Dear friends,

Congratulations on ridding yourselves of the unelected, wealthy bankers who have been running your country without your say so.

We discussed this at “What will Brexit mean”? and at “Brexit: How Obama bailed, then failed”

Be assured that your newfound freedom of self-determination has angered and frightened the above-mentioned wealthy bankers. They will not relinquish you, their cash cow, lightly.

During the weeks and months to come, you will be subject to repeated pressures to reverse your vote.

For example:

(LONDON)— Standard & Poor’s has stripped the United Kingdom of its top credit grade in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union.

The rating agency downgraded the country’s sovereign rating by two notches, from AAA to AA, saying the vote is a “seminal event” that “will lead to a less predictable, stable and effective policy framework in the U.K.”

It is also keeping a negative outlook on the rating, which means it could downgrade the country further.

It added in a report published Monday that the outlook reflects the risk to the economy and public finances, as well as the pound’s role as an international reserve currency.

It also cited “risks to the constitutional and economic integrity of the U.K.” as Scotland’s strong vote to remain in the EU could raise the prospect of another referendum on Scottish independence.

Do you see what is happening here?  S&P, which is owned by the rich, has begun the drumbeat for a reversal of Brexit.

And everything it says is lies.

1. There is not a “less predictable, stable policy framework.” Quite the opposite, without the EU ruling for itself rather than for the people of Britain, policy should be more predictable.There will be no contradictions of motive. All decisions can be for the people, and the profitability of the ECB will not be an divisive issue.
2. And here comes the threat: “It could downgrade the country further.” (Come back under our thumb, or else we’ll cut your credit rating — OR ELSE.)
3. “The pound’s role as an international reserve currency” is a truly ironic concern. Where was this concern when the EU wanted Britain to leave the pound and join those tragic unfortunates who surrendered the single most valuable asset any nations have — their Monetary Sovereignty?In any event, leaving the EU will not affect the pound’s role as an international reserve currency. It actually will boost the pound’s role by strengthening the British economy.
4. Then even more irony: ” . . . risks to the constitutional and economic integrity of the U.K.” Where in the constitution does it say that unelected, wealthy bankers and their compliant clerks should rule and overrule your constitutionally elected government?What is the “economic integrity” of having foreigners run your government?

S&P supposedly measures creditworthiness, i.e. the ability and willingness to service one’s debts. How has leaving the grasp of the EU bankers reduced Britain’s ability and willingness to service its debts?

(S&P is one of the rating organizations that reduced America’s credit rating below that of corporations domiciled in America! Think of what would befall the credit rating of those corporations should America ever fail to pay its debts.)

S&P relies on the goodwill of the rich for its business.

The S&P action is a fraud, funded by the rich. Any politician, economists or media who claim otherwise, also are frauds.

(As in America, the rich bribe your politicians with campaign contributions; the rich bribe the media via ownership; and the rich bribe the university economists with contributions to schools.)

The rich are afraid that if there are any future exits from the EU, there will begin an exit stampede of cash cows. The bankers will say anything and do anything to continue the milking.

Then, there is this article:

How Brexit Threatens to Turn the UK Into “Borisland”

Brexit is about much more than frustration about the E.U. and immigration.

It is about a shortage of decent and secure jobs; an impossibly precarious labour market; inexplicable inequalities in incomes and wealth; closed access to affordable education, and a terrible deficiency of affordable housing.

And it is about British Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne’s single-minded austerity economics and the rule-free and tax-free space created for big banks and corporations.

Decision-making in the European Union symbolizes a largely unaccountable, elitist and undemocratic system, which is why Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was half-hearted in his support for a Remain vote.

The recent examples of Greece, Spain and other southern European countries, all in a Brussels-induced economic lockdown, speak volumes against the political feasibility of “reforming the European Union from within.”

The sovereignty regained at the cost of deeply dividing the nation is unlikely to produce the more socially just and economically inclusive Britain that many voters sought.

The hopes of progressives are likely to be betrayed as Britain is turned into “Borisland” – a deindustrializing nation suffering from sluggish productivity growth, growing in-work poverty and rising inequalities, and with government in permanent austerity mode.

At long last, Britain has regained its Monetary Sovereignty.. Your leaders have the ability to benefit only you.

They do not need to cowtow to the greedy, foreign bankers, who care nothing for the people, but only for their own purses.

Sadly, your leaders have lied to you that austerity is necessary for economic growth, when exactly the opposite is true.

A growing economy requires a growing money supply. Austerity is like applying leeches to cure anemia.

To accomplish economic growth and citizen wellbeing, the national government of a Monetarily Sovereign government must add to the money supply. That is, your government always must run deficits, and larger the deficits the greater will be your Gross Domestic Product.  

GDP =  Government Spending + Non-government Spending + Net Exports

You will be told falsely that deficits are “unsustainable” and will cause inflation. But for a Monetarily Sovereign nation, no deficit of any size is “unsustainable,” and inflation is contained via interest rate control.

You have won the first battle, but the war remains in jeopardy. You will have to fight those outsiders, who wish to subjugate you, and to resume bleeding your economy.

And you will have to fight those insiders,  who will try to impose austerity.

The outsiders and the insiders are directed by the rich, whose sole motive is to brainwash you into allowing them to line their pockets with British gold.

Don’t allow it to happen.

Good luck to you.

=Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. ELIMINATE FICA (Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA )
Although the article lists 10 reasons to eliminate FICA, there are two fundamental reasons:
*FICA is the most regressive tax in American history, widening the Gap by punishing the low and middle-income groups, while leaving the rich untouched, and
*The federal government, being Monetarily Sovereign, neither needs nor uses FICA to support Social Security and Medicare.
2. FEDERALLY FUNDED MEDICARE — PARTS A, B & D, PLUS LONG TERM CARE — FOR EVERYONE (H.R. 676, Medicare for All )
This article addresses the questions:
*Does the economy benefit when the rich afford better health care than the rest of Americans?
*Aside from improved health care, what are the other economic effects of “Medicare for everyone?”
*How much would it cost taxpayers?
*Who opposes it?”
3. PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC BONUS TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA, AND/OR EVERY STATE, A PER CAPITA ECONOMIC BONUS (The JG (Jobs Guarantee) vs the GI (Guaranteed Income) vs the EB) Or institute a reverse income tax.
This article is the fifth in a series about direct financial assistance to Americans:

Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Employer of Last Resort is a bad idea. Sunday, Jan 1 2012
MMT’s Job Guarantee (JG) — “Another crazy, rightwing, Austrian nutjob?” Thursday, Jan 12 2012
Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Jobs Guarantee is like the EU’s euro: A beloved solution to the wrong problem. Tuesday, May 29 2012
“You can’t fire me. I’m on JG” Saturday, Jun 2 2012

Economic growth should include the “bottom” 99.9%, not just the .1%, the only question being, how best to accomplish that. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) favors giving everyone a job. Monetary Sovereignty (MS) favors giving everyone money. The five articles describe the pros and cons of each approach.
4. FREE EDUCATION (INCLUDING POST-GRAD) FOR EVERYONEFive reasons why we should eliminate school loans
Monetarily non-sovereign State and local governments, despite their limited finances, support grades K-12. That level of education may have been sufficient for a largely agrarian economy, but not for our currently more technical economy that demands greater numbers of highly educated workers.
Because state and local funding is so limited, grades K-12 receive short shrift, especially those schools whose populations come from the lowest economic groups. And college is too costly for most families.
An educated populace benefits a nation, and benefiting the nation is the purpose of the federal government, which has the unlimited ability to pay for K-16 and beyond.
5. SALARY FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL
Even were schooling to be completely free, many young people cannot attend, because they and their families cannot afford to support non-workers. In a foundering boat, everyone needs to bail, and no one can take time off for study.
If a young person’s “job” is to learn and be productive, he/she should be paid to do that job, especially since that job is one of America’s most important.
6. ELIMINATE CORPORATE TAXES
Corporations themselves exist only as legalities. They don’t pay taxes or pay for anything else. They are dollar-tranferring machines. They transfer dollars from customers to employees, suppliers, shareholders and the government (the later having no use for those dollars).
Any tax on corporations reduces the amount going to employees, suppliers and shareholders, which diminishes the economy. Ultimately, all corporate taxes come around and reappear as deductions from your personal income.
7. INCREASE THE STANDARD INCOME TAX DEDUCTION, ANNUALLY. (Refer to this.) Federal taxes punish taxpayers and harm the economy. The federal government has no need for those punishing and harmful tax dollars. There are several ways to reduce taxes, and we should evaluate and choose the most progressive approaches.
Cutting FICA and corporate taxes would be an good early step, as both dramatically affect the 99%. Annual increases in the standard income tax deduction, and a reverse income tax also would provide benefits from the bottom up. Both would narrow the Gap.
8. TAX THE VERY RICH (THE “.1%) MORE, WITH HIGHER PROGRESSIVE TAX RATES ON ALL FORMS OF INCOME. (TROPHIC CASCADE)
There was a time when I argued against increasing anyone’s federal taxes. After all, the federal government has no need for tax dollars, and all taxes reduce Gross Domestic Product, thereby negatively affecting the entire economy, including the 99.9%.
But I have come to realize that narrowing the Gap requires trimming the top. It simply would not be possible to provide the 99.9% with enough benefits to narrow the Gap in any meaningful way. Bill Gates reportedly owns $70 billion. To get to that level, he must have been earning $10 billion a year. Pick any acceptable Gap (1000 to 1?), and the lowest paid American would have to receive $10 million a year. Unreasonable.
9. FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF ALL BANKS (Click The end of private banking and How should America decide “who-gets-money”?)
Banks have created all the dollars that exist. Even dollars created at the direction of the federal government, actually come into being when banks increase the numbers in checking accounts. This gives the banks enormous financial power, and as we all know, power corrupts — especially when multiplied by a profit motive.
Although the federal government also is powerful and corrupted, it does not suffer from a profit motive, the world’s most corrupting influence.
10. INCREASE FEDERAL SPENDING ON THE MYRIAD INITIATIVES THAT BENEFIT AMERICA’S 99.9% (Federal agencies)Browse the agencies. See how many agencies benefit the lower- and middle-income/wealth/ power groups, by adding dollars to the economy and/or by actions more beneficial to the 99.9% than to the .1%.
Save this reference as your primer to current economics. Sadly, much of the material is not being taught in American schools, which is all the more reason for you to use it.

The Ten Steps will grow the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and you.

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY