Nancy Gregg’s Y2K Series
As presented in the
Siskiyou Daily News
ŠN. E. Gregg 1999
Preparations for Y2K bug: Money is power and control
In my book, The Rebirth of OUR Republic, I state that any crisis, which affects the people of a nation instantaneously, can be the catalyst for change. The collective individual resolve of the people, not the intent or the power of government then determines that change. The wold today has an interconnected global economy. However, in crisis there is always one place where the impact of the crisis is worse. In the depression of the 1920s Germany was a county which suffered total economic calliopes. In the world today we are even more interdependent yet socially the U.s. is the most dependent on technology. This has limited our ability to solve problems, because automation through computers has eliminated manual operations of the past 40 years.
So let’s examine the world economy. We hear economists warn about the calliopes of Brazil. It is interesting to not that the collapse of Brazil’s economy is about the collapse of their national government. (Where the influential gets rich quick at the people’s expense and power is brokered.) Brazil is divided into provinces. These provinces provide all the services for the people and maintain their own infrastructure. The reason Brazil is on the verge of collapse is that these provinces have refused to send tax dollars on to the national Brazilian government. (Sounds like a good idea to me!)
At the end of World War II both Japan and Europe were saddled with the awesome job of rebuilding the infrastructure of their nations. They had lost cities to bombs that left thousands of widows and orphans. The value of the individual became one of the primary concerns among the personal suffering and grief. Germany in particular, emerged with a quality of life and dignity for people that is difficult to describe. All the workers in Europe get one month a year vacation time, plus numerous holidays. Many European infrastructure necessities can still be done manually. (During the German inflationary period of the 1920’s a wheelbarrow full of paper money was needed to buy a loaf of bread, but it could also be purchased with a single coin!)
The Russian government adopted total care of the people. That meant total control. They moved the people off the farmland making it a state business and gave everyone something to do. It created a culture of no personal incentives for any personal gain. Graft and corruption became the way of acquiring more than your fair share for the politically connected high government official. Lines for food, lines for cloths, and an empty life with no personal goals has made that country impossible to adapt to a capitalistic economy.
Our neighbor to the south, Mexico, at the time of NAFTA, had its currency collapse. Once again good ole Greenspan with his open checkbook through the International Monitory Fund bailed them out. In Mexico they said what really happened was that the US gave 20 billion dollars to Mexico to get the rubber stamp on the United Nation’s agreement, NAFTA, (which our Senate has not ratified). In reality they created 20 billionaires in Mexico. (My family that lives there told me this.)
Prior to W.W.I the responsibility of the individual in the United States was totally in the control of each person, cradle to the grave. In 20 years you acquired your education and became established in a profession. In the next 20 years you bought your home. (No 30-year mortgages, which actually give the banks one full, price of your home in interest!) Then for the following 20 years you saved your money, usually with limited investments, mostly bank savings, for your retirement. The final 20 years were spent using up all that you had acquired! There were few pensions and no federal checks from Uncle Sam.
After World War I the attitudes changed. This war was the first war with machines and poison gas. This war created the attitude, "live today for tomorrow you may die!" The stock market became the place for everyone to take a chance. When it collapsed the money that previously would have been in the banking system was primarily in the market. The foundation for the economy had been gambled away and now the people suffered. Instead of pulling together to bring back that stable economy, the people turned to government to bail them out. Social Security was created and that was the beginning of the end of personal self-responsibility. Since 1931 the nation has had nine recessions and the stock market has increased 63 fold! When this one goes watch out!
In 1990 I asked myself what had been on the bargaining table for the Russians to break up the Soviet Union and stop the arms race. My conclusion was that in ten years the economies of the world would be ONE. We all would be reduced to third world status! How is that possible? Very easily, one world government, one world monetary control and one authority over the lives of the people. The collapse of governments means the control of populations through whatever means is determined by the power mongers behind the scenes. How can this be brought about instantaneously in the United States of America?
Enter Y2K. Alan Greenspan was on the committee for the federal department, which controlled industry standards in 1959, when the computer industry was kept to a two-digit year number. Apple Computer was the only maverick, in the industry that refused. The consequences were that no large orders from government entities went to Apple. In 1973 he was again on the board when the industry wanted to make the necessary changes to fix the Y2K problem. Again the suggestion was denied.
Today this problem has been addressed in every area of concern for the individual. Am I going to get my Social Security check? Is the bank going to be
able to handle my business transactions? How long will these functions be able to be performed without electricity? The national power grid is still in the evaluation process!
The wheat from last year’s crop was dumped on the ground next to full silos. If you break the farmer in a nation, you control the people. Rural properties are being pursued to control and thus put the population into manageable cities. This was done in Russia 70 years ago and it worked! It is interesting that we hear so much about urban sprawl, yet fewer than 5 percent of the land of this nation is settled! Control the food and you control the people. This includes population control through famine!
What money will survive these events? Piggy bank money; Susan Bs, quarters, dimes and nickels, not gold or silver – that market was broken in the late 1970’s. The greed for gold to reach $1,000 an ounce lined the pockets of the big investors while cleaning out the little guy) Under these conditions what are you going to buy with your money anyway? The only sure fired bill is – property tax. Homestead your land, cover your taxes and we will all pull together.
Under the Emergency Banking Act of 1972 and others the doors of the banks can close. Title companies and some jewelry stores rent safe deposit boxes. The posthole safe made from five-inch black plastic pipe works well. Bury it deep! Where else can you hide money? Ask your wife! The women of this world have squirreled away money for years!
Since the goal is a one-world order, how better to bring it into being than by the chaos that develops when a nation is in crisis. When its people are convinced that nothing can happen to them because this is the United States of America, the greatest nation in the world! Yes, we are. We did not get that reputation from our government! We got that reputation based on our people. In time of crisis we have all acted with the same resolve and personal responsibility that unites us into a force like no other in the world. It does not come from our government or its elected officials; it comes from within each and everyone of us. God, bless the people of America!
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