I'll show you the money!

Candidates had no answers for the Priority One audience at Bay Court in Tauranga this week. Colour me surprised to find that all five just kept to the usual platitudes.

They promise growth and infrastructure for Tauranga of course, but without a whisper of how to pay for it. Well, why would they campaign for more debt? Unless they are standing for National...

Huge global financial companies are toppling one after another, the world economy is going down the gurgler, and none of the parties in or out of Parliament will face up to what is really wrong. None but Democrats for social credit (DSC), that is. And what is wrong? Debt, greed and more leveraged debt.

DSC has the mechanism to free New Zealand from the world's financial turmoil. And more specifically, we can provide cities like Tauranga with sustainable growth, fully funded public transport, education, health and a clean green environment. But not under the present, very dodgy economic system.

Currently, for Tauranga to have the infrastructure to cope with a huge projected growth in the next few decades, the usury attached to commercial finance will mean paying for each project two and three times over, a debt burden that will enslave generations to come. Rates will go up, prices will go up, businesses will go under and everyone loses.

DSC has an alternative - create the credit needed for public works, at cost (less than 1%), by using our own Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Unlike the privately-owned Federal Reserve (USA), The RBNZ is owned by you and me. Why pay billions of dollars a year in interest to overseas banks when we could be running our own money supply?

No currency exchange costs, no interest, no ties to rocky overseas banking interests - just the good old Kiwi dollar created and spent the way we want it! Rates will go down, prices will go down, business will thrive because people will have more money to spend, and everyone wins.

What's that whine in the corner? "We won't attract foreign investment" you say? We need foreign investors buying our houses, our farms and our companies like we need a hole in the head. Since when did those greed merchants ever put any money into actual production?

If I am elected to Parliament as the member for Tauranga, I'll show you the money: Community credit from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Choose real domocracy. Choose real freedom. Choose Democrats for social credit.

BTW, this was authorised by Mark Atkin, 5 Tarras Grove, Lower Hutt.

A Better Future

I am standing for the Democrats for social credit  this election, because I want a better future for my children and grandchildren.

Most of us want that, but most of us don't know where to start.

Let me make a suggestion: check out Democrats for social credit (DSC). We have been around for over half a century. We were the first party to advocate environmental policies. We were first to push for a nuclear-free NZ. We were first to call for and work for reform of the political system.

Now, when financial markets are crashing all over the world, and people are hurting but don't know where to turn, DSC has a plan.

The plan is simple: the public creation, ownership and control of our money supply through the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

This one vital act of democracy will have complex and far-reaching benefits for the people, the economy and the environment of New Zealand.

It's a very good place to start.

BTW, this was authorised by Mark Atkin, 5 Tarras Grove, Lower Hutt.

There's never enough money.

Up until recently you could get a loan for any amount to buy anything. So why isn't there enough money? Schools have to have 'donations' and money-raising events just to make ends meet. Hospices spend years fund-raising just to get a building, volunteer groups are always scrabbling for the pitiful few dollars available from the huge gambling pool. And now some really basic things are going up in price, while good old wages are still stuck somewhere last century.

So where did the all that dosh come from to buy bigger and more opulent houses, larger and more risky share portfolios? Gather round, my chicks, and I will tell you.

There is no room full of gold anywhere. Cash is created out of thin air (and a computer chip or two) and lent into the economy as new money. There is no limit to the amount that can be created this way, and the real killer is the interest charged on it. We pay through the nose for the right to use thin air dressed up as money. Back in the old days, all the major religions banned charging of interest - called usury - because it caused such misery to so many.

So here we are, working longer and smarter for less, while the profit of our labour - interest - gets sucked off into the pockets of the obscenely rich. You might be feeling that a monumental fraud is being perpetrated world wide by a very few, to grab the hard-earned wealth of the rest of us, and you'd be right. Commercial banks and financial institutions are co-conspirators of this fraud, and governments - knowingly or unknowingly - perpetuate the system to stay in power.

Does it all sound too big to think about? Taking on the world is a bit much, so I suggest we start small, right here in New Zealand. The first and most important step is to take public control of the money supply. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, instead of clobbering us with high interest rates, could create the money needed for the country's economy, and lend it into the system interest free.

Can you imagine getting an interest free loan for a house? You could pay it off before you die!

Sadly, none of the political parties with a presence in Parliament have any intention of allowing the Reserve Bank to resume this function. Some of them, because if they did their larger contributors would take a hike, but mostly because they still believe "loans come from other people's savings", a myth that is part of the fraud. Even the Greens, bless their little hemp socks, want ever so much done for the environment (who doesn't?), but have no idea how to pay for it.

Democrats for social credit (DSC) is the only political party with the core economic policy to pull New Zealand off the debt treadmill. Check it out at www.democrats.org.nz or go to Deputy Leader John Pemberton's site: www.johnpemberton.co.nz and see for yourself.