What if I could prove to you that poverty exists because your entire world is built upon illusions and idols?
That you cherish these idols and illusions so much you are willing to sacrifice to them your compassion, humanity, and even surrender your life on their behalf?
You probably don’t believe me right now, and under the circumstances perhaps that’s understandable.
In fact, as the ancient Egyptians once proved, some people would refuse to believe even if plague after horrendous plague shook their entire world to its very foundations.
With the real answer staring them right in the face, they would go to their graves fighting an unbeatable power wondering why, without ever suspecting the foe and enemy they should have been striving to defeat was lodged firmly and intractably within their very own selfish, indulgent, narcissistic, and careless hearts.
The American Flaw
Cherished idols, like sacred cows, can be so ubiquitous and compelling, despite all the devastation and destruction they cause and bring into the lives of unsuspecting idolaters, they would rather try to kill the messenger than hear the message of pure truth he brings to free them from the chains, bars and prisons of their perverse minds and hearts.
How about yourself?
Are you able to hear the truth, at all costs?
Or will you “kill the messenger” figuratively, by stopping your ears, closing your eyes, turning your back, and ignoring his message; by going on with your life as if you and they had never met?
Sadly, that’s what most will do, and they will come to grief and perish, because they refused to hear what you are about to learn.
Are you ready?
Only your response to what you’re about to hear will tell, louder than feigned promises lightly made, and easily broken ever could, the actual truth about how worthy you are to carry around the banner and cherish the concepts of truth and justice.
The American way is, in fact, so flawed at its very core, there is no cure for the festering wounds, sores and cancerous lesions it fosters.
Have You Seen A Dollar Lately?
Let me ask you a few basic questions to see what your answer would be.
This may seem a bit inane or perhaps even “nuts” to you, at first, but please bear with me, because there is a reason behind these basic queries you must understand, before we can move forward.
Do you know what a U.S. Dollar is? Have you ever seen one?
If I asked you to show me a U.S. Dollar, or if you had one in your possession, would you be able to do so, and produce a U.S. Dollar in your hand readily, without hesitation?
Let’s pause this for a minute to let you ferret around, to see if you can obtain one of these things you call a U.S. Dollar. It’s important for you to examine one of those to see whether or not your life is based upon an illusion or reality, believe it or not.
Got one in hand now? Good. Are you absolutely certain and sure?
Very well, let’s continue.
Whoops! Wrong Dollar?
If you are holding in your hand a green piece of paper with the words “ONE DOLLAR” printed on its face, then I’m sorry to inform you that you don’t know what a U.S. Dollar actually is.
You haven’t got a clue, because you’ve been blindly following everyone else, who are equally ignorant, naive and misinformed.
To be sure, the piece of paper you hold does say “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” in large all capital letter words near the top of this bill, but what does it say right above that?
That which is placed first in line is of more importance in figuring out who’s really in charge, true?
Your bill says “FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE” at the very top, right?
Well that actually means that what you’re holding is not a U.S. Dollar, but rather a Federal Reserve Note claiming on its face to be some denomination of “DOLLAR,” or a Federal Reserve Note “dollar” to be precise.
A note or bill can be, and usually is, a debt which is only a source of profit to the creditor, whose name appears first on the instrument.
Let’s examine your note a little more carefully to see if this is true.
Payment Not An Option
On the left side of the face of your note it says: “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” in all capital letters, so you can’t miss it.
What does “FOR ALL DEBTS” mean? What’s missing from this statement? Do you notice the rather obvious omission here?
Where do you read the words “THE PAYMENT OF” between the words “FOR” and “ALL,” and what significance does the absence of these words have?
To answer that, let’s look at a basic credit or debt, which means the same thing, sort of situation; the kind involving two people and a promissory note, which you might call an I.O.U, meaning the person signing the note admits they owe to the holder of the note a debt they are obligated to repay some day.
There can, of course, be terms to the repayment stated or specified on the note, such as a specific date or time when the note is due to be repaid in full, interest or fees for late payment, and the like.
