FED “infinite” quantitative easing

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(NaturalNews) This is it, folks: the final chapter of America’s great
financial blowout has begun. The Federal Reserve’s decision to announce
“infinite” quantitative easing has now put us all on the path of infinite money creation. With up to $85 billion in monthly
money creation — including $40 billion a month in purchases of
mortgage-backed securities — the Fed is now wholly committed to the
creation of new fake money to cover old fake debts. Mathematically, this
financial death spiral can only end in sheer catastrophe.

This
massive money creation tactic is the Fed’s last-ditch plan to
desperately try to save the economy. “I think the country should have
panicked over what the Fed is saying that we have lost control,” said
Ron Paul, “and the only thing we have left is massively creating new
money out of thin air, which has not worked before, and is not going to
work this time.”

Peter Schiff added, “This is a disastrous monetary policy; it’s kamikaze monetary policy.” (End Of the American Dream)

And
he’s right. It’s suicide. It’s also highly offensive to anyone who can
actually do math… which, sadly, isn’t that many people these days.

Steal from the poor to give to the rich

Quantitative easing, you see, is essentially the Federal Reserve creating money and then handing it to the richest banks. Meanwhile, all that new money floating around erodes the value of the dollars in the hands of the working taxpayers. So their grocery bills go up. Their fuel costs go up. Their daycare costs increase and their utility bills creep ever skyward.

But the rich banksters are simultaneously rolling in FREE Fed cash, and instead of actually lending this money out and doing something useful with it, they crank up their own executive bonuses to make sure they get paid while the rest of the economy crumbles. And why? It’s simple: Because people are crooks, and if they get handed $40 billion a month in free money, they’re just going to grin and say, “How can we get MORE?”

That’s the credo of the banks: MORE!

When
you’re out of a job and looking for honest work just to put a roof over
your head, the bank is repossessing your house and screaming “MORE!”

When you can’t make that car payment and you have to start riding the bus with the minimum wage masses, the banks scream “MORE!”

When
you’re trying to put healthy food on the table for your own family, and
you see food prices ratcheting higher and higher as the value of your
hard-earned dollar erodes, the banks scream “MORE!”

This mantra
is all they know. The top global banks do not operate on compassion,
benefit to society, fairness or even anything resembling lawful
activity. They simply hornswaggle their way into the receiving end of
ALL the money: Mortgage money, bailout money, government money and of
course Fed money. That’s the game, you see: Screw the whole world and
everybody in it. There’s MORE to be had!

Fed pumping is essentially a Ponzi scheme

How
long will this go on? Until the whole system suddenly collapses due to
its own corruption and greed. All such systems eventually collapse, of
course. The Federal Reserve is essentially pushing a global Ponzi scheme where new money is created in order to keep old money from being lost.

The
problem with all Ponzi schemes is that their very survival depends on
continually expanding the money base upon which they operate. And since
mathematics tells us that no currency system can be expanded to
infinity, every such Ponzi-like system must, by definition, come
crashing down.

We’ve seen it time and time again, of course.
Zimbabwe cranked its currency into hyperinflation and then collapsed. So
did Argentina. Chile. Peru. Weimar Germany, too:

In 1922, the
largest denomination of the Papiermark was 50,000. A year later it was
100 Trillion. This means that by December 1923, the exchange rate with
the US Dollar was 4.2 Trillion to 1. It is estimated that by November
1923, the yearly inflation rate was considered 325,000,000%.
(http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/hyperinflation-the-story-of-9-failed-…)

Yugoslavia: “…during the height of hyperinflation (December 1994), inflation was increasing by a rate of 100% per day.”

Peru:
“Peruvian government decided again to replace the currency, this time
with the Neuvo Sol, at a rate of 1,000,000,000 to 1.”

Zimbabwe:
“In August 2008, the government removed ten zeros from the currency, and
10 Billion ZWD became equal to 1 New ZWD, with an estimated annual
inflation rate of about 500 quintillion (18 zeros) percent, with a
monthly rate of 13 billion percent.”

Hungary: “In 1944, the
Hungarian Pengo’s highest denomination was the 1,000 note. A year later
it was 10,000,000. And by mid-1946, it was 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.”

Can this happen to the U.S. dollar?

The good news is that the U.S. dollar has a large circulation base. The U.S. dollar M2 money supply is roughly $10 trillion.

That sounds really large until you consider the U.S. national debt is, all by itself, $16 trillion. (www.USdebtClock.org) In just four more years, by 2016, that debt will almost certainly reach $22 trillion. (http://www.usdebtclock.org/cbo-omb-gop-budget-estimates.html)

On
top of all this, if the Fed is printing $85 billion a month, it adds
another trillion dollars to the monetary base each year. Effectively,
this means the Fed will be expanding the money supply by 10% annually,
from day one. Except it doesn’t end there, of course. In just a few
months, the $85 billion a month will need to be increased to $200
billion a month. Then $500 billion a month. And before you know it, the
Fed is creating one trillion dollars a month in a grand, final blowout of the U.S. dollar.

QE3 becomes the “infinite bailout” strategy of the Fed. But there’s a problem in all this: Infinite money creation
means infinite devaluation. As the money supply expands, the value of
the dollars currently in circulation (physically or electronically)
approaches ZERO. Such is the curse of mathematics and the laws of
economics.

A global debt dump is inevitable

The final
phase of all this will be radically accelerated, of course, by the
dumping of U.S. government debt by other central banks in China, Japan
and elsewhere. When they see the writing on the wall, they’ll stage a
selloff. The selloff will send shockwaves throughout the financial sector, causing investors to flee the dollar and ultimately resulting in the Fed creating even more fiat currency to buy back U.S. debt in a last-ditch effort to prevent a national bankruptcy.

This
is the point where you get into Zimbabwe territory… where the
government is forced to issue “new dollars” with a trade-in value of
1,000,000 to 1, and where the Fed becomes the last buyer of U.S. debt
because nobody else will touch it. This is a lot like getting a cash
advance on your credit card in order to make your minimum monthly
payment. The debt accumulates as crushing compound interest, and there is no escape from the inevitable default.

This day is coming for America and the U.S. dollar.

Timing? Still unknown

The
timing on all this is, of course, an unknown. Some of the more
outspoken critics of Fed financial policy believe we’re going to see a
financial meltdown before the end of April 2013. Others think it may
take several years longer. A few observers say we’ll be lucky to make it
to Christmas.

Personally, I’m always amazed at how long corrupt
institutions can prop up their monetary scams, so I tend to think a
full-blown meltdown might require years to take place. But the banking
debt crisis is likely to happen much sooner, potentially even this year
(after the election). That’s not an official prediction, however; it’s
just a cautious warning to be safe rather than sorry. Historically, my
own predictions tend to be 1-3 years too early. I began warning about
the dot-com bubble in 1998, for example, and it didn’t burst until 2001.
I began warning about the housing bubble a year or two before it
collapsed.

Either way, the U.S. dollar has become a game of
musical chairs, and the loser is anyone holding dollars when the music
stops. Don’t have all your eggs in the dollar basket when that day
comes, okay? Diversify into storable food, gold, farm land… anything
that holds value through a currency collapse.

Because remember, the value of the currency you hold can be stolen from you
even if the physical paper money is not. This swindle has been repeated
countless times throughout human history, always by corrupt central
bankers and government conspirators. Time after time, the People get
scammed, and time after time, most of them can’t even figure out who
stole the money. That’s the evil genius of the entire plan: Currency
creation is invisible theft. With every new dollar they create,
they effectively steal one dollar’s worth of purchasing power from those
who hold the currency.

In essence, then, the Federal Reserve has announce its plan to steal $85 billion a month from those who hold U.S. dollars… with no limit to the number of months this theft will continue.

We
are staring into the eyes of the beast here, looking at the greatest
financial swindle ever pulled off in the history of the world. This is
the banker end game. When this chapter is complete, the people
will be left with nothing while the banks own everything. It’s all about
MORE! …remember?

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with interest” (Matt. 25:27; Luke 19:23).

In those parables, Jesus is joking, sic, as St Thomas is saying. ( methaphoric )
Bad translation of the bible

27 ἔδει σε οὖν βαλεῖν τὰ ἀργύριά μου τοῖς τραπεζίταις, καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐγὼ ἐκομισάμην ἂν τὸ ἐμὸν σὺν τόκῳ.
Tokoi τόκῳ means fruits, like in Theo Tokoi, mother of God.

The word interest is not in this text, tokoi τόκῳ is not interest, tokoi τόκῳ is fruit.
Only in a spiritual sense, not in a material sense…

Does this mean that God requires interest? In the spiritual sense, yes
indeed ! The “talents,” spiritual gifts given to us from God, are not
given for nothing. He expects a return on His investment. God has chosen
us and ordained us that we should go and bring forth fruit that remains
and lasts, John 15:16.

St. Thomas Aquinas,
the leading theologian of the Catholic Church,
argued charging of interest is wrong because it amounts to “double
charging”, charging for both the thing and the use of the thing ( now,
with fractional banking without any limit as in Canada and on money
coming from thin air, it is infinite “creation” of infinite interests at
an infinite rate of interest and infinite QE3, more than 1’000 per cent of interest rate, sic… ). Aquinas
said this would be morally wrong in the same way as if one sold a
bottle of wine, charged for the bottle of wine, and then charged for the
person using the wine to actually drink it. Similarly, one cannot
charge for a piece of cake and for the eating of the piece of cake. Yet
this, said Aquinas, is what usury does. Money is exchange-medium. It is
used up when it is spent. To charge for the money and for its use (by
spending) is to charge for the money twice. It is also to sell time
since the usurer charges, in effect, for the time that the money is in
the hands of the borrower. Time, however, is not a commodity that anyone
can sell. (For a detailed discussion of Aquinas and usury, go to
Thought of Thomas Aquinas Part I ).
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3078.htm

ON USURY AND OTHER DISHONEST PROFIT

Vix Pervenit

Encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV promulgated on November 1, 1745.

To the Venerable Brothers, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops and Ordinary
Clergy of Italy.

Venerable Brothers, Greetings and Apostolic Benediction.

Hardly had the new controversy (namely, whether certain contracts should be
held valid) come to our attention, when several opinions began spreading in
Italy that hardly seemed to agree with sound doctrine; We decided that We must
remedy this. If We did not do so immediately, such an evil might acquire new
force by delay and silence. If we neglected our duty, it might even spread
further, shaking those cities of Italy so far not affected.

Therefore We decided to consult with a number of the Cardinals of the Holy
Roman Church, who are renowned for their knowledge and competence in theology
and canon law. We also called upon many from the regular clergy who were
outstanding in both the faculty of theology and that of canon law. We chose some
monks, some mendicants, and finally some from the regular clergy. As presiding
officer, We appointed one with degrees in both canon and civil law, who had
lengthy court experience. We chose the past July 4 for the meeting at which We
explained the nature of the whole business. We learned that all had known and
considered it already.

2. We then ordered them to consider carefully all aspects of the matter,
meanwhile searching for a solution; after this consideration, they were to write
out their conclusions. We did not ask them to pass judgment on the contract
which gave rise to the controversy since the many documents they would need were
not available. Rather We asked that they establish a fixed teaching on usury,
since the opinions recently spread abroad seemed to contradict the Church’s
doctrine. All complied with these orders. They gave their opinions publicly in
two convocations, the first of which was held in our presence last July 18, the
other last August 1; then they submitted their opinions in writing to the
secretary of the convocation.

3. Indeed they proved to be of one mind in their opinions.

I. The nature of the sin called usury has its proper place and origin in a
loan contract. This financial contract between consenting parties demands, by
its very nature, that one return to another only as much as he has received. The
sin rests on the fact that sometimes the creditor desires more than he has
given. Therefore he contends some gain is owed him beyond that which he loaned,
but any gain which exceeds the amount he gave is illicit and usurious.

II. One cannot condone the sin of usury by arguing that the gain is not great
or excessive, but rather moderate or small; neither can it be condoned by
arguing that the borrower is rich; nor even by arguing that the money borrowed
is not left idle, but is spent usefully, either to increase one’s fortune, to
purchase new estates, or to engage in business transactions. The law governing
loans consists necessarily in the equality of what is given and returned; once
the equality has been established, whoever demands more than that violates the
terms of the loan. Therefore if one receives interest, he must make restitution
according to the commutative bond of justice; its function in human contracts is
to assure equality for each one. This law is to be observed in a holy manner. If
not observed exactly, reparation must be made.

III. By these remarks, however, We do not deny that at times together with
the loan contract certain other titles-which are not at all intrinsic to the
contract-may run parallel with it. From these other titles, entirely just and
legitimate reasons arise to demand something over and above the amount due on
the contract. Nor is it denied that it is very often possible for someone, by
means of contracts differing entirely from loans, to spend and invest money
legitimately either to provide oneself with an annual income or to engage in
legitimate trade and business. From these types of contracts honest gain may be
made.

