Whether the population will wake up and figure out what was done to them, and agitate for money that respects property rights is another question altogether.

What’s likely is that policy will continue to bribe people into being beggars, thieves, and cowardly snitches until the day the free money becomes worthless. By then the ‘entitled ones’ and the few remaining producers may be too weak to assert themselves, whether they wake up or not, and they may have to submit to whatever the juggernaut decides to do to ‘fix it’.

The bigger the lie, the more people refuse to question it.

My people [Who are they? Guys, please don’t speak in tongues.], who I value more than any republic, do not need virtue imposed upon them.

The problem with one-note economic wonkery is that it takes for granted that the same enlightened self-interest that animates its proponents animates all people, but of course it does not. Introduce Mr. Moon’s banking and money solutions to, say, Mexico, or Uganda, or Iran, and free nations will not magically rise up in those places. (And in the case of the latter, woe to the economist whose ideas are deemed un-Islamic.)

But I wish you the best of luck in convincing the myriad tribes who inhabit this country of what is in their economic best interests. I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to vote for responsibility over the all-providing state.

How do we convince more people to come around to Myron’s way of thinking ?

Bravo! Another consequence is the bank cannot pyramid “credit” on top of your checking deposit cash.

The disuse of cash has 2 consequences:
(a) the government can monitor EVERY purchase you make and (b) most Americans are oblivious to their own spending.

I simply recognize that evil generally needs someone else’s money. I have made my logic abundantly clear.

In the US, evil uses either money or force (or the threat of force) to get its way.

Or why has capitalism failed in the US? Ans: It hasn’t been tried since 1913.

Good luck on trying to impose virtue on a society that is periodically wrecked by the boom/bust cycle.

True liberty produces virtue since evil generally requires tyranny to prosper. Evil is a parasite, don’t you know?

Speaking of virtue, our current money and banking system is based on false witness, theft, oppression of the poor and government privilege. How foolish of me to think that could have anything to do with the virtue of the nation!

[Social determinism: you believe that man is a pawn and has no free will. Give him free banking and he’ll be an angel.]

Washington said that the success of the nation depends upon the virtue of the people. What made America great was the American people. Liberty and rule of law (as in the now thoroughly discredited notion of the Proposition Nation) do not a nation make.

Just the legalization of alternative banking and money solutions would turn things around for the US.

I guess when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

How can the dollar or the economy recover in a rigged game ?

http://sentinelradio.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/the-warning-this-is-a-must-see-video-in-order-to-understand-who-destroyed-the-economy/

My impetus doesn’t go in that direction and I know yours doesn’t either.

Do you really think it is our destiny to lose?