• "Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult." - George Eliot.  
• "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell.
  

Quotes From Various Sources and Perceptions Regarding The Argument of Money & Politics. 

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"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.  Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." -- About A.D. 64, Apostle Paul, a 1st Century Hebrew, Roman Citizen and Disciple of Christ, writing to Timothy his student in a personal letter.

"Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation.  Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.  When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.  These truths are well known among our principal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world.  By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.  It is thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."  -- American's Banker Association, ABA's website.

"The 'money power' preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity.  It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than the aristocracy, more selfish than the bureaucracy.  It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." -- b.  A.D. 1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America.

Abraham Lincoln and the Eighth Henry       

                 

The Website's Author States:

This website is to help identify what money is and escape the Economic Slavery witnessed throughout the world.

This website is not about any one person's income or wealth, so I share little about myself here. 

I rather point out the facts of the website's topic ( money ) and show what has been revealed by history thus far.

I first learned about money's powerful illusion... one day in 2004....

 ...and ever since then, I've been thinking of a way to inform others about this deception while continuing to learn how best to live with this knowledge myself.

If I may say, I've struggled with the handling of my personal funds until I gained Discipline late in 1998.  I was financially rebellious at that time and couldn't identify who or what I was rebelling against. 

Yet I couldn't get over the fact that I needed to have money in order to survive, and looking back today, I see that much of my anxiety and rebellion at that time was due to my not understanding what money is, how money functions in this world and how the machine was purposefully made to make less financially disciplined folks fail. 

Capitalism works.  Ignorance of how Capitalism works, does not work.  Capitalism would work better if usury laws were adhered to or 29% interest rates were unlawful ( I propose a scale between 0% - 5%, 0% to those who are well disciplined to 5% to those who still are not disciplined, and no more ). 

Look at the United States in debt, yet currently the most capitalistic, most prosperous country on the planet.  How can this be?  A solid financial education has been missing for the masses; those who are the backbone and pulse of the country.  The same can be said of most other countries. 

Money and what it really is has not been taught, but has been showcased as a way to measure success and measure value, both for inanimate objects and animated objects / subjects ( people ).  Yet, most folks haven't a clue how to really handle their money, credit, debt, etc., to their advantage.  They mostly fall into a continuous struggle of working hard to pay their lender, mortgage, debt obligations and never see the freedom of having no debt or having an income surpass their living expenses... or creating incomes ( investments ) which need not their presence to occur ( retire from work altogether )..

Not until years later in 2004, when I began to creep outside the box of conventional thinking that I and most of my contemporaries were in, did I begin to see the bigger picture regarding money and the way money is used in this world: 

Money, and its perceived authority and power, is lorded over us. 

If you do not see that or agree, simply look at the end of 2008 and who prospered from the demise of most regular working class people ( the populous ). 

I had glimpses of this back in 1998, and took it in stride back then because my eyes were not on money at that time nor did I even have a clue as to the severity and complexity of where money stands in our hearts and minds today.   

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"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain.

I personally made a choice years ago to unplug myself from the mainstream media, to forgo watching hours of entertainment / distraction television buffered by commercials selling me what is "in" or desirable, listening to emotionally draining music, to stop listening and believing everything I heard on "the news" ( which seems to be always bad news ) and began feeding my mind choice information, albeit as objectionably truthful and factually supported as possible. 

In other words, I began to "deprogram" myself from the mainline programming we continuously receive whenever we turn to the media, and began to "reprogram" myself what I deemed important and necessary.  That, preceded with faith in something bigger than all of us ( which I must add, happens to stand in contrast to money and what money means / symbolizes ) has allowed me to see the message I am now forwarding you.

You could make that choice too, or continue being distracted, continue being fed fear by what you listen to and continue being duped by what you don't know and by those who know more than you.

You choose what you feed your mind, heart, soul / conscience and body, remember? 

You Choose!  So make that choice to learn about money and what it really is.  Make that choice to allow someone like myself to help you turn your Financial Landscape into something pleasant, prosperous and positive.

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A Game Which You Need to Learn to Play and Play Well, or You'll Get Played.

And the goal of this Game of Money or Machine is to draw every bit of good use out of you.  And trade you paper with numbers on it with pictures of dead men for your time, energy and talents.  If you know your world history, it is Rome, still strong and as powerful as ever. 

Rome would conquer a people, build a city and encourage the new chattel to buy and sell, to become Roman citizens and adopt the Roman way of life.  They could keep their religion, their customs and all, only pay homage and duty to Cesar ( pay taxes and whatever else was legislated by the Senate ).  Doesn't this sound familiar?   And if the conquered rejected or resisted, they were simply slaughtered ( genocide ).  There is a great interview with Chomsky explaining this very truth on the Smart Discussion page.

I picked this painting, titled People of Chilmark, by Thomas Hart Benton circa 1920, because to me it depicts the condition of us all: BUSILY DISTRACTED

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Ask Yourself:

How nerve wracking would it be for someone to find themselves alone in the seat of an airplane flying high up in the sky, and NOT know the first thing about flying?  What are the chances of them landing that plane safely on the ground?  Forget about the movies, the chances are slim to none.

Or how about you find yourself out at sea, soundly sailing swiftly over the splashing ocean waves when here comes a tidal wave beyond any measure... do you think you'll ride up the face of that swell as you've seen in some movie?  Get Real.

Much in the same way, and quite possibly as dramatic, do people find themselves in the seat of debt, a place of despair or desiring something better which seems to be ever so fleeting or unattainable.   Or worse, they now see themselves holding worthless or near nothing investments / securities / real property, etc.

What is the solution then you may ask?  A financial education.  Better stated:  Your Financial Education.   The financial education you were supposed to receive in school or at home. 

Now, I don't believe teachers, counselors, administrators or your parents kept this education / knowledge from you on purpose.  I do believe, however, it was kept from you simply because those aforementioned did not know it themselves or it may not have been taught to them, thus they were unable to teach it to you.  I went looking for this specific knowledge.  School did teach me one thing, and that was how to learn.  So I began learning what money was all about, and the rabbit hole kept getting deeper and deeper. 

To Your Financial Education and Financial Freedom,

Cheers! / L'Chaim! / Salud! / Kampai,