How Americans should enter the economic future

How Americans should enter the economic future.

From Dick Eastman (on "Mothers Day" in the U.S.)

My oldest daughter, Laura, is about to have her first baby, my first grandson. (To be named Arden, after my wife's father). Contractions have begun. I am staying home from church this morning to be ready to go to the hospital and be around. My wife is a pediatrics nurse at the same hospital. (Laura is also an R.N. at the same hospital.)

Yet I have not been able to think of this grandson without thinking of the world that he will be joining. And so I write to all of you with children and grandchildren and other people that you care about -- and ask you to consider what is wrong with the way we are operating in this world to provide for the future. Here are my thoughts:

You put your money in the future instead of spending it or investing it in your community -- but the money in the future is actually given to the Money Power interests" to engage in predatory rigged-game speculation to wreck the domestic economy that you should have invested in in the first place. If you can't find a young entrepreneur or inventor or extraordinary worker to invest in in your community then you should be a neighborhood philanthropist with your money. Donate parks or fix ups. Give to those in need in such a way that you know exactly that your gift is going for. You can also use your money -- as every citizen will use social credit dividend checks when he receives them -- to buy leisure for himself, leisure that he can devote in civic virtue to the bettering of his neighborhood, community, city and state. Teach economics or history for free in the park. Become a missionary to your faith and preach the brotherhood of man and the wisdom of forsaking evil -- with the followers of the prophet Mohammad and the followers of Christ always considering that they are on the same side, working for the same goal, viewing the same God through different glasses.

The scriptures say: "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." This means do virtue now (the good will be recorded in the books of heaven) rather than building storehouses of wealth rather than tax shelters where you are required to turn your money over to the Zionist robbers of the future who bleed and desolate the present so he can built up the Chinese army, ravage and rape the innocent and peaceful Islamic lands, flood the land with drugs etc.

Here is Jesus teaching on this subject:

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

This is saying if you have money use it for good now. A rich man wanted to follow Jesus but Jesus told the rich man to sell all his accumulation of wealth and distribute it among the poor had and then to come and follow him. The point is this is not a time to buy gold and sit on it so you will have purchasing power when all of your neighbors are starving without it. When you think like that you have joined the enemy. If you have purchasing power see that it gives stimulus to production and welfare in your own community. You know what your community needs and who is honest. You have the power to reward ability and talent with means -- but when you put the money in Wall Street or hoard it as gold you are denying life blood to your own community. Wall Street does not know what a community needs, who is honest, what local conditions in your community are. They will not even invest in your community. The banks are to take your income, not to distribute it. The small banks are not making home loans, rather they are sending your savings to regional banks which then send the money to Wall Street where it invests in those predatory monsters the monopoly corporations whose goods are made by exploited East Asian labor. The libertarian sees nothing wrong with this. The populist sees everything wrong with this.

You should be involved in using all of your surplus to lift those around you. Either you provide for them with your own small business or you invest in small business locally or you entrust your money to people who will. Do not give you money to pirates who will use your money to send out pirating expeditions to plunder other people even eventually your own town.

You give your money to the speculators and they take it from you promising you an interest rate or a share of their increase -- but they lend that money to governments to fight wars or to corporations that will move into a country and displace their local industries and commerce with international monopoly power -- while turning people into debt slaves, wage slaves, tax slaves (taxes to pay interest on their governments debt to the speculators etc.) This is everyones big mistake. Wall Street is not economic freedom in a market economy where industry and intelligence are rewarded when they produce "better mousetraps" at less cost. Wall Street is the destroyer of enterprise -- as monopoly and rigged speculation always is). Rigged speculation -- perhaps a better word is monopoly speculation -- is when the investor -- through monopoly of credit and secret control of monetary policy -- has the power to control markets from the outside, rather than as a mere participant in supply and demand. They can dry up credit and thus make their competitors fail and markets collapse -- short selling when they do so. Or they can flood with credit and hook people into taking on a lot of seemingly easy debt -- only to switch to tight credit once more so they gather up all of the collateral when people can't make their payments under the new conditions and they buy up all of the productive capacity that people have built at distress-sale prices -- and thus end up owning the world and enslaving the inhabitants of the world.

Jesus said you should not accumulate wealth and you should not bury your wealth where it does no one any good. Above all don't think you are building a future when, instead of buying from your neighbor or helping your neighbor build you give your money to the destroyers in the hope of getting your share of their plunder later on. They have no intention of giving you what they promise. All of the debt can never be paid -- the speculators know that -- they know that our productive capacity and peoples purchasing and debt-payhing capacity is not growing with the size of debt obligations which grow at compound interest. They know there will be losers. They plan Kleptastrophes so they will not have to pay their obligations -- so they can cheat people of their savings and pensions and investments. This is not economic freedom -- and following St.Ron Paul of the Golden Cross - is not going to help you. A gold standard will simply force debtors to pay their debts in gold -- and governments to convert to the gold standard are going to have to borrow from the gold hoarders -- guess who they are -- at interest -- in order to make gold money available -- and the gold standard will forever constrain the amount of purchasing power that people can have in their hands.

The answer is purchasing power through social credit and small-bank local loans, local investment in local business -- where people do not look at a portfolio of bonds or monopoly corporation stock certificates or government securities -- but rather where they put their money to work in their own neighborhoods -- their own proper environment -- so they can see what their money has gone to build and can look with pride on how their money has helped to sustain their town, country, state and the country -- in clear sight.

Jesus spoke another parable -- that I think makes this point:

For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
And unto one he gave five talents (money), to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded (entrepreneurship, arbitrage, fundamentals investing) with the same, and made them other five talents.
And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
[In other words -- if you don't know how to invest your money by the fundamentals, then entrust it to someone who does know how that money could be best put to work who will give you a share the gain they achieve -- usury could have been translated "bankers" -- the Greek word tokos means "offspring." ]

Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

If you understand this parable you will withdraw your money from Wall Street and you will find local businesses, local people worthy of investing in. Sometimes your invest by giving to right poor man in the right way. More often you give to the man who is successfully producing and providing but can expand if he has help.

The best people, the greatest abilities in this country are right now not being used or they are being tragically underutilized. We have turned out CPA's and business management people, but fewer engineers, inventors, leaders, entrepreneurs and yes, true economists. Our leaders and educators and writers one economics are all lackeys of the criminal speculators. You have no idea of how quickly the entire world could be transformed for the much much better if this situation where to change -- and social credit, and national economics built on bottom-up consumer-demand- pull development were put in motion.

The Money Power manipulators are at war with you and me and our children and grandchildren. Their weapons involve deceit and monopoly power and a code of ethics which makes us fair game for their thefts, war-profiteering ventures, political corruption, money and credit manipulations and monopoly enterprises. Unless they are stopped they are going to soon prevent even the few who understand what is happening from explaining the problem to everyone else. They are going to close down the Internet by economic means -- by monopoly power.

Won't you consider investing in your own community by spending your time and money converting people to the right system.

This is not well written -- but at least it is written. Why don't you, my wise friend, take up this half-shaped notion and really do it justice -- and send me a copy so I can pass it on.

ol Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.