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    A Glimpse of Natural Law

    10 August 2005

    In order for a nation to flourish and prosper and provide its citizens with their rights, that nation must provide a means of exchange, which everyone can trust.

    The nation will require an administration with which to fulfil its responsibilities. We have come to call such an administration the Government. The prime function of the Government will be to provide its people with the means of exchange. This function must be, now and for always, the sole privilege of Government.

    No one other than the Government, should ever be allowed to create and issue the currency of a Nation. The reason being, that whosoever has that privilege, of creating and issuing the currency, has total power, control, dominion and sovereignty over that nation.

    For democracy to exist, it must be a Government of the people, for the people and by the people, which creates and issues the currency, and no one else. The people must be able to supervise the creation of the currency and therefore, fully understand how it must be done correctly.

    The people will understand, that some of the currency will be created and issued by the Government in order to provide wealth creating services, and therefore not provided by taxation. Taxing businesses or citizens for the creation of wealth, penalises the creation of wealth, it is economic suicide.

    For example a nuclear powered, electricity generating facility, will involve large amounts of money, which when placed as a burden of taxation, on those who would use the electricity to create wealth, could render the creation of wealth almost impossible.

    Once this principle is grasped and understood, it will be found to apply in several disrelated circumstances. For example, building and maintaining railways, delivering the mail, building and maintaining the water supplies, sewage disposal, building and maintaining roads. All these necessities of wealth creation, must be financed with new money, as needed, specifically minted by the Government for that purpose.

    New money will be required for these tasks and that money must be newly-created and not borrowed. Bear in mind, that seeking money to be invested in these facilities, will impede the creation of wealth and prevent the nation from using its full ability to flourish and prosper. The crucial principle to grasp, is that when new money is spent wisely and well, by the Government, new money cannot cause inflation, how ever great the sum involved.

    A failure to know and understand the points at which Natural Law impinges upon economics, gives rise the to the existing economic mess in which we have a dire shortage of money and a horrific abundance of debt.

    We have allowed the credit industry to usurp the privilege of a democratic Government and to create and issue new money as credit. We allow the banks to seduce their clients into borrowing new money into existence. We have allowed bankers to place themselves above the Law and above Parliament. We have given away our Freedom and have become enslaved by debt.

    Our failure to understand the difference between wealth and money, deprives the human race of the chance to flourish and prosper. We are forced to become dishonest in order to survive. There is no place for ethics in modern economics. Ethics is optimum rationality in the search for survival. Without ethics, our IQ on the subject of economics falls below zero.

    "Bankruptcy is now a lifestyle choice"


    Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB