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This
section will examine the long-term
results of creating
tangible-asset-based, trusts (and/or
other similar ways to control
money) and how these money- controlling
structures relate to the four sources of
income described above -- labor,
coordination, land, and capital.
Labor:
If you are one of the vast majority of
humans, your source of money comes from
or has come from your labor.
If and when you stop working, your
income ceases. Because the
old ways of caring for the elderly are
seriously flawed, this leaves the vast
majority of elderly people in serious economic
deprivation.
Why?
1)
Because Social Security
is a tiny fraction of what it could
have been; (See the above
description: Retirement
Funding
-- What Not to Do`)
2)
The money in a large number of
corporate pension funds have been
swindled away from
the employees by the corporation's controllers
using government-endorsed, Enron-style
accounting. (At the
behest of major corporations such as
American Airlines, congress passed
laws that allowed corporations to
default on their obligations to
retirees. Once it became
obvious that American Airlines
successfully walked away from its
obligations, hoards of other
jumped onto the screw-the-retirees
bandwagon and as a result, multiple
billions of dollars have been
"legally-stolen" from
pension funds.)
3)
For those who do
have retirement funds in the stock
markets, money
managers end up putting a significant portion
of that money and/or its earnings in
their own pockets;
4) The scariest part is that
most retirement money is held in extremely vulnerable
assets such as stocks, bonds,
mutual funds, and bank
accounts. These investments
are in the form of value-losing dollars
or promises to pay. When
the promise goes away, so does your
retirement money. Where is
one's retirement money if and when
there's a major economic downturn in
the stock market?
Why Labor
Should Store Its Retirement
Benefits in the Form of Tangible
Assets:
In theory here's retirement for a
laborer in summary: One works
a life time to buy needed goods and
services, and stores some goods and
service for one's old
age. Those stored goods
and services must be still both
valuable and usable years after they
are earned. One can
store those goods and services in
the form of gold, silver, income-producing real estate, and/or
other durable assets.
During retirement, one transforms
those stored goods and
services into in-the-moment
usable goods and services such as
food, clothing, and
shelter.
One
can also store his/her future goods
and services in the form of
value-losing dollars and/or in the
form of promises to pay such as
stocks, bonds, mutual funds,
corporate retirement promises, and
bank accounts. Often people have
their entire retirement based on a
promise on the part of management of
the corporation they spent years
working for.
What
happens if a company goes bankrupt
or goes out of business and/or
defaults on its retirement fund promises? In the
traditional format, the employees
lose their retirement
money. BUT: If the
employees of that company had,
collectively, taken money instead of
retirement promises, and then held
that money in an independent,
professionally-managed, tangible-asset-based
retirement trust, then what the
company did or didn't do becomes
irrelevant (unless the trust is
heavily invested in the bankrupt
company). The company can't
default on its retirement promises
because it has no promises;
its retirement obligation has
already been paid. Even
if it goes out of business the
retirement money is
safe. Why?
Because the business, itself, had no control over the
retirement trust. The
employees, collectively, control the
trust.
When
retirees control their own
retirement assets in the form of
independently controlled,
professionally-managed,
tangible-assets trusts, they are not
at the effect of anybody's promises.
Coordination:
Unless you are one of a tiny minority
who is at the very top of the
coordinators, such as corporate CEO's, you are in the same boat with the
laborers. For example, the
shop foreman may be paid a fixed
salary instead of an hourly wage,
but he still has little or no
real control over the company and,
from the perspective of the CEO,
he is just one more expendable
employee.
Land:
The term "land" has been
altered from its old, traditional
meaning. Today this category
includes assets such as a
business' land, business buildings, and
the other physical property used in a
business. It includes commercial
real
estate, residential real estate, mineral rights, and
the like. If the physical
assets are owned free and clear (with no
outstanding debts attached to them), and
if the business assets are not part of a
dying business, the assets
are safe no matter what the money
manipulators do. This type
of property is a major,
dependable storage of wealth and usually
is also a significant source of income.
It's a secure investment because
it has an intrinsic value within it -- a
value within that cannot be stolen.
Even in a
financial crash, the basic value is
still there.
Capital:
Capital has replaced the
king. It now dominates
everything, and for many people, it has
even replaced their traditional beliefs
in God.
As
you are well aware, money interests
control and/or dominate almost
everything on the entire planet
today. The N.V.P
Team refers to phenomenon as the
worship of the Great God
Money.°
The
Great God Money is not the slightest bit
interested in your well-being or the
environmental well-being of planet
Earth. Money is all that
matters. Even when his
agents have more money than they could
spend in a hundred life times, they are
still working for their boss, the Great
God Money. "A Few Dollars
More" is their call to arms, and they
have their own "Golden Rule:"
"He who owns the gold,
rules."
Those
who use underhanded, unethical (often
illegal or secretly manipulative)
money-acquiring practices are the adult
version of the schoolyard bully who, out
of fear and out of a destroyed self-image, has
to stand on everyone else just to get
himself out of the sewer.
That's not to say that these people are
inherently bad. They have
been seriously mis-educated.
Their fear, their training, and
conditioning dominate and control
their behavior.°
Dethroning
this False God:
The job of the N.V.P Team is
two-fold. First to assure the
wealthy, that they have nothing to fear
from others becoming wealthy.° And second to
teach and demonstrate how laborers and
coordinators can also become beneficiaries
(recipients) of the income from
land and capital.
Although
it's obvious to those who look, it's
rare to hear anyone speaks publicly
about the fact that assets
held in trusts, foundations, and similar
legal structures are where wealthy families get the
majority of their money. The
wealthy people who control these
asset-holding organizations
manipulate conditions, laws, and
circumstances to provide themselves with
an abundance of money which they use
to live lavish
lifestyles. They play-down
this fact or simply ignore it because they
don't want others to get into the game
and have equally profitable cash
cows. They fear that if
others have money, their money and
lifestyles will be threatened.
And what you won't hear anywhere,
except from the N.V.P Team, is
how you can re-adjust your approach
to money and move step by step
closer to the way the wealthy
control and use money.
Why
Create Mutual-Support Teams:
Because this is an orderly, safe, legal,
step-by-step process of making major
changes in the lives of those who choose
to improve their own lives and the lives
of their present families and their descendents.
Because it's
a long-term solution to the present
day's gross financial
inequities.
Because it's
a reversal of the present trend
toward a two-class society made up
of the super wealthy and the super
poor.
Because it
also honors
spiritual truths and the divine
nature of all beings on planet
Earth.
Because if
present trends continue, life on
Earth, as we know it, will cease to
exist. Some humans
will almost certainly survive, but
the conditions under which they live
will be almost unrecognizable by
today's standards. For
example, imagine and earth with no
icecaps and the ocean fouty feet
deeper.
The
project offers
a major shift away from
funding retirement
programs with false promises.
It's a shift into putting the
employees' retirement money directly into
a trust fund at the same time that an employee
is paid. Why? Because it's the employees' money, not
the corporation's money.
It's really about freedom of choice
and about letting the employees
control their own retirement
destiny. It's about letting those
whose money it is
control how and where
their money is invested.
For
a summary of the major intentions of the
Reasonables' New-Vision project, see
the section below titled: A
Recap of the Project's Intentions.
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