Look at the APPLE iPads in the classrooms. Look at the SAMSUNG and APPLE smart phones in every kids bag. Look at the GOOGLE chrome books, find out who the educational software providers (MICROSOFT) are. Who is providing the Cloud Services (IBM) to store this data forever? Who generates the power (IPP’s) and who provides the equipment (GE) for that? It goes on and on down the money line from your wallet, to theirs.
Then, do something very easy and simple. If you are teacher, you have easy access to this info since it is you who are putting money into it. Go look at your pension plan holdings and if you can’t find out that I will give you 2 examples HERE and HERE that just about every pension fund mirrors to the dollar. One is CALPERS (California) and the other is the BCIMC. (British Columbia)
It is in alphabetical order so, if you want to find APPLE in the BCIMC it is near the top. In Just stocks, in this one Pension fund (of the $25 TRILLION pension fund industry) they have $331 MILLION in shares in 2014 alone. One company, one fund.
You can look at all of them as well, CPP, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, doesn’t matter, you will find the same thing as the Smart Grid industry which in many ways is the same, because as mentioned, it is the exact same players.
Look at the questions below, answer them honestly as an employee, parent and also through the lens of a Trustee/ Administrator /Elected Official.
How about the government showing the millennials, gen xers and baby boomers that think you are ‘glorified babysitters’ that you are not required because the iPad they sleep with at night as their own baby can do more than you can? How weakened are you because of endless strikes, closures and budget cuts?
Can you sell data?
Are you more powerful, influential and do you donate more to campaigns of parties in power (or wanting power) than Google, Apple, Microsoft?
What is your share price value to your pension fund (your contributions are nice for them, but what other ROI do your provide)?
How many sick days, leaves are you entitled to and what is the cost of that vs. and iPad, router and software that don’t need that?
If you add up the cost/year/day/month of your faculty vs. a bunch or routers, iPads, software… which is cheaper… and which can store data, you? Or the ‘education grid’
With all the strikes, closures and the rest that have happened in BC (or wherever you are) DO YOU REALLY THINK THE GOVERNMENT SEES YOU AS AN ASSET… or a LIABILITY?
Who runs your pension plan?
Companies that are heavily invested in by your government (Banks) who are even more heavily invested in Apple, Google etc? And don’t you find it odd that all these companies magically pay no taxes to maximize revenue yet their never seems to be enough money for teachers, schools and the like? I’m sure you are like me in thinking it somewhat strange how it is always the same names, everywhere.
If you are on the wrong side of all the answers of those questions simply put, you are not on the right side of the future. If you are a teacher you are not part of future government plans. At minimum, your role is going to be reduced to as close to zero as possible.
Lastly (and admittedly this is a bit more complicated) If most government debt is going into negative rates and ALL pension funds are getting crushed by low returns and are desperate for any yield/ROI they can find to make up for that loss and Tech companies provide, consistently some of the best returns of any industry or asset class.
So where do you think the money is going to go? (Hint, not investing in you, our kids education or overall education) but replacing you with a cheaper alternative that generates data to be sold.
As noted in the video below, the Internet of Things and Big Data are going to be a $14 TRILLION a year industry.
Can you produce returns like that for investors? Or are you just an ‘investor’ for them to get those returns while scheming to increase those returns via replacing you?
We are in the data frontier. Just like the smart grid and just like land claims in the past, if someone is already there and there is enough money to be made, anything and everything will be done to get rid of what is in the way. Teachers, to them, you are in the way of all that money.
These iPads and routers and all the companies are simply staking their claim and ensuring they are getting as close to the water (data) and most fertile grounds (children) to ensure their prosperity.
If the data goes to some paper test or maybe to a teacher who will not remember it, that is lost data that can’t be sold. How do you generate revenue? Selling stuff.(data) that is why you always see ‘stay connected’ because the more connected you are, the more money they make. Now, it’s your kids turn.
How do you generate even more revenue? Find more stuff (data) to sell.
How do you do that? Create software that generates the maximum returns. (data)
If data goes into a Chrome Book, on Microsoft Educational Software, with a Cisco router and Shaw as the internet service provider to be sold to 3rd party Marketing Firms then they become the ones who have claim and title on the data on the Entire School Life of your child. Wow.
If you think for 1 second that any ‘savings’ from reducing teachers will translate into lower taxes… you are wrong. What it will do is give the governments more money to buy more gadgets, increase pay for TRUSTees, high paid Administrators and Pension Fund Managers.
For those of you that have concerns about the massive amounts of microwave radiation required to make this system work, well you (teachers) and yours (your kids) are simply just collateral damage on the way to money land.
A very important point I will pose a question about and touch in a future article is this:
Quoted from article: ‘but we need to teach them how to validate information they may get from the Internet’
Consider this Google is now an administrator in schools, Legally.
No one will ever need to evaluate information that comes in, if that information is ‘pre-validated’ by the administrator, who now, instead of approving text books, approves the information that comes into the child’s eyes.
Just so happens, that ‘administrator’ is actually the information provider and one of the single largest investments of the company that hired it (school boards and their pension plans)
It also happens to be one of the most influential companies on the planet that is a large contributor to campaign funds of elections who make legislation that makes it so they don’t pay taxes and also approves curriculum for children.
Think about that.
Now think, what has been proven to be the single largest thing that can influence an election? Search Engines. And who is the largest search engine on the planet? Google.
Google is now your child’s Teacher. Google will be telling your child more than you and knowing more about your child than you do.
This, among other topics in this video below. It is more detailed, yet easy to understand.
On the BC Hydro/Utility side, the massive amounts of energy required to store all this data on your children is astounding and they are already creating carbon schemes that will steal even more money from schools and hospitals and hand it over to big industry who donates to BC Liberals or (insert party in power in your area here) in order make sure this machine gets the money and power (electricity) to generate the revenue needed to ensure fund returns. This is great for utilities since this will prop slumping power demand that has been happening for decades.
This means more IPP’s or Site C’s and back door subsidies to all your favourites like Fracking Companies and Pipelines/Big Oil. (Who all just happen to be heavy investments of all those government operated funds)
Did you really think Carbon Schemes would do anything but benefit government holdings? Did you really think they would lie, cheat and steal with everything else they have ever done but magically do things for the public good on this file? Of course not. They only look out for their own. That is their investments.
It is why it this video is called Money Talks, because all you have to do is follow the money, if you don’t know where to look are where you would even start, not to worry all that has been done for you. Once you know this, you can truly understand who’s future is really being looked after:
Chapter 34 — The Public-Debt Problem
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(An article of Alain Pilote, first published in the July-August, 1986 issue of the Michael Journal.)
All the countries in the world are presently struggling with a debt problem. Third-World countries’ debt is over $1,300 billion (in 1986), and most of these Third-World countries are not even capable to meet the interest payments on their foreign debts.
More developed countries, like Canada and the United States, do not escape this crisis: Canada’s federal debt – $224 billion in 1986, is over $500 billion in 2004. And the richest country in the world, the one with the largest production — the United States — is also the most indebted country, with a debt of over $2,073 billion in 1986 (over $7,000 billion in 2004). Is there not a contradiction here? How can a country be rich and debt-ridden at the same time? Is the whole world on the brink of becoming completely bankrupt?
A debt-money system
Why are all the countries in debt? It is quite simple: in the present system, all money is created, comes into being, as a debt.
To understand this, let us divide the economic system into two parts: the producing system and the financial system. The example is taken from Louis Even’s parable, The Money Myth Exploded: On the one side, there are five shipwrecked people on an island, who produce all the necessities of life, and on the other side, a banker, who lends them money. To simplify this example, let us say there is only one borrower on behalf of the community; we’ll call him Paul.
