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Should nations unite to provide a stable, single currency to all people?

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Yes
33% 19 votes Total: 58 votes
No
67% 39 votes
Yes

I know we all hear the same jazz on the radio and television and internet and from everyone in the world all the time about the economy and how bad times are, but I get so lost when I start thinking about "inflation" and the "economy". First off, an economy is an idea that can fall apart at any time, and money is only worth what we deem it worth. I therefore propose a few ultimate solutions to our flawed monetary system.

1. The good ol' barter system - I used to trade my lunches in school all the time, I'm sure the world could figure out a conversion table for themselves. I mean, hey, if we want some of China's sweet lunch and we have a lunch that China loves and that China's mom won't ever make because it's too high in saturated fat and really has no nutritional value at all, then we should be able to trade our metaphorical leftover pizza from the night before for China's metaphorical ham salad sandwich. I also think that it would be a lot easier for broke guys like me to get a Corvette if I could trade in the loyal family cow for it. Of course, you can't milk a Corvette right now but technology is rapidly changing, am I right?

2. Convert all countries to wampum - All of the shells and rocks and feathers you happen to have in your pockets will serve as your cash with no system to back up the currency? That's so nonsensical...and exactly what we have today anyway, except money looks stupid. We should all start converting now before gas gets up to three feathers a gallon and we're all left behind.

3. Everything is free - Command and conquer! Take what you want and want what you take! Personally I would just conquer Burger King at the moment because I'm starving and I didn't get to eat breakfast before I came to work and it's probably good that my boss is out of town and doesn't know I'm doing this on company time because then I'd probably get canned and have to find a new source of income, which would make it good if everything was in fact free.

I'm telling you, I've got the solutions if everyone would just listen. And note to the people in charge of changing the world's currencies, I am available Thursdays and Sundays for press conferences but I will need to know in plenty of time to rent a nice suit. Thank you, and that's all.

Learn more about this author, Bradley Charles.
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No

