Long ago when you first heard that the Jewish holo-hoax is a lie, you were briefly skeptical. How could it be a lie if everyone believed it?
Likewise you will be initialy skeptical about what I’m about to explain to you. How could it be a lie if everyone believes it?
Let’s start with a comment by David Duke, chosen at random. It was in a video that Sullivan recently posted.
David Duke says that “Zionist wars” are bankrupting the USA. Is he correct?
Imagine you can print money in your home, and that the money is your city’s currency. You do not need any income for your expenses, and you can never go bankrupt, since you print your own money. For you, debt and deficits are meaningless.
To ensure that your city uses only your currency, and that only you are allowed to print it, you demand that most of your neighbors regularly give back some of those dollars that you printed and issued. This give-back is called “taxes.” If your neighbors refuse to give back some of the printed money, then you will have other neighbors attack them.
Whatever money your neighbors give back to you (i.e. tax revenue) you throw into a furnace in your cellar. You do not need that money, since you have a printing press. You only demand that money in order to maintain your unique power to print the currency, and thus maintain your power over your neighbors.
Some of your neighbors are personal friends of yours. For them, you print all the money they want. Meanwhile you tell your other neighbors, “I can’t print money for you. We are broke. Our debt is too high. You must have austerity. I will only continue to print money for my personal friends. It’s a matter of national security.”
In this way, you and your personal friends rule as gods, while all your other neighbors bicker and grovel in poverty. For you and your personal friends, the game is not about wealth, since you print all the wealth you want. It’s about power.
This is exactly the situation with the USA, which issues its own currency. Always remember the image of a printing press in your house. Remember the simple difference between you and everyone else. You can print money. They cannot. Thus, “finances” means one thing for you, and a different thing for them. For you, “finances” are simply the money you print. For them, finances are complex and confusing.
>If you can print money, then you can never go bankrupt. Likewise, the USA can never go bankrupt.
>If you can print money, then you need not “live within your means,” since you have limitless means. Likewise, the US government has limitless means.
>If you can print money, then the terms “debt” and “deficit” are meaningless to you, but you use the terms anyway, in order to maintain your power. Likewise, the terms “debt” and “deficit” are meaningless to the US government, but bankers and politicians use the terms anyway, in order to maintain their power.
>If you can print money, then you have no need for tax revenue. Likewise, the US government has no need and no use for tax revenue (except to maintain the scam).
>If you can print money, then none of your neighbors will be poor unless you will it. Likewise, Medicare and Social Security can never go “broke” or insolvent unless the bankers and their friends will it.
WHY THE LIE?
The bankers, the politicians, and the One Percent want you to grovel before them. They constantly talk about economics, but their claims have nothing to do with economics. It’s all about power. That’s why they falsely claim that there is no money for social programs (but there is endless money for wars and bailouts). They falsely claim that the USA does not issue its own currency. They falsely claim that the US government is funded by tax revenue. They falsely claim that national finances are the same as personal finances. They falsely claim that the terms “debt” and “deficit” are applicable to federal finances.
For an individual, “debt” is money owed. For the U.S. government, “debt” is not a debt at all. It is simply money that people have invested in Treasury securities. It has nothing to do with taxes, or with the government’s ability to pay its bills. Nor does it threaten the USA with “bankruptcy.” (Remember, you can print money in your home.)
Although the terms “deficit” and “national debt” are meaningless at the national level, the corporate media repeats them a thousand times each day. This lets bankers maintain an artificial scarcity of money, so they can maintain their tyranny.
Each time you read or hear the words “deficit” and “national debt,” you are being lied to. The context does not matter. The subject does not matter. The source does not matter. When the words “deficit” and “national debt” appear, the rest of the article will be nothing but lies. Period.
The lie is supported by anyone who falsely claims that the USA is “going bankrupt.”
The lie is also supported by “progressives” who say the rich must be taxed. It is supported by Republicans who say the rich must not be taxed. Both calls are meaningless, since the USA has no need and no use for tax revenue. The USA creates its own money.
“DEBT”
Politicians and idiot “progressives” claim that, “Total federal debt has now surpassed the size of the entire U.S. economy.”
So what? The federal “debt” is not a debt. It is simply money that people invest in T-bills. This money has no relationship whatever to the economy. It’s like comparing dollars invested in Walmart stock with the Gross Domestic Product. It’s meaningless.
For an individual, debt means debt. For a monetarily sovereign nation like the USA, debt is profit, since the mis-named national “debt” is simply the value of T-bills that people have purchased. The more T-bills purchased, the more confidence investors have in the USA. Thus, a $16 trillion “national debt” is actually a $16 trillion national profit. Rather than the government being in “debt,” the government has sold investments. The only reason to use the term "debt" is to maintain the power of bankers.
When T-bills mature, the government must pay the principle, plus interest. Hence, the government is in debt after all, right? Wrong. The government simply creates money to pay for everything, including interest. The national “debt” is money the government owes itself.
Think about it. How can a government have a "debt" and a “deficit” when the government creates its own money?
But there must be some reason why these terms are used, right? Yes. The reason is to maintain the lie. It’s like constantly repeating “holocaust” as though it were an objective fact. When any lie is repeated often enough, the masses accept it as "true."
The bankers and their cronies want you to think that the USA has a "national debt," and that this "debt" means imminent bankruptcy, so that you submit to slavery. The reality is just the opposite. Since the national “debt” is not a debt (instead, it is dollars invested in T-notes), the larger the “debt” (i.e. investment in Treasury securities), the larger the GDP. A larger GDP means there is more money for people to invest in T-bills.
There are two ways that money and credit get into the economy. One is by government spending. The other is by bank lending. If you cut government spending, then you cut money out of the economy, thereby creating a depression.
However the bankers, the politicians, and the One Percent claim the opposite. They claim that the way to ease a depression is to worsen the depression by reducing federal spending on social programs, thereby reducing the money supply.
Economists and politicians who promote these lies are not "misguided." They do it intentionally, in order to gain power.
DECEPTION
If you believe the LIE of the Jewish holo-hoax, then you will think, “I’m not smart enough to figure out history.”
Likewise, if you believe the LIE that national finances are the same as individual finances, then you will think, “I’m not smart enough to figure out money.”
In both cases it’s a con game. The “national debt” has nothing to do with economics, just as the holo-hoax has nothing to do with WW II. The holo-hoax never existed. The US “national debt” never existed. How can you have a “national debt” when you print your own money?
Some people say we must reduce the deficit. Others say the opposite: we must have deficit spending to stimulate the economy. Both claims are in error. We need government spending, but “deficit” is meaningless, no matter what we say about it. It’s like bickering about how severe the “holocaust” was, when the “holocaust” never existed at all.
BRAINWASHING
The One Percent has so brainwashed the masses that the masses reject the truth about national finances, just as they reject the truth about the holo-hoax. If you explain the financial scam, then the average person will call you an idiot – just as the average person will call you an idiot if you expose the Jewish holo-hoax.
“Of course we are going bankrupt! It’s obvious!”
Yes-- just as the “holocaust” is “obvious.”
EUROPE
Nations that use the euro currency are different. They cannot print their own money. (For a while they could issue sovereign bonds, but no longer, since they really do have national debts, and their debts are too high.)
Politicians in euro-nations made a Faustian bargain with Satan (i.e. Troika bankers) who told them, “If you surrender your monetary sovereignty to me, and honor me as your lord, and remain loyal to me, and sacrifice your peasants to me, then I will let you rule as princes in your own realms.”
For the USA it is not possible to ever go “broke,” or run out of money to pay its expenses. For euro-nations it is just the reverse. It is not possible to ever NOT be broke. They can never pay their debts, since they do not issue their own currency. The only money they have is what the Troika bankers give them, which is never enough, since the bankers want slaves. Thus, Europe’s depression will continue to worsen until the nations finally dump the euro currency.
And yet, the Troika bankers and European One Percent have so brainwashed the masses that most Europeans defend the euro currency that is killing them.
I hear that voice in your head saying, “This seems logical, but there must be an error in it somewhere.”
That same voice arose when you first started questioning the holo-hoax, or 9-11.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Some people claim that “Social Security is broke. They say there is not enough money paid in to balance the money paid out.” Again, this is a meaningless lie. The USA issues its own currency, remember? It does not need or use FICA taxes. The FICA taxes are simply part of the scam. Medicare and Social Security can never become “bankrupt” or insolvent, unless the government wills it.
Even if FICA taxes were eliminated, and benefits were tripled, Medicare and Social Security could continue paying benefits forever. The only reason to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is that they benefit the 99% more than the 1%. This does not mean the programs take anything from the rich. (The USA issues its own currency, remember? ) Social Security must be eliminated to crush the masses.
Incidentally, do not worry that rich people and big corporations pay no taxes. The federal government does not need or use tax money anyway. (The USA issues its own currency, remember? )
JOBS
For Republicans, Tea Party morons, and many “progressives,” the top priority is not to create jobs, or end the depression, but to cut government spending on social programs – thereby worsening the depression. These clowns think that reductions in federal spending (a.k.a. “austerity”) will magically stimulate economic growth, and that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits, which put money directly into consumers’ pockets, somehow reduce economic growth.
As always with hideous scams, this is the exact opposite of the truth.
The liars claim that the federal government should spend less to build and repair roads, bridges and dams. Less to inspect food and medicines. Less to inspect banks and financial brokers. Less to help victims of natural disasters. Less for educational services. Less to protect our bank deposits. Less for the Library of Congress and federally supported museums. Less for research and development to cure disease. Less for occupational safety. Less for science. Less to preserve national parks. The list goes on and on.
The truth (again) is that the more you cut federal spending, the more you create a depression.
THEREFORE
When you read or hear the words “federal deficit,” or “national debt,” or the need to raise or lower taxes, you can be sure that the speaker / writer is either a liar, or is ignorant about reality.
Always remember the image if a printing press in your house. "Debt" and "deficit" mean nothing to you, and you do not need tax revenue, except to maintain your illusion.
So it is with a monetarily sovereign government like America’s.
Comments
Re: The printing press in your house
The U.S. federal government consists of 1,300 agencies. Because the U.S. federal government never can go bankrupt, none of its agencies can go bankrupt either. No U.S. federal agency has ever gone bankrupt, even during the worst depressions, and none ever will.
We never hear that the budget for the Congress or White House is unsustainable, or that the military is insolvent. These are federal agencies. Yet we constantly hear that Medicare and Social Security must be cut – even though these too are federal agencies.
Even were FICA tax revenue to drop to zero, Medicare and Social Security would not need to go bankrupt. They are federal agencies.
The notion that a nation with the unlimited ability to create dollars must allow two of its agencies to become insolvent is a LIE.
Because of this LIE, finance and economics seem confusing. Endless articles spout empty chatter that amounts to bickering over how best to maintain the LIE.
I once wrote an article explaining that Adolf Hitler was an economic genius because he approached economics like a child -- with honesty, common sense, and genuine concern for the German people. That's why Hitler is called the "most evil man who ever lived."
Re: The printing press in your house
DICK CHENEY WAS CORRECT
W. Bush had promised to cut taxes, and within six months of taking office, he pushed a trillion dollars worth of tax cuts through Congress.
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill disagreed with this, and said the budget deficit was growing. In late November 2002, O'Neill met with Cheney, who told him, “You know Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.”
(So says author Ron Suskind in his 2004 book, “The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill.”)
O’Neill then issued a report claiming that the USA faced future federal budget deficits of more than US$ 500 billion. O’Neill said there would have to be sharp tax increases, or massive spending cuts, or both if the United States were to meet benefit promises to its future generations.
In Dec 2002, Bush fired O’Neill.
Cheney was correct. The federal “deficit” is the supposedly the difference between money spent and money brought back in as tax revenue. The “debt” is supposedly the cumulative deficit over the years.
But as I have said, both terms are meaningless, because US government finances are not like personal finances. (O’Neill never understood this.) The US government issues its own currency.
The “deficit” is meaningless, since the US government does not need, and does not use tax revenue. Therefore the “debt” is meaningless. The "national debt" is not a debt. It is money that people have invested in the US government by purchasing T-bills.
Cheney was correct in saying, “Deficits don’t matter,” but his comment caused an public outrage, since the masses have been brainwashed.
