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Subject: Money Makes the World Go Round (was:Spend More, Save Less)
From "Direct Credit for Everyone", by Alfred Lawson. Chapter 6 How
Everyone is Milked.(previous chapters to follow for those interested.)This
was written in first in l905 and then reissued in l931.
Interestingly Alfred Lawson was an English capitalist who came to the
states to get in on the Aeronautics Industry and play with his buddies,
Ford, Edison, Goodyear, and Hughes. He's got a gazillion patents and is said
to be the father of modern air travel. (having invented the dynamics of
cargo and passenger planes) Once though, on a money gathering trip to his
croonies in England they told him about a five-point plan to take over the
world. (I'm paraphrasing once again <G>) Unfortunately, (and you'd think I'd
have REMEMBERED this? <G>)I can only remember 3 parts; control of all money
before l939 (and how they were going to engineer the stock crash to
impliment the 'federal reserve), end of public schools, and put in a
military dictatorship. He was so agast at their plan that he committed
himself to God, gave away his fortune, and traveled the world giving
lectures on how the theology of "void/push/suck" (<G> for those that can see
the relevance of these terms) and the 'evil empire'. <G>
"Everybody does not understand finance any more than everybody
understands physics or chemistry.
Finance is a special study in itself that requires the concentration
of mental effort for many years to master, especially the crazy finance that
enslaves the world today.
Therefore, the author does not intend to befuddle everybody for whom
this treatise is writen, with technical language or arguments, or long
tailed figures to prove anything. He simply intends, with ordinary language
and positive facts to show the inefficiency of the present financial system
and offer a genuine and up-to-the-minute remedy for it.
A few big figures will have to be shown, however so that everybody
will get a general idea of the subject. In this way everybody will be able
to grasp the principle outlined without having to wade through technical
details.
It is estimated that the entire wealth of the United State in l93l has
a value of about $400,000,000,000 and that the annual income from the
products of its industries is about $100,000,000,000 while the total amount
ofmoney in circulation is not more than $5,000,000,000.
These figures show that the usable money inthis country is but one
twentieth of theamount represented by the annual income from the products of
its industries.
That means that $5,000,000,000 in money must be made to finance an
annual business of $100,000,000,000 beside the turn-over in bank deposits in
petty transactions.
To make Five Billion Dollar in money do the work of more than One
Hundred Billion Dollars in business puts a tremendous premium on money and
gives to those who own it control of industries and trade generally, through
loans upon which interest must be paid.
Before the wheels of industry can be started; before manufacturers can
open their factories; before contractors can erect new buildings; before
real estate can be improved; money must be borrowed for the purpose and
interest must be paid for the use of it. And, do not forget that this money
has no value whatsoever, except as granted by everybody through acceptance
as a trade convenience.
And right now, the money that ismade for everybody's use and benefit,
cannot be had by everybody to use, nor does it benefit everybody. It is
manipulated by schemers who control it to milk everybody out of the fruit of
their labors, through a system of graft known as interest paying for money
loans. So instead of being convenience and a benefit for everybody, it is a
plague that continuously exterminates the people of all classes and stations.
Ten percent of the population of the US, controls 90 percent of the
money and if this money slicing is kept up much longer through the payment
of compound interest, the percentage of population controlling the money
will shrink to 1 percent or a fraction thereof. This shrinkage of the
ownership of money will continue as long as the interset system is kept up,
all laws for the regulation of industry to the contrary notwithstanding.
Compound interest forces interest to be paid on interest and through
this process the big schemers will eventually swallow up the little
schemers, and sooner or later, either directly or indirectly, a few enormous
gluttons will control all the wealth of this nation, and eventually the world.
Today (l931) the heads of 300 corporations control the finances of
600,000 corporations.
Loans, aggregating $5,000,000,000 at 6 percent interest forces
everybody to owe the money manipulators $300,000,000 more at the end of the
year than at the beginning of the year, for which nothing tangible is given
in return.
Then the next year everybody must pay interst on $5,300,000,000
instead of on $5,000,000,000 which then increases the annual amount of
interst to $318,000,000 which added to $5,300,000,000 makes a new top of
$5,618,000,000 upon which interst must be paid for the third year. And in
this way the pyramid continues to grow bigger and bigger each year until the
earnings of the interst exceed in amount the original money supply of
$5,000,000,000.
Of course, everybody cannot continue to pay interst on loans in money
when the interst charges amount to more than there is money in circulation.
So to iron out this difficulty and balance things generally the schemers
gently but firmly take possession of everybody's real estate, factories,
stores, homes, and other valuable things in leiu of the unpaid interest.
So by this legal method, made lawful by legislators who are aided and
abetted by those who control the money supply, the biggest schemers will not
only swallow up the supply of money now controlled by smaller schemers, but
they will continue to add to their greater wealth such things as real
estate, factories, stores, farms, and homes until a small number of them
will practically control all the wealth of this country, and thus keep
eveybody and its government in perpetual indebtedness from which neither can
ever escape.
In some states it has been made lawful to charge everybody a legal
rate of 6 percent interest on loans while in other states the privateers may
put a tax of 7 percent interest on money loaned to everybody.
In most states it is made unlawful to charge more than 6 per cent or 7
percent interest rates, which proves that even the big schemers realize it
is a crooked game and do not want to milk everybody for more than it can
produce.
The money privateer, as a rule, is a wise bird who understands that
everybody is the goose that lays the golden eggs, and that it is not to his
advantage to kill the goose, but simply to take its eggs. He also
understands that it is not to his advantage to be bothered with the
ownership of the goose with all the drawbacks of rearing it from infancy, or
keeping it when sick or in its old age when it is incapable of laying eggs.
In face, the only time this wise money bird wants to recognize the goose at
all is when it is laying eggs.
So after much consideration of this important subject, the wise bird
has decided that it will allow the goose a few of its own eggs for
sustaining purposes, while it is capable of laying them, and take from it
all of the rest of the eggs it lays through a legerdemain system known as
the medium of exchange, with a big price on the medium.
This is remarkably clever from the viewpoint of the wise bird, but the
conundrum is, how much longer will the goose stand for it?"
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