Money is not a Product

What is money,no I am not asking what is money as in gold or silver or pretty pieces of paper some authority blessed and gave it a magical value.

I am asking what is it for. Why was it invented in the first place, people used to trade goats for wheat and wheat for salt etc....

From everything I have been able to find it was to simplify trade, it is something that allows us to trade better, it is the lubrication for the machine known as the economy not the product of it.

If that is true the any mechanic can tell you that lubrication has to placed where the most work is being done, the bearings, the crankshafts, axles etc.

Also anyone can tell you if something is stuck a little lubrication goes a long way towards fixing the issue.

So why are the people that control this lubrication not using it to "unstick" the economy?

This defies all logic unless they are trying to destroy the machine and collect the insurance money, the problem is, we are the machine, we are doing all they work, we are stuck in low wage ruts, our social environment has been depleted of this  lubrication to the point where people are going hungry, houses being foreclosed on, small businesses are failing.

Money facilitates trade and currently the trade on the streets is stuck and logic tells us that it needs to be "lubricated" the only things stopping it is they incompetency of the people who has the money, not politicians, but those that control the purse strings of large corporations, the ones who have siphoned off this life blood of society into offshore reserves and tax havens.

If this life blood of society is so critical to the very survival of society then why have these vampires been allowed to use trade agreements, exploitation, and even outright fraud to leech away this precious resource?

Malcolm X was right that we “cannot have capitalism without racism,” we have to ask ourselves if racism has really declined. Who remembers the $20 billion the Haitian people paid to Wall Street to buy their freedom? How long will we continue to pretend that debts to Native Americans have been settled? In 1984, the wealth gap ratio between whites and blacks was 12 to 1, dipping all the way down to 7 to 1 in 1995, by 2009 the gap had jumped back up to an astonishing 19 to 1.

Poverty is human-made. It is created – knowingly and with scientific efficiency – by a vastly sophisticated industry that includes private companies, think tanks, media outlets, government policies, and more.

Monopoly Capital is the exploitative ownership of business that use other peoples labor and resources to provide profit to a limited few at the top. This ownership model uses racism as the lever which exploits the minorities.

Today "Poverty, is no longer an issue of 'them', it's an issue of 'us'," says Mark Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis who calculated the numbers. "Only when poverty is thought of as a mainstream event, rather than a fringe experience that just affects blacks and Hispanics, can we really begin to build broader support for programs that lift people in need."

Currently, four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.

As the crisis continues indefinitely, those who are privileged enough to have a job, need to ask ourselves: “Why have we punched the clock, day in and day out, year after year, willingly functioning in a system that’s designed to take everything away from us?” Progress has been a round trip. Always fighting from a defensive position, working class organizations have failed to produce our own vision of the future. We have failed to combat the holograms of freedom  that keep us in debt, playing the game over and over again. For all we’ve sacrificed in blood, sweat and tears, we remain afraid to take up the labor of imagination necessary to envision our liberation.

If we do not break the dynamic of capital, the world will become a nastier and nastier place and it is very possible that humans will not survive for very long. Our struggle is guided by some key questions. Which debts are legitimate and which are not? Would we rather fund schools and hospitals or pay debt service to Wall Street? Do the profits of international investors outweigh the right of pensioners to retire with dignity or the right of students to attend well-funded schools? What kind of world do we want to live in?

Do we live happy knowing we have a handful of paper, a few entries on some massive balance sheet in the cloud? or Do we use the money as it was intended to lubricate the machine and create a more livable society when where we as humans enjoy together without racial barriers and political scandals knowing that we are working together and not ripping apart the very fabric of life?