The
No Tax, No Loan and No Interest Initiative.
Using
Treasury Credits issued by the Parliament.
.
What
is Economics?
You see,
people do not understand economics. That is part of the problem.
They
think of economics in terms of accounting.
Now,
an accountant is someone who knows nothing about economics, otherwise,
he could not be an accountant.
An
accountant is talking with figures and so forth, which correspond to something
called money.
And,
money is not a measure of value. If you do not believe it, you should see
the prices today.
And,
see what you get with them. You should see what is happening on the international
market today,
Money
is fake today. And, you have people talking about the economy is growing.
Yes,
the amount of money is growing, but the economy is collapsing!
And,
as long as people try to explain political issues, and substantive issues,
in
terms of accounting they do not know what they are talking about.
And
any suggestions they make are likely to be incompetent, or worse. Or actually
damaging.
.
The
Creative Powers of Mankind.
Economics
is physical.
But,
it is physical in a special way. So, therefore, the issue is the creative
powers of mankind.
Creative
powers which are denied to exist by every single empiricist. Denied by
every positivist.
Despised
by every exponent of information theory. Denied by every exponent of synthetic
intelligence.
Popular
things these days.
People
who believe in information theory or synthetic intelligence are incompetents.
They
are dangerously incompetent … The problem here, of economics ... it is
not paper!
It
is not accounting. It is physical. It is not just physical objects.
Economics
is the power of mankind to increase his power, the will power of man over
physical nature.
And,
it is by production, not by software. It is not by information theory.
Its not by services economy.
It
is by actually changing things. It is creating an environment which is
suitable to man.
It's
power systems. Its water systems. Large scale agricultural development.
Its
inventions. But it is, above all, scientific discovery and Classical artistic
composition.
These
are the qualities of man. That is economy. That is physical economy.
The
increase and protection, of man’s power in and over nature, to meet the
requirements of man.
And,
as an instrument in nature, to make nature better.
.
The
basis of Treasury Credits is the People not collateral.
Look at
it another way; collateral is property, gold or any goods. The People are
the consumers.
You
can site the most prestigious bank in all the world in the center of a
barren desert and invite it to
give
the character of money to the desert's assets in the form of currency and
promissory notes and
negotiable
securities.
.
All
of these, what ever their numbers or denominations would be worthless bits
of paper since they
would
have no purchasing power in a land without people or resources.
.
But
dig wells, find water, create an environment in which vegetation can exist
and living things can
grow,
and multiply. Then your currency will have started to acquire a value.
That value will have been
determined
not by the awesome dignity of the bank itself, or the acclaimed financial
expertise of its
governors,
but the intrinsic wealth of the community which had gathered around its
doors.
.
It
is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot
the people have the benefit
of
their own production, services, selling and buying in non-interest bearing
currency instead of the bankers
receiving
the benefit of interest bearing bonds and loans resulting in government
and public debt?
.
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EXISTING
ACTIVITIES OF THE RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA.
Reserve
Bank is an active participant in financial markets, manages Australia's
foreign reserves,
issues
Australian currency notes and serves as banker to the Commonwealth Government.
.
Royal
Australian Mint sells the coins to the Reserve Bank and the RBA completed
the introduction of
new
cash distribution arrangements. This involved the purchase by commercial
banks of working
stocks
of notes and coin, which previously had been owned by the RBA, but held
in note and coin
pools
operated by armoured car companies.
Because
commercial banks must purchase stocks of currency for full value, the result
of this change in
arrangements
is that the RBA’s balance sheet and profits are higher, when banks purchase
currency
the
RBA invests the resulting funds in interest bearing assets.
.
This
is Government Banking Page 2.
Government
Banking; The banking services provided to the Commonwealth Government
by the
RBA
comprise two components. A core banking facility is provided to the Department
of Finance and
Administration
(DoFA), which is non contestable in terms of the Commonwealth Governments
competition
policy. This facility is made up of a group of bank accounts, including
the Official Public
Account
(OPA), a term deposit facility for the investment of temporarily surplus
Commonwealth funds
and
a strictly limited overdraft facility.
.
Under
the core banking arrangements, payments are made from the OPA to agencies
and end of day
agency
balances held with transactional bankers are swept back to the OPA overnight.
These
balances are returned to transactional bankers at the start of the next
business day.
.
The
services also embrace electronic collection of forecasting data and reporting
on high value
transactions
from agencies and transactional bankers to assist the RBA in the discharge
of its
monetary
policy and liquidity management responsibilities. The RBA administers a
term deposit facility,
on
behalf of DoFA, through which agencies can deposit temporarily surplus
departmental funds.
.
The
other component of the RBA’s banking business is the provision of contestable
transactional banking
services
to government customers. Since 1991, the RBA has distributed government
payments direct to accounts
at
financial institutions through its Government Direct Entry System (GDES).
