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Ever wonder about the International Monetary Fund?

I don’t remember studying it in school. Who owns it?

If you think about it, the owners of the IMF own everything. You and I only own the clothes on our back.

We don’t own our houses even if there is no mortgage. The government can take them away by eminent domain. If we fall behind in taxes, we lose our homes. If we don’t have enough money for inheritance taxes, our children don’t inherit the home or they have to sell it or they have to pay the taxes in order to “own” the property.

We are bio-robots. That is the term used in The Ringing Cedars of Russia by Vladimir Megre. Anastasia says that we no longer think for ourselves. We let others do our thinking for us or we are told what to think. She broke down the time that we have for thinking in our lifetimes and out of 80 years of living, it is only a couple of hours.

We expect our legislature and president to think, but they don’t either. They have less time than we do. They are buried in paperwork that they cannot possibly read so they vote the “party line” trusting that SOMEONE actually did a good job writing the bill.

Jim saw a homeless couple sitting under a tree. Nice looking middle-aged couple. Dressed nicely. They sat there all day. That couple could be any of us.

If we actually OWNED our little plot of land, we couldn’t end up homeless like that couple. Anastasia says that each family should have a hectare of land, no property taxes, no income taxes on anything grown on the property, land stays in the family – no inheritance taxes.

But, I hear the protests, that is impossible. We must have government and schools and an army!

She covered that in the books, too. We won’t need nearly as much government. We won’t need schools that make bio-robots out of our children.

Rome is falling. We are Rome.