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Letter to: Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP. The House of Commons. London
22 August, 2006
Poverty in the World Today
Dear Mr Benn
In the July edition of the Saga Magazine, Robert Chesshyre gives
an account
of your concern for those afflicted by poverty in the world today.
One or two important points are omitted and I wish to know whether
you are
aware of this missing relevant knowledge.
Poverty does not exist in the wild. Poverty is a man made phenomenon.
The
poor have always been with us, but only by Our Choice.
Although Labour may not be the source of poverty in the world today,
Labour
does admit that Labour accepts the source of poverty as though it
is
inevitable.
Nothing man made is inevitable, it is merely man made.
The source of poverty is a lack of money. There is no other source
of
poverty. Money is man made stuff. We have as much money or as little
money
as we decide. No one else decides. Poverty is not an act of God,
it is not
like the weather. Poverty is an act of our creation, born of our
free will.
We fondly imagine that money is minted or printed or somehow created
by the
Government and that we live in constant danger of over-production
of money,
if Government creates enough for our needs.
Governments have always had a tendency to over produce money, for
the needs
of the Government, which is a totally different matter.
We need money as a means of exchange. Enough money to make fair
trading
possible. One cannot possibly imagine that poverty is created in
the service
of fair trading. Ask those millions dying of starvation, if they
are dying
as a result of Fair Trading. If they have any idea at all, as to
what you
refer, they will say no.
The truth is that “we give aid” where it is needed to
relieve poverty,
without explaining that so-called aid is actually credit.
Our government allows bankers to issue new money as credit. Private
financiers have been given a monopoly so to do. There is no other
source of
new money.
New money is needed to relieve poverty, which is an absence of
money.
Therefore it looks good to give new money to relieve poverty, but
credit is
now a synonym for debt. Thus we use poverty as a means of seducing
the
poorest of the poor into debt, by claiming that “we give them
aid.
I very much doubt whether you know all this. I cannot believe you
are that
cynical. I once knew your father quite well and then I am sure he
was not
aware of what the Conservatives were doing. Labour inherited this
practice
of issuing new money as credit, from the Conservatives.
It will be helpful if you look into this matter and speak out against
it.
Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB
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