Government payments are;
Centrelink,
Department of Veterans Affairs, FMA agencies via Bureau,
Australian
Taxation Office, Department of Defence.
.
Registry
Services; During the year, RBA provided registry services to
the Commonwealth Government,
South
Australian Government Financing Authority (SAFA) and certain highly rated
supranational organizations,
these
are acquired under repurchase agreements and a number of other official
domestic and foreign institutions.
The
core functions of this service cover the issue, transfer and registration
of securities, the maintenance of
ownership
records, the distribution of interest payments and the redemption of securities
at maturity.
.
Settlement
and Registry Services; Reserve Bank Information and Transfer
System (RITS) is used by
banks
and other approved institutions to settle interbank payments, mostly on
a Real Time Gross Settlement
(RTGS)
basis. RITS also provides a facility for electronic tendering for Commonwealth
Government securities (CGS).
In
February 2002, in the interests of clearing system efficiency, members
transferred all CGS to the
Austraclear
system operated by SFE Corporation Limited.
.
Domestic
Dealing Arrangements and Exchange Settlement accounts page 2;
The
primary objective of domestic market operations is to implement monetary
policy, the stance of which is
expressed
in terms of a target for the cash rate, the interest rate on funds borrowed
and lent overnight by financial
institutions.
The aim of domestic market operations is to supply sufficient liquid funds
"Exchange
Settlement (ES) funds" to the banking system to maintain the cash
rate around the desired level.
.
Final
settlement of payments system obligations occurs through transactions on
accounts at the RBA.
These
accounts are called Exchange Settlement accounts (ES accounts). ES accounts
must be maintained
in
credit at all times, and the RBA pays interest on overnight balances in
these accounts.
.
Banks
access their ES accounts through RITS and demand for ES funds by banks
fluctuates from day
to
day, mainly in response to anticipated settlement obligations. The Reserve
Bank manages the
amount
of ES funds available to banks by buying securities to increase (or selling
securities to reduce)
the
supply of such funds. The bulk of the Reserve Banks operations to implement
policy are in
repurchase
agreements, or repos.
.
While
outright purchases or sales of securities for liquidity management are
most efficiently conducted
in
stock of less than a year to maturity, repos have the advantage of allowing
the full spectrum of
government
securities to be tapped, since stock of any maturity can be used as collateral
for repos.
.
.
What
is a repurchase agreement?
A
repurchase agreement involves the purchase (or sale) of securities in exchange
for cash, with an
agreement
to reverse the transaction at an agreed price on a future date. They have
some similarities
with
foreign currency swaps, which involve the exchange of foreign exchange
(US dollars) for cash and
which
are also used when necessary to manage domestic liquidity.
.
RTGS
and Other Settlement Services; About 90 per cent of the value
of interbank payments is
settled
on an RTGS basis; this includes all wholesale debt and money market settlements,
Australian
dollar
foreign exchange settlements and a range of time critical customer payments.
.
In
addition to RTGS payments, RITS settles two batches of netted interbank
payments each day.
The
9.00 am batch consists of positions collated by the RBA on behalf of the
Australian Payments
Clearing
Association arising from the previous days, low value clearings (paper,
as well as bulk and
retail
electronic).
.
The
second batch settles net positions for equity transactions in CHESS, the
electronic settlement
system
operated by the Australian Stock Exchange.
.
The
Sydney Futures Exchange Clearing House acts as a central counter party
to its members' trades
and
will operate its Exchange Settlement (ES) Account exclusively on a real
time gross settlement
(RTGS)
basis. Settlement services are also provided for the RBA’s own transactions
in the domestic
securities
and foreign exchange markets, as well as those arising from the Commonwealth
Government
and other official customers. See Debt Issuance in Futures Market.
.
The
RBA has adapted to these developments by broadening the range of collateral
it is prepared to
accept
in its domestic repo operations. This started with the decision in 1997
to accept Australian dollar domestic
securities
issued by State and Territory borrowing authorities.
.
This
increased the pool of securities available for repo by over 40 per cent
at the time. Declines in
CGS
on issue since then mean that, in June 2002, the repo collateral pool was
effectively double what
it
would have been if the RBA had not made this change.
Market
participants adjusted quickly to the new arrangements, and between 50 and
60 per cent of the
domestic
collateral held by the RBA on repo is now typically State government debt.
.
These
developments contributed to the decision by the Australian Office of Financial
Management
(AOFM)
to alter the arrangements for the issuance of Treasury notes. Traditionally
an instrument used
by
the Government for within year cash management Treasury notes have
become less important for
this
purpose in recent years as the AOFM has been able to use its term deposits
at the RBA, on which
it
receives market rates of interest, to manage within year fluctuations in
its cash position. In May 2002
the
AOFM announced that it would in future issue Treasury notes only when needed,
rather than
maintain
a regular issuance schedule.
