SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES FRAMEWORK

THE GOLDEN RULE:
HE WHO HAS THE GOLD RULES

THAT PHRASE SEEMS TRUER THAN EVER.
THE RICH ARE GETTING RICHER WHILE THE GAP BETWEEN THEM AND THE REST OF US GROWS WIDER.

The rich (private banks, not the government), are allowed to digitally create approximately 97% of all new money placed in circulation (see this article and video about money – it’s not what you think). 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 . . .

  • All the money we need to address climate change
  • Thriving small businesses
  • Jobs with living wages
  • Fully funded non-profits
  • Personal debt reduction
  • Free health care for all
  • Plenty of money for infrastructure
  • Fully funded public education K thru post-secondary
  • Energy produced mostly from renewable sources
  • Food security for all with locally grown food
  • Fully funded state and local governments
  • Clean water, air and energy
  • Healthy and vibrant local economies
  • Free child and elder care
  • Universal blight remediation
  • Basic income for those in need
  • Plenty of money to support the arts, science, technology and more
  • Funding to launch 100% of for-profit and non-profit startups with a viable plan

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. We can do so 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).