With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, August 3, 2007, 4 pm PST
This Week's Show
Guest: Mr. James Capo
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For most of us money means more that we really want. Security, unfolding possibilities stretching out into a future that brings delicious excitements and pleasure instead of pain.. Without it the world is fraught with fear. For Americans money is that folding green stuff; the line of numbers in our accounts; the knowledge that the plastic we use will keep working.
Money, that stuff the provides the useful tools of fungibility, stability of value, and ease of storage, is essential to the present system. But the present system is dead, barely twitching as the last, vestiges of value are sucked out. What will Americans do when they realize that their money was a lie?
The idea of money began as iconic representations of commodities; shards of pottery on which was inscribed the things counted. Sheep, cheeses, and other commodities were among these. That lasted about as long as it took some people to figure out they could make their own. Since then currency has moved through several incarnations as outlined in this poem. (Nice when you can get some real utility out of one of there.)
No. 51 From Shards to Light - for John Hix
From an insight of convenience they drew marks on shards of clay
The goats and sheep and cheeses thus were counted up each day.
And trader's lives were better, as barter was replaced.
With mites of fired pottery that bore each items face.
The marks and shards were money; more fungible to hold
So trade and space were easier; what was owned was sold.
But then a cunning taker thought to make his own
The shards went out of favor, replacing coin wrot gold
Issued first by temple and then anointed King
So fungible the medium it built a wealth in things.
Accumulation beckoned the greedy onto thrones.
Through money all were shackled, the people could be owned.
A flow of current holdings, in increments of gold
Created flow of currency, and ever more was sold.
Price now marked in shiny bits they trusted not to lie.
But men saw ways of stealing from weight the coins would buy.
So England then replaced them, their coins had reeded edge.
Clipping and the shaving, made obvious instead.
Money called and promised, so fluid in its scope.
Kings and those in power wrote promises on notes.
Temptations to debasement, temptations to inflate.
Became the real foundation of the governmental state.
And money still enticed us, and draws in those who steal.
Finessing, redefining, the units once were real.
Now with no foundation in sheep or even cheese
The money is all funny, and only Kings are pleased.
The flow of human commerce, so easy to abuse.
Is still the form adopted, that all of us must use.
We count up paper icons, inscribed with those now gone.
We trust in those who make them, despite the fact their wrong.
We need the fluid functions that money can provide.
While all the self anointed kings count, and so decide.
Those in power, from kings to presidents, have always used the system to steal. This has never been more true that in the America of the last century.
Fiat money, that endlessly self multiplying stuff has allowed the FED to perpetuate a scheme so outrageous that every Ponzi-scheming con man is dumb struck with envy; has enabled government, and those corporations, like the FED, to spend and trade us into penury.
This summer we are approaching the culmination of the plans so long in the making as such instruments as Blackstone Group, LP finish off the job.
But what do we do when the banks stop printing funny money? How we we buy that loaf of bread? How do we survive? There are answers and there have been warnings. We will be talking about those this Friday on The Spiritual Politician with Jim Capo.
Jim is a successful businessman who became aware of the 'game' while sunning his own business in North Carolina. Now, he spends his time awakening Americans to the hazards all of us face. From 1985-1986 he worked in Japan with the company's joint venture partner, Polyplastics, LTD. This was during the first main wave of Japanese companies establishing production facilities in the United States in order to increase market share for their products, while avoiding calls for trade sanctions to offset the ballooning trade imbalance between the then two largest economies of the world.
In 1988, recognizing the business opportunities brought on by the expansion of Japanese manufacturing into the United States, he and two co-workers at Celanese left the company to form an injection molding company, Team One Plastics, Inc. The privately held company has grown successfully from $0 of sales to over $12 million dollars of annual revenue with 100 employees located in plants in Albion, Michigan and Greensboro, North Carolina – the venture that brought him to North Carolina.
The market niche success of his own company notwithstanding, Mr. Capo has long been concerned about the general plight of America's manufacturing and economic base as well as the continued encroachments by both national and international regulation on the free-enterprise system. It was during his work to defeat North American Free Trade Agreement that he became aware of the John Birch Society, which he joined in 1993.
In 2003, Mr. Capo sold off his stake in Team One Plastics; now he travels and educates people to the problems and writes.
Many have worried; many have spoken out. It is time to take those warnings seriously.
Americans need to find solutions to the problems that are in our future; Americans are exploring those solutions in alternative approaches to exchange, some online and others in local script. Free Exchange, labor exchange, and other community based systems are taking the issue of money back in time.
Trade and commerce can be honorable; they can also destroy the basis of honor and shackle a free people when they are not carried out with transparency and using clean, simple tools that reject the fractional banking that has converted American prosperity into a swamp of greed.
Join us Friday to explore what is coming – and what we can do about it. Listen to the Spiritual Politician this Friday at 4pm Pacific Time. You need to know.
What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit and so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
Greed: The NeoConning of America
