| Subject: | RE: [socialcredit] Destitute why? | | Date: | Sunday, December 25, 2005 21:03:39 (+0000) | | From: | John G Rawson <johngrawson @.......com>
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| In reply to: | Message 3257 (written by Jeffery Smith) |
This sounds a bit too much like the socialist ideal of sharing out poverty.
Most "want" in the world is caused by shortage of purchasing power, not
inability to produce.
Regards. John R.
From: Jeffery Smith <jjs@geonomics.org>
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Subject:
[socialcredit] Destitute why?
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:06:35 -0800
>On Dec
22, 2005, at 7:21 PM, John G Rawson wrote:
>
>>In times when so many people are
destitute, even in the USA, I find
>>this comment unworldly.
>
>Don't let the
world go unexamined. A is not poor because B has a
>savings account (eventho' a
just economy might reduce the perceived
>need to save). A is poor from not
receiving a fair share of
>society's surplus. The solution lies not in
individuals saving less
>- which in America is fast approaching negative and
getting us not
>further from but closer to destitution - but in society sharing
its
>surplus, its "savings". Do
that by rerouting all the money we spend
>on the nature we use and on the
privileges we allow some to hold.
>Charge full value for government paper - from
land titles to
>corporate charters - and use those trillions to pay ourselves
>Citizens Dividends. Bye, bye, destitution.
>
>SMITH, Jeffery J., President,
Forum on Geonomics
>3604 SE Morrison St, Portland Oregon 97214 USA
>503/234-0809;
jjs@geonomics.org; www.geonomics.org
>Share Earth's worth to prosper and
conserve.
>
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