●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which leads to civil disorder.
●Cutting the deficit is the government’s method for taking dollars from the middle class and giving them to the rich.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
Many articles have been written about the failings of American schools and our children’s low ranking worldwide. Part of the blame can be attributed to inadequate local funding and excessive university costs:
The Next America
Analysis: How Much States Spend on Their Kids Really Does Matter
The initial difference between state education rankings and the average per-pupil spending is clear and rather obvious: States that spend more on their students tend to rank higher, and states that spend less rank lower. But if the answer were that simple, education reform would be a breeze.
Like every complex story, outliers and exceptions to the rule exist.
Children learn from their parents, their school teachers and their peers. In total, if the teaching is substandard or incorrect, the students will tend toward ignorance.
Ignorance of Monetary Sovereignty is widespread among university economics professors, who themselves were taught by professors ignorant of Monetary Sovereignty. The ignorance was handed down from teacher to student to fellow student — from generation to generation.
But, economics isn’t the only discipline where fact is ignored. Consider, for instance, biology. Here are excerpts from an article describing how vouchers have led to formalized superstition being taught in our schools.
Creationism spreading in schools, thanks to vouchers
Zack Kopplin (a 19-year-old student at Rice University, and one of the leading American voices against the teaching of creationism in schools), 01/16/2013
So far, I have documented 310 schools, in nine states and the District of Columbia that are teaching creationism, and receiving tens of millions of dollars in public money through school voucher programs. Here are a few highlights from creationist voucher schools I have identified:
Private Christian schools are rightly free to teach Christian dogma. Public schools should not. American law separates the religious world from the public world for good reason: Religion never is wrong.
Democracy is a method for debating and evaluating different opinions. In religion, there is no debate. God speaks; we obey. But how do we know what God is saying? The high priests tell us. So the reality: The high priests speak; we obey.
Those who disagree are vilified as sinners for not accepting “God’s (the priests’) word. Thus, does theocracy devolve to totalitarianism, and that is why America separates religion from politics — or tries to.
Here are more excerpts from the creationism article:
●The Beverly Institute in Jacksonville, Florida, teaches “Evidence of a Flood,” and “Evidence against Evolution,” and ”The Evolution of Man: A Mistaken Belief.”
● Christian Academy in McDonough, Georgia says,“The universe, a direct creation of God, refutes the man-made idea of evolution. Students will be called upon to see the divine order of creation and its implications on other subject areas.
●Life Christian Academy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma says their life science class will “lead the student to recognize that God created all living things and that these living things are fearfully and wonderfully made.” Evolution is taught only in history class, where students “evaluate the theory of evolution and its flaws.” The school uses the creationist Bob Jones and CSI curriculums.
●The principal of the Claiborne Christian School, in West Monroe, Louisiana, says in a school newsletter, “Our position at CCS on the age of the Earth and other issues is that any theory that goes against God’s Word is in error.” She also claims that scientists are “sinful men” trying to explain the world “without God” so they don’t have to be “morally accountable to Him.”
●Trinity Academy, in Gary, uses the creationist A Beka curriculum and says it “presents the universe as the direct creation of God and refutes the man-made idea of evolution.”
●Rocky Bayou Christian School, in Niceville, Florida, says in its section on educational philosophy, “God mandates that children be discipled for Christ. They must be trained in the biblical world view which honors Jehovah, the sovereign Creator of the universe. It recognizes that man was created in the image of God” and says “Man is presumed to be an evolutionary being shaped by matter, energy, and chance… God commands His people not to teach their children the way of the heathen.”
●Wisconsin Lutheran High School, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, says in its biology syllabus that it teaches, “evolutionists are ‘stuck’ because they have no god, therefore they must believe in evolution” and “young earth evidence a disaster to evolutionists.”
While we adherents of Monetary Sovereignty and MMT rail against the unnecessary money shortages endured by our schools — shortages the federal government easily could and should end — we also must acknowledge that if the money is not well managed, it may be spent for evil.
Ignorance, by teacher and parent, can overcome the intent of even the best funded school programs. Creationism is ignorance and teaching Christianity in public schools is traitorous. Adding dollars to the effort only exacerbates the harm.
So, yes our schools are underfunded. Similarly, our healthcare, retirement, anti-poverty, infrastructure and energy programs are underfunded. We always must remember, even with money, each can be perverted by those with evil intent, but that is not a reason to withhold money.
To detractors of Monetary Sovereignty, I agree that money does not solve all problems. Along with money there needs to be intelligence, honesty and effort. The shortage of money tends to worsen problems.
Too many of our children are taught creationism and mainstream economics. Unless they are particularly strong of mind, they will grow up ignorant — ignorant of subject and of the harm they do in passing this ignorance to their children and their peers.
Then they become the politicians and the judges who run our nation.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%
No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia. Two key equations in economics:
Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports