Financing Canada Backwards: WHY There Is No Money For Health Care, Education- Or

Posted on Tuesday, June 01 at 12:08 by johnr

1. Money is created out of nothing
2. There are two ways to create money (out of nothing):
(i) through a national central bank
(ii) through the private banking system (pbs).
3. You, I and corporations don't have a choice: we have to borrow through the pbs. GOVERNMENTS HAVE A CHOICE. Guess which they choose?
4. -Some 95% of our yearly money supply is created by the pbs AS debt, and AT interest. This is the situation in ALL G-8 countries!!!

5. "SO WHAT??" You say? Well, the result is that THE LARGEST FEDERAL EXPENDITURE goes towads servicing this debt; and it is the 3rd or 4th largest PROVINCIAL expenditure. That is, the lion's share of our tax $$ are directed into the pbs
RATHER THAN
Into health care, education, social programs, etc.
6. This issue is rarely (never?) discussed by most politicians or the media, even though it may arguably be at the CORE of our difficulties today. This hardly-ever discussed situation is choking the very life out of our economies, worldwide.(You think it might be a good election issue?? Click here)

HOW IT WORKS:
The government of Canada, ON BEHALF OF THE PRIVATE BANKING SYSTEM, permits the latter to create some 95% of the yearly money supply, year after year after year, so that they can make excessive profits.
RATHER THAN
Creating, ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF CANADA, a more equitable % of the money supply using the Bank of Canada, thus SHIFTING a greater % of the debt to the latter- to be used for social health and welfare.
(Note: this would not cause inflation, as we are talking here about WHO is creating the money, not about HOW MUCH is being created.)
For more information, click here to visit 'The Bank of Canada Tutorial' on the COMER website.

The members of The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) would like to whole-heartedly thank vivelecanada for their support of our May 29 Conference, whereat hearty- at times heated- discussions of the above and many related subjects took place.



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  1. Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:56 pm
    Sorry guys but money is a commodity like all others, increases of any commodity will cause its value to go down relative to the value of all the others. Yes it's true that money only has value because we all collectively believe in it, but if everyone suddenly had twice as much, we would all only believe in it half as much. That being said; I'm all for alternate forms of banking in this country - our banks suck.

  2. Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:09 pm
    What's your point, anonymous, you just contradicted yourself

  3. Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:27 am
    Who said there will be more money created? This is the arguement always presented by the anti-crowd.

    Its so simple it hurts really. Instead of borrowing as debt and at interest you borrow not as debt and interest free. What is so hard to grasp there? We borrow the EXACT SAME AMOUNT only using our OWN bank!

    This system worked just fine between 1939 and 1974. It funded our national airports, the Saint Lawrence seaway, WW II, established our social system, and financed our way out of the great depression.

    So, please tell us all how it will not work today...

    Roy

  4. by N Say
    Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:39 am
    This isn't really anything new to us; we already know about the CAP.

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    "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." - Alan Turing

  5. Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:22 pm
    1974 was when they dropped the Gold standard and this led to the kind of banking system we have today, where the central bank backs up a nation's currency with nothing more than trust. Going back to the Gold standard would create huge distortions in the economy, it would be almost impossible to try and recreate that piece of history. Trust that the central bank is tightly controlling the money supply is what gives our dollars value - if people thought that more money would be printed every time the gov't wanted to buy something then inflation would skyrocket and you would need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread.

  6. Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:10 pm
    Here is where you could implement price controls.

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    Dave Ruston

  7. Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:38 pm
    Another reason why capitalist economies are not the solution and will eventually be replaced or overthrown by the masses.



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