IV. There are many different contracts of this kind. In these contracts, if
equality is not maintained, whatever is received over and above what is fair is
a real injustice. Even though it may not fall under the precise rubric of usury
(since all reciprocity, both open and hidden, is absent), restitution is
obligated. Thus if everything is done correctly and weighed in the scales of
justice, these same legitimate contracts suffice to provide a standard and a
principle for engaging in commerce and fruitful business for the common good.
Christian minds should not think that gainful commerce can flourish by usuries
or other similar injustices. On the contrary We learn from divine Revelation
that justice raises up nations; sin, however, makes nations miserable.

V. But you must diligently consider this, that some will falsely and rashly
persuade themselves-and such people can be found anywhere-that together with
loan contracts there are other legitimate titles or, excepting loan contracts,
they might convince themselves that other just contracts exist, for which it is
permissible to receive a moderate amount of interest. Should any one think like
this, he will oppose not only the judgment of the Catholic Church on usury, but
also common human sense and natural reason. Everyone knows that man is obliged
in many instances to help his fellows with a simple, plain loan. Christ Himself
teaches this: “Do not refuse to lend to him who asks you.” In many
circumstances, no other true and just contract may be possible except for a
loan. Whoever therefore wishes to follow his conscience must first diligently
inquire if, along with the loan, another category exists by means of which the
gain he seeks may be lawfully attained.

4. This is how the Cardinals and theologians and the men most conversant with
the canons, whose advice We had asked for in this most serious business,
explained their opinions. Also We devoted our private study to this matter
before the congregations were convened, while they were in session, and again
after they had been held; for We read the opinions of these outstanding men most
diligently. Because of this, We approve and confirm whatever is contained in the
opinions above, since the professors of Canon Law and Theology, scriptural
evidence, the decrees of previous popes, and the authority of Church councils
and the Fathers all seem to enjoin it. Besides, We certainly know the authors
who hold the opposite opinions and also those who either support and defend
those authors or at least who seem to give them consideration. We are also aware
that the theologians of regions neighboring those in which the controversy had
its origin undertook the defense of the truth with wisdom and seriousness.

5. Therefore We address these encyclical letters to all Italian Archbishops,
Bishops, and priests to make all of you aware of these matters. Whenever Synods
are held or sermons preached or instructions on sacred doctrine given, the above
opinions must be adhered to strictly. Take great care that no one in your
dioceses dares to write or preach the contrary; however if any one should refuse
to obey, he should be subjected to the penalties imposed by the sacred canons on
those who violate Apostolic mandates.

6. Concerning the specific contract which caused these new controversies, We
decide nothing for the present; We also shall not decide now about the other
contracts in which the theologians and canonists lack agreement. Rekindle your
zeal for piety and your conscientiousness so that you may execute what We have
given.

7. First of all, show your people with persuasive words that the sin and vice
of usury is most emphatically condemned in the Sacred Scriptures; that it
assumes various forms and appearances in order that the faithful, restored to
liberty and grace by the blood of Christ, may again be driven headlong into
ruin. Therefore, if they desire to invest their money, let them exercise
diligent care lest they be snatched by cupidity, the source of all evil; to this
end, let them be guided by those who excel in doctrine and the glory of virtue.

8. In the second place, some trust in their own strength and knowledge to
such an extent that they do not hesitate to give answers to those questions
which demand considerable knowledge of sacred theology and of the canons. But it
is essential for these people, also, to avoid extremes, which are always evil.
For instance, there are some who judge these matters with such severity that
they hold any profit derived from money to be illegal and usurious; in contrast
to them, there are some so indulgent and so remiss that they hold any gain
whatsoever to be free of usury. Let them not adhere too much to their private
opinions. Before they give their answer, let them consult a number of eminent
writers; then let them accept those views which they understand to be confirmed
by knowledge and authority. And if a dispute should arise, when some contract is
discussed, let no insults be hurled at those who hold the contrary opinion; nor
let it be asserted that it must be severely censured, particularly if it does
not lack the support of reason and of men of reputation. Indeed clamorous
outcries and accusations break the chain of Christian love and give offense and
scandal to the people.

9. In the third place, those who desire to keep themselves free and untouched
by the contamination of usury and to give their money to another in such a
manner that they may receive only legitimate gain should be admonished to make a
contract beforehand. In the contract they should explain the conditions and what
gain they expect from their money. This will not only greatly help to avoid
concern and anxiety, but will also confirm the contract in the realm of public
business. This approach also closes the door on controversies-which have arisen
more than once-since it clarifies whether the money, which has been loaned
without apparent interest, may actually contain concealed usury.

10. In the fourth place We exhort you not to listen to those who say that
today the issue of usury is present in name only, since gain is almost always
obtained from money given to another. How false is this opinion and how far
removed from the truth! We can easily understand this if we consider that the
nature of one contract differs from the nature of another. By the same token,
the things which result from these contracts will differ in accordance with the
varying nature of the contracts. Truly an obvious difference exists between gain
which arises from money legally, and therefore can be upheld in the courts of
both civil and canon law, and gain which is illicitly obtained, and must
therefore be returned according to the judgments of both courts. Thus, it is
clearly invalid to suggest, on the grounds that some gain is usually received
from money lent out, that the issue of usury is irrelevant in our times.

11. These are the chief things We wanted to say to you. We hope that you may
command your faithful to observe what these letters prescribe; and that you may
undertake effective remedies if disturbances should be stirred up among your
people because of this new controversy over usury or if the simplicity and
purity of doctrine should become corrupted in Italy. Finally, to you and to the
flock committed to your care, We impart the Apostolic Benediction.

Given in Rome at St. Mary Major, November 1, 1745, the sixth year of Our
Pontificate.

Question 78. The sin of usury

  1. Is it a sin to take money as a price for money lent, which is to receive usury?
  2. Is it lawful to lend money for any other kind of consideration, by way of payment for the loan?
  3. Is a man bound to restore just gains derived from money taken in usury?
  4. Is it lawful to borrow money under a condition of usury?

Article 1. Whether it is a sin to take usury for money lent?

Objection 1. It would seem that it is not a sin to take usury for money lent. For no man sins through following the example of Christ. But Our Lord said of Himself (Luke 19:23): “At My coming I might have exacted it,” i.e. the money lent, “with usury.” Therefore it is not a sin to take usury for lending money.

Objection 2. Further, according to Psalm 18:8, “The law of the Lord is unspotted,” because, to wit, it forbids sin. Now usury of a kind is allowed in the Divine law, according to Deuteronomy 23:19-20: “Thou shalt not fenerate to thy brother
money, nor corn, nor any other thing, but to the stranger”: nay more,
it is even promised as a reward for the observance of the Law, according to Deuteronomy 28:12: “Thou shalt fenerate* to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.” [‘Faeneraberis’–‘Thou shalt lend upon usury.’ The Douay version has simply ‘lend.’ The objection lays stress on the word ‘faeneraberis’: hence the necessity of rendering it by ‘fenerate.’] Therefore it is not a sin to take usury.

