Money
Money
Money
Money requires specific understanding. A trap lies waiting by assuming that a common sense understanding of money represents reality.
“There is no evidence of a society or economy that relied primarily on barter.” Marcel Mauss in ‘The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies’
Instead, non-monetary societies operated largely along the principles of gift economics.
“When barter did occur, it was usually between either complete strangers or potential enemies.” David Graeber in ‘Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value’
Commodities were likely used as the first form of money, such as gold, silver, copper, rice, salt, peppercorns, large stones, decorated belts, shells, alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis and candy. It seems that money emerged to facilitate exchanges between “complete strangers or potential enemies.”
Commodity Money
is similar to barter in use and commodity money provides a simple and automatic unit of account for the commodity being used as money. A unit of account is a standardized measurement of market value.
A unit of account is a necessary prerequisite for agreements that involve commercial debt. To function as a unit of account, whatever is being used as money must be:
- Divisible into smaller units without loss of value, for example, precious metals can be coined from bars, or melted down into bars again.
- Fungible: one unit or piece must be perceived as equivalent to any other, which is why diamonds, works of art and real estate do not work as money.
- Verifiable as to specific amounts. For example, coins are often made with ridges around the edges, so that any removal of material from the coin (lowering its commodity value) will be easy to detect.
Representative Money
stands in direct and fixed relation to a backing commodity, while not being composed of that commodity itself. Representative money consists of token coins or certificates that can be reliably exchanged for a fixed quantity of a commodity.
Paper representative money or banknotes were first used in China during the Song Dynasty. Banknotes were first issued in Europe by Stockholms Banco in 1661.
Under the gold standard, the value of money derived from gold in bank vaults, not government credit. If, for example, the United States of America government defaulted on its debt under the gold standard, the value of the dollar and much of the financial system would remain intact.
The United States Department of the Treasury seized physical control of the nation’s gold reserves in 1934, with the Gold Reserve Act. All of the United States’ monetary wealth was secretly transferred to vaults under the control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
United States Department of the Treasury is the nation’s largest debtor. The 1934 Gold Reserve Act put the United States Department of the Treasury in control of money.
That is like putting a pedophile in control of childcare when we are the children.
The government benefits three ways from using money debasement to create inflation:
- Inflation erodes the real value of government debt. The government repays with dollars worth less than the dollars they borrowed, which immediately transfers wealth from investors in government debt directly to the government.
- Inflation swells federal tax receipts due to “tax bracket creep” as incomes are pushed into higher tax brackets with no increase in purchasing power. Inflationary appreciation of business inventories is taxed as profit.
- Most importantly, money debasement itself levies a hidden “tax” on holders of money, such as people who keep savings accounts.
The 1934 Gold Reserve Act revalued gold (= debased the dollar) from $20.67 to $35.00 per ounce and accomplished all of the above along with much, much more. The United States Department of the Treasury took the control of the nation’s gold and spent it, leaving nothing but United States Department of the Treasury IOU’s backing the dollar.
“To act as a store of value, a money must be able to be reliably saved, stored, and retrieved – and be predictably usable as a medium of exchange when it is retrieved. The value of the money must also remain stable over time. In that sense, inflation by reducing the value of money, diminishes the ability of the money to function as a store of value.” N. Gregory Mankiw (2007) in “2″ Macroeconomics (6th ed.)
The role of money as a store of value that requires holding it without spending conflicts with its role as a medium of exchange that requires it to circulate. Apparently, the United States government encourages money circulation by continuously practicing money debasement.
The pain of taxes – increases - even as Congress declares tax cuts. As long as politicians maintain central control of the money supply, we are all impoverished.
In this environment one must either make investments that return a higher yield than the rate of government money debasement or immediately purchase hard goods known to be valued widely by other people. Any other strategy will, over time, devalue what you were paid for your work to make you, for any practical accounting purposes, a slave.
An example of making a high yield investment would be investing in your own on line business that generates an on going cash flow. Examples of widely valued hard goods include quality tools and firearms.
Fiat Money
or fiat currency is money whose value is not derived from any intrinsic value or guarantee that it can be converted into a commodity. It has no value except by government order or fiat.
The government declares the fiat currency (contemporary notes from the Federal Reserve System) to be legal tender, making it unlawful to not accept the fiat currency as a means of repayment for all debts, public and private.
Commercial Bank Money
is created through fractional-reserve banking, the banking practice where banks keep only a fraction of their deposits in reserve and invest the remainder. Commercial bank money differs from commodity money and fiat money in two ways
- it is non-physical, its existence is only reflected in the account ledgers of banks and other financial institutions
- risk that the deposit cannot be reclaimed upon demand if, for example, the financial institution becomes insolvent because demands upon deposits exceeds both the reserve and the value of the investments
The worthless home mortgages now held at fictional values make all the major banks, along with most of the smaller banks, technically insolvent and the FDIC does not have enough to cover the difference. This was all perpetrated with government oversight, aided and abetted by legislating away regulations.
A few insiders (at Goldman Sachs it seems) well understood the inevitable consequences, transferred their risk to unregulated financial instruments and then sold them to mutual funds and sovereign governments around the world including Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain and the United States of America. This was all perpetrated with government oversight, aided and abetted by refusing to legislate regulations.
Banksters will be blamed but make no mistake, this was a government operation from illicit beginning to the revolting end. The banks, by themselves, never could have pulled this off while governments have proved capable of debasing money without banks throughout history.
from the
United States Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Productivity and Costs, First Quarter 2010, Revised
“Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 2.8 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, with output rising 4.0 percent and hours rising 1.1 percent.”
Good for corporations and what about workers?
“Unit labor costs in nonfarm businesses fell 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2010, as the 2.8 percent increase in productivity outpaced a 1.5 percent gain in hourly compensation. Unit labor costs fell 4.2 percent over the last four quarters, as the 6.1 percent increase in output per hour over that period outpaced a 1.6 percent rise in hourly compensation.”
Work harder, get paid less.
The pay you receive is what you spend, that is the economy. If you are paid less, then you are able to buy less with your wages, that is fundamental.
This makes short term corporate profits look good, but with less income you cannot buy what others produce and in the long term this results in corporations either having to
- cut prices (deflation) which damages profitability or
- end up with unsold inventory (priced above the cost of production) or
- fail.
The government monetary policy is not sustainable. In fact, the government monetary policy appears to have hit its limits.
The only thing now keeping the government monetary policy going is the still (apparently) wide spread belief that other people will continue to accept the United States dollar in trade for goods and services. In reality, the last person to accept it, loses.
Get your money working or get it into durable hard goods. A thoughtful balance between the two would appear a wise decision.
5 Steps To Economic Freedom
- The first is the repeal of the Federal Reserve act of 1913. We must have a sound monetary system based on law. Unfortunately many Americans still do not understand that the Federal Reserve System is a private central bank. We do not even know all of the owners of the Fed.
- The second step is the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, and the subsequent Revenue Act of 1913 allowing Congress to levy an income tax.
- The third step is to have a good tariff law. That means when foreign goods come across our borders they must carry our labor rate. This will help bring jobs (production) back to the U.S. Free trade is not fair trade. When we accept cheap foreign goods we in effect lower our labor rate below our standard of living.
- The fourth step is to secure our borders and our ports of entry.
- The fifth major step is to correctly value production by insisting that the production of our raw materials is debt free (sustainable.) Then, as the late Carl H. Wilken documented to Congress, our free market economy can operate in balance.
The Federal Reserve Banking System administers a monopoly over money in the United States of America. This was not always the case.
Before 1913, many banks issued money in the United States of America. It was precisely this free market money competition that prevented individual banks from going too far with fractional reserve lending and other dubious banking practices.
Whenever any individual risk-taking bank created too much money (credit) relative to their reserves, they became vulnerable to any other bank that accumulated a respectable amount of that money (credit). All it took then was a demand for liquidity (cashing in) that exceeded the reserves to collapse the risk-taking bank.
The Federal Reserve Banking System now mediates all demands for liquidity upon bank reserves and allows large amounts of money (credit) to be created relative to reserves. All of this money (credit) created by ledger entries is lent to the United States of America and the debt is payed by taxpayers.
The United States is fully capable of issuing its own money without borrowing anything from any private bank. The real issue revolves around enabling a huge debt and obligating United States of America taxpayers to the debt.
Their monopoly over money combined with the tax laws in the United States of America ensures economic slavery of all taxpayers by federal law.
The ability to use the least expensive global labor markets and move the products across national borders without compensating tariffs, to sell them in the highest priced retail markets, proves to be tremendously profitable. These profits are guaranteed by the restriction of both the natural movement of labor to better conditions and the natural movement of customers to cheaper markets by national borders.
