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Money is
a Drug Too... Most people
think bankers are in the business of lending money. These
are many of the same people that think the McDonalds
corporation is in the business of making hamburgers.
Contrary to appearances, both are in the real estate
business. McDonalds sells hamburgers so it can acquire
prime real estate and service the taxes/debt connected
therewith. As a result, McDonalds is now the largest real
estate owner on the planet. But covertly the Federal
Reserve Banks are actually far larger because every house
you see, every store, every shopping mall, every
skyscraper, every building across the country and world (with
the exception of a small percent) has a second lien on it
held by a Federal Reserve-member bank. The banks, after
the tax man, collectively prey on this real estate. One
way is when a borrower defaults, a Fed member-bank takes
possession of the real estate. As mentioned above, the
important thing to realize is this: The real estate is a
REAL ASSET but the loan the bank made to purchase it was
NOT REAL. The money the member-bank lends you to buy your
house is completely unbacked by any tangible asset, hence
its value is only a matter of opinion and ignorance. The
value of Federal Reserve Notes ONLY depends on the fact
that enough suckers will continue to accept them as
"money." If the suckers think that they are
"only slowly inflating" and that that's "good,"
even "healthy" -- all the better. The public
has been indoctrinated into thinking this way for years
as well as into thinking that real estate is "appreciating"
in value because of the "increase in population."(2)
Thus this real inflation, caused by population demand, is
conveniently commingled with the Fed-generated inflation
to keep the public confused and ignorant about cause.(3)
Again, the bank created the money (those Federal Reserve
Notes) out of literally nothing. Whereas your house was
created from the day-to-day work of many people. The
money is totally fiction: an Authur Andersen-type
accounting slight-of-hand. The house is real brick and
wood, tile and ceramic, glass and metal, all put together
with skill and sweat. So when the Fed-banks are able to
whipsaw the economy up and down through the "business
cycle," it's inevitable that a significant number of
people will also be whipsawed out of their jobs and thus
default on their Fed-bank mortgage payments. And this is
exactly what the Fed-banks want because they then get to
repossess millions of houses, REAL assets, and assimilate
them into their empire's balance sheet. Also, when the
stock market crashes, much, if not all of that money
floods into the banking system (in the short-term, if not
the medium-term) to replenish its balance sheets and to
provide fresh new FRACTIONAL money for the next round of
home loan suckers. Of course, the banks put on the PR
front that "we're not in the real estate business"
or "it's a big hassle to repossess and liquidate
real estate," or "the stock market's a bubble
waiting to burst," et cetera ad nausium, but that's
all horse.(4)
So, in a nut shell, the banks are really in the business
of a) lending bogus fiat money (called Federal Reserve
Notes) through fractional reserve banking, b)
manipulating the economy (known as "monetary policy")
into boom and bust cycles (known as the "business
cycle") and c) confiscating real assets (repossessing
real estate) from the civilization.
This slow, but insidious, process takes place over
decades of not centuries. Thus the REASON, Greenspam and
his cronies keep inflation "low" is to avoid
setting off alarms, yet they bleed the society a little
bit over a long term. And this is okay with many. Indeed,
as demonstrated by several posters here, the
indoctrination has been so thorough, such feel inflation
is even "good." But look at the graph at http://www.mecfilms.com/inflate.htm
and you will be able to see the long-term corrosive
effects of inflation since 1913, the year the Federal
Reserve System AND the IRS (the Fed's private collection
agency), were foisted upon the American People (several
days before Congress took Christmas recess) with the
passage of the Glass-Owen Act (which was nothing more
than a re-worked version of the bankers' Aldrich Bill).
As Albert Einstein would undoubtedly say in order to be
consistent: "COMPOUND INFLATION is just as powerful
as COMPOUNT INTEREST." And when one is in control of
printing up the money, they don't have to worry about the
effects of dilution (compound inflation) so long as they
are in a position to a) spend each new round of cash
FIRST and b) extort real assets from the public and onto
their balance sheets through repossession (and other
techniques).
Thus, so long as people remain ignorant of how banking
really works and the effects it has on their Lives &
World, they will never (be able to) create a world
economy where there is plenty for all and prices
eventually decline to zero -- due to robust abundance
from powerful and efficient global industries that WOULD
develop were they allowed(5). Such a world, as we are
currently in, has as its calculaic limit infinite prices,
infinitely worthless money and less than 1-percent of the
population eventually owning ALL of the assets AND means
of production of the world. We are currently cruising in
this direction, the direction of a world slave-state, a
high-tech totalitarian civilization.
A possible remedy, not necessarily in this order, is:
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