What Is The Debt And The Deficit? --Untouchable, Is What It Is.

Posted on Friday, February 27 at 21:31 by johnr

I see very little discussion on vive about the banking system.
Below is the short course, including two UNBELIEVABLE facts (check 'em out).

Unbelievable fact #1. Money is created out of nothing. Yep. End of Story. Not based on gold. Money is created merely out of A FAITH BASED ON THE CREDIT OF A NATION. (Simply put: when I give you a $20 bill you accept it (on faith) as legal tender).

There are two ways to create money (out of nothing). Through a nation-state's central bank; and by the private banking system.

In Canada, the government of Canada is the sole shareholder of the Bank of Canada. Therefore, moneys created by the Bank for the federal government IS ESSENTIALLY INTEREST-FREE- and may also be loaned to provincial governments at rates well below private bank rates.

This will not cause inflation! Note we are only talking about how the money is created, not how much of it is created...AT THE MOMENT, the Bank of Canada creates some 5% of our calculated money supply each year; and the private banking system the rest: 95%!

UNBELILEVABLE FACT #2. You and I-individuals- and businesses- have no choice: we must borrow our money from the private banking system.
BUT GOVERNMENTS HAVE A CHOICE!! They may choose between creating their own all but interest free $ at the federal level- OR- borrow AS debt, and AT (substantial!!!) interest, from the private banking system. GUESS WHICH CHOICE THEY MAKE?

And there's more! Not only do our own governments make this preposterous choice, but WE TAXPAYERS PAY THE INTEREST to the private banking system, because that is primarily to whom the debt and deficit (interest) is due. NOW IS THIS A SWEET DEAL FOR THE BANKS OR WHAT??!!!

Notice that there is an ABSOLUTE BLACKOUT on any discussion about the fact that "the deficit" ie, 'the public debt interest' is, year after year after year after year Canada's LARGEST federal expenditure (checkitout, you'll see); and is the 3rd or 4th largest provincial expenditure.

WHEN is someone, somewhere, anywhere, ever going to raise this issue? It is, without question, the main root cause of nation-state internal erosion. This preposterous situation is choking the very life out of our economic systems- worldwide- (It is not peculiar to Canada!) but it is very hard to get even activists to talk about it, because of the blackout of information about it. I made a video about it. I'm not writing this to shag my video! I'm writing it because I'm so P---- off! If you want more info about the video, click here.

Summary: demistifying the debt and deficit
1. Money is created out of nothing (when you are granted a loan in your bank for a new car for $30,000, that amount is printed into your bankbook: YOU owe it AS debt & AT interest. SECONDS EARLIER IT DIDN'T EXIST. Until people can understand this unbelievable fact, we will not get anywhere attmpting to resolve our economic ills- around health care or anything else! No wonder the banks make such preposterous profits! They have been all but entirely deregulated, have no accountability, and they can create money! Don't you wish YOU could create money?

2. Rather than choosing to create its OWN all but interest-free money, and this is important: ON BEHALF OF CANADIANS, AND IN CANADA'S INTERESTS (as WAS done, by the way, shortly after the Bank of Canada was created, back in the 30s) our federal government borrows as said before (worth repeating!!) AS debt, and AT (substantial) interest from the private banking system- and repays this HUGE annual expenditure with taxpayer's money! Talk about a scandal...

Until this information is discussed and debated publicly by activists and others, the private banking system will continue to make obscene profits, because it can create money; and the interest due will be paid by taxpayers (at the moment) IN PERPETUITY. We have become DEBT SLAVES. Our Brave New World has been reduced to this.

Of course there is "no money" for health care, etc. The money is being diverted into the private banking system! Our money has been all but completely privatized BY STEALTH, without any discussion or debate. Ever hear anything from PM Martin on this issue? No. And you never will. It's untouchable. Now here is an election issue, if ever there was one. Want an inquiry? How about a Royal Commission into Federal Banking Practices?



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  1. Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:35 am
    Those of us who have read the Canadian action Party platform are aware of this. Part of the CAP platform is to revert back to the system we had in the years 1939-1974 where the Canadian government printed roughly half of the money in Canada and the private banks the other half. This is how we payed for World War 2, the St.Lawrence Seaway, the Trans-Canada higway, and health care. Ironically it was a Canadian economist, Milton Friedman, who advocated to switching to the debt-slave system we have today. Unfortunately, Canada and many other countries switched to this system. And yes, this, and many other issues that I`ve tried to bring to the attention of the politicians are taboo in conversation. They never want to talk about it!

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    Dave Ruston

  2. Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:15 am
    I just finished reading a book that helped me understand these facts a little better. However, I must admit I don\'t understand it fully yet. Economics and the monetary system is complicated.

    Read \"Stop: Think\".

    Kevin Gagnon

  3. Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:07 am
    The thing is the more we understand the less they listen, besides the CAP program which I agree with and hope they get a wild media frenzied convention; the other problem I see is that, we have to stop the flow of our money out of the public coffers and into the crooks hands!! If we can plug the hole in this horrendous bucket we are doomed...we just can\'t fill it fast enough for the bloodsuckers on the other end!

  4. Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:08 am
    Sorry typing too fast, I meant if we CAN\'T PLUG THE HOLE WE ARE DOOMED!

  5. Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:20 pm
    I can create money! I have a job, at the end of the week, after I have been productive, my employer cuts me a cheque, a cheque that didn\'t exist before the end of the week, voila! Because I WORKED for it, I created it. Buddy, if you owned a Bank I wouldn\'t deposit ten cents in it! go back to school or get a job.

  6. Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:31 pm
    Anon, you should take a look at the CAP program, you might get a little education on this issue, the scenario that you created money cause you worked for it is interesting; what happens at the end of the week when your employer doesn\'t cut the cheque, because he can\'t! Voila, you worked but there is no reward, Canadians are all working and paying taxes so why isn\'t there enough money in the pot??? Your theory might need a little more work...

  7. by johnr
    Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:42 pm
    <P>Wrong!<BR> The money you were paid by your boss was NOT created by you. It was given to you by your boss (HE had the money) for a job well-done. What you 'created' was the work which you were paid for.<BR> But your boss didn't create the money either! True, he wrote a cheque for you, but that cheque was based on moneys in his account, having to do with his business. <BR>He may have borrowed money from the bank to start his business. If he did borrow it from the bank, the money he borrowed was created 'out of nothing'- and he owes it to the bank AS debt & AT interest. Unbelievable, isn't it?.....<BR>You and I- or your boss- dont have any choice: we HAVE to borrow from the private banking system, which has a virtual monopoly on money creation, at the moment.<BR>But governments DO have a choice! They may create money ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF CANADA using the central bank (The Bank of Canada) or borrow it from the private banking system- like you, me, & your boss. That they should choose the latter option- ON BEHALF OF THE PRIVATE BANKS is nothing less than disgraceful. Again, it would be a wonderful election issue... Don't work too hard...</P>

  8. Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:48 am
    Isn\'t the bank loaning X the money it has from Y and Z, if all Ys and Zs asked for their money the bank would have to get it back from X or give devalued money? I\'m not an economist :)

  9. Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:38 pm
    That is EXACTLY what the private banking system would like you to believe! It is the prevailing myth that when one makes a loan the loan is somehow \"backed\" by money already on deposit in the bank. NOT TRUE, my friend: it is created out of (almost) nothing: merely a FAITH based on the credit of a nation. As I say, it is really UNBELIEVABLE. In fact, I would go farther: I would say that the way money is created has been the BEST KEPT SECRET OF THE 20TH CENTURY! An ambitious claim. The best book on it I have ever read anywhere is Paul Hellyer\'s \"Funny Money\" available through the CAP website, at www.canadianactionparty.ca

    Unfortunately, the private banking system abuses the priviledge it has been given. I would say that the privatization of our money supply through private banks is the greatest contributing factor to the internal erosion of Canada. And we are not alone! ALL G-7 countries operate in the same way! What a fraud: Private banks loan money As debt and AT (substantial!!!!) interest TO governments-- which can create their OWN all but interest-free moneys!!- and WE citizens pay it back through our taxes! Nice, eh? Have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous, so absolutely preposterous? It\'s- UNBELIEVABLE It serves ONLY banking interests, no one elses.



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