.
Other
Domestic Operations; In recent years, the RBA has been
active in the government bond
market
in its capacity as fiscal agent for the Commonwealth.
These
operations, which have been carried out under instruction from the AOFM,
have largely involved
the
retirement of outstanding debt through direct repurchases.
.
In
2001/02, the RBA undertook no transactions of this type and, in future,
the AOFM will undertake
direct
repurchases in its own name. Over the year, the AOFM pursued a consolidation
program
through
the use of conversion tenders rather than direct repurchases.
.
The
other main area of domestic operations is securities lending. The RBA maintains
a securities
lending
facility through which it lends from its outright holdings of CGS on an
issue by issue basis.
.
The
RBA undertakes this activity to assist market participants to cover temporary
shortages of particular
issues
of Treasury bonds. However, the RBA prices its stock lending so as to be
a less attractive lender in
the
market to avoid the risk of displacing private activity.
.
Notes
on Issue
The
value of Australian notes on issue rose by $243 million, or 0.8 per cent,
over 2002/03 to $32.2 billion.
The
increase is significantly lower than the 2001/02 increase of $4.8 billion,
or 17.5 per cent which, in
large
part, reflected the changed ownership arrangements for the cash distribution
working stocks. Under the new
cash
distribution arrangements, the working stocks are recorded as “on issue”
where as previously they were not.
.
The
Banks note issue activities embrace the storage and issue of new and reissuable
notes; the processing
of
notes returned from circulation for quality control purposes; and research
into and development of note designs
and
security features.
For
practical purposes, all Australian currency notes in active circulation
are now polymer. The benefits
of
polymer arise from greater security and durability, and reduced machine
maintenance and
processing
requirements.
.
.
Note
processing and distribution
Despite
the strong growth in electronic payments media, such as EFTPOS and direct
entry, the public's demand
for
currency notes has grown broadly in line with the economy over recent years.
Use
of $50 and $100 notes grew strongly; these two denominations now account
for about 87 per cent
of
the value of notes on issue.
During
the year, the Reserve Bank issued into circulation around $69 billion in
currency notes and had
$68
billion in notes returned for processing. Of the total notes processed,
about 93 per cent were
classified
as fit for reissue, a percentage which has increased because of the durability
and cleanliness
of
polymer notes.
.
In
future, the Reserve Bank aims to achieve its objectives by processing notes
in circulation on
average
twice each year, resulting in significant cost savings.
The
operational procedures in the cash services areas were streamlined, in
which notes are returned to the
Reserve
Bank from the community and in handling and custodial arrangements within
cash services areas.
.
Please
Note: The Australian Constitution does not mention the selling of notes
and coins.
Australian
Constitution Chapter one Section 51: The Parliament shall, subject to the
Constitution, have
power
to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth
with respect to subsections;
.
(iv.)
Borrowing money on the public credit; (xii.) Currency, coinage, and legal
tender;
(xiii.)
Banking, the issue of paper money; and (xvi.) Bills of exchange and promissory
notes.
.
The
selling of working stocks of notes and coin to commercial banks of which
previously, had been
owned
by the RBA; is an alteration of the Australian Constitution and will
be stopped.
.
The
chart below indicates how the increase occurred in the value of notes on
issue ( $ million), continuing
the
underlying trend towards a greater proportion of notes on issue being accounted
for by the bank
loans
to Government, Business and People and the higher prices paid for goods
and services in a
Debt
Based System.
.
|
At
end June
|
$1
|
$2
|
$5
|
$10
|
$20
|
$50
|
$100
|
Total
|
Increase
(percent)
|
|
1997
|
19
|
47
|
351
|
601
|
1
837
|
8
912
|
8
297
|
20
064
|
4.6
|
|
1998
|
19
|
47
|
361
|
617
|
1
804
|
9
523
|
9
280
|
21
651
|
7.9
|
|
1999
|
0
|
46
|
379
|
639
|
1
850
|
10
356
|
10
282
|
23
552
|
8.8
|
|
2000
|
0
|
46
|
397
|
646
|
1
917
|
11
188
|
11
240
|
25
434
|
8.0
|
|
2001
|
0
|
45
|
431
|
662
|
2
014
|
12
055
|
11
961
|
27
168
|
6.8
|
|
2002
|
0
|
45
|
530
|
791
|
2
789
|
14
718
|
13
057
|
31
930
|
17.5
|
|
2003
|
0
|
45
|
515
|
759
|
2
510
|
14
918
|
13
426
|
32
173
|
0.8
|
.
To
explain the Reserve Bank's supply of money into the community.
(1).
Treasury issues Treasury Bonds to the Reserve Bank.
.
(2).
