What we have been conditioned to call money, today, is a Federal Reserve bank note, no longer backed by a fixed value of gold but rather based on debt, backed by the government’s ability to take your assets.  That’s right, you are money!  You are also the capital which the banks loan out and make interest on.  Isn’t that special?  Want to find out how that works vs. how it should work?  Keep Reading.

Money – is the most valuable, and widely accepted commodity in a society that can be easily traded for all other goods/services, simplifying exchange and division of labor. 

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The meaning of consuming the "Forbidden Fruit" of  knowledge good and bad is the loss of our ability to objectively process facts without an emotional component of good or bad.  

Our reality is built on a foundation of, at best half-truths and distortions.   Let's clear up a few.

Using Ethanol as fuel is not a progressive new idea – Lamps used Ethanol until the Civil War.  Henry Ford's original Model T ran on Ethanol until 1908.  Big government taxes on Ethanol during the Civil War killed the use of Ethanol in lamps and Prohibition in 1920 killed Ethanol use in cars. 

Our image of Santa Claus is from a Coca Cola advertisement. – Fat, jolly, white bearded with a red suit and flying reindeer?   Not until after 1931 Coke Ad Campaigns. 

Shalom!  The Founding fathers spoke  Hebrew and it was a requirement at Yale and Harvard. 

 The Zodiac has not been adjusted for the passage of time.   Born under a bad sign?  Maybe not.  "Hey babe, what's your sign?" takes on new meaning. 

The Good Samaritan was a Jew.  Samaritans were a sect of Jews who rejected Jerusalem in favor or Mount Gereezim and Abal near the city of Shechem as the place to draw near to G-d.

Jesus was not the first Christian.   Jesus was a Jew as were the disciples and anyone who converted.   Until Paul, Christian and Jewish practice was identical aside from belief that Jesus was the Messiah.

Baptism is a Jewish ritual purification – called Mikvah in Hebrew.  

Muhammad liked the Jews before he hated them –  He even worked with Jews to draft Islamic moral principles.  Only after the Jews rejected him as their Prophet did his wrath fall upon the Jews. 

Muhammad hated Christians before Muslims REALLY hated Christians.   Christians believed in the triune nature of G-d with Jesus as a deity.  Muhammad considered this to be idolatry and blasphemy.  And then came the Crusades.        

Propaganda – Public Relations and Advertising "truth"

We eat Bacon and eggs for Breakfast because of an advertising campaign for Beech-Nut

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was junk science used to sell bacon by the same campaign (a systematic course of aggressive activities for some specific purpose ).

Junk Science used to be half-truths and distortions used to promote an agenda.  Now they are outright fraud and still believed.

Walter Cronkite "The most trusted man in America" … because the network told you so.  

We won the Vietnam war but Walter Cronkite, the media and communist funded protests emboldened Ho Chi Minh and stopped his surrender (from Ho Chi Minh's diaries).

We left Vietnam because the Democrat Congress cut off funding.   Our withdrawal allowed the "Killing Fields" in Cambodia- 3 million dead. 

If it's on the news it must be true because the news makers told you so.  

Media is biased (nowadays mostly to the left) and disseminates propaganda.  They are funded by… propagandists (advertisers or the government) and promote their advertiser's biases.  People who  get their news from one source don't see the bias.  You can't evaluate bias unless you compare.

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend" because a South African Cartel named De Beers told you so. 

• Only large diamonds are rare.  Smaller diamonds value comes only if  "Diamonds are Forever" kept off the market by you.
• People didn't give diamond engagement rings before the advertising campaign.   

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The Federal Reserve is not Federal and its “Reserve” is debt “purchased” ( by swapping your deposits for the so-called reserves) with newly created, worthless, Federal Reserve Notes (called “dollars”).   These new notes gain value by draining it from your dollars (by dilution of what all dollars represent in goods and services) when they are introduced into circulation by a loan, mortgage or credit card.  

It’s like mixing cold coffee (new valueless notes) with hot coffee (value of all notes in circulation).  The hot coffee loses it’s heat to warm the cold coffee.  The notes in circulation lose their value to give value to the new notes.  If enough cold coffee is mixed with the hot coffee all the coffee (notes in circulation) becomes cold (way less able to purchase good and services).  That is where we are now compared to 1913.  That is why it takes two wage earners to support a family where before one bread winner was sufficient.    

The FED is a a stealth confiscator of the value/capital, of the currency in your wallet, house, savings and other property. That loss of value appears to you as price inflation as prices adjust to the new lower value/Capital represented by the Fed Reserve Note. 

In a further outrage – if you own any assets such as a house or stocks whose prices rise to reflect the lesser value of the “dollar” note,  the government (IRS) considers that artificial price rise as a capital gain and TAXES you on it!  Theft on top of theft!  Tax upon tax! 

The Fed reduces the ‘weight’ of the dollar (think Coin) and you get less product for the dollar.  

Same Package (Dollar Bill)  Same Price (One Dollar) but you get Less Product (Value and purchasing power)

The FED is a consortium of Banks working together with government officials to centrally control the amount of purchasing power/value of your  dollar and all interest rates. It is a Government created Monopoly that disrupts the free market.  The Federal Reserve directly causes, or contributes to, economic boom/bust cycles, recession and  depression (see Appendix A below) by stealing the money from your savings and diverting it into loans, generating incentive or disincentive for loans, mortgages, credit cards and money to be invested in the Stock Market.

Monopoly Control of Capital is a Communist technique and giving preference to Big Business, a Fascist technique.  Neither belongs in our free market system which leverages the intelligence of everyone in the market and not just a few FED governors.  The result is a broken market and a chaotic economy. 

The Federal Reserve (FED), created in 1913, usurped the monetary role of  the Constitutionally sanctioned United States Treasury and replaced the coinage of Gold and Silver (or paper redeemable in coinage of Gold and Silver), required by the Constitution, with a Fiat (meaning “by decree”, not the car company 🙂 currency of non-redeemable Paper Money backed solely by the faith and credit of the US government (e.g. the amount of taxes the government can confiscate from you.  The 16th amendment, “coincidentally” also passed in 1913, went against the Constitution and allowed direct taxation of citizens.  This income tax, massively increased tax revenue to the government and tax burden on the people).

The FED also usurped the role of the Free Market in determining interest rates.  Ostensibly not under Political authority, the FED is nonetheless Politically influenced, since it’s director is appointed by the Federal Government.  The Influence can be seen for instance, in its keeping the interest rate low to facilitate unprecedented borrowing by the government and stock market investors at low payback rates.

The only legitimate function of the Federal Reserve System should be as a clearing house for checks and funds between banks, and as a safe repository of coin and paper currency.

Federal Reserve Notes that we use as currency are a note of debt from the government (Your taxes) to the FED.   These debt notes denoted in ‘dollars’ are created (out of thin air, so to speak) whenever borrowing occurs. There is no commodity backing this currency other than the taxes the government takes from you.  If all loans are paid back there would be no dollars.  Therefore the incentive is for the FED to ‘loan’ (an accounting swap of your deposits for government bonds they call ‘reserves’) more and more to the banks, which they loan to you (creating more Fed Notes) to keep dollar notes in circulation.  All might be well, if loans made and loans paid back were in balance.  But the government is under the false impression that low interest rates and easy lending are the way to juice the economy.  It actually stimulates the part of the economy that benefits from borrowing at the expense of the other parts.    

The more Notes put into circulation, the more it dilutes the purchasing power that each note represents. That causes a re-evaluation of the amount of notes needed for purchases.  Prices for raw materials, good and services, taxes and wages rise.  Deflation of purchasing power, is misrepresented by the government as ‘inflation’ shifting the blame from the real culprit, the FED, to business as though they are gouging the consumer and not the government.  That is government propaganda, not reality. 

Because we use Debt notes as currency and not commodity backed notes (Gold or precious metal) The Federal Reserve has become an accounting scam and , in effect, a money skimming machine that, figuratively, cuts off pieces of your dollar for the government to spend and for the Banks to loan.  (that’s when Fed reserve notes, we call money, is created out of thin air) At first they take a sliver then another and eventually it’s you that is left with only a sliver of your dollar’s original value.  

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