Objection 3. Further, in human affairs justice is determined by civil laws. Now civil law allows usury to be taken. Therefore it seems to be lawful.

Objection 4. Further, the counsels are not binding under sin. But, among other counsels we find (Luke 6:35): “Lend, hoping for nothing thereby.” Therefore it is not a sin to take usury.

Objection 5. Further, it does not seem to be in itself sinful
to accept a price for doing what one is not bound to do. But one who
has money is not bound in every case to lend it to his neighbor.
Therefore it is lawful for him sometimes to accept a price for lending
it.

Objection 6. Further, silver made into coins
does not differ specifically from silver made into a vessel. But it is
lawful to accept a price for the loan of a silver vessel. Therefore it
is also lawful to accept a price for the loan of a silver coin.
Therefore usury is not in itself a sin.

Objection 7. Further, anyone may lawfully accept
a thing which its owner freely gives him. Now he who accepts the loan,
freely gives the usury. Therefore he who lends may lawfully take the
usury.

On the contrary, It is written (Exodus 22:25):
“If thou lend money to any of thy people that is poor, that dwelleth
with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor
oppress them with usuries.”

I answer that, To take usury for money lent is unjust in itself, because this is to sell what does not exist, and this evidently leads to inequality which is contrary to justice.
On order
to make this evident, we must observe that there are certain things the
use of which consists in their consumption: thus we consume wine when
we use it for drink and we consume wheat when we use it for food.
Wherefore in such like things the use of the thing must not be reckoned
apart from the thing itself, and whoever is granted the use of the
thing, is granted the thing itself and for this reason, to lend things
of this kin is to transfer the ownership. Accordingly if a man wanted to
sell wine separately from the use of the wine, he would be selling the
same thing twice, or he would be selling what does not exist, wherefore he would evidently commit a sin of injustice. On like manner he commits an injustice who lends wine
or wheat, and asks for double payment, viz. one, the return of the
thing in equal measure, the other, the price of the use, which is called
usury.

On the other hand, there are things the use of which does not
consist in their consumption: thus to use a house is to dwell in it, not
to destroy it. Wherefore in such things both may be granted: for
instance, one man may hand over to another the ownership of his house while reserving
to himself the use of it for a time, or vice versa, he may grant the
use of the house, while retaining the ownership. For this reason a man
may lawfully make a charge for the use of his house, and, besides this,
revendicate the house from the person to whom he has granted its use, as happens in renting and letting a house.

Now money, according to the Philosopher (Ethic.
v, 5; Polit. i, 3) was invented chiefly for the purpose of exchange:
and consequently the proper and principal use of money is its
consumption or alienation whereby it is sunk in exchange. Hence it is by
its very nature unlawful to take payment for the use of money lent, which payment is known
as usury: and just as a man is bound to restore other ill-gotten goods,
so is he bound to restore the money which he has taken in usury.

Reply to Objection 1. In this passage usury must be taken figuratively for the increase of spiritual goods which God
exacts from us, for He wishes us ever to advance in the goods which we
receive from Him: and this is for our own profit not for His.

Reply to Objection 2. The Jews were forbidden to take usury from their brethren, i.e. from other Jews. By this we are given to understand that to take usury from any man is evil simply, because we ought to treat every man
as our neighbor and brother, especially in the state of the Gospel,
whereto all are called. Hence it is said without any distinction in Psalm 14:5: “He that hath not put out his money to usury,” and (Ezekiel 18:8): “Who hath not taken usury [Vulgate:
‘If a man . . . hath not lent upon money, nor taken any increase . . .
he is just.’].” They were permitted, however, to take usury from
foreigners, not as though it were lawful, but in order to avoid a
greater evil, lest, to wit, through avarice to which they were prone according to Isaiah 56:11, they should take usury from the Jews who were worshippers of God.

Where we find it promised to them as a reward, “Thou shalt fenerate to many nations,” etc., fenerating is to be taken in a broad sense for lending, as in Sirach 29:10, where we read: “Many have refused to fenerate, not out of wickedness,” i.e. they would not lend. Accordingly the Jews are promised in reward an abundance of wealth, so that they would be able to lend to others.

Reply to Objection 3. Human laws leave certain things unpunished, on account of the condition of those who are imperfect, and who would be deprived of many advantages, if all sins were strictly forbidden and punishments appointed for them. Wherefore human law has permitted usury, not that it looks upon usury as harmonizing with justice, but lest the advantage of many should be hindered. Hence it is that in civil law [Inst. II, iv, de Usufructu] it is stated that “those things according to natural reason and civil law
which are consumed by being used, do not admit of usufruct,” and that
“the senate did not (nor could it) appoint a usufruct to such things,
but established a quasi-usufruct,” namely by permitting usury. Moreover the Philosopher, led by natural reason, says (Polit. i, 3) that “to make money by usury is exceedingly unnatural.”

Reply to Objection 4. A man
is not always bound to lend, and for this reason it is placed among the
counsels. Yet it is a matter of precept not to seek profit by lending:
although it may be called a matter of counsel in comparison with the
maxims of the Pharisees,
who deemed some kinds of usury to be lawful, just as love of one’s
enemies is a matter of counsel. Or again, He speaks here not of the hope
of usurious gain, but of the hope which is put in man. For we ought not to lend or do any good deed through hope in man, but only through hope in God.

Reply to Objection 5. He that is not bound to
lend, may accept repayment for what he has done, but he must not exact
more. Now he is repaid according to equality of justice
if he is repaid as much as he lent. Wherefore if he exacts more for the
usufruct of a thing which has no other use but the consumption of its substance, he exacts a price of something non-existent: and so his exaction is unjust.

Reply to Objection 6. The principal use of a
silver vessel is not its consumption, and so one may lawfully sell its
use while retaining one’s ownership of it. On the other hand the
principal use of silver money is sinking it in exchange, so that it is
not lawful to sell its use and at the same time expect the restitution
of the amount lent. It must be observed, however, that the secondary use
of silver vessels may be an exchange, and such use may not be lawfully
sold. On like manner there may be some secondary use of silver money;
for instance, a man might lend coins for show, or to be used as
security.

Reply to Objection 7. He who gives usury does not give it voluntarily simply, but under a certain necessity, in so far as he needs to borrow money which the owner is unwilling to lend without usury.

Article 2. Whether it is lawful to ask for any other kind of consideration for money lent?

Objection 1. It would seem that one may ask for some other kind of consideration for money lent.
For everyone may lawfully seek to indemnify himself. Now sometimes a
man suffers loss through lending money. Therefore he may lawfully ask
for or even exact something else besides the money lent.

