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>From toddb@elmer.wrq.com Mon Jul 25 11:40 PDT 1994
A week or two ago somebody posted a question about the "new" dual currencies
for the U.S.. Here's some information on the subject and my personal
beliefs on the subject.
Personally I believe this is a VERY BAD thing for the average person in
the United States. Why you may ask ? Becuase one of the currencies will
be devalued (like the Mexican Peso) in order to defend the external
Dollar which our international debts will be paid in. That means that
all of a sudden the average person living in the U.S. can
The offical explanation is that the dual Dollar idea is to help prevent
counterfiting. However the changes being proposed for the Dollar are
sufficent to prevent this.
C O U N C I L o n "D O M E S T I C" R E L A T I O N S
ACTION MESSAGE #48 - Tuesday, July 18, 1994
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INFORMATION ACTION MESSAGE #48 (Monday, 7-18-94 )
U.S. GOVERNMENT/FEDS PLAN TWO CURRENCIES FOR AMERICA
When they devalue our currency will they devalue our debts?
Will you be able to pay your home mortgage or rent payments?
The headline for the first article on page C18 of the Wall Street
Journal's Midwest addition for 7-14-94 reads "Treasury Plans a
Whole New Look For U.S. Currency". This was also carried by the
Associated Press, many large circulation dailies such as Chicago
Sun Times and was announced on the ABC TV network news on that
same morning. The reason given in the W.S. Journal for the
proposed changes is to "incorporate new anti-counterfeiting
measures". The article goes on to say that counterfeit notes
account for only one-half of 1% of all circulating U.S. currency
and the changes are a preemptive strike against counterfeiting, not
a response to a real crisis. Weren't we told that the strip
contained within the bills today was an anti-counterfeiting measure?
That seems to contradict their reasons for a brand new currency
today.
We might ask then, "What is the real crisis that is bringing about
the first major change in our currency since 1929?". Consider
this....The financial pages of the nation's papers have reported
daily for months that the U.S. dollar is falling in value against
other major currencies of the world and therefore the U.S. bond
market is dropping rapidly. If this decline in the dollar and the
bond market persists, foreign buyers will continue to reduce their
purchases of our bonds. To cut their losses the international bankers
who own the Federal Reserve, control the United Nations and our U.S.
Congress will raise our taxes and monetize the debt to keep the
gluttonous U.S. government in business. (The U.N. is now calling for
a "world tax" which will further line the pockets of the bankers.)
Monetizing the debt means that instead of having the bonds
purchased with already existing dollars they create new money in
order to sell the bonds. The government makes its options to sell
its short term bonds, notes and treasury bills because buyers know
they will mature before there is too great a reduction in value.
The long, 30-year bonds are not easy to sell with the dollar dropping
in value because the bond-buyers know they will lose over the long
run....the interest they make will be offset by the devaluation of the
dollar. In order to sell these bonds they go to the only source that
can buy them for nothing....the privately owned Federal Reserve. The
newly printed money then goes into the money supply and creates
inflation. This is a very confusing issue for all of us as the
international financiers well know. A British economist is quoted
as saying, "Not one man in a thousand understands this".
ONCE AGAIN BIG MEDIA IS NOT GIVING US THE WHOLE STORY
The currency change has nothing to do with counterfeiting.
The real crisis is the collapse of the dollar and the U.S. bond
market. To get the whole story, we have to look at U.S. Senate
Bill S-2158 titled "To Require the Secretary of the Treasury to
Design a New Counterfeit-resistant $100 Currency", which was
introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont). The key to the
whole currency change issue is found in Sec. 3(b) of this bill
which states, "the Secretary of the Treasury shall design and
designate a domestic use $100 denomination bill, and a non-domestic
use $100 bill". The bill goes on to require "substantially
different coloration of the two bills so that they are easily
distinguishable from each other and from the bills now in
circulation". This dual currency is the part the media failed to
disclose. They also didn't mention Section 4 "Notice of Currency
Exchange". In fact the last sentence of the W.S.J. article
erroneously states, "bills now in circulation won't be recalled".
This is in direct opposition to what was stated in Sec. 4 of S-2158.
After the currency exchange period our present currency will be
worthless. If the real reason for the change is to prevent
counterfeiting, why have different forms of the U.S. dollar for
foreign and domestic use? Clearly, counterfeiting is not the reason.
The plan is to devalue the dollars in our hands while leaving the
dollars in foreign hands unaffected.
For decades our government has, in violation of our
Costitution, allowed Japan to dump their consumer goods into the
U.S. market while refusing to open their markets to our goods.
This has resulted in the sky-rocketing U.S. trade deficit with
Japan which leaves us no money to pay for the goods they sell us
other than monetizing our debt. As we said before, this creates
inflation which again reduces the buying power of our dollars.
This reduced buying power increases over time and results in the
buyers of 30-year bonds losing their profits. To avoid this loss
foreign bond buyers are demanding that the U.S. officially devalue
the dollar by an amount large enough to keep the dollar from
significantly depreciating over the years. However, this action
alone will not help bond buyers from Japan if the billions of
dollars they already hold are devalued in the process.
Now the real reason for the two versions of the dollar becomes clear.
In order to save the bond markets the domestic dollar will be sharply
devalued to protect current bond buyers. On the other hand, the non-
domestic dollar will not be devalued in order to protect foreign
holders of the dollar. Big businesses in the U.S. which have foreign
branches (where they can hold dollars in non-domestic form) can thus
escape devaluation. This has happened in other countries which have
installed dual currencies, such as South Africa and England, and has
always resulted in sharply reduced living standards for the middle
class. Once again, international bankers and multi-national
corporations protect their assets and profits by throwing the burden
on the backs of working Americans. The government has been sending up
trial balloons for currency change since 1983 but has always backed
off in the face of public opposition.
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO.....
Call the U.S. Congress switchboard today at 202-224-3121
and ask to be connected to the offices of both U.S. Senators from
your state. Give your name, town and the following message. "Please
vote "No" on Senator Leahy's bill S-2158 because changes to a single
currency are sufficient to combat counterfeiting. Dual currencies
always destroy the middle class through the devaluation of the domestic
currency." Then, call Senator Leahy's office (202-224-4242) and
give this message..."Please amend S-2158 to provide for a single
currency which will be sufficient to fight counterfeiting. Dual
currencies are never instituted except to devalue the domestic
currency and destroy the middle class". Let them know you don't
object to a new currency if their motive is to stop counterfeiting.
However, if that really is the reason then one currency is all that
is needed....not a separate domestic and non-domestic currency. It
is vital that we make these calls our top priority. If we fail to
stop this dual currency we won't be able to afford to fight any other
battles. If we make enough noise...if we let them know we realize
what they're up to they will back off and Japan will have to open
their markets to U.S. goods which will in turn generate the capital
needed to keep the U.S. Government working (Constitutionally and
otherwise).
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