Reserve Bank registers the Treasury Bonds then places them for tender.
.
(3).
the tenders are then accepted from highest yield to lowest yield.
.
(4).
Treasury Bonds are then placed with Austraclear for trading on the Futures
exchange.
.
(5).
Treasury Bonds are then traded as 10 and 3 year Bonds.
.
(6).
Government, Reserve Bank and Commercial Banks may then buy the Bonds.
AOFM issues Interest coupons payable on Commonwealth Government Securities.
.
(7).
The Reserve Bank manages the amount of ES funds available to banks by buying
Bonds to increase
the
supply of such funds for business and public use.
.
The
aim of domestic market operations is to supply sufficient liquid funds,
Exchange Settlement (ES)
funds,
to the banking system to maintain the cash rate around the desired level;
the interest rate on
funds
borrowed and lent overnight by Commercial Banks.
.
Demand
for ES funds by banks fluctuates from day to day, mainly in response to
anticipated settlement
obligations.
This may include Loans and Mortgages to business and individuals.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Why
RTGS?
The
reduction of settlement risk in domestic high value payments systems has
been a principal
objective
of many central banks over the past decade.
This
risk arises when payment instructions are sent and acted upon by banks
and their customers,
but
settlement of the resulting net obligations occurs some time later.
In
Australia’s deferred net settlement system, final settlement of interbank
obligations was not
completed
until 9.00 am the day following the sending of payment instructions.
.
In
the interim, a bank could find itself unable to meet its settlement obligations.
Because of the
very
large values and the multitude of individual transactions involved, the
result could have
been
a serious disruption to payment flows, leaving other banks facing liquidity
pressures and
even
insolvency. The Reserve Bank could provide emergency liquidity to try to
stem this type of
systemic
risk, but in doing so could take on large exposures to payments system
participants.
.
The
RTGS system addresses this problem at source by preventing the buildup
of unsettled
obligations.
It is based on the simple premise that if a bank does not have sufficient
funds in its
ES
account, any payment it wants to make will have to be queued until there
are funds available.
Since
payments are not made unless they can be settled, settlement risk is eliminated.
If
a bank were to fail during the course of the day, there would be no need
to unwind a chain of
payments
or put the Reserve Bank balance sheet at risk.
.
Deferred net settlement
During day
1. Payer instructs bank to make payment
2. Banks exchange payment instructions
3. Beneficiary’s bank credits account of beneficiary
4. Beneficiary may withdraw funds and make further payments
.
Overnight
5. Banks calculate net obligations and notify RBA
.
Next day
6. RBA posts debits and credits to banks’ ES accounts.
.
Note old system;
Previous day’s payments would be
thrown into doubt if a bank were
unable to settle its net obligations. |
Real-time gross settlement
During day
1. Payer instructs bank to make payment
2. Payments sent to RBA’s RTGS queue
3. Payments for which ES funds not available remain in queue
4. If ES funds available, payer’s bank has its ES account debited and
beneficiary’s bank has its ES account credited
5. Beneficiary’s bank notified of payment
6. Beneficiary’s bank credits account of beneficiary
7. Beneficiary may withdraw funds and make further payments
.
Note RTGS system;
Each payment is final as it is made
and not at risk if payer’s bank
subsequently fails.
Used by People's Mandate System. |
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.
.
.
.
.
The
People's Mandate;
The
initiative:
.
This
Initiative has been designed to be compatible with the Reserve Bank existing
activities, including
Exports
and Imports, except the Treasury Credits will be spent in to the community
and not the Financial Markets.
Where
money shall be made available to the Government, Business, Farmers and
the Consumers;
no
repayments or interest expense.
The
issue of Treasury Credits shall be matched and controlled by the National
Public Expense.
.
People
and businesses defaulting loan repayments may cause business and people
to apply for
bankruptcies
or loss of collateral, usually property. A country can not have a strong
economy if the People
have
gone into debt, who have no jobs and receive pensions; that is an extra
expense to the Treasury.
.
Shall
abolish;
HECS,
loan and mortgage and repayments and interest payments on them.
Abolish
all taxation, credit cards and all government regulation costs including
mining companies transport costs;
will
provide profits and reduced costs to government, banks, businesses and
People.
All
other financial business will be maintained, including gold loans and foreign
exchange dealings;
.
The
Constitutional value of Notes and Coins.
The
coinage which developed was standard, as distinct from today's token money,
that is; the coins were
worth
their weight in gold and silver.
Money
loses value when it's supply is increased at a rate in excess of the capacity
of the economy to produce
goods
and services. Bank notes were originally issued to depositors as evidence
that gold was held on their behalf
in
a bank.
It
became convenient for the depositor to use the notes to transfer the deposit
to another person, for value received.
The
value of the notes was matched by the value of the gold held in banks.
