DO NUMBERS AND LETTERS INVOLVE FLESH AND BLOOD – ASK ECONOMIST STEPHEN ZARLENGA
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The problem with letters and numbers – as example H.R., or the numerals 2 9 9 0 – is that nothing is revealed that causes the blood to boil, the nostrils to flare and senses to sharpen. Just numbers and letters. (The next such offender is the acronym in which letters are strung together, such as N E E D).
But, do numbers and letters compel, or even require, our attention?
If you are an Activist, or an Occupier, letters, numbers and acronyms can propel us forward. That is. depending on what the letters and numbers stand for, and if we do something about it. Witness, 15 Minutes of Fact guest, Stephen Zarlenga, knows how to breathe life into them. Stephen is the Director of the American Monetary Institute and someone who helped draft the H.R. 2990 Bill introduced into the House of Representatives in 2011 by then-Representative Dennis Kucinich. The NEED acronym stands for National Emergency Employment Defense Act.
The very fact that this bill was caused to die in a House sub-committee last year should give you an idea of its importance. In fact, if we can reintroduce this bill into the 113th Congress, Stephen feels it could be an “earthquake” to our banking system.
This will be one of the passionate cases to be made on Sunday, May 12, from 1-5 p.m. at Coopers Union here in NYC. The title of the event is Fixing Our Money System and its stated purpose is to clear the fog around the headline-grabbing items like Sequestration, trillion dollar
coins, financial cliffs, and closing down the government as well as educate the audience in alternative economic approaches which can end – as Stephen puts it – “all the nonsense being spread about.”
coins, financial cliffs, and closing down the government as well as educate the audience in alternative economic approaches which can end – as Stephen puts it – “all the nonsense being spread about.”
“Yes, it’s all a heap of nonsense, which gives the appearance of mainly being to further enrich the one tenth of one percent when the nation should be heavily taxing their wealth instead, the way Roosevelt did.” (But consider that) “…another important part of the nonsense is to further demoralize the nation and make good people sick! The antidote is monetary reform, and learning which media and internet sources to listen to and which to avoid.”
You don’t have to have “occupied” Wall Street to find these words and this mini-workshop to be of importance. At the very center of Occupy’s message has always been the outrage over a broken financial system. What has been missing up to this point is a single, coherent message and the answer around which such activists can rally.
Completely change the monetary system – stopping, once and for all, the creation of money by private financial institutions as interest-bearing debts! Could this be that missing lightning rod?
To put that message across at Coopers Union, Stephen gathered together a lecture team of some of the most advanced monetary thinkers in the country.
Among them are people such as Professor Nic Tideman of Virgina Tech, William Batt, a leading Georgian economist, and Kaoru Yamaguchi of Japan, a world leader in applying system dynamics methodology to monetary reform.
Enjoy this interview, and put this conference on your calendar. Who knows, while falling in love with letters and numbers you just might learn how to apply them to change our world. Just a question: Do any of my listeners know of a Representative who would introduce H.R. 2990 this year?
To attend Fixing our Broken Money System – Achieving Justice, Avoiding Austerity, Reducing Debt, and Creating Jobs” visit (www.Monetary.org) for details. Tickets are a $10 by eventbrite in advance, or $20 at the door.
Want to know learn about this man and the work his institute is doing? Write Stephen directly at ami@taconic.net. I suggest that you go to Wikipedia and Google him as well for some excellent background material found about him and his institute. For my earlier interview with Stephen on WGRNradio.com, go here: http://bit.ly/10molMQ
Follow me as well at @WrittenOffUSA on Twitter and at the Huffington Post where I blog (http://huff.to/11skSxU)
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