Paul decides, on behalf of the community, to borrow a certain amount of money from the banker, an amount sufficient for business in the little community, say $100, at 6% interest. At the end of the year, Paul must pay the bank an interest of 6%, that is to say, $6. 100 minus 6 = 94, so there is $94 left in circulation on the island. But the $100-debt remains. The $100-loan is therefore renewed for another year, and another $6 of interest is due at the end of the second year. 94 minus 6, leaves $88 in circulation. If Paul continues to pay $6 in interest each year, by the seventeenth year there will be no more money left in circulation on the island. But the debt will still be $100, and the banker will be authorized to seize all the properties of the island’s inhabitants.
Production has increased on the island, but not the money supply. It is not products that the banker wants, but money. The island’s inhabitants were making products, but not money. Only the banker has the right to create money. So, it seems that Paul wasn’t wise to pay the interest yearly.
Let us go back to the beginning of our example. At the end of the first year, Paul chooses not to pay the interest, but to borrow it from the banker, thereby increasing the loan principal to $106. “No problem,” says the banker, “the interest on the additional $6 is only 36 cents; it is peanuts in comparison with the $106 loan!” So the debt at the end of the second year is: $106 plus the interest at 6% of $106, $6.36, for a total debt of $112.36 after two years. At the end of the fifth year, the debt is $133.82 and the interest is $7.57. “It is not so bad,” thinks Paul, “the interest has only increased by $1.57 in five years. We can handle that.” But what will the situation be like after 50 years?
croissance de la dette
The debt increase is moderate in the early years, but the debt increases very fast with time to unbelievably big numbers. And note, the debt increases each year, but the original borrowed principal (amount of money in circulation) always remains the same. At no time can the debt be paid off with the money that exists in circulation, not even at the end of the first year: there is only $100 in circulation, and a debt of $106 remains. And at the end of the fiftieth year, all the money in circulation ($100) won’t even pay the interest due on the debt: $104.26.
All money in circulation is a loan and must be returned to the bank, increased with interest. The banker creates money and lends it, but he has the borrower’s pledge to bring all this money back, plus other money he did not create. Only the banker can create money: he creates the principal, but not the interest. And he demands to pay him back, in addition to the principal that he created, the interest that he did not create, and that nobody else created either. As it is impossible to pay back money that does not exist, debts accrue. The public debt is made up of money that does not exist, that has never been created, but that governments nevertheless have committed themselves to paying back. An impossible contract, represented by the bankers as a “sacrosanct contract”, to be abided by, even though human beings die because of it.
Compound interest
The sudden increase in the debt after a certain number of years can be explained by the effect of what is called compound interest. Contrary to simple interest, which is paid only on the original borrowed capital, compound interest is paid on both the principal plus the accumulated unpaid interest. Thus, with simple interest, a $100-loan at 6% interest would give, at the end of 5 years, a debt of $100 plus 5 times 6% of $100 ($30.00), for a total debt of $130. But with compound interest, the debt at the end of the fifth year is the sum of the debt of the previous year ($126.35) plus 6% interest of this amount, for a total debt of $133.82.
Putting all these results on a chart, where the horizontal line across the bottom of the chart is marked off in years, and the vertical line is marked off in dollars, and connecting all these points by a line which traces a curve that illustrates the effect of compound interest and the growth of the debt:
The curve is quite flat at the beginning, but then becomes steeper as time goes on. The debts of all countries follow the same pattern, and are increasing in the same way. Let us study, for example, Canada’s public debt.
Canada’s public debt
Each year, the Canadian Government draws up a budget where are estimated the expenditures and the revenues for the year. If the Government takes in more money than it spends, there is a surplus; if it spends more than it takes in, there is a deficit. Thus, for the fiscal year 1985/86 (the Government’s fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31), the Federal Government had expenditures of $105 billion and revenues of $71.2 billion, leaving a deficit of $33.8 billion. This deficit represents a lack in revenues. (The Federal Debt has managed to balance its budget over the recent years, but it is simply because it downloaded its deficit on provinces and municipalities, forcing them to make cuts in health and other basic services. This does not prevent the overall debt of all public administrations to continue to increase.)
dette du CanadaThe national debt is the total accumulation of all budgetary deficits since Canada came into existence (the Confederation of 1867). Thus, the 1986 deficit of $33.8 billion is added to the debt of 1985, $190.3 billion, for a total debt of $224.1 billion in 1986. (By January, 1994, Canada’s public debt reached the $500-billion mark.)