But for now, let’s just consider this most basic of notes called an I.O.U. to see what it is, and how it can be used.
If Joe promises to repay Bill in future for the loan of a bar of soap, and gives him an I.O.U. note for him to hold as proof and evidence of this promise, to remind them both of his obligation, faulty memories being what they are, can Bill use this note to “pay” James for a pickle, assuming its about the same value as the bar of soap?
He could, if James knew Joe personally, thought Joe would live up to his promise of repayment, and was willing to accept the note from Bill in return for his pickle, because he really needs a bar of soap later, and is willing to wait for Joe to honor his note.
Assuming James now holds Joe’s I.O.U., has Bill actually relieved himself of any obligation in the transaction? Does he own the pickle outright? Has he really paid for it yet?
The answer, of course, is no. Only when Joe makes good on his promise is Bill free and clear of any duty or obligation in the transaction he initiated.
Why? Because you cannot simply pay for anything by trading somebody else’s debt for it. If James is left holding the note for very long, because Joe hasn’t paid it as promised, he will have recourse against Bill who gave or passed along to him the bad note.
Bill, in turn, would have recourse to recover the debt from Joe, assuming Joe is still around and has anything of equivalent value to what he owes, that Bill is willing to take in return for the debt Joe owes him.
Only when the I.O.U. is repaid in full, is the debt extinguished and the conditions of the note fully satisfied.
Why Does America Owe This Debt?
If you pass along someone else’s debt to another person, can you see how you are just as liable as the person you accepted the debt note from, for the final repayment of the debt?
Even though goods or services may have changed hands, the debt or obligation remains, so long as nothing of real value other than the I.O.U., or note, was used to facilitate the transaction.
Is a Federal Reserve Note an I.O.U.? Does it contain the name of a creditor and debtor and signatures of agents for the debtor on its face?
Yes it does. The creditor is the FEDERAL RESERVE, and the debtor is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and it’s agents, the Treasurer of the United States and the Secretary of the Treasury are both printed on its face, signifying the debt.
What did the Federal Reserve loan for this debt? What has the debtor received of any real value in return, and how much is the debt for?
At the very bottom of your note are words that indicate an amount of "DOLLARS" such as "ONE,” "FIVE,” "TEN,” "TWENTY,” "FIFTY,” or "ONE HUNDRED,” for instance.
Take a note that says “ONE DOLLAR” at the bottom, is that not the amount owed for that note?
But wait, just a minute here. I’ll bet you probably thought your note is a Dollar, didn’t you?
Does it say anything on your bill to indicate it is a “U.S. Dollar,” and if not, what exactly is a “U.S. Dollar” anyway?
A Real Dollar?
Believe it or not, you’ve probably never even seen a real U.S. Dollar in your entire lifetime, or if you’re older may remember seeing a few once upon a time, many decades ago, when they were still freely available from bank tellers and circulated as currency in America.
But not any longer. Not even most bank presidents today have seen a real U.S. Dollar, and no bank teller keeps them in their tills these days.
What is this elusive U.S. Dollar, anyway?
The following image reveals an actual Dollar for you to examine...
This coin says “1 OZ. FINE SILVER - ONE DOLLAR” on its reverse side, and at the top it says “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” also.
So there can be no doubt who this Dollar belongs to, and that it actually is a U.S. Dollar!
Now what is missing from this coin? Do you see the words “FEDERAL RESERVE” stamped anywhere on its face or back?
Which One Isn't Worth A Continental?
So now comes the really piercing questions, the answers to which you should be anxious to know:
How much can this Dollar coin buy, considering it is one ounce of the precious metal silver, compared to your Federal Reserve Note?
Or to put it another way, how many Federal Reserve Notes does it take to get your hands on just one of these silver Dollar coins?
The only true measure of monetary inflation (or the printing of more Federal Reserve Notes than the economy is willing to accept, other than by discounting their value in trade for goods or services) is found through this comparison.
Most people believe their "ONE DOLLAR" Federal Reserve Notes are worth “ONE DOLLAR” because they are deceived by the words on its face, and don’t understand the difference between a debt instrument and real money!
