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CARTOON ON VACCINATIONS
2015 Sept 17 from Ben Garrison
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I sometimes get positive email from people with good ideas for cartoons. I haven’t been able to draw them all, but I have thought about them. The idea for this cartoon came from a certain Alex L. I realized it was a good idea worth developing and so I did. A few years ago I drew a cartoon that featured forced inoculations and I was laughed at. But now it has become a law in California, and some presidential candidates such as Ben Carson are openly espousing it. We are being treated like cattle, and we’d better start speaking out against these things before the government decides we are ready for their slaughterhouse.

IS MONEY REALLY CREATED OUT OF NOTHING?
2015 Sep 4 from James Mayton
I hope that someone (maybe Mr. Griffin?) can give me a more detailed explanation about something from “THE CREATURE” book about “people making up money out of nothing”? I’m still unclear on that concept? Is it a case of no gold / silver backing our paper currency or does it mean something else? Please help me here?

REPLY FROM GEG: Hello James, the short answer is that, when any of the banks that comprise the Fed make a loan, except under some minor circumstances, they have no money to lend of their own. They simply create it for the specific purpose of lending it. When the loan is paid back, the money goes out of existence again, but the banks have the benefit of collecting interest on it while it exists. That’s interest collected on “nothing”. In truth, however, it is not really nothing. It is worse than that. It is debt. It is the IOU that borrowers gave to the banks in return for the money. So, in reality, the money was created out of debt. That’s it in a nutshell.