Re: The printing press in your house
The difference between the USA and Europe isn't that great. Neither issues its own money. Even though the USA and European nations could create the money they issue, instead they borrow it, whether dollars or euro, from privately-run central banks and borrow it at interest using bonds as collateral. Both the USA and Eurozone must continue to expand the money supply, not because the demand for money has increased, but in order to service the interest payments on the money already in circulation. This can be likened to running to stay in the same spot, although that analogy is a little flawed, as every increase in the supply of money devalues the money already existing. If new money isn't created to service the interest payments, then existing money must be used, effectively shrinking the money supply,
Both the Eurozone and USA also allow retail banks to expand the money supply through fractional reserve lending. Although the reserve ratio is normally fixed somewhere around 10 to 1, this smoke and mirrors process can create up to 100 times more money than existed without it. When retail banks cut back on lending in response to problems created by the gambling of their investment arms, this also results in a shrinkage of the money supply.
A shrinking money supply means that in order for the 1% to maintain or even improve their lot, everyone else must go without. This is called austerity. On the other hand, an expanding money supply means that the dollar or euro in your pocket is worth less, a phenomenon known as inflation. So it doesn't matter whether the money supply is shrinking or expanding, you'll still get shafted to protect the wealth of those at the top.
Re: The printing press in your house
"Even though the USA and European nations could create the money they issue, instead they borrow it, whether dollars or euro, from privately-run central banks and borrow it at interest using bonds as collateral."
Tom, I agree with you, and you bring up several points of contention I have with people who understand monetary sovereignty.
(1) In one sense I agree with them that the USA has monetary sovereignty, since the USA has its own currency. In another sense I disagree, saying the USA does not have monetary sovereignty, since the USA is at the mercy of private central bankers. Both situations are scams that impoverish and enslave the masses.
Despite my quibbles (and yours), the central point remains. The bankers, politicians, and corporate media have brainwashed the public into falsely believing that national finances are the same as personal finances. That is, the masses believe the lie that the finances of an agent that can print money are the same as the finances of an agent that cannot print money. By believing this lie, the masses believe all corrollary lies. “We are broke. There is no money for social programs. We must have austerity. The government must live within its means, just like we do."
Whenever I hear these claims, I ask, “Why the shortage of money? Why don’t we just print more?”
(2) You note that both the USA and Europe borrow their money from central bankers. In one sense this is no big deal, since the bankers create the money to pay the debt to themselves. But in another sense, this means (as you point out) that the money supply must continually expand. Hence we have inflation. But since our money is debt, our inflation means an explosion of debt. We have debt-based money because of fractional reserve lending, and because we must borrow our currency from private bankers. Both scams are killing us.
"Both the USA and Eurozone must continue to expand the money supply, not because the demand for money has increased, but in order to service the interest payments on the money already in circulation."
Yes, but the bankers are now reducing the supply of money and credit in order to increase their tyranny, just as the bankers did in the 1930s. The resulting Depression provides an excuse for mass privatization, in which the One Percent buy all public assets for a tiny fraction of their fair value. The Depression also provides an excuse to eliminate social programs, which also increases banker tyranny. Without money, we must grovel before the bankers and politicians.
(3) You bring up the scam known as fractional reserve lending. As I noted in my post, the two ways that money and credit get into the economy are by government spending, and bank lending.
"When retail banks cut back on lending in response to problems created by the gambling of their investment arms, this also results in a shrinkage of the money supply."
Yes. And so, again we have a Depression. But the real reason that big banks have cut back on lending is not the problems they create with their gambling. Big banks cope with their losses by creating money out of nothing. They bail themselves out, since they are the source of money in the first place. The real reason they have cut back on lending money into the real economy is to increase their tyranny, and also because that they can create more money for themselves by playing games in the financial economy. Why lend, when they can swindle, risk-free?
"A shrinking money supply means that in order for the 1% to maintain or even improve their lot, everyone else must go without. This is called austerity."
Here I will disagree with you. In order for the 1% to get richer, it is not necessary that the 99% get poorer. Money is not finite. Money is not a zero-sum game. Central bankers can create as much money as they like, with inflation as their only constraint.
And yet the masses become poorer anyway.
Reason: just as money is not a zero sum game, likewise the sensation of wealth and power is not absolute, but relative. The sensation comes not from the amount of money I have, but from the gulf between me and the peasants. The bigger the gulf, the greater my sensation of wealth and power. As a banker, I can increase this gulf by augmenting my money, or by robbing the masses -- or both. If I augment my money by creating more of it, then I risk inflation. Therefore I increase my sensation of power (i.e. increase the gulf between the masses and me) by robbing the masses via austerity. The goal is to reduce society to feudalism, with peasants and lords.
There is no logical or mathematical necessity to rob the masses (i.e. no objective reason for austerity). It’s all about power. This is one of my central points. Articles about economics are predicated on avoiding the issue of power. Thus, they accept the lie that austerity is mathematically “necessary.” Thus, they bicker over the nature of this “necessity.”
To use an analogy, the disease is greed, or the quest for power. If we ignore the disease, and we focus only on the symptoms, then we bicker while the disease becomes worse and worse. The worse the illness, the worse our bickering.
The central point in all this is that we are living with illusion-based scams, such as the holo-hoax, debt-based money, and fractional reserve lending.
The masses are crippled by these illusions. They understand that the bankers are criminals, yet the masses support the bankers anyway by believing the bankers' lies, e.g. the lie that personal finances are the same as national finances.
The masses understand that the corporate media tells lies, yet the masses believe the lies anyway, e.g. the campaign against Libya and Syria, or the “necessity” of cutting social programs.
The masses understand that Israel is a criminal state, yet the masses support Israel anyway, by championing the holo-hoax and the “evil” of Nazi Germany.
Lies and delusion are the bane of mankind. Perhaps they are an inevitable consequence of having a large brain. A large brain lets us create technology and dominate other species, but it also causes us to be crippled by delusion. The One Percent benefit from this delusion factor. The 99 percent are enslaved by it.
Re: The printing press in your house
I agree on this point to an extent. The national finances are certainly not the same as the finances of a family. That's for sure. The Eurozone or US don't print money even though they could. Instead they print up bonds or t-bills and hand them to the central banks in exchange for currency, whether in hard or electronic form. Bonds or t-bills are effectively promises to confiscate part of the work-product of current and future generations to be given as payment for the "service" provided by the central banks.
So if the Eurozone needs more money, it prints up more t-bills or bonds and exchanges them for the new money. Ditto with the USA. Unlike a family, a state could theoretically continue this process ad-nauseum, with the debt to the central bankers growing every time. Indeed they have done this, through several rounds of quantitative easing, but the newly created money never found its way into the pocketbooks of the 99%, but instead has been siphoned into the "too big to fail" banks to prop them up and to allow their executives to continue to award themselves generous bonuses. Although that newly created money has never crossed the palms of the 99%, it has diluted the spending power of what little money they have. The dilution power of newly created money was well known to the central bankers, who flooded the fledgling US with counterfeit greenbacks to dilute the spending power of the legitimate notes and ultimately destroy the greenback.
Whether or not a state requests quantitative easing (the creation of new money) does not alter the fact that the total amount owed to the central banking fraudsters (principal+interest) will always the amount in circulation (principal). While this perverse equation remains in play, the creation of new money will almost always be for purposes other than the primary reason why new money should be created, that is in response to an increased demand for goods and services.
Because sometimes the answer isn't to print more, becausing doing so in an economy where wages are stagnant or falling is tantamount to condemning the poor to penury. A far more radical solution is required, necessitating the removal of the power of private for-profit central banks to control the issue of money and the institution of an interest-free value-based currency whose value is derived from a basket of staple commodities. In turn, this basket of staple commodities must be sufficiently diverse so that their value can not be easily manipulated by those who believe that the wealth belongs to them and them alone. That way the money supply is expanded or contracted in response to the needs of society as a whole and not as a result of the greed of the few.
Re: The printing press in your house
Well said. Very well thought out.
My main point is that economic cycles don’t “just happen” like earthquakes and hurricanes. They are engineered. If there is “no money” for social programs, it is because the bankers, politicians, and the One Percent will it.
With personal finances, our expenses cannot exceed our income and savings. With national finances (if a nation has monetary sovereignty, and uses its own currency) money can be created for any need.
Unfortunately the bankers, politicians, and the One Percent control the money creation for their own benefit at the expense of the masses.
The difference between personal and national finances is simple enough for any child to understand it, yet it is beyond the grasp of most adults. Therefore most adults have no clue about economics.
Ninety-nine percent of all articles about economics, and all comments by politicians, seek to conceal the fact that when it comes to money, if I have a printing press, and you do not, then I am the master. You are my slave.