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Oh dear. For someone who seems to be attempting to lord their intellectual superiority over the entire forum, you don't actually know very much do you?
no he doesnt
Let's have some facts please as opposed to this face pulling stuff.
Oh, and I can't help but notice that the question went unanswered to boot. (again) It seems that stuff that isn't liked is just ignored on this forum.
you are very hypocritical, you just said lets have some facts
and you never provide any yourself or any links
As I've already said - if you're going to critique governments and banks then do so. At the moment, you are totally lacking any kind of analysis.
First one on the list - "Silver State Schools Credit Union's net worth to asset ratio for 2003 was 9.18%"
That means that they have 9.18% of all the paper money the have ever taken in actually on them, the rest has been loaned out.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/history.htm -
"In 1921 the Bank of england left the gold standard." this is when the "promise to pay gold" was taken off new notes. Email them and ask what substance a note entitles you to. they won't answer. Take one to your local bank.....
"The 1998 Bank of England Act made changes to the Bank's governing body too. The Court of Directors, as it's known, is now made up of the Bank's Governor and 2 Deputy Governors, and 16 Non-Executive Directors."
Did you vote for these people? Did you hell.
http://www.dmo.gov.uk/bginfo/bofe.htm
"It was realised that money could take on new forms, possess no intrinsic value and yet still retain qualities to fulfil payment obligations. Therefore at the same time that the National Debt was born, paper money came into existence."
What does neo-whatchmacallit taste like, anyway? How much does it weigh? what colour is it? Does it have friends or family?
As analysis is beyond me, what do you make of it?
its politics and debate, and if people around here, including yourself, complain about the lack of debate in here i will scream
debate is the discussion/analysing bit
come back when you learn how to do it
Oh dear.
What do you mean by analysis? Do you want to look at evidence? i.e. Things that can be sensed. Or do you mean stuff you read in a book once, attached a long and complex name to, which you use like I have the same experiences as you?
You have no idea how language works, do you? Think of a simple word like "rock" what where you thinking of?
I was thinking of a piece of sandstone, about a foot accross. What did you think of? Was it the same thing? I doubt it. Now there really are "rocks" in the world, but we still don't really understand each other. If we start talking about "unicorns" we might have different ideas entirely, for a start i might be of the opinion that they don't exist.
You may say differently, you have seen horses, and narwhals have horns, so you can combine the two to make a unicorn (in your mind).
What points of similarity do you think you have with others when you use words like "Neo - liberal", "government" etc? Bugger all, that's what. You can't have these debates without knowing what everyone means by the words they use in the first place. I have no idea what you are on about, but the difference is that I know it and you don't.
Go for it........
You have a real good talent for writing loads but saying fuck all. You're also very arrogant, you assume that no one here has a grounding in philosophy, economics or politics, when in fact it is you that appears to be lacking.
Get off your high horse.
I kind of like evidence for things, and dismiss stuff that hasn't got any.
Wheres the evidence?
Yes, it shows.
www.dictionary.com
Where? What "facts"?
Evidence of what? You seem to be missing a fairly important point - ideas do not exist in some kind of vacuum, they do not suddenly arrive in people's consciousness fully formed. They are the product of many people over time, influenced by history and society. For you to sit there and write what you do as if it all came to you unbidden with no influences from anyone, fully formed, is arrogant delusional bullshit. You seem to be arguing from a libertarian capitalist position. So why not admit it, talk about the people who have influenced your ideas, state a position and an analysis, then we can all move on.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=nominalists
seems a fairly contradictory one though.
So i swim a few times and somehow I become a swimmer. I spend my money a few times and I become a customer. In the real world I stop being a swimmer of course, the moment I stop the action of swimming.
Are you 100% certain of your position?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Nominilisation+bentham&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Nominalization+bentham&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
So, you think taxation is wrong. What do you propose instead? How do we look after the poorer members of our society?
They cannot provide this proof as it does not exist.
I don't pay "my taxes" because I don't think that money is anything more than another excuse to control my behaviour, and it's never been proved to me that I owe anyone anything for anything.
I am thinking of selling a "how to" guide for getting rid of council tax/speeding tickets etc. Wnat one?
Why do things need to be paid for? they just need to be done, and people persuaded to do them. The illusion of scarity that money brings might not be the best way. I do not know these things, I just look after me and mine, the same as everybody else.