Let's Pause with the Wisdom of E. C. Riegel

How nice and beautiful it would be if: 

"We start with sex and music, then breakfast. We walk or bike to work, four days per week. After three hours work, we return home for a long lunch and sex, or we eat with co-workers: we discuss work plans, utility and durability of product, marketing, sales, prices and wages. Then two more hours of work. We have time and energy for an afternoon stroll or game, then prepare dinner, make music, make love (Why so much sex?  Because we're relaxed). We finish with an evening stroll in our beautiful neighborhood."

Is it just a daydream?
Not really! It is more likely than that if we have the tools...

"Americans We have the tools and money to create an America such a world where all workers are employed, whose every square mile is beautiful; whose cities are safe playgrounds for children; whose food is fresh and affordable; whose waters are clean from sea to crystal sea.  An America A world run by Americans we the people for Americans the people is fully capable of rebuilding all homes so they're earthquake-proof, hurricane-proof, tornado-proof, flood-proof, drought-proof, fireproof, and bank-proof.  When Americans we take control of money, we are wealthy enough to build an America a world where it's easy to stay healthy and to get healed; where costs of living get smaller and our lives get bigger." (corrections added)

Then, what on earth has been kept us from taking control of money? It is 'the common superstition that money springs from the State'. 

According to E. C. Riegel, "Money can be issued only by a buyer who later, as a seller, redeems his issue."  

"Money can be issued only by a buyer who later, as seller, redeems his issue. He must, to stay inbusiness, bid for money with value because that is his only way of gainingincome. He must price his values competitively or he can make no sale. Thus, by his circumstance of being a private enterpriser he is ideally suited to issue and redeem money.

Contrast the State’s situation. It is not a trader; it does not sell.  It needs not bid for money; it merely requisitions it by taxation. Since it has no way of redeeming money by open competitive bidding, it cannotissue it and its professed money issues are inescapably spurious."

But, in reality, all money is issued by a State!!! Prof. Riegel named the money issued by a State as Political Money, and explained:

"What is the strange power that makes the government at Washington grow stronger and our state and local governments grow weaker while the people suffer the torment of war and the travail of insecurity and the shadow of dictatorship falls across the land? It is the same power that oppresses the people of all the world — the political money power.

The political money power is the power of national governments to buy the people’s sweat and blood with scraps of paper – paper that falls like a blotter upon our production and our freedom. Each day our wealth diminishes and more of our liberties vanish. Inflation that threatens to bring chaos is just around the corner. As our sons bleed and our mothers weep, the same grinding power throws its pall over other lands.  Yet our chains are paper – paper money that, through our ignorance, binds us to the treadmill of our own destruction."

Apart from the problem that the money is created out of thin air as debt in this modern banking system, what does a Government sell with the political money power? They sell 'austerity' and 'wars on bullshits (fears and imaginary security packages)' to their people. Am I wrong?

We are now witnessing how busy the governments in the world, especially the US government, to sell  its 'unnatural' 'goods and services' to its own people and others of all over the world.

Why don't we stop feeding the 'Merchant of Death'?

"We can be masters of our destiny; we are all powerful, if we but realize it. In each of us resides the power to assure liberty, prosperity, security and peace. In each of us lies the money power, which, when springing from us, is democratic and virtuous; when springing from government is authoritarian and vicious. As we liberate our inherent money power we curb the political money power, for the more we use our self-created money, the less we need political money. Thus we defeat dictatorship. Thus we reconstruct the shattered world on a free democratic basis. Thus we save civilization."