Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Testing ability to post a message.

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Wilde
Seems to work. Keith - Original Message - From: Wallace M. Klinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:20 AM Subject: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Testing ability to post a message. Testing ability to post a message--having difficulties. Wally

RE: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Honest money. A red herring for Americans?

2003-08-14 Thread william_b_ryan
...our democratic political process has not been able to correct the 3% of GDP shortage of purchasing power, the 2.3%/year natural rate of inflation, and the 4% to 10% unemployment rates which the US economy has suffered for more than a century. - These percentages

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Honest money. A red herring for Americans?

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Wilde
Bill, you are confusing me. On several occasions you have spoken of a ticket, suggeseting that some form of direct disibursement to citizens should be linked to particular consumables--e.g. medical care, while at the same time dumping on a generalized cash disbursement like Basic Income as

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] What is Social Credit?

2003-08-14 Thread John Médaille
I sure wish someone would answer the question in the Subject line of this thread. I thought myself fairly sophisticated, for a layman, about things economic, until I attempted to get my arms around Douglas's theory. I have an intuition that there is something valuable in all of this, but I have

[SOCIAL CREDIT] John's question

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Wilde
John, you mioght look at my commment of August 4, and try the same text as I did. Keith - Original Message - From: John Médaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] What is Social Credit? I sure wish someone would

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] REPLY TO MIKE FROM JOE

2003-08-14 Thread ThomsonHiyu
(Michael Bindner wrote:-) Don't get me wrong, people will take the national dividend. The resentment will come from those who still work while there are others who do not have to. This comment is more directed to another alternative - Capital Homesteading - than to social credit. I am a big

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Vic replies to Keith re What Is Social Credit?

2003-08-14 Thread sutton
Thanks, Vic, for setting the psoition out so clearly. Jessop. - On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 10:58 am, you wrote: The following has been forwarded to me with a request from Vic Bridger that I try to post it, inasmuch that for some reason his messages have been bouncing from

RE: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Honest money. A red herring for Americans?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Bindner
My message did not contain those words, the commentary on my message did. I agree with the many authors who say do social credit, capital homesteading and a higher Earned Income Tax Credit (Basic Income) - although I would make employee-owned firms rather than households eligible to borrow at

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Testing ability to post a message.

2003-08-14 Thread sutton
Received in South Africa, loud and clear :-) Jessop. -- On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 10:20 am, you wrote: Testing ability to post a message--having difficulties. Wally --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SOCIAL CREDIT] Testing ability to post a message.

2003-08-14 Thread Wallace M. Klinck
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Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] REPLY TO MIKE FROM JOE

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Bindner
Under the system I propose, those not working would be those who retired, so there would be no resentment factor.[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Michael Bindner wrote:-) Don't get me wrong, people will take the national dividend. The resentment will come from those who still work while there are others

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] Honest money. A red herring for Americans?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Bindner
This gets to something I tried to propose as a discussion topic, although I think technical difficulties prevented the discussion: Can change happen without campaign finance reform? I have some proposals on this topic on my web page at http://www.iowafiscalequity.net/elections.html Which I

[SOCIAL CREDIT] understanding cartalism

2003-08-14 Thread william_b_ryan
In the attempt to understand what the cartalists (Mosler) are trying to say, I've appended a stylized diagram depicting the macro economy from the creditary perspective. T1 represents the period of credit expansion; T2 the period of steady state; and T3 the period of contraction.

Re: [SOCIAL CREDIT] What is Social Credit?

2003-08-14 Thread ThomsonHiyu
[Jessop wrote:-] Without now going into too much detail, I have spent a good deal of my life as an evangelical Christian leading people to Christ. That is my life. But when it comes to social and economics issues, I try to avoid as much as possible all religious or sectarian language and