If you believed this, you now understand, you couldn’t have been more wrong.
So again, it must be asked, what has the Federal Reserve given the United States of America -- which the Fed, as it is also called, is clearly not a part of, and is outside or foreign to -- in return for their promissory note or I.O.U. from the United States agreeing to pay the Federal Reserve the equivalent of one real U.S. Dollar silver coin in return for each note labeled "ONE DOLLAR" (or any other denomination) on its face?
And the corollary question that begs to be answered also is: “Are there enough silver or gold coin U.S. Dollars in existence to repay this debt, assuming it is a legitimate one?"
To be legitimate, something of real value must have been given and received. If the national debt, and all the interest accumulating on it, is an honest debt that is required to be repaid, what has America received in return that is so valuable?
Misperceived "Value"
If you are obligated to pay federal taxes each year, as repayment toward this national debt, do you know what the Federal Reserve has given you personally, as an American citizen, in return for that debt?
If anything, the Federal Reserve, and its banks, haven’t given anything, but they have taken away a lot.
For instance, no banks deal in real U.S. Dollars any longer, and you cannot trade any Federal Reserve Note “dollar” for a real silver coin Dollar at any bank, like you once could trade silver certificate Dollars as late as the early 1980s.
Since then, the only way you can obtain one of these silver coin real Dollars is by trading Federal Reserve Notes to a coin dealer, who will charge you his cost for the coin plus a markup for his “profit” in the transaction.
But then who’s to say he's getting the better bargain by accepting increasingly worthless notes, in exchange for a real valuable commodity such as a 1-ounce silver coin?
Or you could get them direct from the U.S. Treasury, for the “wholesale” exchange, once again, of a certain amount of these Federal Reserve Notes.
The number of bills demanded for this exchange is purely a function of their current perceived value in the marketplace, which is increasingly less over time, requiring many more of them in future trading for the same sort of transaction.
Coins are supposed to be valuable in terms of the type and amount of metals they contain, out of which they are made.
A Nickel, for instance, is supposed to be made from the metal nickel (it is actually composed of 75% copper and only 25% nickel), and be worth one twentieth of a real U.S. Dollar coin.
These days, the metals used to make nickels have become increasingly “expensive” in terms of inflated Federal Reserve Notes, and are actually worth more in the metal they contain than it “costs” to produce them.
In relation to a real U.S. Dollar, however, they cost basically the exact same amount as they always have, discounting temporary increases or decreases in the relative available supply of the metals used for each.
Evidence Of The Fraud
So if Americans are getting poorer, the cause is related to the absence of real Dollars in circulation today, and the substitution of Federal Reserve Notes in their place.
And the further the economy gets away from real currency, as a legal tender for the payment of all debts, public or private, the deeper into debt the nation is, and the poorer the majority of its citizens become!
You see, the situation we have today is a direct violation of an ancient Law that forbids dishonest scales, weights or measures. Two different sets of weights, one large and the other small, supposedly representing the same amount of a good or service, is not only dishonest, but forbidden in any truly civilized country.
Yet this is precisely what the Federal Reserve Note so-called “dollar” is, in relation to real valuable metal coinage, including what is still in circulation that hasn’t been debased, by altering the metals out of which a coin is composed, or the amount used (which could also affect the size of the coin).
When one supposed “dollar” isn’t worth, in an even exchange, another different type of Dollar -- just as a paper Federal Reserve Note supposed “dollar” isn’t worth one-fortieth (or increasingly less) of a silver U.S. Dollar coin -- this can only mean that a fraud has been perpetrated upon the American people.
This could only happen because the government-mandated public schools have been derelict in their duty to teach even the most basic of facts, truth or knowledge needed to function in the real world.
There is no education in basic economics, law or spiritual Law in any institutions of primary education in the United States.
As a result, neither is there any wisdom or knowledge in the national media, press or entertainment industries, where basically ignorant people feed other ignorant people pablum, while avoiding the really serious issues of the day, which result in so much grief, suffering, poverty and trouble for all of us.
