Howard Switzer
2 min readJul 11, 2024

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Actually money is at the center of the solve because the monetary system we have is at the center of the problem. As Dennis Kucinch said in 2011 when he introduced the NEED Act (an 11 page bill that would change the system) "We will not be able to get the public policy we need without monetary reform." He should know. People always want to change the behavior of the power elite but as Carl Jung pointed out that is not going to happen without shifting the money power from private profit to public care. The 'first cause' of money is important.

As former World Health Organization director Margaret Chan explained, "most of the organization’s funding comes from private donors and that they decide what that funding is to be spent on." In other words, only money talks, those who fund the WHO tell it what to do. This is true not only of the WHO but of nearly every public and private institution in the world including governments, as the 2014 Princeton study on political influence by Gilens and Page indicated.

Lord Acton pointed out well over 100 years ago that, “power corrupts.” The “power” he was referring to was money. He continued that “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Here he was referring to the power to create money, which is a public power that the commercial banks of the finance industry usurped from our government through legislative sleight of hand in 1913. They have steadily increased their power and control ever since. As Lord Acton said, “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. “

Most of the corporations are profit centers for the big banks and while it is heartening to see efforts to make corporations nicer, and changing the money will make that easier. Also it will change the psychology around money.

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Howard Switzer
Howard Switzer

Written by Howard Switzer

Howard Switzer is an ecological architect and monetary reformer in rural Tennessee.

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