SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES FRAMEWORK
THE GOLDEN RULE
THE RICH AND POWERFUL HAVE CO-OPTED THE CONCEPT OF THE GOLDEN RULE AND TURNED IT INTO “HE WHO HAS THE GOLD RULES.”
Most of us still believe: “Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.” Every religion preaches it. Every moral code echoes it.
But for 50 years, our system has proven a darker truth: “He who has the gold rules.”
Thomas Jefferson warned us over 200 years ago: “If private banks control our currency, the banks and corporations around them will deprive the people of all property.”
He was right.
Private banks now create 97% of all money in circulation—digitally, out of thin air. The rich aren’t just getting richer. They’re literally selling us their money.
But here’s what changes everything:
We the people can create our own money. It’s legal, it’s normal, and you use it every day already.
The Sustainable Communities Foundation has done exactly that.
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 government intervention, the rich or anyone else — by issuing our own money, aka, a digital “complementary currency“, Complementary currencies are actually age-old, and in fact used every day in buy local campaigns, or more commonly in the form of grocery coupons or mileage awards. (Also known as virtual currency or alternative currency. Our digital complementary currency is not a “crypto” currency and cannot be speculated on or gambled with). The U.S. Federal Reserve has acknowledged the legal right of the people to issue their own money and describes how they have frequently have done so throughout U.S. history.
Successful examples of successful local currencies 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 common form of currency also used throughout the U.S.). 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 global banking consortium currently has 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 Foundation (SCC) have followed that advice, developing a program we call the Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF).