| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation | | Date: | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 02:22:40 (-0700) | | From: | Wallace M. Klinck <wmklinck @....ca>
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| In reply to: | Message 3413 (written by Joe Thomson) |
Precisely, Joe.
I was in Russia (and the Ukraine) around 1980 prior to the "fall" of
"communism." They did not even have refrigeration. There were only two
bookstores in Moscow--with nothing displayed (although McGraw-Hill textbooks
were being unpacked in the back!) other than the works of Marx, Lenin, and
other communist authors. We flew on AeroFlot--but even our guide, Luba, was
white-knuckled and admitted she didn't like flying.. The food in the hotel
was most unsavoury--and, although the paper menu in the dining room was
decidedly "gourmet", an attempt to order revealed that only about two dishes
could actually be obtained--Stroganoff and chicken which latter was so tough
it was impossible to cut! I suggested to our guide that it must have been
run over by a Russian tank! Oddly, caviar (which I can't stand) was served
at a special dinner! Any building in the country-side looked like a
dilapidated relic from out of a previous century. Of course, I was aware
that the state elite had special accommodation, imported food, special
medical care, etc. The distribution of income was actually much more
unequal than in the West--with the existence of the Nomenklatura, a more or
less secret class of millionaires. Sombre middle-aged men on aircraft
pretended to be reading newspapers while their eyes were trained on the back
of the seat in front, listening to whatever they could hear of other
passengers' talk. A friend of mine, raised to be sympathetic to communism,
assisted in the conduct of guided tours from Canada to the U.S.S.R. He was
picked up and interrogated at nights by the K.G.B. and shown extensive
scrapbooks listing people in Northern Alberta and asked what were their
politics and activities. Needless to say, my friend did an about face when
confronted with this priority given to "security" and "intelligence" by the
"supreme state." The socialist Utopia was seen to have "feet of clay."
The point is, the scarcity and lack of elementary freedom characteristic of
the Soviet "system" represented inefficiency in delivering abundance and
freedom to the consuming (or better, "working" or "slaving") public. The
command economic (and political) system allocated resources according to
"state" priorities and was heavily skewed toward capital vs consumer
goods--and was grossly inefficient from the standpoint of delivering
consumer satisfaction. Money was plentiful because of the Soviet system of
accountancy and controlled or administered prices, but motivational and
organizational problems resulted in shortages of real consumer goods and
services. The Soviet "economy" was more a mechanism designed for "people
control" than a genuine production system.
Social Credit recognizes that excess and unnecessary production of capital
(and wasteful consumer) goods, merely to provide purchasing-power for
purchase of earlier production, and so to "keep the system going", is
inefficiency in terms of the Social Credit objective of a consumer-motivated
economy. In both "capitalism" and "communism" an increasing and unwarranted
emphasis is given to capital production--as a means of "people control." So
although prices were controlled in a system of central state-administered
"production" in communist U.S.S.R., this was merely a masking of inflation
by arbitrary means. The price to be paid in real terms was scarcity,
misdirection of resources and political tyranny. Thus, according to the
Social Credit concept of "inflation" as a measure or reflection of
inefficiency, the U.S.S.R. was characterized by a very high level of
"inflation."
The inefficiency and misdirection of resources toward wasteful and
destructive (e.g. war) ends in the West is a measure of the real "inflation"
in this part of the world. Because the consumer is charged in prices with
capital depreciation but not credited with capital appreciation the consumer
is robbed of the real benefits of modern technology by being allowed to
access the results which flow from it only by increasing work. The
citizenry is, thereby, denied the increased potential leisure by which to
enjoy not only the actual, but also the potential, real abundance which
does, and which might, flow from the ever modernizing productive system.
All existing systems which employ tools to produce goods and services are
"capitalist." They merely vary in degree of centralized control and
administration. They all are firmly based upon the concept of work as the
essential requisite and justification for consumption--as I have previously
noted, upon the unChristian (and un-Social Credit) notion of Salvation
through Works, as opposed to the concept of Salvation through Grace.
Social Credit is distributist and offers a very different dispensation,
where access to wealth is increasingly based upon right by general
inheritance and increasingly less upon industrial, commercial or
institutional "work", now essentially forced upon the individual by the
necessity of survival in the context of excess overall financial
costs--"payable" only by means of exponentially expanding debt claims
against the future.
Wally
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Thomson" <thomsonhiyu@shaw.ca>
To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation
> Who wants to live in any of those Russian apartments and have a lifelong
> diet of only one kind of bread?
>
> Joe
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> To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
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>> In-Reply-To: <NCBBKCEMIKELNEFLLFEHIEFGGIAB.dan@danmorin.com>
>> Hi Dan.
>>
>> If Webster is to be elevated to the rank of biblical truth, then maybe
>> you
>> can offer me an explanation of why it was that in the USSR between 1917
>> and 1970 the price of a loaf of bread, and the rent of a Moscow flat did
>> not increase.
>>
>> Despite the working population having huge amounts of un-spendable money
>> in their bank accounts.
>>
>> This was a classic case of increasing money supply, with inadequate goods
>> for sale.
>>
>> Why no price rise ?
>>
>> Ken.
>>
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>> Before making your own definition of inflation to fit your A+B model,
>> here
>> is the definition of Inflation according to my Webster Dictionary:
>>
>> "An increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available
>> goods
>> and services resulting in a continuing rise in the general price level."
>>
>> Source: Webster Collegial Dictionary, 1996.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John G Rawson [mailto:johngrawson@hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:02 PM
>> To: socialcredit@elistas.com
>> Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and related
>> issues
>>
>>
>> First, define inflation. Invariably, it is measured as "rising
>> prices",
>> which therefore that is my, and I think our Party's, definition of it.
>> It
>> may be caused by "too much money ...", when it is "demand-pull
>> inflation",
>> or by other factors (e.g. rising oil prices or higher interest rates)
>> when
>> it is "cost-push inflation".
>>
>> And, once again, the A+B model postulates as a corollary that we have
>> cost-push inflation more than demand-pull. "There are factors in the
>> economy (B costs) that push the cost of goods above the level of consumer
>> purchasing power." So of course economists who deny the Douglas analkysis
>> don't understand where inflation is coming from.
>>
>> Regards. John R.
>>
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>> From: "W. McGunnigle" <wmcgunn@maxnet.co.nz>
>> Reply-To: socialcredit@elistas.com
>> To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
>> Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and related
>> issues
>> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:04:53 +1300
>> >Hi Kenneth
>> > I had not really considered that question of "inflation"
>> >as it operated in our economy, but was intrigued by your comment
>> that
>> >socalled "economic experts" have never produced a really
>> satisfactory
>> answer
>> >as to why it happens. I find that, on reflection, all their
>> "explanations"
>> >appear to be waffle with little or no substance to back up their
>> comments.
>> >They are very good at manipulating figures, but very short on
>> statisdtical
>> >analysis of those figures. They always have an excuse as to why
>> their
>> >forecasts are incorrect. My youngest brother has a theory that
>> inflation has
>> >nothing to do with money or product availablity, but is the direct
>> result of
>> >propaganda perpetrated by banking organisations who encourage price
>> >increases by simply stating that inflation is increasing and prices
>> must
>> >increase to compensate for it. They don't have to state any reasons,
>> but
>> >simply create an atmosphere whereby price increases are accepted.
>> Inflation,
>> >i.e. increased costs for goods and services, follows on as a
>> self-induced,
>> >self-fullfilling prophesy. Effectively "inflation" is a mind set
>> rather >than an economic consequence. I cannot see how this can be
>> quantified,but I
>> >can see the logic in his argument. It certainly explains the
>> "stagflation"
>> >phenomena where costs still increased despite falling industrial
>> production
>> >and increasing unemployment.
>> > Bill Mc Gunnigle
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Kenneth Palmerton" <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
>> >To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
>> >Cc: <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
>> >Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 5:40 AM
>> >Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and related
>> issues
>> >
>> >
>> > > In-Reply-To: <00aa01c62844$b0b3d320$6400a8c0@cdv73pbgpo6eny>
>> > > Hi Wallace.
>> > >
>> > > For a very long time I have been of the opinion that economists
>> do
>> NOT
>> > > understand "inflation". Even their attempts to describe it, and
>> offer a
>> > > definition leave me much less than convinced of their competence.
>> > >
>> > > They seem to offer no logical explanation of why prices rise.
>> > >
>> > > I have sat with fellow directors of a manufacturing company
>> around
>> our
>> > > board room table looking at each other wondering if our
> competitors
>> would
>> > > let us get away with a price rise of our products.
>> > >
>> > > This was not so much an exercise in maximising our profits, as
>> trying
>> > > desperately to cover our costs. This I believe is a common
>> scenario, > > common to most companies in mature markets.
>> > >
>> > > Coming to understand later the rightness of A+B has helped, with
>> its > > reference to purchasing power, which was the other thing we
>> Directors
>> > > agonised over. Would our customers have the money in their
>> pockets
>> when
>> > > they chose our products ?
>> > >
>> > > This enlightenment came too late for me and mine I fear :-))
>> > >
>> > > Ken.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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>> <DIV><SPAN class=3D703295401-13022006>"An increase in the volume of =
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>> size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> John G Rawson=20
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>> <P>First, define inflation. Invariably, it is measured as =
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>> interest=20
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>> have=20
>> cost-push inflation more than demand-pull. "There are factors in
>> =
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>> =
>> 12 Feb=20
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>> =
>>
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>> "economic=20
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>> youngest=20
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>> simply stating that inflation is increasing and prices =
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>> Inflation,<BR>>i.e. increased costs for goods and services, =
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>> still=20
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>> increasing=20
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>> =
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>> -----<BR>>From: "Kenneth Palmerton"=20
>> <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk><BR>>To:=20
>> <socialcredit@elistas.com><BR>>Cc:=20
>> <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk><BR>>Sent: Friday, =
>> February 10,=20
>> 2006 5:40 AM<BR>>Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and=20
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>> In-Reply-To:=20
>> <00aa01c62844$b0b3d320$6400a8c0@cdv73pbgpo6eny><BR>> >
>> =
>> Hi=20
>> Wallace.<BR>> ><BR>> > For a very long time I have been =
>> of the=20
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>> Even=20
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>> leave me=20
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>> > They=20
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>> ><BR>> > I have sat with fellow directors of a =
>> manufacturing=20
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>> other=20
>> wondering if our competitors would<BR>> > let us get away with
>> =
>> a price=20
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>> =
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>> common to=20
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>> =
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