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    HOW GOOD LIFE COULD BE

    In real terms of his worth the average worker is underpaid. Even so, more than 50% of what he is paid, goes in tax or in paying interest.

    Apart from the interest he pays for money he has borrowed, every item he buys has within its cost, the interest on the money borrowed to produce that item.

    Even the tax he pays contains a component which pays the interest on the money which his Government has borrowed.

    A really smart accountant could work out exactly how much better off the ordinary worker could be, if our currency were money instead of credit.

    But apart from the ordinary citizen being better off, if we used money as our currency, the whole of industry would experience a tremendous easement with which success could be achieved, if the nation used money as its currency. With that easement would come better wages and less exploitation.

    The need to borrow money for any purpose would gradually diminish and disappear. People would be able to earn enough for a quality of life they have never known. They would no longer be in a rat race. They would be free to be themselves instead of having to strive to be better than the Jones's.

    All this sounds too good to be true. That is because we have lived in debt and lived on debt for so long that there appears to be no other way.

    By keeping the real reason, that life is a struggle for most of us, hidden from view and never mentioned, all manner of wrong reasons are given for our difficulties.

    We are constantly told that the other chap is greedy. Not us, but the other chap.

    We are told that big business is greedy and ruthless.

    But a big business is a big business; it is not a human being. Only a human being can be accused of being greedy or ruthless.

    The truth is, that you and I find the greatest joy in life, is to successfully help another.

    All you have to do to see how good life could be, is to visualise a world in which we all derived our greatest pleasure in helping each other to improve the quality of our lives.

    If we could afford to do so, we would do that.

    Therefore each and every one of us has a vested interest in telling our Government how to create and issue money at exactly and precisely the correct speed.

    When we have an adequate money supply that truly represents the value of that for which it stands proxy, during exchange in the market place, there will be no requirement for credit, no interest to be paid as a hidden tax on every breath we breathe.

    Perhaps we do not appreciate that by permitting financiers to seduce us into accepting credit as a loan of money and then using the law to make us pay interest on the credit with money and redeem the loan of credit with money, we partake in a swindle, in which money is counterfeited by sleight of hand.

    Because this is in essence, a criminal practice, which has been made legal, we place ourselves under the thrall of criminals.

    We place ourselves in grave danger and our lives are blighted. We become enslaved by debt, and our slave masters are killers.

    Fair trading turns to commercial warfare in which there is no respect for human life.

    Whether people are aware of what is wrong or unaware of the source of their grief, they experience the grief and take to drugs, alcohol etc., to ease the pain.

    The drugged culture is a direct result of a dishonest monetary system.

    At this stage of the "progress" of our civilisation, drugs are possibly our biggest problem. The suicide bomber is the latest version of assassins who are primed with drugs, which can turn us all into killers.

    The existing money scam is the root cause of life on this beautiful little planet of ours, being less than perfect.