The Evolution of our economic system

I like many people have spent the grater part of my life seeking the answers to why life seems so hard for so many and so easy for so few. I have wondered why our government systems seem to be counter productive to the needs and desires of their citizens. I have recently read a book that has shed a great light on not just the effects that plague our perspective societies but also the underlying causes. A business associate of mine in Atlanta knew of my wish to learn about governmental power and politics and subjected that they may not be as in control as I and all of us as citizens have been led to believe. Our discussion led us to a book called "The Beast of Jekyll Island", this was a book that I will only summarize because I believe it should be required for all citizens of the U.S. and all countries that it holds influence over. On my next trip to the library I inquired about the book because I could not find it on any shelf. The librarian and I finally sat down to search for it over the Internet. We were both astonished to find that this work was now listed under the forbidden books of the US. Now I could not obtain this work Thur public library sources so I finally found a PDF version of it on the web. I was more intrigued than ever to find out why a book based on economic systems and the creation of the federal reserve could be considered to be forbidden. This book breaks down the entire structure of the U.S. federal reserve, how it was unconstitutional from its very conception, who the PRIVATE stockholders who control it and your currency and why they have taken the power from the governments and away from the people who inhabit this earth. As I said this is a required book for all of those who want to know the truth about power in this world and who posses it and why. It is a map of the creation of central and world banking systems and shows who the families are who control them all. Armed with this new knowledge I have begun to reconstruct my views on reality and how easy as a global people all of the pain and suffering we inflict upon each other could cease. Monetary systems are based on the law of value and the law of value is merely an idea that can be easily manipulated, especially by the creators of the system. This system is solely based on intangible myths this is the underlying cause for the majority of atrocities man inflicts upon himself. We as Americans share many myths yet the largest myths we share we regard as truth. Such as our so called Democracy. In a true democracy the citizens vote to elect officials they feel portray their values and other moral issues. Yet through the American political process the number of nominees is narrowed down to a few wealthy candidates who are generally on opposing politically parties but share the same corporate and private interests. These corporate and private dedicate vast amounts of political capital and media coverage to the candidates who then orchestrate these grand theatrical events on moral values with passionate debates on issues that the people wish to improve, yet politician after politician after elected conditions only worsen. The reason behind this is that politicians are no longer in control of their elected or nominated positions; they either give into corporate pressures or are the corporate interests. A glimpse of this is the fact that although the US people see the democrats as the answer to the war in Iraq if you knew that the Democrats hold more corporate in the defense contracts going into Iraq would you still feel that way. It is quite simple once you control the currency and/or finances everything else will then fall into place. Revelations in the Bible speaks of a time when with out the mark of the beast you will not be able to obtain food or the other necessities needed for your survival. It is quite apparent that many people are in fact now suffering this fate. A few days ago I was in a shopping mall in Ft. Lauderdale, as I won my way out in the food court a homeless man was asking for a portion of the food the staff of one of the venues was about to throw out. The staff member replied that they would give him some water but wee not allowed to give him the food even though they were about to throw it out. This is a sick practice and a clear sign of the fall of humanity and a slap to the face of God. Replacing him with an idolization of currency and power over our fellow man. All modern wars been fought not for the protection, or preservation of the people but for profit, population control, or for the extraction of public resources. The proof of this also lies in the statistics of war it self. This was shown to me by Mummia Abu Jamal in on of his lectures, if you think of the monetary price of war, trillions of dollars or other currencies spent to mobilize an army and sustain it and the citizens it is attempting to protect, then think how much of an effect that amount of currency, man power and wasted life would have had on a diplomatic level. It could have provided enough food or what ever resource required to quell any situation if handled by diplomats who were actually acting for the will of the people involved. The underlying fact of this is that man is unwilling to de-commoditize the basic necessities of human life for fear of lost profits. At any given time there is enough food wasted in North America to eradicate hunger in at least the northern hemisphere. Recently in Haiti riots broke not because of a food shortage but because the people could not afford the food that is on the shelves ready for consumption. Robert Zoellick of the world bank immediately offered help to the government of Haiti by issuing loans, in which are interest barring loans in which the citizens pay back the interest through taxation. Now if they already can not afford the food how can they afford the price of the interest on a few million dollar loan. This means that this loan will quell a disaster but starts the clock on a new already pending disaster that was planned from the beginning. These interest barring loans are the cause for economic decay not only in Haiti but in all countries even here in the U.S... These banking systems were built for profit and are acting only in the interest of the stock holders that control the system. People and their governments are powerless as long as they remain under these centralized systems. How do you end this cycle of generation after generation born into this cycle and brain washed into its dependence? The answer is simple but the method brings the complexities. The answer is simply to withdraw from the system and force the governmental reform of our entire financial system. This is a truly drastic measure yet completely necessary because any eternal reform on a particular issue or section will only lead us back to the same situation. The stock holders of the banks of the federal reserve are private and there for not part of your government and must be completely removed for reformation of our economic to take place. But before this we must all come to grip that if the only way to obtain the necessities for your existence is through currency than this dependency will never stop and eventually all currency, resources and there for power will lie with those who created the system. Ask your self did food exist before the world bank, of course it did. Another fact that we do not see is the creators of the system do not use the system. Their true power is draining the resources of the country through the system. The resources have the power not the currency that is based on myth, even the gold that our currency is based on now seems to be based This all ends with all of the people of this world being forced into a state of indentured servitude to this system and its stock holders. As I stated earlier the answer is simple the method is complex, we must all as a global people come together and devise a system where the needs of all the inhabitance of this earth are met first and the imperialistic views of the self acclaimed global masters are crushed along with their ideas and then has a global people we can begin an unrestricted era of mental and spiritual growth ending dependency on all systems built on lies and hypocrisy.

Learn more about this author, Nathaniel Anthony.
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