SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES FRAMEWORK
HE WHO HAS THE GOLD RULES
THAT PHRASE SEEMS TRUER THAN EVER.
THE RICH ARE GETTING RICHER AND THE SPREAD BETWEEN THEM AND THE REST OF US IS GETTING WIDER.
The rich (not the government), are allowed to digitally create approximately 97% of all new money placed in circulation (see video below). Those who control money appear to control the economy, politics, everything. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We the people we can do one fundamental thing to change everything.
Imagine If We Had . . .
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Sound impossible? It’s not and here’s why.
There is a proven way that we the people can solve our own problems without the help of the government, the rich or anybody else. We can do so by issuing our own money (called a complementary currency, local or community currency, virtual currency or alternative currency) and use it to address all the issues listed above and more.
Successful examples of that idea can be found throughout history. One of the most notable was in Europe during the Great Depression, where the small Austrian town of Wörgl issued its own money called stamp scrip (a type of complementary currency). That effort was so successful in lifting the town’s economy that it became known as the Miracle of Wörgl.
Hundreds of communities across Europe flocked to Wörgl to learn the secret. Professor Irving Fisher, a leading U.S. economist studied the Wörgl experiment and told FDR’s administration that “The correct application of stamp scrip would solve the Depression crisis in the U.S. in three weeks.” Even though it was determined that he was correct, no action was taken. (See the full Wörgl story, Fisher’s story and more.)
The key for all of us is that we can apply the methods used in Wörgl and elsewhere to break free from the stranglehold that the rich currently have over us and create a new paradigm outside of their control and influence. We can look to the futurist Buckminster Fuller’s aphorism that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” We at the Sustainable Communities Corporation (SCC) have followed that advice, developing a program we call the Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF).