Don't Follow the Yellow Brick Road Again
Lessons from the Wizard of Oz
Few of the millions who have enjoyed this charming tale have suspected that its imagery was drawn from that most obscure and tedious of subjects, banking and finance.
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Glinda, the good witch, allowed Dorothy to wander on the yellow brick (gold bullion) road, so she would get to know the forces arrayed against her, and so that she could participate meaningfully in the journey home. And only at the end of Dorothy's quest, Dorothy having met the little flim flam man behind the curtain pulling the levers of power, did Glinda reveal to Dorothy the power she had had all along in the ruby slippers. (constitutional money, the slippers were originally silver, like the original american dollar)

A Little Ranting...

I must admit at the outset, I do some ranting below, and border on conspiracy theory in a couple of the paragraphs further down in the article. Ellen Hodgeson Brown, in "Web of Debt" (the link above), does a far better job with this monetary theory than I do. But I wanted the reader to get the sense that a real battle is shaping up between banking and anti-banking forces, not to mention democrats and republicans, and to consider the possibility that no conflict is necessary. The concerns of all sides can be addressed. Very likely, the solution to our present economic and financial difficulties is offered in the following article. In recent decades, the republicans have been borrowing and spending to fund government, while the democrats have tended to tax and spend. Now the democrats seem to be coming around to the borrow and spend approach, at least for now, since, in the current delveraging problem, the money supply is shrinking (deflation).

Ironically, with all the "sky is falling" hysterics about busting the budget wide open like the hull of the titanic, all of our problems are easily solved with a simple accounting trick. We so often, in the midst of argument miss the obvious. We're short of money, literally, the green stuff! Discussions of economics are often so obtuse and obscure that they miss the most essential principle:

To maintain stable prices in the economy, the Money Supply must be balanced with the Supply of Goods in circulation... so print some, is that so hard? Government need not borrow and spend, nor tax and spend, just print and spend into the economy, maintaining a healthy ratio of public/private spending. Let the congress requisition the needed printing for public projects (debt-free) while the federal reserve manages its usual debt-based private money creation. Economists have long admitted that a reasonable ratio of deficit spending to GNP is fine, and that the debt need not ever be paid, just the interest. So don't call it debt! And be done with the interest in the public sector. It's our printing press!

With that said,
We're off to see the wizard!

The 2 witches are the international banks and corporations who exclusively profit from war, disease and free international (flying on broom sticks) trade.

A house (the housing bubble) has fallen on one of the witches, because of wall street's own folly. The entire global financial sector is a vast, parasitical beast which sucks the life out of workers and producers of the real, physical wealth. Ding dong (if) the witch is dead. In the story, the munchkin coroner must confirm whether the witch of the east is morally, ethically, spiritually and physically dead. The bailouts would seem to confirm this total bankruptcy on all levels. Perhaps 1929 was the mortal head wound which was healed, and now we witness the final damnation of this abomination. The free enterprise economy (physical as opposed to speculative) is not the enemy of the people. Small to moderately sized businesses are the very life blood of the healthy private economy. But the financial, usurious, speculative sector is nothing but a wealth transfer system.

Now let's toss a little water on the other witch.

The Scare Crow is the farmers who don't understand how the banks take their farms. Notice that Dorothy sings "with the thoughts you'd be thinkin, you could be another Lincoln, if you only had a brain". Because the key to the American System of Political Economy of our Founding Fathers is the Debt-Free (no usury) money of Abraham Lincoln. Without understanding (a brain) of the true nature of money and its usurious abuses, the scare crow can't keep the crows (bankers and their usury) from eating (sucking away value) the corn.

The Tin Man is the dehumanized factory workers who are frozen when the banks lower their wages and the corporations take their jobs.

The spiraling yellow brick road is intended to hypnotize us into returning to gold-based money (the bankers' money), after they hoard the gold and deliberately collapse our economies and lead our nations to war. Broken and desperate, we would then be willing to work in deplorable conditions (the good ole days, for the bankers) to rebuild from the ashes, ever feeding their usurious coffers.

The witches are now setting fire to our money (the coming hyper-inflation). We must quench that fiery broomstick (the bailouts to nonproductive speculators which would hyper-inflate the currency) with a healthy splash of water (a flood of debt-free spending) to quench their intended hyper-inflation with investment in real, physical infrastructure projects and good paying jobs and skills. The resulting physical wealth in the form of bridges, roads, windmills, solar panels and most of all, skilled citizens, will back the printed money to keep the chinese happy and the dollar strong. We don't need the witches and their slight of hand (magic tricks) loaning us money they print on our press! Witches who pretend to turn gold into money. Our productivity will one day devalue their gold! And the bounty will be ours not theirs to hog and hoard. Then their wonderful world will truely melt away.

The green color of the emerald city tells us our paper greenbacks were the answer to prospering all along, as long as we (through the congress of the people) print our own money debt-free, spending it on construction, not destruction. Construction always strengthens the currency, destruction always weakens it. This is not rocket science. This is why international banking loves war. They hoard the gold as they weaken our money, finally hyper-inflating our money by destroying the values it represents.

The bankers plan to hyper-inflate our currency so their favorite tools (our representatives which they educated, duped or bought) can legally pay social security and medicare benefits with toilet paper money. And if we rebel, they're planning a whopper of a twister (war and chaos) to send us back down the yellow brick road (the bankers gold standard) to meet the witches all over again someday.

Let's say goodbye to helicopter Ben and all the men behind the curtain.

Enjoy the balloon (bubble) ride Ben!

There will always be these wizards of the Ounce (of gold). How could we let the smallest, snivelling members of our species get to the top? I guess they were very clever.

Do you know what they mean by leverage, in fractional reserve banking? When a wizard of ounce, a banker, pulls a lever (grants a usurious loan) behind a curtain, its effects multiply repeatedly by a factor of ten, reverberating out to the world outside the curtain where CNN and FOX describe only what's happening outside that curtain. This is what they mean by leveraging OUR money. Pay attention to the men behind the curtain! On the largest of scales, and in bed with corrupted governments, the pulling of these levers by wizards of ounce collapse nations and empires for profit, while building up new ones to fleece.

Remember, the wizard started out in kansas as a peddler of pots, pans and crystal balls. But the crystal ball was his best con. Especially if he (leaving the metaphor: now, the federal reserve chairman) could predict economic events, then have his international friends cause them to happen. Most of his predictions are in private to his friends (institutionalized, highly-secret insider trading, what Ben Bernanke recently referred to as trade secrets). (the men behind the curtain) Occasionally he throws a bone to congress by predicting something, then having his friends (filthy, filthy rich international bankers) make it happen to impress congress with his awesome powers (the great and terrible Oz). These people can predict a war and then cause it. And our leaders buy it, though it's pure smoke and mirrors and slight of hand as far as who's doing what and how. Pay attention to the men behind the curtain! Not CNN and FOX!

ENOUGH!

We've grown tired of their (four) horses they send around when its time for them to lock in their profits from nations they've bled dry. We've found a horse of a different color!

ENOUGH!

We've grown tired of them corrupting our religions and fomenting wars as they bury their bullion.

ENOUGH!

The Scare Crow (the people on their own land) will run things from here on out.

Seven Spanish Angels
He looked down into her brown eyes
and said say a prayer for me.
She threw her arms around him,
whispered God will keep us free.
They could hear the riders coming.
He said this is my last fight.
If they take me back to Texas,
they won't take me back alive.

Click your heels together three times.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.

As mentioned earlier, in the original written version, the ruby slippers were silver, representing the constitutional money of the brand new American Republic, just recently freed from the excessive usury-based taxes of the British Empire. With our new constitution granting congress the exclusive power to coin money (silver slippers), we had all we needed to prosper on our land (home). (as Glinda told Dorothy at the end of her journey) And we did prosper, like hotcakes! Till the witches (spys and infiltrators from the world of high finance), on broomsticks (the communication and trade routes of the world were dominated by the British) stirred up dust into twisters (confusion, distraction and desperation from the war of 1812, civil war), sending us spinning and reeling back down the yellow brick road (beguiling and entrancing our people and their representatives into allowing usury into the new United States).

Dorothy must click her silver slippers (constitutional money) 3 times which means we must know these lessons of money on every level of our beings: intellectually, emotionally and physically (scare crow, tin man, toto), and educate all levels of our Republic to be forever vigilant for these little harmless flim flam men beginning again their rise to the top.

As you may remember, the story begins with the witch stealing Toto (an animal, so represents the physical body of a person). This is the threat by the IRS of imprisonment (they take possession of your body) if you refuse to pay ALL your taxes to fund the usury of the banks. Of course, few of our citizens know this is the only purpose for the income tax, and that ALL of it goes there. Slight of hand, pops and flashes, the tricks of the magician: economics is deliberately tedious and obscure and overly complicated, thus obscurring a true accounting which would reveal the scam. But when you solve all the math and equations down to their simplest forms,
20% (or very much more) goes to usury,
20% (or very much more) goes to taxes...
Cancel usury, cancel taxes.
It's not rocket science after all.

There's no place like home. (the land is sacred)
There's no place like home. (the land is sacred)

The land is key for life and freedom from oppression. We need food, clothing and shelter. If we have access to land, and thus shelter, we can always scare up some food and clothing. If we ever have to start over, and write a new constitution somewhere to keep usury out, maybe it should guarantee a 5 acre birthright to each citizen of the republic, which cannot, under the constitution, be sold or confiscated for any reason whatsoever. It must be only tradable for another birthright tract and NEVER taxed.

Now, wouldn't it be better to break the cycles of national collapses, breakdowns and wars, by avoiding the black holes of excessive national debts?

Let the Debt-Free Printing Press fund the Public Sector,
And the Banks loan to the Private Sector.
And let's find the right balance and ratio between the two to maintain stable prices.

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