Jeremy
04-10-2009, 07:46 AM
Someone please YouTube this!!!
(I don't even get the channel)
Just a quick note to let you know I'm going to be on Fox Business around 2:20pm this afternoon to discuss my work reinvigorating our local currency, the PLENTY.
As all true free market advocates know, we can't have a free market when money and credit are under monopoly control. Our region of North Carolina had the benefit of forward-thinking activists who launched a community currency in 2001, and I've been working with a talented group of folks to reinvigorate and relaunch the currency since last fall.
Why might a community embrace a local currency? A local currency circulates within a community, encourages self-sufficiency, and spurs economic growth the old-fashioned way -- encouraging and rewarding people for helping other people. It is also a stepping stone to a desperately-needed education about the nature of money itself -- as people use a local currency, they start asking basic questions about money and its relationship to a healthy economy.
We're still a few weeks away from our relaunch as a fully-reserved community currency in partnership with Pittsboro's Capital Bank, but an article in the USA Today on Monday triggered a wave of media attention highlighting our work to grow our economy by asserting our most basic economic freedom. If you'd like to follow our progress, and learn more about local currencies in general, please visit our Web site at www.theplenty.org.
It's ironic that my former opponent is still in Washington trying to "help" by TARPing, TALFing, and PIPPing us to death. If you're tired of being TARPed, TALFed, and PIPPed, why don't you try doing business in a local currency for a change?
In liberty,
BJ
(I don't even get the channel)
Just a quick note to let you know I'm going to be on Fox Business around 2:20pm this afternoon to discuss my work reinvigorating our local currency, the PLENTY.
As all true free market advocates know, we can't have a free market when money and credit are under monopoly control. Our region of North Carolina had the benefit of forward-thinking activists who launched a community currency in 2001, and I've been working with a talented group of folks to reinvigorate and relaunch the currency since last fall.
Why might a community embrace a local currency? A local currency circulates within a community, encourages self-sufficiency, and spurs economic growth the old-fashioned way -- encouraging and rewarding people for helping other people. It is also a stepping stone to a desperately-needed education about the nature of money itself -- as people use a local currency, they start asking basic questions about money and its relationship to a healthy economy.
We're still a few weeks away from our relaunch as a fully-reserved community currency in partnership with Pittsboro's Capital Bank, but an article in the USA Today on Monday triggered a wave of media attention highlighting our work to grow our economy by asserting our most basic economic freedom. If you'd like to follow our progress, and learn more about local currencies in general, please visit our Web site at www.theplenty.org.
It's ironic that my former opponent is still in Washington trying to "help" by TARPing, TALFing, and PIPPing us to death. If you're tired of being TARPed, TALFed, and PIPPed, why don't you try doing business in a local currency for a change?
In liberty,
BJ