This gross imbalance that creates tremendous profits for a minority monopoly, protected by national governments, is possible only by binding customers to debt servitude. Inexpensive foreign products only benefit those who lend you the credit you need to buy them because you can no longer find a high paying job.
The money monopoly granted to the Federal Reserve System seems well complimented by the government violence monopoly. Many feel, as do I, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution intended to prevent a government violence monopoly.
If only Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had prevailed over John Adams and Alexander Hamilton while creating the United States of America’s Bill of Rights. Then we would have had 12 rights originally clearly specified, not 10, including:
“freedom from a permanent military
(and)
monopolies in commerce.”
Now we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, operating monopolies in commerce fully endorsed and protected by the greatest permanent military force the history of the world.
Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said,
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.”
The cards seem stacked against new small businesses by the rules and regulations codified into law designed to protect established monopolies. The system appears designed to deter and prevent small businesses from achieving success.
We do not have a democratic system capable of responding positively to voter concerns. All 3 branches of government now consistently act to benefit entrenched monopolistic transnational corporations.
However, the system is not broken. This is how large democratic regulatory-welfare states are supposed to work.
Can you believe in the possibility of economic freedom, given our current situation?
5 Relationships Of Raw Materials To Money
Everything we use from this planet to live …
… comes in the form of Raw Materials.
Those who harvest nature’s bounty to provide Raw Materials for human society need to be able to do so without acquiring debt . Otherwise, if providing Raw Materials cost more than it paid, it would not be sustainable and providing Raw Materials becomes impossible.
Those who provide Raw Materials must be able to afford all the finished goods and services they require from the sale of the Raw Materials they produce. Otherwise, they could not continue to provide Raw Materials and survive.
(I know I repeated myself in the above 2 paragraphs. It is an essential point and I did not want it to be missed.)
The Price Level of Raw Materials determines
the amount of Free Currency in circulation.
Free Currency is Debt Free Money.
We’ve had Debt Free Money in the past, Free Currency, once upon a time in the United States of America.
Those who provide the finished goods and services to Raw Materials producers must be able to do so without acquiring debt. Otherwise, providing finished goods and services to Raw Materials producers would not be sustainable and it becomes impossible to provide finished goods and services to Raw Materials producers for very long.
Those who provide the finished goods and services to Raw Materials producers must be able to afford all the Raw Materials, finished goods and services they require from the sale of their finished goods and services. Otherwise, they could not continue to provide finished goods and services to Raw Materials producers and survive.
Those who provide finished goods and services to anyone are paid,
either directly or indirectly,
by the Raw Materials producers.
Having enough debt free currency to allow for the total debt free exchange of all finished goods and services depends upon the price level of Raw Materials.
It is not enough that farmers, fishermen, foresters, miners and recyclers make enough so that they may start a new production cycle, live long and prosper. All those who add their labor to animal, vegetable and mineral Raw Materials to produce finished goods need to make enough so that they, too, may start a new production cycle, live long and prosper.
(I’ll get to the service providers a little later because I feel they require more clarification and differentiation.)
The bottom line is that the price paid to Raw Material producers determine the amount of debt free money available to human society. The amount of debt free money available for personal savings and business investment is determined by the price of Raw Materials.
Here is a five part description of how Raw Materials relate to Money.
- Debt Free Currency
- A society’s annual production of raw materials must be represented in the economy by a sufficient amount of debt free currency (a price level) to optimize the debt free exchange between the raw materials producers and the finished goods and services raw materials producers purchase.
- Those who produce the basic raw materials for society must be paid enough to afford the manufactured goods and services required for raw materials production.
- This amount of debt free currency in free circulation must also be enough to optimize the debt free exchange of all manufactured goods and services at all subsequent stages of the economic cycle.
- Debt Free Exchange
- The amount of wealth in flow within the economic cycle must be represented in the economy by a sufficient level of debt free currency to permit the debt free exchange of all finished goods and services.
- Without enough debt free currency to meet the need of debt free exchange an economy stagnates and dies.
- Finished Consumable Goods
once produced and warehoused, must be monetarily represented somewhere in the economy by more than their minimum domestic labor value equivalent in free currency, so consumption of finished goods can occur without supplemental debt or abstinence from consumption. (a surplus of production in the midst of poverty) - The Volume of Debt Free Currency
available to distribute current production and facilitate the subsequent expansion of commerce is governed by the value placed on raw materials at the first point of sale. - The value of raw materials becomes the primary source of personal savings and business investment.
Human society cannot sell under-priced Raw Materials into a high priced retail market without replacing the underpayment with:
- capital debt
- interest driven inflation
- abstinence from consumption and
- a high rate of unemployment.
Governments and the FIRE (financial, insurance, real estate) industries know this and have known this for a very long time. Yet, these service providers have a verifiably long history of repeatedly screwing things up.
Some services I understand, such as education, entertainment and medical services. These seem reasonable and easily affordable if government and the FIRE industries did not cost so much and actually make things worse by repeatedly screwing things up.
I cannot believe that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals with access to the best education repeatedly screw things up by accident. This whole thing concerning Raw Materials and money must go much deeper than the current financial meltdown and scandal.
The reason just about everyone else, including economists of all sorts, are giving more complicated explanations seems to be their need to retain all the rank, honors and privileges bestowed upon them by governments and FIRE industries.
Somehow, their rank, honors and privileges must be justified and maintained while explaining why things are screwed up. It is then no surprise that explanations become complicated.
To make things even more confusing, libertarian economists say things like:
“The governments of almost all countries are engaged in a campaign against the capitalists. They are intent upon expropriating them by means of taxation and monetary measures.”
-Ludwig von Mises
Now, Capitalism emerged as the dominant means to separate products from their producers subsequent to the general collapse of manorial feudalism during the Great Plague. Manorial feudalism gave us serfdom, bondage to the land, land owned by some big mucky-muck.
(I say general collapse of manorial feudalism because land bondage continues in the Southern United States with tenant farming, the foundation of Southern agriculture since the Emancipation Proclamation.)
In Europe, during and after the Great Plague, big mucky-mucks could not get enough serfs to do all the work, so they invented Capitalism to pay people to work. The plan was to pay people less money than what their products could be sold for.
The difference between the cost of Labor and the value of the products determined the amount of profit because Raw Materials costs had already been fixed.
The big mucky-mucks, AKA Capital, already owned everything, all they needed was a system to get people to work for less than their labor was worth.
(Well, they, Capital also needed a system to keep everyone in line. I get to that part a little later.)
In business, Capital is everything that is not Labor or Raw Materials. Capitalism just privileges Capital relative to Labor and Raw Materials, that is why they call it that.
This development meant that the big mucky-mucks, Capital, needed to find a way to have Labor pay for its own management. The old days of just getting a big guy with a whip to oversee the serfs were over.
Managers from the ranks of the workers themselves seek superior privileges over the other workers they manage. They are allowed rank, honors and privileges to the extent they are successful in profitably separating producers (workers) from their products (the job).
Successful managers are allowed to call themselves Capitalists to signify their usefulness to the system named for them, the Capitalist System.
Capitalists often internalize the system point-of-view through close identification with the owners, the big mucky-mucks, Capital. This mental construct then conflicts with their actual (negative survival potential) position.
Capitalists seem easily confused when the Capitalist System acts to collect the fruits of other people’s production. After all, that is the very reason it was invented.
Capitalists forget they are workers themselves, workers used to more profitably separate products from their producers. Capitalists are central to a system that must pay for its own management because the owners, Capital, does not produce anything of value to sell.
Capital, another name for the power behind the system’s infrastructure, claims its rank through national governments’ sanctioned cartels and monopoly control over Raw Materials. Capital is control over Raw Materials cloaked in status derived from military strength and the proven willingness to use it.
Capitalism is simply a system that privileges Capital over Labor (including management) and Raw Materials. Capitalists are simply specialists in separating products from their producers, Labor, for the benefit of Capital.
It is not that Capitalists are on the wrong side,
Capitalist are the wrong side.
The big guy with the whip who used to oversee the serfs now needed to be paid, just like everyone else in the Capitalist System. Capital invented the rank, honors and privileges of Sheriff just for him.
Sheriffs were employed to evict people from the Commons (common lands) where they paid no rents. With the Commons closed, people were forced into the cities for factory work so to afford rent.
The Security State Apparatus, a necessary part of Capitalism, descended from this role of the Sheriff as compliment to the Capitalist. The workers are assessed for the cost of being kept in line, policed, for the safety and security of Capital, Capitalism, Capitalists and the Capitalist System.
