on money (in the abstract)

[Joseph Tracy]

There can be medical care without money, or through a combination of barter and currency. 

Money is convenient but there is a good reason currencies are national and that is manifest in the crisis in Europe. Money is a medium of trust and trust requires accountability. When trust is broken in a financial system both money and the credibility of the state becomes worth less. The question is whether the financial sector has created the wealth which its piles of money are supposed to represent. For the most part they simply represent the power of cash to enhance theft, lying, corruption  and high speed ransacking of whatever wealth is open to the taken by the powerful, ruthless  and wily. The whole system was and still is operating like Enron, faking the production of wealth by moving money around and hiding the bottom line of the balance between real assets and real debts.  By bailing out banks with taxpayer money Presidents Bush and Obama and the US Congress were presiding over the transfer of allegiance(that is what taxes represent ) from elected representatives to private, for profit corporations which had clearly demonstrated criminal negligence in managing money/trust/peoples accumulated savings gathered by actual wealth producing activities. This was a criminal  bi partisan transfer and now both parties carried out in open defiance of 80% of the citizens. These 2 parties are  now competing to win the affection of the bankers to whom they both have pledged their allegiance by suppressing and ignoring the resulting citizen dissent, by lying about a a recovery that is simply a mask over the continued transfer of wealth and political power to the 1%, by endorsing illegal mortgage procedures, protecting the banks from criminal liability, and by organizing a Media attack on the real tea party revolution supported by a 3rd of the people, and by conducting resource wars and wars of geopolitical military strategy under the blatant lie that these wars are defending us.  

This is a war. But its not a war on Terror and it's not a war between Islam and the West and its not a war between Democrats and Republicans, It is a war between those who would rule through lies, violence, prejudice and greed and those who believe that humans can move to a new evolutionary stage of social development where we seek to live in balance with nature and  each other accept and enjoy  the temporary gift our earthly existence.  It is a war between a Machiavellian view of human nature and governance and a co-evolutionary/ Tolstoyan/ Jeffersonian view.  “If only there were vile people ... committing evil deeds, and if it were only necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them,” Solzhenitsyn wrote. “But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”                                                                                              Alexander Sozhenitsyn
 
On Nov 24, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

>> Barter healthcare? You sound like Ms Bachman.
> 
> cute.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't be a terribly sad thing if all the world's moneys just
>>> roached. People might try getting along as a way of getting what they
>>> need. Barter is better by far.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>> So who thinks the Euro is toast and who thinks it will stay in place as
>>>> the common currency of the Eurozone?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm voting toast, extra crispy, no butter, no jam, just toast.  JT
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>>> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
>>> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
>>> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
>>> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant

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