In Who Or What Do You Trust?
In short, our entire world is a house of cards, built upon an idolatrous foundation of shifting sand; which is the trust and opinions of the public, in relation to their government and supposed benefactors, who in reality are nothing of the kind.
This gives new meaning to the words “IN GOD WE TRUST” on the obverse side of a silver Dollar coin, and on the reverse side of every Federal Reserve Note supposed “dollar.”
(Kind of makes you wonder why Federal Reserve Notes place this on the reverse, instead of the obverse or front of their bills, doesn’t it?)
Who is this “GOD” other than a false mighty one; the idol of the entire world in this age to date, called the U.S. government, or perhaps even the Federal Reserve itself?
Once the curtain is pulled back, and you catch sight of those who are pulling the levers to manipulate your perceptions of reality, there is no going back easily to the same sort of misplaced trust and naiveté you had before that moment of clarity and insight.
The idol you thought could “speak” is actually mute and incapable of moving on its own, without all those executives, legislators, judges and bankers -- the "high priests" of this age -- carting it around on their backs, while speaking and acting for it, as if it has any real power of its own.
That idol, in reality, behind the Federal Reserve Note “dollar” is none other than the fraud of law we call government!
The only strength or ability the idol seems to have is nothing more than an illusion, and the sooner you divest yourself of that delusion the better it will be for you and everyone else.
Or else, as has happened to every other world power before it, the United States will disintegrate into disunited, divided, antagonistic, warring parties, each certain they alone are right and legitimate, with none being worthy of that honor.
In fact, for the most part, this has already happened, and will only get worse and worse over time, as each new generation forgets and discards the often bitter lessons learned by previous generations, and are thereby doomed to repeat them with devastating results for all concerned.
Are You "Married" To Error Unto Death?
Those ancient kings who killed the messengers and prophets who brought them “bad” news, concerning their own guilt or crimes, soon and usually very shortly thereafter, paid the penalty and price for their arrogance and refusal to relent or repent.
The Egyptian army didn’t have to pursue a people whose sole “crime” was escaping from murderous poverty, and enslavement to a government that’s only real concern was keeping them all docile, while working them to death for its own greedy purposes and selfish benefit.
Nothing has changed, other than the opinions of a gullible, largely deceived, ignorant and fickle public, faced with the exact same choices individually, as those ancient peoples were.
What you choose will determine what becomes of you and your world.
If for instance you fail or refuse to share this message with others, and the majority of the country continues on in ignorance and arrogance, thinking they are “right” in their idolatrous and ultimately fruitless, harmful and impoverishing pursuits, how will that help you or them, in the long run?
Let’s hope, for all our sakes, you are capable, willing and ready to make the right choices from here on out, to create and secure a far better world than those before you left it.
Not by going to war against those who disagree with you, but by setting them the right example to follow, being the sort of leaders we all need to look up to and emulate, founded upon humility and peaceful intentions.
Then, and only then, is there real hope for vanquishing and banishing forever the specters of illusions, deceptions of idolatry, and sufferings of needless poverty that so many take for granted today, as supposedly unavoidable evils, the solutions to which are currently misbelieved to be “impossible” or “too difficult” to accomplish.
The Answer That Begs The Question
You have carried along with you, all along, the answer to getting you back “home” where your heart is, or should have been.
All it requires is for your heart to change (repent), and inform your head to stop thinking and acting according to everything it has in the past always assumed, wrongly, to be true.
The pure truth has always been there all along, and you’ve probably run into it before, but you’ve always simply assumed it to be wrong and erroneous, because you wanted so badly to believe in a deception and lie, or to follow the popular idols of the day!
Now that you know there is no substitute for real, honest-to-goodness, pure truth, repeat after me: “There’s nothing better than Truth! There’s nothing better than Truth! There’s nothing better than Truth!”
(For more on this fascinating topic, be sure to see this issue's video message from the publisher: What's Truly Wrong With The World?)