When Canada was founded in 1867 (the union of four provinces — Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia), the country’s debt was $93 million. The first major increase took place during World War I (1914-18), when Canada’s public debt went up from $483 million in 1913 to $3 billion in 1920. The second major increase took place during World War II (1939-45), when the debt went up from $4 billion in 1942 to $13 billion in 1947. These two increases may be explained by the fact that the Government had to borrow large sums of money in order to take part in these two wars.
But how can be explained the phenomenal increase of these last years, when the debt almost increased ten times, passing from $24 billion in 1975 to $224 billion in 1986, in peacetime, when Canada had no need to borrow for war?
It is the effect of compound interest, like in the example of the island in The Money Myth Exploded. The debt increases slowly in the early years, but grows extremely fast in the following years. And Canada’s public debt has even increased more rapidly during these last years than during the example given in Louis Even’s parable: on the island, the interest rate always remained at 6%, while this rate varied in Canada, passing from 2% during World War II to a high of 22% in 1981.
Here is another explanation for Canada’s faster debt growth: contrary to Louis Even’s parable, in which the money supply always remains the same, $100, the amount of money in circulation in Canada has increased many times since Confederation, which meant more borrowings… and more debts!
There is a big difference between interest rates of 6%, 10%, or 20%, when one speaks of compound interest. The following are the sums that $1.00 will amount to in 100 years, loaned at the rates of interest mentioned and compounded annually:
at 1%……………………….$2.75
at 2%……………………..$19.25
at 3%……………………$340.00
at 10%………………$13,809.00
at 12%………… $1,174,406.00
at 18%…………$15,145,207.00
at 24%……….$251,799,494.00
And at 50%, it would eat up the world! There is a formula to know approximately the amount of time it will take for an amount, at compound interest, to double; it is the “Rule of 72”: You divide 72 by the interest rate. It gives you the number of years it will take for the amount to double. Thus, an interest rate of 10% will cause a loan to double in 7.2 years (72 divided by 10).
Another example of compound interest: 1 cent borrowed at 1% compound interest at the birth of Christ would amount (in 1986) to a debt of $3,821,628.40 ($3.8 million). At 2%, it is not only twice this amount that would be owed, but 314 million times this amount: 1.2 followed by 15 zeros (one billion millions of dollars!)
All this is to show that any interest asked on money created out of nothing, even at a rate of 1%, is usury. In his November 1993 report, Canada’s Auditor General calculated that of the $423 billion in net debt accumulated from Confederation to 1992, only $37 billion went to make up the shortfall in program spending. The remaining $386 billion covered what it has cost to borrow that $37 billion. In other words, 91% of the debt consisted of interest charges, the Government having spent only $37 billion (8.75% of the debt) for actual goods and services.)
The public debt of the United States
The public debt of the United States follows the same curve as Canada’s, but with figures ten times bigger.
As was the case with Canada, the first significant increases in the public debt took place during war times: the American Civil War (1861-1865), World Wars I and II. From 1975 to 1986, the debt went up from $533 billion to $2,125 billion. (In 2004, this debt is over $7 trillion.) Therefore, during the same period (1975-1986), Canada’s public debt increased more rapidly than the United States’ (9.3 times in Canada in comparison with 3.8 times in the United States). The reason: interest rates were higher in Canada during the same period, reaching as high as a 3-point difference.
What is a billion?
When one speaks of millions and billions of dollars, one is talking about very huge sums, and it is quite difficult to figure out what a billion is. A few years ago this definition was circulated: A billion seconds ago, the first atomic bomb had not yet exploded. A billion minutes ago, Christ was still on earth. Spending a billion dollars at a rate of $100 a minute would take 19 years.
But when one speaks of the public debt of the United States, it is not a question of billions, but of thousands of billions, or trillions (1 followed by 12 zeros). In 1986, the public debt of the U.S.A. was $2 trillion. 2 trillion $1 bills placed end to end would stretch 186 million miles – from the earth to sun and back. A 2-trillion dollar spending spree – at a rate of $1,900 a minute – would last 2000 years. In 1981, when the nation’s debt approached $1 trillion, President Reagan illustrated that figure with this example: “If you had a stack of $1,000 bills in your hands only 4 inches high, you would be a millionaire. A trillion dollars would be a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high.”
The peak of the iceberg
With the debt of the Canadian Government, one must also consider the debt of the Provinces, over $250 billion. And if the debts of governments represent huge sums, they are only the peak of the iceberg: If there are public debts, there are also private debts! The Federal Government is the biggest single borrower, but not the only borrower in the country: there are also individuals and companies. In the United States, in 1992, the public debt was $4 trillion, and the total debt $16 trillion, with an existing money supply of only $950 billion. In 1994, Canada’s total debt was $2.8 billion, divided as follows: 18% Federal Government, 13% Provincial and Municipal Governments, 10% Residential Mortgages, 55% Corporations, and 4% Consumer Credit.
Servicing the debt
The cost of servicing the public debt increases proportionally to the debt, since it is a percentage of this same debt. In 1995, Canada paid $49 billion in interest on the public debt, that is to say, one-third of the total revenues. To finance its debt, the Federal Government sells Treasury Bills and other bonds, most of them being bought by chartered banks.
As regards the sale of Treasury bonds, the Government is a stupid seller: it does not sell its bonds to the banks; it gives these bonds away to them, since these bonds cost the banks nothing: the banks do not lend the money; they create it. Not only do banks get something for nothing, but they also get interest on it.
Marriner EcclesWright PatmanOn September 30, 1941, a revealing exchange took place between Mr. Wright Patman (left), Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Banking and Currency Committee, and Mr. Marriner Eccles (right), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (the central bank of the U.S.A.) concerning a $2 billion monetary issue which the Bank created:
Mr. Patman: “How did you get the money to buy those $2 billion of Government securities?”
Mr. Eccles: “We created it.”
Mr. Patman: “Out of what?”
Mr. Eccles: “Out of the right to issue money, credit.”
Mr. Patman: “And there is nothing behind it, except the Government’s credit?”
Mr. Eccles: “We have the Government bonds.”
Mr. Patman: “That’s right, the Government’s credit.”
Solution: debt-free money created by society
This puts us on the right track for a solution to the debt problem: if these bonds are based on the Government’s credit, why would the Government have to go through the banks to use its own credit?
It is not the banker who gives value to money, but the credit of the Government, of society. The only thing the banker does in this transaction is to make an entry in a ledger, writing figures which allow the country to make use of its own production capacity, its own wealth.
Money is nothing else but that: a figure — a figure which is a claim on products. Money is only a symbol, a creation of the law, according to Aristotle’s words. Money is not wealth, but the symbol that gives rights to wealth. Without products, money is worthless. So, why pay for figures? Why pay for something which costs nothing to make?
And since this money is based on the production capacity of society, this money also belongs to society. Then, why should society pay the bankers for the use of its own money? Why pay for the use of our own goods? Why doesn’t the Government issue its own money directly, without going through the banks?
Even the first Governor of the Bank of Canada admitted that the Federal Government had the right to issue its own money. Graham Towers, who was Governor of the Bank from 1935 to 1951, was asked the following question, before the Canadian Committee on Banking and Commerce, in the spring of 1939:
Question: “Will you tell me why a government with the power to create money should give that power away to a private monopoly and then borrow that which parliament can create itself, back at interest, to the point of national bankruptcy?”
Towers’ answer: “Now, if parliament wants to change the form of operating the banking system, that is certainly within the power of parliament.”
No inflation
“Yes, but money created by the Government will bring on inflation!” the economists will hasten to say.
Inflation occurs only if there is more money than products. This is what happened for example in 1923 with the German mark (an example economists are found of quoting, to prove that government-issued money would create inflation). The German Government was perfectly aware of the fact that there was more money in circulation than products, and that was to cause inflation, but it continued to print money just the same. This was false accounting, and it is not at all what Social Credit is advocating.
