1.)Question: What is "Realistic Monetarism"?
Answer:"Realistic Monetarism" recognizes the physical, fluid realities of our modern currency
system.
2.)Question: What will it do?
Answer: "Realistic Monetarism" will put the control of our nations currency and the rate of
economic growth, (when tied into the free market in a healthy fashion, combined with the requirement to do nothing
that causes lasting destabilization to the balance between supply and demand), more directly under the control of
the people, where it belongs.
3.)Question: What are the moral implications of "Realistic
Monetarism"?
Answer: We live in a society that
tells us we cannot do what is right or needed because of a lack of money, NOT A LACK OF RESOURCES. This still is, at this
time a lie. "Realistic Monetarism" corrects this, making the decision on what may or may not be done based
upon resource availability and sustainability rather than restricting such decisions based upon a false premise of
"is there enough money", and by so doing we eliminate a very damaging psychological tool/anchor in our society.
Our projections show that if changes are not made in how we conduct our selves economically, nationally as well as
internationally, the stresses that are being placed upon our resource base will eventually reach a point where there is not
enough to do what is needed. The current way we structure our conduct economically will be the means through which the
various growing stressors on our resource base will be allowed to reach the breaking point. This will cause, at best, a dramatic
increase in the needless casualties we now see occuring, at worst, perhaps in a few hundred thousand years, long after we
have allowed humanities extinction, the common cockroach or squirrel will have evolved to the point that they will be the
most intelligent life on the planet. Perhaps in that capacity they will do better then we did.
4.)Question:
Wouldn't "Realistic Monetarism" create massive government debt that would destabilize the economy, or that my great
grandchildren would be working to pay off.
Answer:
No,"Realistic Monetarism" separates the artificial connection between deficit spending, and the creation of government
debt. Under "Realistic Monetarism" deficit, (null file), spending occurs, if at all, only under the dictates
of a fully informed voting populace, and under the guidelines established through international treaty, and will not, under the
new system, burden the population with debt.
5.) Question: Is not our monetary system already
indirectly controlled by the people?
Answer:
In our opinion the level of control exercised by the people at this time is not adequate to effect the changes needed,
nor provide the operational consensus required in how things are handled physically, as well as guide the needed
changes to the underlying perspectives governing the day to day management practices. Indirect control in this
situation equates effectively as no control. Realistic Monetarism would require the end of political appointees, as
well as the end to selection processes based upon closed door, board of governor type voting processes, as a means
of selecting the primary day to day policy makers who manage our national currency. Would require monetary policies,
and appointments being far more tied into a national popular electorial process. Technology supports this,
plus this direct involvement would require that people become educated on this very important impactor of their lives.
6.) Question: Why switch, why talk about it?
Answer: A healthy, modern, free market economy will provide for 95% or
more of the typical needs of a society of the size and complexities of ours. Where the capitalistic model fails in when
important issues are needing to be addressed and profit or greedy non-altruistic processes cannot be made to do what is needed
in the time frame required. "Realistic Monetarism" quarantees that we can do what is right/needed as long as the
resources exist. "Realistic Monetarism" provides us with a safety net that our current system does not.
7.)
Question: You can't just print money.
Answer:
Well, this is an over simplification, but that being understood, "yes" we can, and we can do so safely. Keep in
mind it's what the Federal Reserve system has been doing since we came off the gold standard. We have already mentioned the
main ways to avoid currency instability. Common inflation controls would remain intact. Also please envision the size of the
U.S. and world economies. The amount of boost needed to create the change we seek can easily be absorbed without a de-stabilizing
effect if implemented prudently.The Sunrise Foundation wants to take advantage of the physical realities present in the current
system, change a couple rules of operation so that the planet and all people can benefit to the fullest extent that is
still possible, and in so doing end the existence of the primary source of sustenance for the creation of evil, wrong thinking,
coercive processes on the planet. We would meet temporal needs through physically possible manageable means. At the same
time give the spiritual forces of good an overwhelming restorative shot in the arm.
8.) Question:
If You have been around since the early 1990's why have not more people heard about the Sunrise foundation?
Answer: By around the mid 1996 period we had been subjected to many of the forces
that can impact an organization such as ours. Random and non-random events that can negatively impact the ability
to reach out to people. We did some good work prior to these events, continued to contribute afterwards, but we went
"off the air" as a group. Tried to regroup a few times in the interim, but everytime we thought we had reached
a point where we could start communicating again and at the level required for "regular", and "sustainable" measureable
impact to be made, we would be impacted again to the extent that our energies had to be focused on more basic issues of personal
survival. At this time, due to cost, and labor effective technologies, the "Re-start" can be managed at a sustainable
level. So once again, we add our voices to all those others that seek to create a better future. (We were
negatively impacted again the summer of 2007, and continue to struggle to overcome not only the effects of this, but the underlying
societal failures that had a direct causal relationship.)
9.) Question: What would we do with the national debt?
Answer: The portion of the debt that we "technically" could say we owe ourselves we could just write
off. At this time this represents more than half of the outstanding debt held. The portion of the debt held for pensions,
foreign interests, ect.. could still easily be paid off in a timely honorable fashion, or addressed equitably through
international treaties/agreement.
10.) Question: Why do you think the capitalist
model as it exists today, without
change, will fail to meet the needs of our national,
and global communities?
Answer: The study of past history
give us our best indicators of why the current system will continue to fail, unless it is modified. The current system
forces us to make poor, corrupt choices in how we interact politically, economically, socially, and environmentally. The current
system not only magnifies the role of greed, but forces us, in steps both big and small, to be less than what we are, or could
be, in order to survive. To date, all efforts to correct these shortcomings have been made to fail. Made to fail not just
by those who enjoy counting their little stacks of money, worshiping it so to speak, but also made to fail because the current
system makes, far too many of those it has benefited, blind to it's negative impacts, dumbs them down, or corrupts them
spiritually to the point they no longer feel the sting of the harm caused to those less fortunate, as well as to our society
as a whole. This leaves 50% to 80% of the populace, with the corruption of the media information dispersal systems, the corruption
of our political processes and awarenesses, the courts, and our western Christian religions, "We The People"
in a tough spot.
By simply working to create a dialog about our ability to make the needed physical/philosophical
changes in how we as a society do business, assign our priorities to resource use/creation/management we may be able to get
people to focus on the damaging nature of the thought processes currently being employed by those who have the most control
over the current economic system, and by doing so we may be able to decrease the number of needless casualties that
are currently being caused by our current barbaric, and spiritually bankrupt economic model
As
our population continues to grow, a factor that has only been aggravated by the current economic model, and as certain key
resources become scarce, and as our planets environment becomes more damaged under the current economic system,
There will come a darker time in the future that the Sunrise Foundation hopes to help our society avoid.
