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    Letter to: Gary Streeter MP House of Commons

    24 July 2007

    The Floods

    Dear Gary,

    It seems as though the whole Nation, at this moment in time, has its attention upon the flood disaster and how to find the money to pay.

    A source of money not used in Britain for centuries, could be used again under this dire necessity. This would turn our worst ever disaster into a glorious triumph.

    Realise that brand new money, minted, printed or somehow created by the Government to enable the Nation to survive, would not cause inflation, however large the sum, if spent wisely and well for the specific purpose of staying alive. It would actually enhance the economy by increasing production.

    Until now the only source of such new money is provided for us by private banks as credit. In time of war the same banks provide credit to all parliaments in the fray and they become hugely rich out of our suffering.

    It would be possible for just one person crying in the wilderness of gloom over funding, to point out to the whole Nation, that we can cover all the funding of this disaster by creating and issuing new money as money and use the banks for something else.

    The key to understanding this is to know that our survival is at stake and that money is man-made stuff needed as a means of exchange and by our desire to survive.

    It is an interesting thought that if the creation of new money were restricted to the necessity of survival the threat of global warming would be removed.

    You know that whatever flack were thrown at you for making such a daring assertion, I could feed the relevant rebuttal to you.

    This is all on urgent and dire necessity, before the Nation falls into the trap of a consensus which declares that the tax-payer must pay and that the tax-payer is the only source of new money.


    Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB