| Subject: | RE: [socialcredit] douglas-alberta-1934 | | Date: | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 23:32:14 (+0000) | | From: | John G Rawson <johngrawson @.......com>
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Leaving aside the methods, depreciation charges are simply comparable with
investment of savings. A "B" cost, surely.
Regards. John R.
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>I attach in PDF format what I believe
to be a accurate
>version of Douglas' 1934 testimony to the
Alberta
>Legislature.
>
>I just noticed this from page 89 of the attached
PDF:-
>
>"Suppose you issue $10,000 worth of stock, and you put
>up a factory.
The physical process of depreciation
>takes place; it is always insisted upon by
your
>auditor, and your figures are written down. You ought
>to have a transfer
back into purchasing power of those
>figures which are written down, because you
have used
>your plant for the production of something which is
>sold to the
public. Now you can write down those
>physical assets, and apply some of the
issues of the
>money to re-transferring into cash the physical assets
>which are
written down, and that disposes of quite a
>considerable amount of the money
which is issued."
>-
>
>I wish that the Committee had cross-examined him on
>this
a bit to clarify what he was saying.
>
>Compare it to this from Warning
Democracy, which we
>were discussing a couple of weeks ago:-
>
>"...one of the
first requisites is to deal with the
>immobilisation of bank credits in fixed
assets.
>
>"There are many ways of doing this, and perhaps one of
>the simplest
would be the automatic writing up of the
>bank credits of any limited company to
correspond with
>the increase in its fixed assets, as certified by
a
>chartered accountant during a given accounting period.
>
>
>"The effect of
this, so long as the result was not
>defeated by rings of prices, would be to
lower prices
>by enabling competitive concerns to get a proportion
>of their
overhead charges out of prices charged for
>their product..."
>-
>
>The thrust of
all of Douglas' financial
>recommendations was to increase the rate of profit
by
>what I have characterized as macroeconomic accounting
>adjustments, thereby
increasing the quantity and scope
>of what is produced from productive
capacity.
>
>I invite
discussion.
>
>
>
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