Hi Everybody,
I ran for the office of Member of Legislative Assembly in the last provincial election. I wasn't worrying about winning, my goal was to get my major points across. I will greatly appreciate comments and criticisms on this writing.
Thank you.
Dennis Tate
My name is Dennis Tate. I lived most of my forty seven years in West Lochiel Lake, Guysborough County. I am running for MLA as an independent in the area of Pictou Centre so that I can help as many people as possible become more aware of what I am sure is the real reason why our roads are in disrepair, why hospital beds are unused, why so many of the rural schools have been shut down, why our soldiers in Afghanistan are poorly equipped and why many if not most of our young people may have to leave Nova Scotia to find jobs.
When well trained workers have high quality technology to work with then the total of all wages and benefits paid out to employees is only a fraction of the retail value of the products they produce. As a result of this fact the only way to move products out of warehouses is to extend higher and higher levels of credit. One problem with an abundance of red ink is that compound interest on all this government, business and personal debt over a period of decades will grow to astronomical levels. At this time there is approximately TEN TIMES as much debt in Canada as there is money. A simple explanation for how this happened can be seen here:
http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty34.htm
In my opinion this rather simple mathematical problem is perhaps the number one cause of inflation in the Canadian economy over the past three decades. This is also perhaps the number one reason why our costs of production are so high and Canadian products cannot compete on the world markets as well as they could under better conditions.
From 1940 to 1970 the Government of Canada put roughly half of the total money supply into the economy through loans issued through the federally owned Bank of Canada. Provincial and municipal governments could borrow the money to build roads, schools, hospitals and sewage treatment facilities at zero or one percent interest. In 1970 we changed our system and since that time a higher and higher percentage of all government debt is financed through loans issued through privately owned banks. At this time it is ninety eight percent. This policy may be great for our banking sector but it was estimated that in the one year of 1995 alone our federal government could have saved roughly SIXTY FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in interest payments if we had gone back to creating half the total money supply through these low interest rate loans issued through the bank that is OWNED BY ALL CANADIANS.
Considering that our deficit was approximately thirty billion dollars for that year, simply by changing back to an already proven monetary and banking system, we could theoretically have had a FEDERAL BUDGET SURPLUS OF THIRTY FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in 1995.
The massive cutbacks in the Canadian military, in health care, highway construction, social programs and education were profoundly affected by these accounting practices?
So what can you and I do about this problem?
1. If we will do our homework and study this question we can put pressure on our provincial level politicians to create a provincially owned bank. A true Bank of Nova Scotia owned by all Nova Scotians could be used to finance town and municipal government projects at zero or one percent interest just as The Bank of Canada used to do.
2. Town and municipal government officials in New Glasgow, Stellarton and Trenton should seriously consider creating a local currency unit such as has been done in Ithaca, New York.
http://www.ithacahours.org/directory.php
This is a great way to promote local businesses and help sustain rural economies.
3. It is also possible for groups of concerned individuals to get together and organize a local barter exchange as a cooperative. Mr. Rob Assels has been instrumental in just such an initiative in the Tatamagouche and River John area so surely we can get similar organizations up and running here in New Glasgow, Pictou, Stellarton, Trenton and Westville. Here is a link into the Halifax LETS system:
http://halifaxlets.com/
Let’s discuss the various options available on the Pictou County Portal Message board. If you have trouble using this technology maybe you could hire a young person to help you get started?
http://www.pcconnects.ca/portal/c/portal/layout
I just completed the first year of the Information Technology Program at Stellarton Campus of NSCC. I am running in Pictou Centre because I know that the towns of New Glasgow, Stellarton and Trenton have the people, the industrial base and the technological capability to become powerhouses of job creation not only for this area but also for all the surrounding regions.
“The wealth that is in the city comes from the countryside.”
Creating new jobs in New Glasgow, Stellarton, and Trenton will ultimately depend on job creation in the surrounding rural areas.
Thank you immensely for taking the time to consider these points. By deciding to vote for me on June 13 you will be sending a clear message to the various political parties that you want them to take a serious look at these flaws in our monetary system and at these possible remedies. From now on if a politician tells you that they have to close down a school because of budgetary restraints, you may know far more about what is really happening than they do.
Warmest regards,
Dennis Tate
834 West Lochiel Lake
RR#5 Antigonish, N.S., B2G-2L3
Phone 902-783-2548
Tate4PictouCentre@yahoo.ca
Very interesting, especially the point about the banks.
Is the text the wording of your election address? If so, one point I'd make is the reference to getting a young person to help them with the technology. One thing people hate when being addressed by an aspiring politician is the idea that they are being spoken down to or patronised. It suggests you feel you know better than them, which isn't going to get you votes.
In saying that, if your electorate is mostly not pc literate, you need to find another means of communicating. I don't know the geography of the area (I'm more old Glasgow.....), but IMO nothing beats the old-fashioned public meeting. Even if it is 2 folk and a dog who turn up, people get a chance to interact with the candidate.
Also, people aren't just interested in your specific policies (and you didn't really put any of these forward) - they're also interested in establishing what your background is - how long you've lived there, family, kids, education etc. Basically, why you should be representing them, and whether you'd be any good at it.
Even if you know you've no chance of winning (been there, got the t-shirt), voters will still expect you to behave like you have a good chance.
Excellent comments RedMike,
Very helpful. Yes I will certainly to do much more public meetings in the future and yes I shall attempt to not talk down to people. I am relatively new at this political game but I did run for the office of Municipal Councillor in 2004. Here is the link into the text of that writing. This one was far too long...ten pages!! I spent a year and seven months in Ecuador and seeing real poverty for that long gives us a real incentive to try to make some noise about how different things could be...theoretically anyway!
http://bankingsystemflaws.blogspot.com/2005/12/flaws-in-canadian-banking-and-taxation.html
Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Turd en route. That was what you wanted right?
Hi XanthosNZ,
Well...actually a somewhat more specific criticism will be more helpful....but Turd en route...does pretty much sum things up! Both Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln ran for office many times and lost these elections repeatedly.... Speaking of Abraham Lincoln...this article is somewhat one sided..but powerful...
http://www.michaeljournal.org/lincolnkennedy.htm
"During the Civil War (1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War from the North. The Bankers were going to charge him 24% to 36% interest. Lincoln was horrified and went away greatly distressed, for he was a man of principle and would not think of plunging his beloved country into a debt that the country would find impossible to pay back.
"Eventually President Lincoln was advised to get Congress to pass a law authorizing the printing of full legal tender Treasury notes to pay for the War effort. Lincoln recognized the great benefits of this issue. At one point he wrote:
“... (we) gave the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they have ever had – their own paper money to pay their own debts...”
"The Treasury notes were printed with green ink on the back, so the people called them “Greenbacks”.
"Lincoln printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks (the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance the War. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. He printed it, paid it to the soldiers, to the U.S. Civil Service employees, and bought supplies for war."
.................
"In 1972, the United States Treasury Department was asked to compute the amount of interest that would have been paid if that 400 million dollars would have been borrowed at interest instead of being issued by Abraham Lincoln. They did some computations, and a few weeks later, the United States Treasury Department said the United States Government saved 4 billion dollars in interest because Lincoln had created his own money. So you can about imagine how much the Government has paid and how much we owe solely on the basis of interest."
i seem to remember citizens of a small town in West Texas making their own currency, back in the 80's, and having the book thrown at them, possibly including prison sentences. maybe they did not pay the taxes on it, as ithaca HOURS seems to do (http://www.ithacahours.org/faq.php).
i wonder how an attorney likes making the same hour wage as a server at McDonald's? (better make that, "would like".)
Originally posted by XanthosNZI became an atheist for about five years when I was very young but I watched Garner Ted Armstrong on TV one time...thought that he was funny and started reading his literature. He had some very good writings on evolution and I completely agree with him that the theory of evolution is astonishingly unlikely if the law of probability applies to each step in the theorized evolutionary process in a predictable and rational manner.
If a creationist looney such as you can win an election then the world is in trouble.
http://www.creationdesign.org/Comments%20on%20Evolution2.html
"In essence, the probability of the formation of a Cytochrome-C sequence is as likely as zero. That is, if life requires a certain sequence, it can be said that this has a probability likely to be realised once in the whole universe." [Cytochrome-C is a protein necessary for life] Ali Demirsoy, Kalitim ve Evrim, Inheritance and Evolution, Ankara: Meteksan Publishing Co., 1984, p. 61
"In terms of complexity, an individual cell is nothing when compared with a system like the mammalian brain. The human brain consists of about ten thousand million nerve cells. Each nerve cell puts out somewhere in the region of between ten thousand and one hundred thousand connecting fibres by which it makes contact with other nerve cells in the brain. Altogether the total number of connections in the human brain approaches 1015 or a thousand million million. Numbers in the order of 1015 are of course completely beyond comprehension. Imagine an area about half the size of the USA (one million square miles) covered in a forest of trees containing ten thousand trees per square mile. If each tree contained one hundred thousand leaves, the total number of leaves in the forest would be 1015, equivalent to the number of connections in the human brain!" Michael Denton, Evolution a Theory in Crisis (Adler & Adler, 1985), p 330. [Dr. Denton is a Australian molecular biologist and medical doctor who has lived and worked in London, Toronto and Sydney and who is best known for his biological research].V.
Originally posted by zeeblebotYou are right...an attorney might agree to work for between five to ten Ithaca hours per hour whereas a server might be extremely happy with a half hour Ithaca hour tip for serving a meal...
i seem to remember citizens of a small town in West Texas making their own currency, back in the 80's, and having the book thrown at them, possibly including prison sentences. maybe they did not pay the taxes on it, as ithaca HOURS seems to do (http://www.ithacahours.org/faq.php).
i wonder how an attorney likes making the same hour wage as a server at McDonald's? (better make that, "would like".)
I betcha you are right about the people in that town not paying taxes on what was earned...If a business accepts ten Ithaca hours as partial payment on a product or service then they need to claim an extra one hundred dollars of revenue for that day. The primary advantage to the Ithaca hour is that you know that once somebody earns them...they will almost certainly be spent in the town of Ithaca.
Originally posted by sasquatch672Very good points.
Dennis,
I applaud your patriotism and your industry. Well done - citizen servants are vitally important to a democracy. But distill your message down, get a slogan, make your message more accessible.
One of my next steps will be to do up a DVD. In the DVD i plan to explain how, at least in theory, it is possible for the provincial government of Nova Scotia to begin a provincially owned bank...and then offer to loan the Canadian federal government one hundred billion dollars at one percent interest. This issue, if accepted by our federal government, could theoretically balance the Canadian federal budget and if done on an annual basis the nation of Canada could be debt free in perhaps twenty years.
This is only a theory and perhaps the backlash from powerful sources might be so overwhelming that the experiment would ultimately fail...but to me it is certainly worth a good try. i believe that Canada could increase our foreign aid by one thousand percent if we found an effective way to reintroduce some of the aspects of monetary policy that we had already utilized for decades. It was Prime Minister Mackenzie King who coopted the theories of the Social Credit movement and began to use the Bank of Canada to put roughly half the Canadian money supply into the economy through low interest loans. I believe that this Prime Minister deserves a lot of credit for being willing to listen to the concepts put forth by other parties active during his time:
By the way...just because I quote the Michael Journal this does not mean that I agree with everything in their publication. I am Messianic Jewish or Hebraic Roots Christian..I am not Catholic. I quote this group because often they make certain points that other publications ignore. Ever see anything like this in print anywhere else?
No wonder that Saudi Arabia holds such a high percentage of the American national debt!
http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty33.htm
Islamic banking
On this matter, it is interesting to consider the experience of the Islamic banks: the Koran — the holy book of the Moslems — forbids usury, as the Bible of the Christians does. But the Moslems took these words seriously and have set up, since 1979, a banking system that conforms with the rules of the Koran: Islamic banks charge no interest on either current or deposit accounts. They invest in business, and pay a share of any profits to their depositors. This is not the Social Credit system implemented in its entirety yet but, at least, it is a more than worthy attempt at putting the banking system in keeping with moral laws. On this point, the Christians should be inspired by this example of the Moslems.
Originally posted by tate4242These are people who have apparently no understanding of evolutionary theory and a very large axe to grind.
I became an atheist for about five years when I was very young but I watched Garner Ted Armstrong on TV one time...thought that he was funny and started reading his literature. He had some very good writings on evolution and I completely agree with him that the theory of evolution is astonishingly unlikely if the law of probability applies to each step in d worked in London, Toronto and Sydney and who is best known for his biological research].V.
Originally posted by XanthosNZHi XanthosNZ,
If a creationist looney such as you can win an election then the world is in trouble.
I have a question. Did you have a look at The Michael Journal...and is that one of the main reasons why you regard me as a looney?
If not can you indicate a specif comment that is especially looneyish and I shall attempt to explain further!
I am definitely a creationist...and I must admit that The Michael Journal has some material in there that I do not approve of...quite a bit actually....but they also make some very powerful points that I believe should be taken seriously.
The Michael Journal is produced by rather zealous Catholics and since I am Hebraic Roots Christian or Messianic Gentile I ofcourse don't agree with all things Catholic...but there is no denying the fact that Catholics in my part of the world have done an incredible amount to make the world a better place to live in. Dr. Moses Coady and Dr. Jimmy Thompkins were instrumental in getting the cooperative movement started in our area and for decades these men and what was being accomplished here in Nova Scotia was being talked about by intellectuals in Paris, London, New York, Sydney, Berlin...virtually everywhere that there was somebody concerned about possible ways to reduce poverty!
Originally posted by scottishinnzDo you mean that the theory of evolution is not entirely in contradiction to the possibility of superior life forms assisting in the evolutionary process somehow over the aeons?
These are people who have apparently no understanding of evolutionary theory and a very large axe to grind.
If that is what you mean I would say that you may be onto something.
Or do you mean that the law of probability should not be used in a discussion of the liklihood of traditional Darwinian evolution taking place?
If this statement is closer to your intended meaning Sir then I must beg to differ. I feel that probability theory must be looked at if we are to begin to understand mankind's probable place here in this universe.
http://www.creationdesign.org/Comments%20on%20Evolution2.html
Quotations on Evolution by Various Scientists
If we take an objective look at the list of degrees and titles that these people have we will soon realize that they just simply decided that Darwinian evolution was extremely improbable.
Incidentally...I personally believe in evolution. But I do not believe that life originated here in our fourth space time dimensional continuum. I believe that there is an energy form that is at least as basic as the Super Force/ Super Energetic Matter....that would be the common denominator for electromagnetism, gravity, weak and strong nuclear force. I believe that this energy form has always existed and there had to be at least enough to generate the Big Bang event that scientists speak of.
Given infinite time the probability of some sort of synaptic pathway activity beginning in an energy form would be infinitely high. But the formation of life as we know it in our fragile fourth space time dimension would be infinitely improabable due to there being such a limited amount of time...merely ten or twenty billion years.
In my opinion...LIFE originated in the truly fundamental Energy Form....and the basic prototype of all other life forms was created...after this then we do get some mutations and changes due to such forces as survival of the fittest.
Actually I think you're a loony because you're quoting from creationdesign.org which basically contains a whole bunch of discounted ideas (irreducible complexity etc.) and a whole lot of gibberish.
[bIf we take an objective look at the list of degrees and titles that these people have we will soon realize that they just simply decided that Darwinian evolution was extremely improbable.[/b]
Let's do a quick test. What are the odds that your parents met each other? Well assume that in the average lifetime a person will meet 1 million people. So the odds are 1 in 6000. Now what are the odds that their parents met each other? Also 1 in 6000 (slightly less as population would be smaller).
So going back just three generations we have the probability of you arising as 3.57*10^-27 (1 in 6000 to the power of 7).
This logic is very similar to the logic people who claim that evolution is extremely improbable use. I'll leave it to you to work out just where the logic falls to pieces.