Objection 2. Further, as stated in Ethic. v, 5, one is in duty bound by a point of honor,
to repay anyone who has done us a favor. Now to lend money to one who
is in straits is to do him a favor for which he should be grateful.
Therefore the recipient of a loan, is bound by a natural debt to repay something. Now it does not seem unlawful to bind oneself to an obligation of the natural law. Therefore it is not unlawful, in lending money to anyone, to demand some sort of compensation as condition of the loan.

Objection 3. Further, just as there is real remuneration, so is there verbal remuneration, and remuneration by service, as a gloss says on Isaiah 33:15, “Blessed is he that shaketh his hands from all bribes [Vulgate: ‘Which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings? . . . He that shaketh his hands from all bribes.’].”
Now it is lawful to accept service or praise from one to whom one has
lent money. Therefore in like manner it is lawful to accept any other
kind of remuneration.

Objection 4. Further, seemingly the relation of gift to gift is the same as of loan to loan.
But it is lawful to accept money for money given. Therefore it is
lawful to accept repayment by loan in return for a loan granted.

Objection 5. Further, the lender, by
transferring his ownership of a sum of money removes the money further
from himself than he who entrusts it to a merchant or craftsman. Now it
is lawful to receive interest for money entrusted to a merchant or
craftsman. Therefore it is also lawful to receive interest for money
lent.

Objection 6. Further, a man may accept a pledge for money lent,
the use of which pledge he might sell for a price: as when a man
mortgages his land or the house wherein he dwells. Therefore it is
lawful to receive interest for money lent.

Objection 7. Further, it sometimes happens that a man raises the price of his goods under guise of loan, or buys another’s goods
at a low figure; or raises his price through delay in being paid, and
lowers his price that he may be paid the sooner. Now in all these cases
there seems to be payment for a loan of money: nor does it appear to be
manifestly illicit. Therefore it seems to be lawful to expect or exact
some consideration for money lent.

On the contrary, Among other conditions requisite in a just man it is stated (Ezekiel 18:17) that he “hath not taken usury and increase.”

I answer that, According to the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 1), a thing is reckoned as money “if its value can be measured by money.” Consequently, just as it is a sin against justice,
to take money, by tacit or express agreement, in return for lending
money or anything else that is consumed by being used, so also is it a
like sin, by tacit or express agreement to receive anything whose price can be measured by money. Yet there would be no sin
in receiving something of the kind, not as exacting it, nor yet as
though it were due on account of some agreement tacit or expressed, but
as a gratuity: since, even before lending the money, one could accept a gratuity, nor is one in a worse condition through lending.

On the other hand it is lawful to exact compensation for a loan,
in respect of such things as are not appreciated by a measure of money,
for instance, benevolence, and love for the lender, and so forth.

Reply to Objection 1. A lender may without sin enter an agreement with the borrower for compensation
for the loss he incurs of something he ought to have, for this is not
to sell the use of money but to avoid a loss. It may also happen that
the borrower avoids a greater loss than the lender incurs, wherefore the
borrower may repay the lender with what he has gained. But the lender
cannot enter an agreement for compensation, through the fact that he
makes no profit out of his money: because he must not sell that which he
has not yet and may be prevented in many ways from having.

Reply to Objection 2. Repayment for a favor may be made in two ways. On one way, as a debt of justice; and to such a debt a man may be bound by a fixed contract;
and its amount is measured according to the favor received. Wherefore
the borrower of money or any such thing the use of which is its
consumption is not bound to repay more than he received in loan: and
consequently it is against justice if he be obliged to pay back more. On another way a man’s obligation to repayment for favor received is based on a debt of friendship, and the nature
of this debt depends more on the feeling with which the favor was
conferred than on the greatness of the favor itself. This debt does not
carry with it a civil obligation, involving a kind of necessity that would exclude the spontaneous nature of such a repayment.

Reply to Objection 3. If a man were, in return
for money lent, as though there had been an agreement tacit or
expressed, to expect or exact repayment in the shape of some
remuneration of service or words, it would be the same as if he expected
or exacted some real remuneration, because both can be priced at a
money value, as may be seen in the case of those who offer for hire the
labor which they exercise by work or by tongue. If on the other hand the
remuneration by service or words be given not as an obligation, but as a favor, which is not to be appreciated at a money value, it is lawful to take, exact, and expect it.

Reply to Objection 4. Money cannot be sold for a greater sum than the amount lent,
which has to be paid back: nor should the loan be made with a demand or
expectation of aught else but of a feeling of benevolence which cannot
be priced at a pecuniary value, and which can be the basis of a
spontaneous loan. Now the obligation to lend in return at some future time is repugnant to such a feeling, because again an obligation
of this kind has its pecuniary value. Consequently it is lawful for the
lender to borrow something else at the same time, but it is unlawful
for him to bind the borrower to grant him a loan at some future time.

Reply to Objection 5. He who lends money
transfers the ownership of the money to the borrower. Hence the borrower
holds the money at his own risk and is bound to pay it all back:
wherefore the lender must not exact more. On the other hand he that
entrusts his money to a merchant or craftsman so as to form a kind of society,
does not transfer the ownership of his money to them, for it remains
his, so that at his risk the merchant speculates with it, or the
craftsman uses it for his craft, and consequently he may lawfully demand
as something belonging to him, part of the profits derived from his
money.

Reply to Objection 6. If a man in return for
money lent to him pledges something that can be valued at a price, the
lender must allow for the use of that thing towards the repayment of the
loan. Else if he wishes the gratuitous use of that thing in addition to
repayment, it is the same as if he took money for lending, and that is
usury, unless perhaps it were such a thing as friends are wont to lend
to one another gratis, as in the case of the loan of a book.

Reply to Objection 7. If a man wish to sell his goods at a higher price than that which is just,
so that he may wait for the buyer to pay, it is manifestly a case of
usury: because this waiting for the payment of the price has the
character of a loan, so that whatever he demands beyond the just price
in consideration of this delay, is like a price for a loan, which
pertains to usury. On like manner if a buyer wishes to buy goods at a
lower price than what is just, for the reason that he pays for the goods before they can be delivered, it is a sin
of usury; because again this anticipated payment of money has the
character of a loan, the price of which is the rebate on the just price
of the goods
sold. On the other hand if a man wishes to allow a rebate on the just
price in order that he may have his money sooner, he is not guilty of
the sin of usury.

Article 3. Whether a man is bound to restore whatever profits he has made out of money gotten by usury?

Objection 1. It would seem that a man is bound to restore whatever profits he has made out of money gotten by usury. For the Apostle says (Romans 11:16): “If the root be holy,
so are the branches.” Therefore likewise if the root be rotten so are
the branches. But the root was infected with usury. Therefore whatever
profit is made therefrom is infected with usury. Therefore he is bound
to restore it.