As
banks realised the reserves of hard currency they held, it became a short
step to lending it out, at a rate of
interest,
by issuing bank notes to borrowers. The value of token money now exceeded
real money.
.
Banks
should focus investing in the People. There are over 19.5 million people
in Australia; as the population and money in the hands of the People increases,
so to will the People produce more.
.
HOW
THIS MONEY WILL ENTER SOCIETY
For example,
Parliament says, "We need $1 billion dollars to pay the contractor to build
a new hospital".
Treasury
will create and register $A1 billion in Treasury Credits with the Reserve
Bank of Australia,
who
will authorize the printing of currency notes and deposit the notes into
Commonwealth Public Account.
.
The
Reserve Bank of Australia will write a cheque to pay the contractor who
built the hospital.
The
contractor then takes it along to his own bank, and pays it into his private
bank account.
Cheque
is then cleared through the Australian Payment Clearing Association (APCA)
system,
as
usual and contractor's private bank account credited with the appropriate
amount in $A.
.
How
Treasury Credits will be recycled;
This
money was the result, of the issue of the Treasury Credits to build the
new hospital.
Thus,
the contractor will then make purchases from and payments to other
businesses,
who will pay that new money into their bank accounts.
.
As
soon as the Treasury Credits has been spent, the money will find its way
into the bank account
of
a car dealer or store; The new money adding to the companies income.
The
surplus of funds not required, shall be returned to the Commonwealth Official
Public Account
so
the Reserve Bank shall continue Parliaments payments to the community.
Treasury
will only issue Treasury Credits if Commonwealth Official Public Account
deposits are not
enough
to cover costs of the Parliament backed infrastructure projects and payments
to the community.
See
Domestic Dealing Arrangements and Exchange Settlement accounts page 2;
.
How
will this new money be accounted for;
The
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is a financial institution, the financial
statements have been
prepared
using AAS32 – Specific Disclosures by Financial Institutions.
Treasury
Credits will be converted to notes -- and Legal Tender, equal to the National
note and coin.
.
Shall
be accounted for and listed in the Financial Statements;
Assets
section as; "Cash" and "Liquid Assets" (Overnight settlements system)
and;
Liabilities
section as; "Deposits" (Banks Exchange settlement accounts) and
"Notes
and Coin on Issue"
Parliament
will issue Treasury Credits to provide payments;
See
Government Banking Page 2.
through
it's Government Direct Entry System (GDES) in the form of a basic wage
to every person over the age of
18
years and the remainder of their life.
If
person over age 18, becomes employed the earnings shall be half the basic
wage and in addition to
basic
wage. *** Example; Basic wage per week $300 / 2 = 150
+ 300 = $450. ***
Businesses
may request their bank to deposit employees income by electronic settlement.
The
basic wage will replace all Centrelink pension and all other payments
.
All
loans and mortgages repayments not complete shall be cancelled. People
may apply to their bank to
issue
Bank cheque or electronic settlement; to settle all repayments.
.
Under
the Debt Free Initiative;
The
Commonwealth Treasury will be granted an Exchange Settlement (ES) Account.
This will be the
approval
under the more liberal access arrangements announced by the Payments System
Board.
.
Under
the new arrangements, non-bank institutions which provide third party payment
services are
eligible
for Exchange Settlement (ES) Accounts at the Reserve Bank that are the
means by which
providers
of payments services settle obligations among themselves and with the Reserve
Bank which
they
have accrued in the clearing process. The Treasury Credits will provide
the banking system with
the
deposits for more liquidity.
.
Purchaser
receives from sales person invoice in triplicate, to purchase goods. Purchaser
goes to
bank
who then deposits the invoiced amount into target Account, bank keeps one
copy, the purchaser
returns
to sales person who keeps one copy and one copy to purchaser who then takes
possession
of
goods.
All
account holder payments to Goods or Service provider or employee, shall
take their Invoice
received
in triplicate, to their bank who shall arrange payment from the Exchange
Settlement (ES)
funds
shall;
1)
apply to their bank to issue electronic settlement or Bank cheque;
2)
an amount payable to the registered Goods or Service provider or employee
the;
3)
registered Goods or Service provider or employee deposits the amount received
into account.
4)
If personal cheque or bank cheque has not been delivered must be returned
to the bank.
5)
Using Invoices to Withdraw for Gambling; shall not be permitted.
Public
and Private Hospitals; apply to their bank to pay for their normal expenses
and;
People
apply to their bank to pay expenses directly to both Public and Private
Hospitals
and
Doctors. Private Health insurance not needed and, the medicare levy will
be abolished.
.
Schools
and Universities; HECS shall be abolished, apply to their bank;
To
pay for their normal expenses and;
parents
apply to their bank to pay school fees, stationary, text books and uniforms
and,
students may apply to their bank, to pay university fees and university
course.
