MONEY OR YOUR LIFE.
Chapter Nineteen.
HOW THE FUTURE COULD BE. PART 3.
Possibly the most important influence on health in our history has been housing.
People having to live under cardboard with newsprint as bedding is a terrible indictment of our existing economy and in my opinion the blame lies on our monetary system.
People see the price of property rising and they imagine it is safe to pay over the odds for a house because it is going to increase in value. Nobody warns them that it is not the house which is increasing in value but it is the value of money which is decreasing.
And as a result young people trying to make a start in life for the benefit of the next generation find themselves with negative equity in the home they have purchased. They have been ill advised, misinformed and are dispossessed losing everything. They lose hope, they feel betrayed and illness supervenes.
Tuberculosis which was almost eliminated with improved housing is once again on the increase.
Meanwhile we have a building industry that is idle despite the fact that there is a desperate need for housing.
Once again we are looking at a shortage of money and we are also looking at the terrible danger of using credit instead of money.
A shortage of money has been with us for so long that it is assumed to be part of the very nature of things or the will of God that one has to borrow money to live. To borrow money to start a business, to buy a car and for certain sure we must borrow money to buy a home.
No one stops to consider what the situation would be if we were allowed to flourish and prosper and if we had a sacred right to keep that which we honestly earned.
It would be a totally new ball game in which we paid for things out of our earnings as and when we needed them. We should also earn far more than we needed to spend and could set aside the money we need to buy a home for our children when they get married. Not much need for credit in a sane, honest and viable economy with an ethical monetary system.
It will not be terribly difficult for those with negative equity in their home to see what will happen when we change the monetary system. In no time at all, as it becomes widely realised that we pay interest on money which never existed, someone in authority is going to announce to a delighted electorate that as from midnight last night, everything you have is yours. Think that one through if you have paid too much for your home and your mortgage is a millstone round your neck.
If you are sleeping under cardboard, with newsprint for bedding and money suddenly becomes available to do all the things that were neglected, and which have thrown you on the scrap heap, wake up to a new dawn of a new day on which you can rejoin the human race.