Objection 2. Further, it is laid down (Extra, De Usuris, in the Decretal: ‘Cum tu sicut asseris’): “Property accruing from usury must be sold, and the price repaid to the persons from whom the usury was extorted.” Therefore, likewise, whatever else is acquired from usurious money must be restored.

Objection 3. Further, that which a man buys with
the proceeds of usury is due to him by reason of the money he paid for
it. Therefore he has no more right to the thing purchased than to the
money he paid. But he was bound to restore the money gained through
usury. Therefore he is also bound to restore what he acquired with it.

On the contrary, A man
may lawfully hold what he has lawfully acquired. Now that which is
acquired by the proceeds of usury is sometimes lawfully acquired.
Therefore it may be lawfully retained.

I answer that, As stated above (Article 1), there are certain things whose use is their consumption, and which do not admit of usufruct, according to law (ibid., ad 3). Wherefore if such like things be extorted by means of usury, for instance money, wheat, wine
and so forth, the lender is not bound to restore more than he received
(since what is acquired by such things is the fruit not of the thing but
of human
industry), unless indeed the other party by losing some of his own
goods be injured through the lender retaining them: for then he is bound
to make good the loss.

On the other hand, there are certain things whose use is not
their consumption: such things admit of usufruct, for instance house or
land property and so forth. Wherefore if a man has by usury extorted
from another his house or land, he is bound to restore not only the
house or land but also the fruits accruing to him therefrom, since they
are the fruits of things owned by another man and consequently are due to him.

Reply to Objection 1. The root has not only the character of matter, as money made by usury has; but has also somewhat the character of an active cause, in so far as it administers nourishment. Hence the comparison fails.

Reply to Objection 2. Further, Property acquired from usury does not belong to the person who paid usury, but to the person
who bought it. Yet he that paid usury has a certain claim on that
property just as he has on the other goods of the usurer. Hence it is
not prescribed that such property should be assigned to the persons
who paid usury, since the property is perhaps worth more than what they
paid in usury, but it is commanded that the property be sold, and the
price be restored, of course according to the amount taken in usury.

Reply to Objection 3. The proceeds of money taken in usury are due to the person who acquired them not by reason of the usurious money as instrumental cause, but on account of his own industry as principal cause. Wherefore he has more right to the goods acquired with usurious money than to the usurious money itself.

Article 4. Whether it is lawful to borrow money under a condition of usury?

Objection 1. It would seem that it is not lawful to borrow money under a condition of usury. For the Apostle says (Romans 1:32) that they “are worthy of death . . . not only they that do” these sins, “but they also that consent to them that do them.” Now he that borrows money under a condition of usury consents in the sin of the usurer, and gives him an occasion of sin. Therefore he sins also.

Objection 2. Further, for no temporal advantage ought one to give another an occasion of committing a sin: for this pertains to active scandal, which is always sinful, as stated above (Question 43, Article 2). Now he that seeks to borrow from a usurer gives him an occasion of sin. Therefore he is not to be excused on account of any temporal advantage.

Objection 3. Further, it seems no less necessary
sometimes to deposit one’s money with a usurer than to borrow from him.
Now it seems altogether unlawful to deposit one’s money with a usurer,
even as it would be unlawful to deposit one’s sword with a madman, a maiden with a libertine, or food with a glutton. Neither therefore is it lawful to borrow from a usurer.

On the contrary, He that suffers injury does not sin, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. v, 11), wherefore justice is not a mean between two vices, as stated in the same book (ch. 5). Now a usurer sins by doing an injury to the person who borrows from him under a condition of usury. Therefore he that accepts a loan under a condition of usury does not sin.

I answer that, It is by no means lawful to induce a man to sin, yet it is lawful to make use of another’s sin for a good end, since even God uses all sin for some good, since He draws some good from every evil as stated in the Enchiridion (xi). Hence when Publicola asked whether it were lawful to make use of an oath taken by a man swearing by false gods (which is a manifest sin, for he gives Divine honor to them) Augustine (Ep. xlvii) answered that he who uses, not for a bad but for a good purpose, the oath of a man that swears by false gods, is a party, not to his sin of swearing by demons, but to his good compact whereby he kept his word. If however he were to induce him to swear by false gods, he would sin.

Accordingly we must also answer to the question in point that it is by no means lawful to induce a man to lend under a condition
of usury: yet it is lawful to borrow for usury from a man who is ready
to do so and is a usurer by profession; provided the borrower have a good
end in view, such as the relief of his own or another’s need. Thus too
it is lawful for a man who has fallen among thieves to point out his
property to them (which they sin in taking) in order to save his life, after the example of the ten men who said to Ismahel (Jeremiah 41:8): “Kill us not: for we have stores in the field.”

Reply to Objection 1. He who borrows for usury does not consent to the usurer’s sin but makes use of it. Nor is it the usurer’s acceptance of usury that pleases him, but his lending, which is good.

Reply to Objection 2. He who borrows for usury
gives the usurer an occasion, not for taking usury, but for lending; it
is the usurer who finds an occasion of sin in the malice of his heart. Hence there is passive scandal on his part, while there is no active scandal on the part of the person who seeks to borrow. Nor is this passive scandal a reason why the other person should desist from borrowing if he is in need, since this passive scandal arises not from weakness or ignorance but from malice.

Reply to Objection 3. If one were to entrust one’s money to a usurer lacking other means of practising usury; or with the intention of making a greater profit from his money by reason of the usury, one would be giving a sinner matter for sin,
so that one would be a participator in his guilt. If, on the other
hand, the usurer to whom one entrusts one’s money has other means of
practising usury, there is no sin in entrusting it to him that it may be in safer keeping, since this is to use a sinner for a good purpose.

The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas
Second and Revised Edition, 1920
Literally translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Nihil Obstat. F. Innocentius Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor. Theol.
Imprimatur. Edus. Canonicus Surmont, Vicarius Generalis. Westmonasterii.
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Nihil Obstat. F. Raphael Moss, O.P., S.T.L. and F. Leo Moore, O.P., S.T.L.
Imprimatur. F. Beda Jarrett, O.P., S.T.L., A.M., Prior Provincialis Angliæ

MARIÆ IMMACULATÆ – SEDI SAPIENTIÆ

Usury.
In the article INTEREST we have reserved the question of the lawfulness
of taking interest on money lent; we have here to consider first, usury as
Rather We asked that they establish a fixed teaching on usury, since the I. The nature of the sin called usury has its proper place and origin in a loan contract.
Is it a sin to take money as a price for money lent, which is to receive usury? Is it lawful to lend money for any other kind of consideration, by way of payment for
Formerly (see USURY) the Church rigorously condemned the exacting of anything As may be more fully seen in the article USURY, this difference is due to
In
fact it seems that for a long time the preachers of the Franciscan
Order had considered the problem of applying an effectual remedy to
the evils of usury (cf.

fight on behalf of the doctrine of the Gospels, that we may both keep
the inheritance of our fathers unimpaired, and bring our Master His
talent with good usury.
Relief Act, 1791); “Church and State” (London, 1794); “Treatise on the Law of Usury” (London, 1796); “The Constitution of the United Kingdom” (London, 1802);
But know further that it has come to our ears concerning him, that he has given money on usury; which thing you ought to enquire into thoroughly, and, if it is so,

his sermons, some Latin verse, counsels to Herbert Foglieta “De Ratione
Illustrandæ Ligurum Historiæ”, and, in the Ambrosian library, a
treatise on “Usury” .
Shortly afterwards he turned his attention to the much debated question of usury, and threw his influence against the claims of the Laxists. To sustain his
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Young’s Literal Translation
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ἔδει σε οὖν βαλεῖν τὰ ἀργύριά μου τοῖς τραπεζίταις, καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐγὼ ἐκομισάμην ἂν τὸ ἐμὸν σὺν τόκῳ.
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ἔδει οὖν σε βαλεῖν τὸ ἀργύριον μου τοῖς τραπεζίταις καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐγὼ ἐκομισάμην ἂν τὸ ἐμὸν σὺν τόκῳ
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εδει σε ουν βαλειν τα αργυρια μου τοις τραπεζιταις και ελθων εγω εκομισαμην αν το εμον συν τοκω
ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 25:27 Greek NT: Byzantine/Majority Text (2000)
εδει ουν σε βαλειν το αργυριον μου τοις τραπεζιταις και ελθων εγω εκομισαμην αν το εμον συν τοκω
ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 25:27 Greek NT: Textus Receptus (1550)
εδει ουν σε βαλειν το αργυριον μου τοις τραπεζιταις και ελθων εγω εκομισαμην αν το εμον συν τοκω
ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 25:27 Greek NT: Textus Receptus (1894)
εδει ουν σε βαλειν το αργυριον μου τοις τραπεζιταις και ελθων εγω εκομισαμην αν το εμον συν τοκω
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531 médecins contre l’ incinérateur d’ordures ménagères

L’usine Tridel est-elle nocive?

Lancée en 2006, l’usine d’incinération des
déchets tourne aujourd’hui à plein régime.Certaines voix s’élèvent pour
remettre en question la validité des mesures des substances émises dans
l’atmosphère.A Clermont-Ferrand en France, un collectif de 530 médecins
s’oppose par tous les moyens à l’ouverture d’un incinérateur.

Certains riverains n'ont pas hésité à faire preuve de leur inquiétude. DR

Certains riverains n’ont pas hésité à faire preuve de leur inquiétude. DR

DECHETS • Avons-nous, sans le savoir, une bombe à
retardement au cœur de Lausanne et à 200 mètres à peine du CHUV? C’est
en tout cas ce qu’affirme l’ingénieur Claude Monod, président de
l’Association pour la sauvegarde du Vallon du Flon. Depuis plusieurs
mois en effet, l’association assaille d’une multitude de courriers les
autorités cantonales, qu’elles soient sanitaires ou responsables de la
surveillance de l’environnement. Son objectif? Obtenir des précisions
quant aux nuisances occasionnées par le fonctionnement de Tridel, la
célèbre usine d’incinération de déchets ménagers, ouverte en 2006.

Valeurs maximales

L’association n’hésite pas à remettre en question les méthodes de
mesure de la qualité de l’air autour du site de Tridel. «Les valeurs
d’émissions sont sous-évaluées car elles se basent sur un débit
d’incinération de 11.8 tonnes par heure et par four», explique ainsi
Claude Monod. Et de s’insurger: «Or il est certain que le débit de
l’incinération dépasse largement ce seuil. Pourquoi ne pas effectuer les
contrôles quand les fours fonctionnent à leurs valeurs maximales?»Autre
doléance: selon Claude Monod, Tridel ne respecte tout simplement pas la
volonté populaire: «Dès sa mise en service, affirme-t-il, l’usine a
incinéré beaucoup plus de déchets que prévu. On a trompé les citoyens en
leur faisant voter pour des usines pouvant brûler 140’000 tonnes
annuelles et non les 158’000 tonnes atteintes! En plus, on s’était
engagé à ne brûler que les déchets du canton, ce qui n’a pas toujours
été le cas!»Mais l’association n’est pas la seule à remettre en question
Tridel. Depuis l’ouverture de l’usine, certains riverains n’ont ainsi
pas hésité à faire preuve de leur inquiétude. Publié en septembre de
l’année dernière par notre confrère 24heures, un courrier des lecteurs
dénonçait les «odeurs pestilentielles» ainsi que les «poussières
grossières et noires» déposées sur son balcon et exigeait un
renforcement «des filtres de l’usine, jugés insuffisants lors des
canicules».Toutes ces allégations ont le don de susciter l’indignation
de Stefan Nellen, president du conseil d’administration de l’usine
d’incinération de déchets.

Trois plaintes par an

«A Tridel, sur 150’000 citoyens lausannois, nous n ‘enregistrons que 3
plaintes par an, s’insurge-t-il sans cacher une pointe d’exaspération.
Et en plus, ce sont toujours les mêmes depuis dix ans! Quant à
l’association pour la sauvergarde du vallon du Flon, elle ne compte en
réalité qu’un seul membre cotisant!»Et sur le fond, Stefan Nellen récuse
en bloc toutes les accusations portées contre Tridel: «Tout cela est
complètement faux. D’abord Tridel ne sent pas en exploitation normale.
Il peut arriver en été, qu’au cours du transfert de déchets, des odeurs
s’échappent dans un certain périmètre autour de la benne, mais rien de
plus. Enfin, les tests sont effectués lorsque les fours tournent à plein
régime, et par un bureau totalement neutre et indépendant et nous
ouvrons nos portes à tous ceux qui le souhaitent. Bien sûr, dire qu’on
ne pollue pas c’est faux. Une usine c’est comme une voiture, elle pollue
forcément. Mais aujourd’hui, on ne peut pas faire mieux avec la
technologie actuelle. D’ailleurs Tridel est 21 fois plus propre que
celle qui existait auparavant à Lausanne!»Quant à l’éventuelle
surcapacité des fours, le président la balaie d’un revers de main:
«Certains au départ nous reprochaient que l’usine était surdimensionnée.
Aujourd’hui, on nous reproche le fait qu’elle fonctionne à plein
régime». Et d’annoncer: «De toute façon, avec l’introduction de la taxe
au sac en 2013, on s’attend à une diminution des tonnages de 15 à 20%!»

