ChatGPT: The quote you're thinking of is often attributed to Henry David Thoreau, who said:
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
This means that many people focus on addressing the surface-level symptoms of a problem (the branches) rather than tackling the underlying cause (the root). Thoreau’s point is that true change or resolution comes only when we address the core issues rather than just the visible effects.
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I am convinced that USURY is the ROOT of ALL EVIL.
USURY is the mechanism of our enslavement.
USURY is why we are TAX SLAVES
USURY is why we are DEBT SLAVES
USURY is the mechanism by which “the wealth” is “transferred” from the working poor, and into the hands of “the rich” or “the wealthy”
“All wealth is derived from labor”
~ Adam Smith, paraphrased
ChatGPT: The quote you're referencing is close to Adam Smith’s ideas in The Wealth of Nations, though it may not be a direct quote. Smith argued that labor is a primary source of value, stating:
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things."
This means that labor is foundational to creating wealth, as it’s through human work that resources are transformed into valuable goods and services. Smith emphasized that the value of any commodity largely depends on the amount of labor invested in producing it.
Our entire money system is built on USURY.
So let me give you my own two personal definitions of USURY…
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Usury is the charging of money, for the use of money.
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Usury is the charging of any interest at all.
And until USURY is addressed, we will never be “free”
The Federal Reserve Note is in the final stages of life,
And the reason it failed, is the same reason EVERY usury scheme fails
Trump is just one man.
We don’t have much time to enact the monetary reforms we should make
I nominate Ron Paul for the job
So some people define it as unreasonably high interest rates.. if it's just any interest at all, where do loans come from under a system like that? Are there just no loans? Do loans now come from the government? or would enough time under a system like this make loans irrelevant? or what?
the operative word here is “unreasonable”,
And to me “reasonable” is a matter of opinion, usually based on ignorance,
For example, some people think a pawn shop rate of 1000% is “reasonable”
For a secured loan…
Some people think 7% is reasonable for a mortgage
Some people think 12% is reasonable for a cc
Most people don’t have a background knowledge that enables them to “see” the difference between 6% and 12%
These numbers are meaningless to the average person.
6 and 12 both “seem like” small-ish numbers
they don’t really appreciate the difference, especially over the long term
we really need to have a “math education” mandate where every student in america leans about USURY, from a mathematics and accounting perspective.
So when “the fed” decides to lower interest rates, or to raise interest rates
They will have a frame of reference, to understand the implications.
Also, Social Security has an adjustment, but these are always in arears,
meaning that on day 1, the ss recipient sees the purchasing power of his ss money go down, down, down…
Which means its a hustle…
Later, SS gives the recipient an asjustment to make up for lost purchasing power, but in the meantime grama has to eat cat food
Here kitty kitty…