Drug Lords, Drug Dealers, and Drug Addicts

As we, in my opinion, march towards financial meltdown I have a few thoughts to throw out:

We have been living in an economy where everyone wants their things NOW! The idea is to enjoy the “fruits of one’s labor” prior to performing the “fruits of one’s labor”. This, of course, is known as debt – and people are willing to pay usury (interest) in order to get that which they desire.

Everyone in debt is a debt servant, but those that live the lifestyle of wanting things now and working for them later are what I refer to as “drug addicts” – where the drug of choice is easy money. This term is not meant to belittle folks, but to provide an interesting illustration.

Who provides drug addicts with their drugs? Drug dealers, of course. The drug dealers make a profit off of the drugs they sell to the drug addicts. The drug dealers are the banks, and they’re selling the “money” drug to the drug addicts.

Now, here is where it REALLY gets interesting! Where do the drug dealers get the drugs to sell to the drug addicts? Think about this one for a moment…..

The drug dealers get the drugs from the drug lords. Who are the drug lords? Answer: those that deposit their money into any bank through savings, checking, CD’s, etc.

Think what this means. The drug addicts are also drug lords! The drug addicts wouldn’t have the drugs unless they, and others, acted as drug lords and sold the drugs to the drug dealers (the sale price is the interest one earns on their bank account).

The banks have set up a system where people destroy themselves through debt! They are both the lords and the addicts. Meanwhile, the drug dealers get filthy rich! That’s quite a system they’ve developed.

Now here’s another question. How can drug addicts get clean? How can they turn their debt addiction to the Godly principle of honest work begetting honest gain? The answer is to stop being the drug lords. If the drug lords stop supplying the drug dealers then the drug dealers will wither up and blow away.

This is the idea surrounding my “new economy” model. It’s to set up a parallel system with our current corrupt economy where people can learn to operate in a Godly economy – while still meeting their debt obligations in the old economy until those debts have been extinguished – AND using the same currency as they currently use today. It’s just a adopting a new spending habit. A Godly habit.

The new economy would not know the concept of debt, only the concept of capital. Work would produce honest gain. Purchases would be made with money (capital) based on completed labor – instead of future labor like in our current economy. Investments would be made where the investors are equity holders of a product, service, or idea. If it makes money, then investors share in the profit. If it goes down in flames, then the investors lose their risk capital. There would be no bond holders in a company, since bonds are centered around debt.

Look around you. Look at how our current economy is “functioning”. Have you ever wondered why the Federal government creates programs, such as “cash for clunkers”, or $8,000 for “first time homeowners”? Why do they do this?

The answer is that money = debt and debt = money. The international bankers have pulled credit from the world at large. Here in the U.S., we’re seeing a huge mountain of debt and credit come crashing down around us. That debt and credit is also known as MONEY!

The Federal government obtains its power structure from having as much money as possible floating around the system. We see how they’re trying to create more money by issuing more government debt in the form of Treasury Securities. We see how they are busy at work trying to create new government “Trust Funds” (healthcare, pension, etc.) so that they can steal any contributed money and replace it with yet more Treasury Securities (IOU’s). But what most people don’t understand is why the government initiates these programs to “stimulate” the economy.

Here’s the gist of it. These “stimulus” programs are in place for the simple purpose of putting people in more debt. Think about it. Money = debt and debt = money. The Federal government is trying to build up the money circulating in our economy by encouraging its citizens to go into even MORE DEBT!!! Cash for clunkers = $4,000, but most people took out loans to buy their new car! $8,000 first-time home buyers = all of these people taking out home mortgages that they will be enslaved with for years to come! The Federal government is trying to eradicate the credit and debt tsunami that is threatening to take away a good chunk of their power structure.

We’re going to be hearing more and more about “improving GDP”. Please understand that Gross Domestic Product refers to goods and services in our economy. The Federal government is causing these to not drop as fast due to all of the “stimulus” dollars being thrown at them. BUT…..at the same time, the Federal government is directly causing more and more people to get into more serious debt based on many of the “stimulus” concepts. This means that we can see a slightly improving GDP in the country, while the underlying economic problem is actually getting worse and worse.

Folks……we need to stop being drug lords….and we need to work hard to stop being drug addicts.

Well, that’s an interesting and creative analogy. However, the money that banks get from depositors, savers and CDs are only a ‘fraction’ of the money that they use, and a tiny fraction at that. The rest they create out of nothing.

President Jackson got rid of our third Central Bank, The Bank of the United States, and now we need to get rid of the fourth, the Federal Reserve System, a banking cartel designed by bankers and brought to life by our own government. Fractional reserve systems always end up with smaller and smaller reserves until they become pure fiat money, which is what we have today. They create money out of nothing at all which creates inflation that we all pay.

There are many good reads out there that explain this; one of them is ‘The Creature From Jeckyl Island - a second look at the federal reserve system’ by G. Edward Griffin.

Still, I enjoyed your drug analogy and while the citizenry has certainly been encouraged to partake freely, the biggest addict of all has been Congress. They should ALL be sent to rehab!

I understand what you're saying, but the drug dealers can ONLY supply drug addicts if the drug lords give them the deposits.

As I see it, the only way to bring our nation out of its debt servitude is to stop feeding the banks.

“The borrower is SLAVE to the lender!”

Something Dave Ramsey says a lot in his Financial Peace University.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen his name here before.

At the risk of opining ‘above my pay grade’, you may be correct legally, but I’m not sure that the Fed is playing by the rules anymore. We are deeply in debt and yet we just printed what, $700B in new money this year? In addition to the so-called stimulus money of about the same amount?

Historically, fractional money has *always* trended to fiat money (some reserves to no reserves) over time and I believe that that’s where we are now. That’s why it is so important to pass that ‘Audit the Fed’ bill, as a first step to abolishing the Fed. Central Banks only help bankers and politicians at the expense of the citizens.

The important thing is to get the word out and your drug dealer/addict story does just that; keep up the good work!

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