When Social Credit talks of money created by the Government, it does not mean that money can be issued anyhow, according to the whims of the men in office; it means that the State (through an independent organism, which could very well be the Bank of Canada), would deal with the volume of money as an accountant in charge of keeping an accurate record of the total production of the country, expressing production in assets, and consumption in liabilities. In other words, this organism would keep a balance, a constant relation between money and products; this ratio always remaining the same, money would always have the same value, and inflation would be impossible. Having as much money available as there are products is the golden rule to avoid inflation.
And since money is only a matter of accounting, this result would be very easy to obtain: one has only to adjust figures to the production level. There is no need for Government controls on production to reach this objective; the Government has to act only in accordance with the statistics on production: to create money at the same rate as production, and remove this money from circulation at the same rate as consumption. The accountant is not the owner of the money he counts; he is only a bookkeeper. He does not create the facts; he records them; therefore the State would not interfere in the citizens’ choices, or in what producers make or do not make, or in what consumers choose or reject.
In itself, the money issued by the Government is no more inflationary than the money created by the banks, since it is the same money, guaranteed by the same Government, and based on the same production capacity of the country to respond to the needs of the same citizens of the country. On the contrary, money created as a debt by the banks is precisely the first cause of inflation: inflation means prices that are going up. Now, the obligation for companies and governments that are borrowing to bring back to the bank more money than what the bank created, forces companies to inflate their prices, and governments to inflate their taxes.
Inflation also means having more money than products. But in the mind of “orthodox” economists, inflation means “too much money” – period! (They forget to add: “in relation to products”.) Are there many people who complain about having too much money? But these economists try to fight inflation by raising interest rates, which is causing prices to rise… and inflation to rise! As many Canadian Premiers put it, “it is like trying to extinguish a fire by pouring gasoline over it.”
If one admits that the creation of money is possible for a lower authority (the banks), why would it not be possible for the sovereign authority of the country — the Government? What prevents, who forbids the Government to do so? One accepts that banks can create money, but one refuses this power to the Government. The Government refuses to itself a privilege it has granted to the banks: that’s the height of imbecility.
Balanced budgets
Some will object: “But, is it not a good thing for the Government to reduce the deficit? After all, we cannot live beyond our means…”. This may seem logical at first sight, but it actually shows a lack of understanding of the nature and the workings of the money system. When they talk of “living beyond one’s means,” they are talking, of course, about the financial means, and not about the physical means: people live on their production, on what exists; they cannot live beyond the physical means, on what does not exist!
What they mean is that society should live in accordance with its financial means, with the money it has. And it is too bad if the financial means do not correspond to production: if there are $100 worth of products and only $50 in cash, one must content oneself with $50 worth of products, and throw away the rest; in other words, to lower the standard of living of the citizens to the financial means. Instead of subjecting the symbols (figures) to reality (the products), it is reality that is subjected to the symbols. The healthy system (production) is brought down to the level of the unsound system (finance).
Governments thus reason: “We cannot spend more than we collect in taxes; we must balance our budget, eliminate the deficit, and this will automatically bring back prosperity!” Well, such a recipe, if applied to the letter, won’t bring about prosperity, but disaster: to reduce the deficit to zero in the present system means cutting expenses or raising taxes (or both), which will bring about a drastic decrease in the money supply.
Under the present debt-money system, if the debt were to be paid off to the bankers, there would be no money left in circulation, creating a depression infinitely worse than any of the past. Let us quote again the exchange between Messrs. Patman and Eccles before the House Banking and Currency Committee, on September 30, 1941:
Mr. Patman: “You have made the statement that people should get out of debt instead of spending their money. You recall the statement, I presume?”
Mr. Eccles: “That was in connection with installment credit.”
Mr. Patman: “Do you believe that people should pay their debts generally when they can?”
Mr. Eccles: “I think it depends a good deal upon the individual; but of course, if there were no debt in our money system…”
Mr. Patman: “That is the point I wanted to ask you about.”
Mr. Eccles: “There wouldn’t be any money.”
Mr. Patman: “Suppose everybody paid their debts, would we have any money to do business on?”
Mr. Eccles: “That is correct.”
Mr. Patman: “In other words, our system is based entirely on debt.”
How can we ever hope to get out of debt when all the money to pay off the debt is created by creating a debt? Balancing the budget is an absurd straight jacket. What must be balanced is the capacity to pay, in accordance with the capacity to produce, and not in accordance with the capacity to tax. Since it is the capacity to produce that is the reality, it is the capacity to pay that must be modeled on the capacity to produce, to make financially possible what is physically feasible.
Repayment of the debt
Paying off one’s debt is simple justice if this debt is just. But if it is not the case, paying this debt would be an act of weakness. As regards the public debt, justice is making no debts at all, while developing the country. First, let us stop building new debts. For the existing debt, the only bonds to be acknowledged would be those of the savers; they who do not have the power to create money. The debt would thus be reduced year after year, as bonds come to maturity.
The Government would honour in full only the debts which, at their origins, represented a real expense on the part of the creditor: the bonds purchased by individuals, and not the bonds purchased with the money created by the banker, which are fictitious debts, created by the stroke of a pen. As regards Third-World countries’ debts, they are essentially owed to banks, which created all the money loaned to these countries. These same countries would therefore have no interest charges to pay back, and their debts would be, virtually, written off. Banks would lose nothing, since it is they that had created this money, which did not exist before.
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There is only one problem:
The corrupted Money System that is a “Global Usury System”.
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Thank you so much for this detailed article and video Brian! Amazing your capabilities of connecting the dots that we all must do if we are to correct the wrongs of man. The content exposed via your hours of research has been shown to be second to none over the several years my wife and I have been following you. And yes, this connects the same with smart grid, and every other “program” government and big money interests force down our throats. I hope whoever reads your material here, on the entire blog, do their own research and have discussions with friends family and their own school districts of this all, it is NOT just the teachers harmed here, it is everyone of us..
Nothing changes until we bust a move people. We are the stewards of spaceship earth, not anyone else, you and I are it.
Teachers and government are people too (some higher up politicians excluded), all of us are included in the human species, we are the highest functioning (most of us) species on the only planet we have that can sustain us, it is our duty to correct man’s mistakes, whether you were the one involved in messing it up or not.
Choose to do nothing, you still have made a choice.
Choose to not work towards changing our world for a better future for everyone including mother earth, means you “‘are” involved in the corruption to devastate earth, if only by lack of effort to correct it.
You’re either correcting the mess we’re in, or you are doing nothing and allowing it to not only rule over you and your families, you’re allowing the destruction of our school and worldly environments, and every man, woman and child your family will produce today, and into the future to continue
So what’s in gonna be, help spread Brian’s word here, look into the wrongs and correct them, become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to saving our dear mother earth and your very own children and grandchildren… or are you going to watch the game? No games for the wives, Idol instead? Same mind controlling material your children and grandchildren will be forced to live with from a very young age in schools soon… and look what it’s done to the vast majority of adults… they would rather do “anything” other than correct the wrongs they are allowing to escalate.
Think it’s government that’s suppose to help us and correct this?
They are the ones allowing this to go down!!! They are guilty of many things immoral and illegal, and you pay them to continue while asking not one question of yourself…such as why? Why pay someone to do this to your teachers and children, to your pocket books to our environment and on and on… connect the dots everyone… we are slaves to a system controlled by the almighty dollar and the people in POWER!
Enjoy being a slave? Me either, that’s why I write this, that’s why I engage. Everyday.
What does government stand for?
Govern means control
Ment means mind
Mind control.
It’s right in their name.
Take a huge lesson from Brian here. Research is needed to correct any problem, you won’t get the information you need by watching the game, any tv really. You get the information you need to correct problems by understanding the problem… Brian has done mountains of hours showing you that already, your work is way more than half done for you thanks to his tireless efforts.
The second step is to engage in discussion and action.
What’s stopping you?
Thank you once again master of research Brain Thiesen
Mark Hermary
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