I have made a pact with my wife inre a New Year’s Resolution that I not only hope we can keep, but I would like to see it spread among the masses.

What originally started out as a spoof in my mind has taken on a serious shade as I am now faced with sticking to my guns on it.

We decided that for the entire year, we will not spend any dollar bills! It seems silly at first but there are several attributes to it that don’t sink in right away.

First: it doesn’t cost anything to do, second: if you really need the money you have it, third: it WILL make you a more conscientious spender of your money, and fourth: if 10% of the masses undertook such a project, in about 30 days the interuption of commerce through quiet peaceful means would absolutely get the attention of Washington!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the first and second issues are self explanatory so I will move to the third issue.

It WILL make you a much better consumer because every time you make a purchase you look at your singles and have to make a decision to continue with your resolution or to violate your principles. You will find yourself continuously breaking a larger bill than you intended to in order to make the purchase. Sometimes you might find yourself deciding not to make it at all, or you will go ahead and do it only to have another single or two to add to your collection. You will be surprised how quickly they add up into a nice chunk of real money! The one exception I do make to this is: inre wait staff in public service jobs, I will not deprive working people of their gratuity!

Onto the fourth issue now. If ten million people were hoarding dollar bills for 30 days, imagine trying to get change at Wal-Mart or the gas station! The Fed would be printing more at a very rapid pace for sure but they would have to look up and asked: “what happened and why?” Or they might decide to issue a two dollar bill instead, after which all of us would recirculate our singles which might cause some commerce problems but people having money to spend shouldn’t be a problem for anyone other than the people who are trying to “manage” us.

The single dollar is the one denomination that doesn’t have the magnetic bar in it so no one will be detectable as participating in a rebellion if you even want to call it that. Smarter minds than mine will decide whether this is seditious, but I won’t worry about that.

It costs two cents on the dollar to support the Federal Reserve as printer and manager of our currency. That is what they charge! So if you follow a dollar bill from its birth and try to figure out how long it takes to tax it at 100%, consider this if you will. The person at the printing office earns a living and pays income tax on that dollar, he then spends it to pay a sales tax of around 8%. The person with whom he spent it then pays income tax on it. He then spends it again and the cycle continues until the dollar is taxed at 100% in about three and one half revolutions of that earn/spend cycle. Take the denomination out of circulation that enjoys the greatest population and watch to see what happens. Then release them all back out again and watch what happens then.

This might be a way to peaceably get Washington’s attention so we can tell them once again that they belong to a body created and supported by US! We need to get their attention just before we fire them this fall. Let us pray that we don’t fall before the leaves do!

Those were the resolutions I made, and guess what?on top of #1, and about three months ahead on #2 and counting.

18th Century Documents : 1700 – 1799

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/18th.asp

Also:

The Founders Constitution

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/toc.html

And let us all learn what these words mean:

“…that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…”

You are born with certain unalienable rights. No one can give them to you or take them from you unless you decide to let them. How you prevent that is up to each individual.