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Defining Money and Productive ------------Examples of 'real' money doing unreal things------------ With growing monetary and currency debacles, it should be obvious that there is no real money and all money is just made up, something obvious to the power-holding elites who do not insist that their money be "real" money. "the [Federal Reserve] vault had never before processed a single order of this magnitude: $2.4 billion in $100 bills. But ultimately, again, $9 billion of $12 billion gone missing in Iraq." See also this article about Barings Bank How is it 9 Billion can appear and disappear with no explanation? How is it one person can come up with 29 billion of 'real' money in 4 weeks to speculate with and no one noticed? (Just how much is a billion? Imagine 1000 jelly beans in a jar, just one jelly bean would represent one million.) These are just small examples, the main Ponzi scheme is interest, something that is mathematically impossible: "Based on interest and compound interest, our money doubles at regular intervals, i.e., it follows an exponential growth pattern. This explains why we are in trouble with our monetary system today. Interest, in fact, acts like cancer in our social structure... the continual payment of interest and compound interest is arithmetically, as well as practically, impossible." -- Margrit Kennedy: Interest and Inflation Free Money, 1995 "All money created this way is a loan. The money needed to pay interest on the aggregate principal does not exist. Therefore, it is mathematically impossible ever to pay off the aggregate loan principal plus the aggregate interest without depleting the money supply, as in a game of musical chairs. This mathematical impossibility is like asking someone to pour a quart of milk into a pitcher and then pour out a quart and a pint. It is obvious more borrowing is not the answer. More borrowing adds to aggregate debt and simply compounds the problem." -- Theodore R. Thoren, Engineer, "Space Age Technology can correct the money system", 1980 "An insight I gained many years ago concerns interest, or the ability of money to multiply, to grow, to reproduce itself. I examined the concept inside out, upside down, top to bottom, and concluded that money has no reproductive powers... Interest is a construct invented so that, as John Ruskin observes in Unto This Last, some can take advantage of other's distress." -- Juanita Nelson, On Interest, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, March 2002 (new - on the impossibility of interest) -------------------A few questions about 'real' money-------------------- Is military money "real" money? Is currency speculation "real" money? Is interest "real" money? Is money from the tobacco industry "real" money? Is money from the pharmaceutical and medical industry "real" money since these industries depend on having a large number of people with health problems? The power-holding elite know that there is no 'real' money. Yet when it comes to the idea of money distribution to common people, some people insist *that* would be "funny" money (not "real) and would be bad (inflationary) for everyone. Regarding the famous German inflation in the 1920's, often brought up as an example of the danger of having governments print money, this crisis was not an accident. According Stephen Zarlenga in his comprehensive, The Lost Science of Money: "it was a privately owned and privately controlled central bank that made loans to private speculators, enabling them to speculate against the nation's currency" (pg. 587).
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