.
Using
Treasury Credits for Commonwealth Cash Management;
An
important function performed by the Australian Office of Financial Management
(AOFM) is the
management
of the Commonwealth's cash balances. The Commonwealth's cash management
task
arises
because the day to day timing of the Commonwealth's receipts does not match
the
disbursement
pattern of its outlays.
.
The
Treasury shall not issue Treasury Credits to the Financial Markets this
means there shall be no
need
for Taxation, Loans and Mortgages to business and individuals.
Treasury
shall only issue Treasury Credits to the Reserve Bank and converted to
the legal tender of
$A
Notes for the direct supply of liquid funds to the Exchange Settlement
(ES) Accounts for supply of cash
to
the banking system then to the public such as;
.
Aboriginal
and rural business, industry, farmers, producers, manufacturers, small
business, banks,
home
buyers, nursing homes and all Charities, Hospitals, Schools and Universities,
electricity, gas,
telephone
accounts, car, all vehicle registrations, and legal purposes and;
Hospitals,
IVF Treatment, Umbilical cord blood bank, Schools, all public works, all
rail and road construction and
maintenance;
no need for road tolls, all Federal, State, Territory and Local government
services, council rates,
sewerage
authorities and water costs, new residential development and infrastructure
and;
.
Making
use of sewerage water by treatment, to be chemically pure for manufacturing
and farming use,
salinity
and water management and other environmental issues, including recycling
of all used materials,
in
Australia will be supplied free.
.
After
which the legal tender of $A Notes shall be recycled to the AOFM short
term investment facility, to
pay
for costs related to National Consolidated Revenue Fund and normal government
expenses where the;
Cash
proceeds not required for immediate purposes are placed in a short term
investment facility (term deposit)
provided
by the Reserve Bank of Australia. The AOFM uses term deposit balances as
the
primary
vehicle for managing within year mismatches in the timing of cash receipts
and outlays.
.
.
To
Control the money supply and inflation;
Withdrawals
shall be based on need; if the number or value of withdrawals become excessive,
example
Real Estate, there shall be a maximum number or value of withdrawals over
a stated
period;
will replace the existing Reserve Bank cash rate adjustments.
.
Once
finance has been committed to say; building a house or a project, the money
will not be stopped
while
the house or project, remains in the process of being built.
.
Existing
Private and Commercial Investments;
All
individual earnings, profits, superannuation and all other investment accounts
shall be retained.
All
investments including all property will be by negotiation.
.
The
Treasury Credits, currency note and coin issue shall be a Constitutional
Asset and must be kept in circulation,
so
banks can have cash available for public use and all withdrawals shall
be free of repayments
and
interest. All Banks shall provide the service but shall not own or create
any currency, mortgages or loans.
.
Parliament,
all Business, Banks and all Individual account holders shall own the value
but not the
Treasury
Credits, notes and coins.
.
May
withdraw part or all of the value in cash from the bank account and; account
holder must not make out
any
Cheque to account holder, who is the same account holder or to a subsidiary
company of the same group.
.
All
home buyers must live at or on place of residence a minimum of 24 months
if purchased through the
bank.
If account holder has enough deposit in account to purchase there shall
be no restrictions.
.
The
People's Mandate;
The
Futures Market initiative:
.
Will
Treasury Credits effect Superannuation and other investments?
Will
it effect the Futures Market?
.
If
the investments includes Treasury Bonds and these are abolished;
yes,
and that will include overseas markets as well.
.
Can
the Treasury Bonds be replaced? -- Yes.
Reserve
Bank and the Sydney Futures Exchange can initiate an agreement to issue
Reserve Bank
Bonds
a minimum of $50,000,000,000, financed by all investors.
.
Reserve
Bank may issue Reserve Bank Bonds through it's existing Registry Services;
The
core functions of this service cover the issue,
transfer
and registration of securities,
the
maintenance of ownership records,
the
distribution of interest payments and
the
redemption of securities at maturity.
and may
have a face value of $1,000, 100,000 or $1,000,000.
may
have a maturity date,
may
have interest paid every six months.
.
The
Reserve Bank may use it's existing trading procedures, the Austraclear
system operated by SFE Corporation
Limited,
as they have done with the Treasury Bonds. All existing Treasury Bonds
shall be converted to
Reserve
Bank Bonds and no changes to any existing investors holdings.
.
Reserve
Bank Bonds Interest income may be secured by trading fees or other investments.
Money
not required by the Exchange Settlement accounts may be used as interest
payments to all
holders
of the Reserve Bank Bonds.
See
Domestic Dealing Arrangements and Exchange Settlement accounts page 2;
.
The
Parliament, all banks and businesses and members of the public may apply
to their bank to
purchase
the Reserve Bank Bonds; no repayments or interest expense.
.
