Additional Factors to Consider

Before Making Such a Profound Decision

1)     Nature's Doomsday Machine

The environmental destruction resulting from human overpopulation and human activity  is making irreversible changes in the environment -- changes that are now showing up in forms such as severe and unusual weather patterns, species extinction, and global warming.   

We have turned on Nature's Doomsday Machine.   Human-caused Climate Change has triggered the release of the 10,000 billion tons of methane presently frozen in the Arctic Circle.    Each year, the amount of this gas being released is increasing.   Unless this self-expanding cycle is reversed, the rate of release will escalate very rapidly to the level where it will become un-stoppable.  The resultant changes are deadly devastating and irreversible.    If it's  not turned back off within the next five years, it will become unstoppable and it will kill billions of people.   

Given the current path of humanity and the adamant refusal of most humans  to face the evidence, the question is no longer will disasters occur.   They are already happening.   The questions now are: "When will the next  disaster occur?  How devastating will it be?   Will I be among the next group of humans to suffer and/or die?    Could Global Climate Change really kill billions of humans?  (The evidence clearly say, yes.)   Is there any way out of this?    

Yes, but in order to solve the serious environmental problems, we must first (or jointly) solve our economic problems.

Reference:    

http://www.HowToReverseGlobalWarming.info
#NaturesDoomsdayMachine

2)    Fear that the Super-Wealthy Won't Like this Proposal

Unless the super-wealthy are bent on suicide and are intending to take the rest of the world down with themselves, this proposal is in their highest and best interest.   In the question of exchanging an expendable portion of their wealth for the lives of their children and grandchildren, the children and grandchildren obviously are (or at least should be) more important.

3)    Debt forgiveness could solve the home foreclosure crises

         in a matter of days not years.

It's success is guaranteed.   Its price will be a small fraction of the cost of not taking this option.

4)    We Can't Wait Years to See if the Government's 

         Proposed Solutions Will Work

At best, the presently proposed solution will take years to solve the financial crisis.  

Estimates from the so-called, financial experts range from two to ten years.  There are no guarantees that the proposed solutions  will succeed.   The historical evidence points to the conclusions that: 1)  The proposed solutions are designed to give the appearance of solving the problem, while in reality,  the new laws amplify the power of the the super-wealthy,  2)  The proposed solutions will produce massive inflation, and 3)    By the time it's failure shows up, global climate change will have become unstoppable.   (See the first factor above- Nature's Doomsday Machine.)   The price of waiting two years for a solution is not just about money.   The price also includes:

    A social morass of grief, misery, fear, and poverty

    Lives lost and/or destroyed, 

    Millions of homes being destroyed or several damaged
       in the foreclosure process,

    Time, effort, money, resources wasted, and labor misdirected,

    Environmental damage, and species extinction,

    Global Warming becoming unstoppable,

    Lost personal, social, and political freedom,

    Loss of  heath, joy, and safety,  

    Loss of consistency, dependability, convenience. etc.

When the price of not acting today is measured in the above terms, the cost is so astronomical and so devastating that delay is just not a reasonable option.

And not only that, the proposed solutions do not solve of even address the core problem of the financial industry.   That problem is the huge, costly, and environmentally devastating conflict of interest between providing fair-priced, financial services to the public and making a profit.

Reference:    

http://www.MoneyGodMoney.com/conflicts-of-interest.html#55   

5)    There Is Always      A Price to Pay      and      A Blessing to Receive

No matter what we do or don't do to resolve the financial crisis, some people are going to get hurt financially and in other ways as well.   There also will be those who will receive much wealth and many blessing out of the resolution of this crisis.   

In spite of the fact that some people will be hurt, both the financial and environmental crises are a great blessings to us on the collective level -- that is, assuming we don't allow Global  Warming to cause the extinction or near-extinction of all human kind.

If we are wise, we will wake up to the Spiritual Truth that  We are at one with God -- at one with nature  -- and at one with each other -- that being altruistic is the most selfish way you can possible live.  

What I do to you, I also do to me.    
As you sew, so shall you reap.    
What goes around comes around.    
What I do for you, I also do for me.   What I do for me, I also do for you.  
The Biblical equivalent is called a Boaz Blessing,*** which is, in essence,  planting seeds for your own future well being.  

*** In Christian theology, a  Boaz Blessing is a spiritual principle of being God's agent in the blessing (providing for the good fortune) of another.

When we acknowledge that we are spiritual beings  and that we are not physical bodies experiencing a single, objective Earth,  this new awareness puts everything we do in a brand new context, and the new context gives all of our actions expanded or completely new meanings.

6)    Who can best survive a major financial hit, 

         the super wealthy or the average citizen?   

Obviously it's the super-wealthy.   Do any of you want to send sympathy cards to all those former billionaires who are now only multi-millionaires?

7)     Who Actually Earned the Money that the Super-Wealthy

         Claim to Have Made?

The working class earned that money!   Those who claim ownership of the vast fortunes actually produced little or nothing themselves.   They were smart enough, or lucky enough to establish a profitable business in which they coordinated activities of thousands of others produced great wealth.   Some were simply in the right place at the right time.   Others were brought into management positions in profitable businesses, and a few were born into super-wealthy families.   

Once in controlling positions, these men were also clever enough to manipulate the monetary system so that they took, for themselves, most of the profits that their laborers produced.   Those who put billions of dollars in their own pockets from the companies they "owned" or managed were either price-gouging their customers, misusing their employees, and/or destroying the environment.   Most were doing all three.   

When you consider the infrastructure in which the super-wealthy people functioned, they owe a great debt of gratitude to the millions who created and/or maintain the context in which their success was possible.   If we dropped the super-wealthy off the ship at Plymouth Rock in 1620, how many of them would be the millionaires they are today?   They did not produce their great wealth.   Their wealth is a product of the ingenuity and labor of billions of humans going all the way back to the grandmother of the person who invented the wheel!   

Of course, and like everyone else, corporate leaders deserve to be well paid for their services, but no individual deserves billions of dollars while his employees are being exploited, while his customers are being price gouged and/or while his company's effect on the environment is being ignored.   In their ego-centric struggle to become super stars in the business world, the super-wealthy business controllers have forgotten the well-being of the team that actually produced the wealth.   

We are not suggesting imposing laws limiting corporate greed.   A more appropriate response is to simply  stop  these people from exploiting their employees, from price gouging their customers and from destroying the environment.

You and I and everyone else are also co-creators of our planets collective wealth.  No one, including those considered to be least skilled and the most vile among us, deserves anything less than love, honor, respect, and enough food, clothing, and shelter to make his or her time on Earth a safe, journey through the path of human life.   

Our society  cannot provide that while allowing the super-wealthy bankers to continue ripping off the public for "a few dollars more."   Giving back by supporting the system that provided the context in which they became wealthy is the least they can do.   And today there are ways to enhance the wealth of everyone else without jeopardizing anyone's present wealth.  

References:
http://www.CAHR-Foundation.com/cahr-who-created-the-wealth.html   

http://www.MoneyGodMoney.com/who-created-the-wealth.html#55  

8)    The Free Enterprise Illusion

There is no such thing as a free market economy or as the Republican old-boys club members call it, "free enterprise."   

The economy is highly controlled by the super-wealthy for the super-wealthy.   The monetary system is extensively manipulated by its controllers and it's controlled at the expense of everyone and everything else.   The general public, their own company's employees, and the environment, and the land of indigenous peoples around the globe, are their primary targets of exploitation in the name of profits (more money) for the already wealthy.

Reference:    

http://www.EconomicSanity101.com/capitalism-illusion.html#83

9)    Money Becomes Just Numbers

At a certain level of wealth, money becomes only numbers, or pieces of paper, or journal entries, or pieces of metal , such as gold or silver.   The emotional hooks  ^**mc7  are the controlling factors, not the money, itself, its the addiction to making more money that is the problem.   

As an experiment, take out a coin or paper dollar of the highest denomination you have available.   If you have a silver or a gold coin, use that for this experiment.    

Sit quietly for a minute or so and look at the object you chose.  Imagine yourself as a personal version of Robinson Caruso, trapped on a tropical island.   Imagine you have thousands of the coins or dollars like the one you hold in your hand.    Imagine their value to you on this island.   

Did you notice that the value is not in the money, itself, but rather, it's in the minds of you and the other people who  accept these pieces of paper  (or coins)  as money?   Your coin or paper dollar represents the goods and services that other humans will give you in exchange for it.

The super-wealthy have all the goods and services that money can buy.   To a billionaire, of what value is another dollar or even another million dollars?   At some point, more money becomes only numbers.  The emotional hooks  are the controlling factors, not the money.   (See Factor 10, below.) 

10)  Humans are susceptible to becoming lost in the material world.   

For many people, some aspect of their physical world takes over and controls their lives.   Their job, their religion, money, sex, drugs, power, fame, material possessions -- their passion about something in the physical world -- becomes their point of  identity, their sense of self, their reason for being.   The evidence about who and what they really are becomes lost in their quest for material satisfaction.   

Money is one of the most powerful mind-seducer on the planet.  Why?   Because money is an avenue to sex, drugs, power, fame, and material possessions.   It's a ticket to live, be, do, have, express, and/or experience almost anything on the entire planet.   It is the ultimate backstage pass at the theater of physical Earth life. ^**mc7  

11)   Will the presently proposed solutions actually solve 

         the financial crisis?

NO!  They will simply defer disaster to a later date.   In the meantime, and while the super-wealthy plead, squabble, bicker, and fight for "a few dollars more," Global Climate Change will kill billions of people and forever change the face of planet Earth.  

Reference:    

You can think of  Homeowner-Debt-Forgiveness  as a  quid pro quo  --  the bankers forgive all homeowner mortgage debts and we, the people, forgive the super-wealthy bankers for almost a hundred years of charging us and our parents and grandparents trillions of dollars in interest on the use of make-believe money.  

Reference:    

http://www.MoneyGodMoney.com/money-defined.html#FiatMoney