Articles: Why Can’t People Think Straight?

In the comedy, “Yes, Primer Minister[1]” during a meeting on local government, Ms Agnes Moorhouse said to the Cabinet Secretary Humphrey Appleby: ‘It strikes at the very heart of our democratic social reforms.’

‘By which you mean that the people do not want your policies,’ Humphrey said. She denied it. ‘Of course they would want our policies if they could understand all the implications. But ordinary simple people, they don’t see their need; they’re not trained to analyze problems. How can they know what’s good for them? They need proper leadership to guide them the way they ought to go.’

The other day, our friend, “John” came to see us. [John is a financially well-off person in town whose ancestors were wealthy Russian Jews who migrated to Australia early last century.]

‘To solve the money problem, we should imitate Hitler; he had a machine to print his own.’ John said.

‘Why not,’ Angela asked. ‘Why should the bank be doing the printing of money?’

‘We cannot have the government doing it,’ said he. ‘It would create inflation…deflation. There is the Reserve Bank for this task...’

‘Oh yes, the Reserve Bank....’ Angela said with a grin. ‘The Reserve Bank is a private bank, do you know that?’

This guy doesn’t know the banking system from a bar of soap, I thought to myself.

‘Why is that, John,’ I asked him, ‘doesn’t the government, by the Australian Constitution, have the right to print money whenever the need arises?’

He was silent. Then after a while he said: ‘We cannot trust the government to print money…’

‘Why not,’ I interrupted him, ‘Once, you said to me that you believe in democracy; and that we are living under a democratically elected government here in Australia. You voted for this type of government, didn’t you?’

‘So if you voted for the government we have now, that means, implicitly, you put your trust in it to do the job - and the print the money is one job among others. Otherwise, you wouldn’t give your vote to it in the first place.’

‘I don’t think the government should do the printing of money.’ John said, hesitantly. ‘They should choose a broad cross-section of men from industry, commerce, university etc…’

‘But that is exactly what we have today, John.’ I replied. ‘A broad cross-section of, indeed, wealthy people that decides, today, what we should have for dinner, or to drink, or for clothing, or for our funeral, and so on. In other words these people - by the way, unelected by us, total strangers to everyone except themselves - decide what is good for us. Because we ‘don’t know what is good for us’, as Ms Agnes Moorhouse told the Cabinet Secretary, Humphrey Appleby, in Yes Prime Minister.’

John looked at me but still said nothing. The topic of conversation changed and, not long after, he left.

“This John doesn’t know anything about money and banking, does he?’ Angela commented later.

“Does anyone?’ I asked her, rhetorically. ‘What do people like John know about the fraud the banking system and central banks have perpetrated since 1913?[2] They think that if a government prints its own money it would create inflation. So the banks do the ‘printing.’ Actually, the banks create money from nothing, with just a stroke of a pen, or by entering digits on a computer; and all because the corrupt politicians gave the right to them.

And what do we have today: inflation of course, in spite of (or thanks to) the banks. Isn’t it true that we now need $30 for what we could buy with $10 twenty years ago? For example, a 600gram loaf of bread cost me about $0.80 in the ’80s; today I pay $3.50 for the same bread.

Because the bankers [the masters] and the politicians who are in power - government [their stewards], collaborate for this purpose

Now I won’t go in the all historical details, for is not the purpose of this writing. It suffices to say that people are ignorant as to what is going on in regard the issue of money and the banking system. They think that money is a much too complicated matter, beyond their comprehension, they say. There are the experts – the economists and the politicians - who know how to deal with it.

The irony is, the politicians and the experts in monetary and banking issues are the very people who don’t understand it in the first place. These people do only the bidding of their masters [the money changers in Wall Street, Bank of England, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) etc.] who have control over them.

Ordinary people have been told, by the mass media over and over again for many years now, “The banks will look after you, folks. Don’t worry about your money, we look after it for you”. And they believe!

Result

Today the banks own almost everything in a global scale; the ordinary people own nothing or very little and what is more they are in debt.

[1] “Yes Prime Minister – The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker” – by Jonatha Lynn and Antony Jay; volume II; page 149-50.

[2] Archives: By design or coincidence? http://www.sheddinglight.info/archives_by_design_or_coincidence.htm