(Thanks, M. :)

Reader M. offers:

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Re: Anna Von Reitz: 'It's an Imaginary World'

Hi Hobie.

Anna is one of a very few people I have seen to make the point that metal has no magical inherent value.
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Money, I think, in it's truest sense would be something a man produces, of tradable value, above basic survival.

Money is therefore organic.

Metal has no inherent value in and of itself. It is impressed into servitude as a representative of factual organic production.

The framers of the Constitution chose to represent this tradable value with silver, the metal of common trade. Gold, the metal of the gods, was made subordinate to silver.

Congress was tasked with presenting sufficient silver to circulation to represent the tradable value produced by men according to population and circumstances. This was an effort to keep the value of monetary silver stable and reliable. It was workable.

There were no retirement plans available at that time so it was expected that a man should put some of the tradable value that he produced aside for later years, if possible. This natural sequestration of a man's own production had little effect on the value of money in circulation.

Currency is entirely different in that it is not based on the relative constant of individual production of value above basic survival. It is a synthetic value based on whatever the market will bear. The manipulation of these monetary currents sustain the maritime corporations as they sail relentlessly towards profits and power.

Currency can serve as money but it is not the same thing. It is a contrivance and a pure fiction with no organic basis and subject to intent of the owner.

Since there is not enough silver to go 'round these days the following is a light hearted but effective alternative.

Where the Rubber meets the Gold.

All tires have a manufacturer, a unique serial number and a date of manufacture stamped on the side wall. That makes each tire one of a kind on the whole Earth.

You need an old tire 'cause you can find one for free.

You also need a big glass room. You will need the space.

Set the tire up on edge on a turney thing so it goes round and round slowly. Set it near a wall so people can see it clearly and take selfies with it.

Fill the room with dry nitrogen to preserve organic matter. We'll get to that in a minute.

Figure out how many legitimate citizens of all ages are actually domiciled in physical US boundaries, not including territories. Anchor babies do not count.

Figure out how much currency, including cash and individual debt and interest due, is out and about in the physical US boundaries.

Divide the out and about currency by the number of legitimate citizens and make the US Treasury issue a check for that amount to each citizen. Same amount for everyone. Call it X.

Make the Treasury set up and print Certificates of Value (Tcash) against the tire.

Require all banks to issue Tcash on demand to anyone who chooses that option and presents check, or to accept checks for deposit for those who choose that option, and redeem checks and hold Tcash for each account.

The free market can take it from there.

You need a few rules, but not many.

Treasury required to print and issue X amount of Tcash for every new child born to a legitimate US citizen after initial checks are issued.

Tcash valid only in US boundaries. Export unlawful.

Tcash lawful for all transactions in US boundaries.

Anyone actively attempting to subvert principles of Old Tire be cheaply executed, stuffed like an animal and displayed permanently in the large glass room with the tire. Cheap could be a big gob of street corner smack administered with a used syringe off the side walk.

Perps outside of the US boundaries are easily handled by a bounty paid on presentation of the head. Heads to be stuffed and stacked totem pole style on a tall metal rod in the glass room. Plenty of independent contractors available if the bounty is right.

With these basic ideas implemented the stupid idea that “precious” metals have some sort of intrinsic value would end up like a rattle snake trying to cross a busy highway. The curves of manipulation would be flat stuff under an old tire of real value. The world could follow, or not, whatever it wishes to do.

This is of course a one page nutshell. But still it shouldn't take more than a small sapling worth of pages to record necessary detail. Unless “government” gets involved. Then it would take a forest.

This would require a constitutional amendment, but with about fifty percent of the nation stark, raving insane, I would not dare suggest that for now.

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