All of our money comes from debt to private banks -- banks that try to make it look like governments are at fault for their countries falling so heavily into debt. The truth is that banks take the profits that could have been used to better maintain the society if only the people's money was issued by governments through state-owned banks, as was the case, for a time, in both Australia and the US.
What private banks have set up is actually the world's largest pyramid scheme, in which new people must always be going into debt in order that others obtain the currency they need to function within the economy. Within such a system, total indebtedness must continue to increase in order to provide the money that people need in an ever more productive society.
Solution to this problem
We need a grass-roots money-reform movement to take banking away from private interests and put it back in the hands of government -- initially at the state level and eventually at the federal level too. Indeed, North Dakota has very profitably run a state-owned bank for nearly a century, and not coincidentally is the only state in the union that has survived the recent recession unscathed, with the lowest unemployment rate in the country. And now there are five other states that are in the process of passing legislation that will pave the way for state-owned and state-managed banks. Quite naturally, however, banksters are spending big bucks to try and stop this movement -- they don't want to lose all those billions of dollars of easy profits that would suddenly be transferred over to the citizenry as a whole, were it no longer siphoned off by banksters.
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had his government issue a new currency called Greenbacks, but after he was assassinated the banksters saw to it that this practice, so very costly to them, was stopped.
Sometime later, farmers and
factory workers banded together and formed a movement of monetary reform. Thousands joined it and in 1894 they marched
from Ohio to Washington,
D.C., to popularize their cause and to
petition Congress to go back to Lincoln's
greenback system of federally issued currency, which they thought should
replace the private bank-issued currency to which the country had regrettably
returned after Lincoln's
tragic death.
This struggle, between whether the private banks would continue to issue all money, or whether the government would once again take over this responsibility (thereby greatly increasing the money supply while also capturing all the profits to be made from interest on bank loans), was a major issue of the day and was even represented in a fable originating at that time -- the Wizard of Oz, in which the Tin Man represented the factory workers of the country, and the Scarecrow represented the farmers. And so it was that in the fable the two of them marched off together to the capitol to seek redress for their grievances from a little man -- the wizard -- who operated behind a curtain, twisting knobs on secret machines that almost no one understood or even knew existed -- a metaphor for the mysteries of fractional reserve banking and the various scams and pyramid schemes that bankers have long used to separate the rest of us from huge sums of our hard-earned money. (And then they have the gall to claim that it's the government's fault for being so heavily in debt -- when, if the government were the one to issue our currency, it could never be in debt.
Governments have the sovereign right to issue currency, but the world's bankers have for so long paid for and manipulated the members of government, that few governments ever do issue their own currency. And if they do, they are often not allowed to do so for very long. So why does the citizenry tolerate this? It's because the banksters have done such a superb job of conning them into believing that it would be wildly inflationary for governments to issue the currency society needs.
In reality, the banksters simply don't want to lose the extraordinary profits that follow from their ability to create money themselves, simply by providing loans by writing a certain amount of credit into the account of whatever company or government they are dealing with. Banks never loan out their own cash or even the cash of their depositors; all they do is write a certain amount of credit into the account of anyone taking out a loan. And when that company or government somehow acquires the money with which to pay them back (with interest of course), the bank is that much richer with the new money that has been magically created out of indebtedness.
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