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| Thread ID: 78975 | 2007-05-04 08:13:00 | Green Money,Green planet {whats wrong with current money system} | sbk (7676) | PC World Chat |
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| 546889 | 2007-05-04 08:13:00 | Hi all. Just read a book from local library,very good book,easy to understand,and unlike many monetary system books,covers examples and alternative possibilities rather than doom and gloom of the last 400 odd years of debt based banking and enslavement. Once your eyes are opened to the debt money system,you still feel like it doesnt SEEM to be true, because you dont see it,you only see the effects. Is the green party looking into this?Or are they too busy 'stopping child abuse' :xmouth: Anyone read it,or similar books ? I have a great interest in current affairs types of things,but am abit stumped when it comes to action in this area - what to do ?? |
sbk (7676) | ||
| 546890 | 2007-05-04 08:16:00 | Ah. The revolution begins! Everyone, on your horse. | pctek (84) | ||
| 546891 | 2007-05-04 08:34:00 | Do Googles on 'Fractional Reserve Lending', 'New World Order', 'Illuminati' 'Cashless Society', and 'Alex Jones' :) to open a can of conspiracy worms :) :) The Greens wouldn't have the faintest idea about finance, Social Credit did though! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 546892 | 2007-05-04 08:36:00 | And here I am sitting next to my ineffecient computer typing out garbage and expelling methane and carbon dioxide from either end. Meanwhile I eat with disposable plastic forks and knives during lunch so I do not have to do any dishes. I leave my computer on during the night cos I'm cold and I go through toilet paper like mad. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 546893 | 2007-05-04 09:55:00 | Have no idea what book you are reading Sbk but it is good that you are finding stimulating ideas. And asking questions. My two cents is that the roots of economics and money supply run back into prehistory. If there was a better way of humans trading their labour for goods somebody would have found it. Which isn't to say there might not be a better way in the future. However, and I'm assuming you are referring to interest and money-lending, there has to be an incentive for one person to lend money to another. Interest. If not, then the lender does something else with the money - opens a shop, plants a crop, whatever. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 546894 | 2007-05-05 03:03:00 | And isn't it lovely to be able to get the interest for lending money which doesn't exist? Remember the way the BNZ lent a billion or so to investors in the New Economy? Aren't taxpayers nice, to bail the bank out? The US banks loved their taxpayers too . The whole financial system is corrupt . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 546895 | 2007-05-05 05:06:00 | Cashless society huh.....can you hear it? In the distance....it's the sound of the nutters and conspiracy theorists coming... | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 546896 | 2007-05-05 08:58:00 | And isn't it lovely to be able to get the interest for lending money which doesn't exist? Yes it seems strange at first glance. But banks for example are required to hold Tier 1, 2 and 3 capital sums to cover such lending. And the proof of the pudding is in the eating - it works. I know banks go bust occasionally, large companies collapse, but ultimately the financial system works. I happily agree that it is a house of cards and a global cataclysm would reveal it - but then we'd all be in the do-do anyway. Remember the way the BNZ lent a billion or so to investors in the New Economy? Aren't taxpayers nice, to bail the bank out? The US banks loved their taxpayers too. Governments face unpalatable choices at times. Let things take their natural course or step in and rescue. Recently the Labour Government rescued Air New Zealand and Railways using the taxpayers pocket. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Personally I think Air NZ should have been left to collapse but nevertheless I also understand the reasons the government stepped in. The whole financial system is corrupt.Oh so easy to say Graham but if you'll forgive me, trite. People act corruptly, not systems. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 546897 | 2007-05-07 10:31:00 | why is it that if i make and electronic transaction it'll only go through on a working day? why did they bother to code that in? my old man reckons it's cause they get the interest while it sits in the system. as far as i'm concerned it's a right pain in the ass, especially when the thing you paid for 5pm on thursday before the long weekend doesn't go through untill tuesday any ideas? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 546898 | 2007-05-08 04:22:00 | Trite, but true. People create systems. | Graham L (2) | ||
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