The
Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM);
Debt
Issuance in Futures Market.
The
Government recently publicly reviewed the future of the Commonwealth Government
securities
market
against a backdrop of financial market concern about the future viability
of the market.
The
Government released a discussion paper in October 2002 and invited written
submissions from
interested
stake holders. The outcome of the review was announced in the Budget in
May 2003 with the complete
decision
contained in Budget Statement No 7.
.
The
review concluded that sufficient Treasury Bonds should be issued to support
the Treasury bond
futures
market; usually traded as 10 or 3 year Bonds.
.
Further,
the Australian financial market may become less diversified and more vulnerable
during periods
of
instability. Given the findings the issue of Reserve Bank Bonds, would
be targeted to support the
Treasury
bond futures market by replacing the Treasury bonds with the Reserve Bank
Bonds.
Treasury
debt issuance of the Treasury bond futures market will be abolished.
End
of Supplying the Futures Market
.
A
Debt Based system value of Australian notes on issue have increased because
of the banks loan
facility.
A Debt Free system value of Australian notes on issue will remain stable
because the currency will
be
recycled and backed by the productivity of the People, including Gold and
Silver.
.
Some
people may say; "Well, that sounds inflationary to me" or "we will all
be millionaires"
It
should have nothing to do with how much money is available. Money is simply
a token, which enables
people
to exchange their goods and services without the complications of bartering.
Goods and services
only
have value when the People decide to use the money to pay for them.
It
should be the government's job to ensure that there are enough tokens circulating
to enable the
exchange
of goods and services.
.
Administered
responsibly, just as the State has issued debt free cash responsibly for
many years, the
ability
of Parliament to create its own debt free money could create real economic
activity, employment
and
wealth.
.
In
1750, this New England was very prosperous. Benjamin Franklin wrote: "There
was
abundance
in the Colonies, and peace reigned on every border. It was difficult, even
impossible,
to
find a happier and more prosperous nation on all the surface of the globe.
Comfort prevailed
in
every home. The people, in general, kept the highest moral standards, and
education was
widely
spread.
.
In
the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It's called 'Colonial script'.
We issue it to pay the Government's
approved
expenses and charities.
We
make sure it's issued in proper proportion to make the goods pass easily
from the producers to the consumers.
In
other words, we make sure there is always adequate money in circulation
for the needs of the economy".
.
In
this manner, by creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its
purchasing power,
and
we have no interest to pay, to anyone. You see, a legitimate government
can spend money into
circulation,
while banks can only lend significant amounts of their promissory bank
notes, for they can
neither
give away nor spend but a tiny fraction of the money the people need.
Thus,
when your bankers here in England place money in circulation, there is
always a debt principal to
be
returned and interest (usury) to be paid.
The
result is that you have always too little credit in circulation to give
the workers full employment.
You
do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation
and that which circulates,
all
bears the endless burden of unpayable debt and interest (usury).
.
ESSENCE
OF SOCIAL CREDIT.
While
it is well known that the founder of the Social Credit philosophy was a
Scot by the name of
Clifford
Hugh Douglas, it is not so well known that he was actually a very sharp
engineer.
Because
of this he viewed economic subjects from a completely different viewpoint;
and not surprisingly, came to
dramatically
different conclusions.
The
engineering approach is to firstly identify and detail the specific final
objective, and then tabulate and assess all
the
alternative methods of achieving the specific objective. Late in World
War 1, the U.K. Government invited him to
investigate
a problem within the aircraft industry, because of his reputation for analysing
problems.
The
concern was to explain why the companies in the aircraft industry were
going into recession while the world was
calling
out for planes in all directions? Why was the industry not enjoying a prolonged
boom?
.
In
every factory his analysis of the books showed that there was a consistent
and substantial disparity between
the
wages paid and the total prices for the same period. The books of other
businesses also showed there was an
ongoing
disparity or shortfall between wages, salaries and dividends, or what could
be called spendable incomes or
cash,
and total product prices.
The
deficiency or shortfall included items like depreciation, bank charges,
and payments to other companies, none
of
which were fully and immediately available in a cashable form to liquidate
the prices of products
produced
within the same time span.
Regardless
of the extent of it, the Douglas Analysis showed that in every firm, and
every industry the flow of wages
was
lower or less than the flow of prices, creating an ongoing shortfall or
deficiency.
Furthermore,
the mushrooming of debt throughout the whole economy was visible evidence,
which reinforced the
existence
of an ongoing gap or shortfall. Douglas postulated that this quantifiable
growth in debt, not only showed
that
a gap existed, but that it was being filled with freshly created credit,
showing as a debt to the banks.
From
there, it followed that how fully or otherwise, the administration allowed
the continuous filling of the gap to
occur,
would determine the frequency and severity of the then common "Trade Cycles".
To that time all sorts of
weird
explanations for trade cycles had been suggested, to even include sunspots
and positions of the
constellations,
so the Douglas analysis evoked very serious discussions.
Douglas
postulated that industry is ONLY indefinitely sustainable, if a sufficient
stream of new purchasing power
(money,
or credit) is added to total incomes to balance total prices. This equilibrium
would enable the community's
resources
to be kept fully employed; naturally producing what is called a booming
economy.
However,
he also warned that if that credit stream is from an outside source, such
as the privately owned banking
system,
at interest, then sooner or later the build-up of debt to the banks would
reach crisis point and industrial
strangulation.
Either ownership of all productive assets could be acquired by the banks
to liquidate the debt; Or the
debt
would need canceling by a massive devaluation as done by both France and
Germany at different times; or an
excuse
would be manufactured justifying going to war.
At
a lower level of financial pressure, it has long been observed that a shortfall
of purchasing power in countries is
greatly
improved by exporting more than is imported. That is why it is referred
to as a "favorable trade balance".
The
economic lift associated with concurrent removal from the local market
of the goods exported, combined with the
acquisition
of some of the victim country's domestic currency, is further confirmation
of the validity of the
Douglas
Analysis.
Were
there NOT a deficiency of purchasing power or so-called money, then the
increase in money supply, at the
same
time as reduced volume of goods on the local market, would automatically
produce "demand pull" inflation.
But
it doesn't. It causes a "favorable" economic boom, and that is the reason
why every country so badly wants
favorable
trade balances that if pushed hard enough, they will go to trade war to
achieve it.
Douglas
then scrutinized the mechanics of so-called bank lending and some decades
ahead of the various
"Monetary
Commissions" showed that the ostensible lending of "deposits" was really
just a charade or deception
to
fool the public and allow the continuation of a sophisticated racket or
scam.
Monetary
Commissions in England, under (ex) Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald
McKenna, in Canada, and
then
in N.Z. have reluctantly but quite unequivocally confirmed that banks cannot,
and do not, lend their deposits (which are really their liabilities), but
instead, whether extending overdrafts or purchasing assets or Treasury
Bills or Treasury Bonds, create new credit out of nowhere and use that.
Furthermore,
as soon as those figures enter a Current Account, they become spendable
money, and increase the M1 or national Monetary Pool in exactly the same
way as funds brought in from overseas.
From
there, C.H. Douglas postulated that sovereign governments would need to
take control of the "money power",
reclaiming
to itself the right to expand the money supply as necessary. This would
allow it to be used in the
interests
of local and national communities, and for their benefit, rather than the
eventual taking over of everything
by
the privately owned banks.
.
.
.
Local
industry, small business, tourism and farming.
To set
up an agreement between parliament and unions, to maintain wage stability,
jobs growth and a
generous
basic wage to every person over the age of 18 years and the remainder of
their life.
.
Although
superannuation will not be stopped it will not be needed by the People
to provide for their
retirement
because the People will be provided with a permanent basic wage for all
adults and this will
be
coupled to a Bank Cheque facility to cover other costs if their bank account
has not enough value of
funds
to cover that cost.
.
A
economy which integrates the global and the local. The economy to allow
a level of globalization in
those
areas that need to be open to competition, as well as a level of parliament
support for industry,
small
business, tourism and farming. To concentrate on a manufacturing base in
Australia. Shall allow
home
grown small and medium businesses to thrive.
.
That
is; if a large company buys a small company in a rural town or city, holds
onto the company for a
period
of time, then decides to sell or completely close the company, with the
excuse that the company is
too
small and earnings not large enough to compete within the global market,
shall receive that
parliamentary
assistance or the parliament shall use the Constitutional authority to
aquire the company
and
the People of that town may use the Bank cheque or electronic settlement
to purchase the company.
.
The
benefits of this arrangement is to allow greater social cohesion and strong
local communities, as well
as
a dynamic globally orientated economy. The Debt Free System is a win, win
system for all.
.
Australia
would become the tax haven of the world where; overseas investments and
setting up companies
in
Australia would supply more liquidity, reducing the need for Treasury Credits
and, the introduction of
robots
and other like technology that will involve the reduced need for human
labor, the Debt Free System
is
looking into the future.
.
In
a debt based economy – levels of borrowing and money creation by the banks,
have to keep on rising
and
thereby adding to the overall burden of interest payments and loss of property
if person defaults loan
repayments,
guarantees that inflation will be present as long as we have an economy
based on an
increasing
burden of debt, causing the price of all goods and services and incomes
to keep rising.
Constructed,
authorized and printed by Mr. S.F. Broad
9
Waitara Ave, Keysborough. 3173. Phone 61 0448832540.
**
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the [ Draft of Australian Constitution ] and other Peoplesmandate Initiatives.
.
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