The cost to workers for their own management by Capitalists and the Security State Apparatus, that is, the cost of both separating them from their production and keeping them in line, is paid for by the workers themselves by means of taxation and monetary measures.
This is monitored by a Union enforced Labor hierarchy entrenched in government bureaucracies. The government itself legitimizes and defends the Union, giving it great political power, in an obvious case of conflict of interest and self-dealing.
Debt Free Money,
Free Currency,
comes directly from the sale of Raw Materials.
When Raw Material producers, those who produce finished goods from Raw Materials and those who provide desired educational, entertainment and health services can afford to live on Free Currency, Debt Free Money, then everyone in human society lives long and prospers.
The big mucky-mucks, Capital, using Capitalists and a Security State Apparatus monitored by government bureaucracies loyal only to their in-house Union, makes huge profits on debt. These huge profits come at the expense of Raw Materials producers, those who produce finished goods from Raw Materials and those who provide desired educational, entertainment and health services.
Debt is a fabrication of governments and the FIRE industries.
- Debt enslaves individuals and entire populations,
- enslaved as certainly as a chattel slave during Roman times
- enslaved as certainly as a serf under manorial serfdom
- enslaved as certainly as anyone coerced into doing something they truly do not want to do.
That is the relationship of Raw Materials to money.
No More Pretending
Delusional hope produces nothing of value. Throughout my life I have sought to see things as they are. The past few months have provided me the opportunity to ponder current events against the tapestry of history.
“We have destroyed the Holocene biosphere, and it can never be rebuilt. We have inadvertently terraformed Earth into a different planet. This act cannot be undone; it is thermodynamically irreversible.” Desdemona
I leave it to climate change deniers to explain the recent wholesale collapse of fisheries with the increase in both reef and oceanic dead zones, the desertification of the world’s most productive land and the rapid transition from forest to desert by mega-fires.
The once frozen “methane bomb” has already gone off. The Arctic permafrost is already melting.
Large areas of Earth are becoming uninhabitable to mammals and their food plants. Most charismatic megafauna, such as elephants, rhinos and whales, will become extinct in a few decades. It is entirely likely that humans will follow them into oblivion.
For sure, this will be a bumpy road to total collapse and a few will manage to arrive in luxury SUVs. The rest of us, the vast majority, will see family and friends fall as we circle the drain together.
There are still resources that could be directed towards easing the necessary scaling back of empire and civilization as we know it. Scaling back in and of itself would help a great deal, perhaps forestalling human extinction as we adapt to an Earth that every day becomes more like Mars.
While President Obama takes on the ‘fat cat’ bankers the underlying collapse of the United State financial industry has yet to be addressed. The root problem is an excessive level of debt in the system at all levels, a level of debt that exceeds capacity to pay.
The problem in a nutshell – the banks are still hiding losses – big losses. Very little of the debt securitized by the housing bubble has been written off or yet foreclosed upon.
Loans are not being made to small business people because they have no collateral to pledge. Being asked to pledge personal assets as collateral for a small business loan is standard operating procedure.
With most homes underwater, most small businesspeople have no assets to pledge as collateral. Debt problems go beyond the largest banks.
China bought zero U.S. Treasury debt in October. Now foreigners have become net sellers of U.S. Treasury debt instruments.
The problems began when raw materials producers stopped receiving parity pricing and needed to borrow in able to start a new round of production. A principle method of under-paying, paying less than parity, appears in the form of paying in debased money.
Meanwhile, here we are, nearly a year under a new administration. For feds, more get 6-figure salaries, in an attempt to keep up with debasement of U.S. money.
Seduced And Abandoned
Both Democrats and Republicans demonstrate a history of saying whatever seems required to become elected, seduce the electorate, and upon election conveniently explaining away or otherwise abandoning their earlier promises.
Everyone seems to condemn this behavior between individuals. The victims often appear unable to disengage on their own initiative. If fortunate, their family and/or friends provide counseling and intervention to help end these cycles of abuse.
Yet society as a whole suffers serial victimizations by these two mainstream political parties. Ever since the Reagan Administration identified government as the problem the resulting orgy of deregulation and bureaucratic bloating continues unabated from one election to the next.
Some wish to call them incompetent idiots. Others wish to call them lying frauds. I suggest we make peace and call them incompetent lying idiot frauds.
The system they destroy also provides all the wealth and power expended in the destruction. Literally self-destruction. It seems an entire spectrum of pathologies plague our financialized government.
Narcissism
Borderline Personality Disorder
Characteropathy
Sociopathy
Psychopathy
Witness the unnecessary pain, suffering and death. Unnecessary because it results from a financial services industry that compounds debt exponentially inevitably demands more wealth than the total sum of raw materials entering the economy.
Unnecessary because the government fails to enforce the Prompt Corrective Action Law and administers regulation in the interest of the financial services industry contrary to the interests of citizens.
This occurs simultaneously with a prison industry growing faster than it can expand, militarization of local police forces, the historic first ever active deployment of U.S. Armed Forces within the United States of America, de facto nullification of the Bill of Rights and an overall heightening of domestic security.
I hope you are debt free and likewise free from any form of wage slavery. At least that can give you a running start.
Marijuana Parity Pricing
FNORD
Agricultural producers, under economic attack for generations in the United States, need to receive parity pricing for their produce in order to begin another round of the economic cycle without debt. Forcing agricultural producers into debt at the beginning of the economic cycle impoverishes everyone except the financial services industry parasites who profit at everyone else’s expense.
Marijuana, cannabis, hemp or whatever you call it may well be the last agricultural crop grown in the United States that is capable of providing enough income to be worthwhile growing. Profitable agriculture only appears possible outside of a legal system created to benefit a pathological elite, by definition an activity pursued only by outlaws.
This fact alone proves the lie to the political theater misrepresenting open markets and free trade. The only open markets and free trade possible today operates outside of the licensing, regulation and taxation of our pathocracy.
The free and independent culture surrounding marijuana agriculture, even as harassed and persecuted as it is, may be one of the last widespread autonomous agricultural activities available to Americans. Today parity pricing only exists outside of the law.
While many now seek to end the illogical criminalization of this most useful of all plants it seems few wish to look with open eyes at the likely outcome of their success. The price all will pay to end the justified fear of taking a few tokes will be the end of all profitable agriculture.
The growing plea for outrageous taxation levels on every step of bringing marijuana to a legalized market will end the financial incentive to grow it. We are witnessing widespread voluntary servitude for the illusionary benefit of reduced persecution.
Notice I said “reduced persecution” and not the end of persecution. Perhaps people have grown so used to their enslavement within the panopticon that they have grown numb to how modern society has become penal and coercive in nature.
Few seem to realize that licensing, regulation and taxation requires the increased intrusion of an increasingly militant and corrupt government in personal private affairs. The idea that the decriminalization of marijuana will somehow stop the police from “crawling up your ass” is far from realistic.
As it stands, only the complete collapse of our pathocracy will allow the fair pricing of agricultural products. Perhaps then people will learn to manage money as a common resource and public utility rather than the private monopoly money is today.
With decriminalization, marijuana cultivation will eventually come under the control of government subsidized agribusiness as all other commercial crops already have. The one commercial crop still supporting many rural communities will cease to be profitable.
This all comes from confusing the symptoms of unjust persecution with the cause of unjust persecution. The entire population of marijuana decriminalization activists have been tricked into petitioning their oppressors for more oppression.
The oppressors desired this outcome and manipulated events so that people will come to them of their own free will begging for more laws, more regulations, more licensing requirements and more taxes. The people they have tricked now look only to the small areas their attention has been directed to and are not aware of the greater game at play.
By terrorizing marijuana enthusiasts with militarized domestic law enforcement, those who created, empowered and armed marijuana eradication teams in the first place now weigh the various options for profit and control the marijuana enthusiasts themselves propose. Once a common cause among most who opposed our pathocracy, marijuana decriminalization has become a niche issue apart from greater issues of social injustice.
Why not advocate the return to parity for all agriculture products? This would only return our entire economy to profitability and limit the power of the central banks.
Why accept any measure of government control over what we choose to put in our bodies at all? This would only free communities of people from the onerous violent intrusion of domestic armed forces.
How can anyone believe that with decriminalization of marijuana under the hand of oppression nothing else will change? Transferring the wealth of original production from an underground economy to our pathocracy will only strengthen those who have oppressed and terrorized us while weakening those who resisted them.
We will not have more freedom. We will have less freedom.
The rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer as the door closes upon the last opportunity to sell an agricultural product at parity. After all of this I can only hope that at least you will still be able to get high from smoking it.
But do not count on it.
What do you think?