«Tridel est 21 fois plus propre que celle qui existait auparavant à
Lausanne!», Stefan Nellen, president du conseil d’administration de
Tridel.

«Un attentat contre la santé publique»

CA • C’est une bronca assez inédite qui ne peut
qu’interpeller. A Clermont-Ferrand, en France, pas moins de 530
médecins, sur les 740 que compte l’agglomération, se sont opposés à
l’implantation d’un incinérateur d’ordures ménagères. Médecin et élu
local, leur porte-parole Jean-Michel Calut ne mâche pas ses mots.
«L’installation d’un incinérateur dans notre région est un attentat
programmé contre la santé publique. A l’hôpital, j’ai soigné pendant des
années des malades de l’amiante. Alors je ne veux plus jamais entendre
des phrases du genre: responsable mais pas coupable! Le problème avec
les incinérateurs, c’est que les normes sont techniques et non pas
sanitaires.» Et de s’appuyer sur les conclusions d’une étude de
l’Institut National de Veille Sanitaire rendues publiques en mars 2008,
qui ont «mis en évidence un lien entre le niveau d’exposition des
populations aux panaches de fumées des incinérateurs dans les années
70-80 et l’augmentation significative de la fréquence de certains types
cancers pendant les années 90-99»

Communiqué de presse
______________________________________
Incinération et santé humaine:
Publicité particulière du VALTOM et de VERNÉA

Dans plusieurs pages publicitaires publiées dans la presse, le VALTOM et VERNÉA assurent :
« Vernéa, c’est la meilleure et l’unique garantie d’une parfaite innocuité vis-à-vis de l’environnement et de la santé humaine »
« La production annuelle de dioxines du pôle est équivalente à celle d’un feu d’artifice de quelques minutes »
Affirmer que la solution Incinération des déchets ménagers est la seule et la meilleure garantie d’une parfaite
innocuité vis-à-vis de l’environnement et de la santé humaine, tout en rassurant avec l’image d’un « feu d’artifice », porterait plus à rire qu’à pleurer s’il ne s’agissait de santé publique.
· Au moment où l’Institut national de Veille Sanitaire ( InVS ) rendait public fin mars 2008 les résultat
définitifs de l’étude sur l’incidence des cancers à proximité des usines d’incinération d’ordures
ménagères en montrant que, pour tous les types de cancers, les risques relatifs avaient été sous-estimés
dans ses résultats préliminaires en 2006 ( les risques de cancers, apparus entre 1990 et 1999,
étant en effet revus à la hausse tous types confondus et certains, les myélomes font même leur apparition :
+23% pour les hommes, +16% pour les 2 sexes ),
Les résultats de cette étude, compte tenu des courtes périodes de latence choisies par l’InVS, entre
exposition et apparition d’un cancer ( 5 ans pour les leucémies et 10 ans pour les autres cancers),
laissent craindre selon l’InVS lui-même que le pic d’apparition de cancers ne soit certainement pas
encore atteint.
· Au moment où l’on sait que sur les 2000 substances rejetées par les incinérateurs d’ordures
ménagères, seules 50 sont font l’objet de tentatives de filtration, le VALTOM et VERNEA veulent
rassurer la population en ramenant le risque au seul contrôle de la production de dioxines de l‘usine
d’incinération et en le comparant à celui d’un feu d’artifice…
Le VALTOM et VERNEA oublient que l’InVS précise dans ses conclusions que l’indicateur
d’exposition ne permet pas d’incriminer un polluant particulier. L’argument dioxine tombe.
« Rien ne se perd, rien ne se créé, tout se transforme » énonçait LAVOISIER. Une tonne de molécules
composant les déchets se transforment, via l’incinération, en un cocktail de nouvelles molécules
toxiques cancérigènes, mutagènes et reprotoxiques rentrent dans la composition des 300 kilos de
cendres et des 700 kilos de fumées produites par la combustion.
C’est la combustion qui fait que l’incinération est plus à risque que toutes les autres méthodes
d’élimination des déchets.
Dans l’étude InVs si les seuls cancers ont été étudiés, restent les anomalies de la fertilité et les
malformations congénitales qui ont déjà fait l’objet d’autres études alarmantes.
· Au moment où les réductions des dernières normes de rejet de quelques polluants ( dont les dioxines )
ne correspondent pas en réalité à une tolérance sanitaire mais seulement à la faisabilité technique
du moment, il faut souligner, contrairement à ce qu’affirment le VALTOM et VERNEA, qu’elles n’ont fait
depuis l’objet d’aucune autre étude épidémiologique permettant d’affirmer l’absence de risque
sanitaire pour les populations vivant sous le panache des incinérateurs,
Les Porte parole de 531 médecins de l’agglomération clermontoise
opposés à l’implantation d’un incinérateur d’ordures ménagères
au centre de l’agglomération de Clermont-Ferrand,
les docteurs CALUT, CHIAPPONI, LAFFONT et LAVIGNON.
· Au moment où le VALTOM assure l’utilisation en remblais routiers des 300 kilos de mâchefers issus
d’une tonne de déchets incinérés, les négociations du Grenelle ont permis de souligner la nécessaire
évolution de la réglementation sur les mâchefers, qui vieille de 13 ans, apparaît aujourd’hui obsolète (
circulaire du 9 mai 1994 ) avec la prise en compte des risques liés à l’utilisation des mâchefers et à la sousestimation
de leur potentiel polluant,
· Au moment où tous les grands acteurs économiques privés s’accordent à reconnaître que la masse des
Produits Résiduels Ménagers diminue de 2% l’an, le VALTOM s’est engagé à fournir 170.000 tonnes de
déchets ménagers par an, pendant 20 ans,
Pour information, le Président de la Communauté de Communes de la Porte d’Alsace ( CCPA ) vient
d’apprendre que le coût de la tonne incinérée va progresser de 32% à l’incinérateur de Bourogne pour cause
d’insuffisance de gisement générée par les comportements individuels écologiques, incompatibles avec la
bonne marche d’un incinérateur. En effet, les produits résiduels ménagers ultimes en 2007 des habitants de la
CCPA, viennent de passer sous la barre des 95 kg/hbt/an.
Les populations ne doivent pas payer au prix fort le manque de volontarisme de décideurs politiques ou
administratifs installés dans leurs tours d’ivoire, calés sur des perspectives absurdes et ignorant le principe de
précaution inscrit dans notre constitution.
Ont-ils entendu le Président de la République, le 25 octobre 2007 : « Notre ambition […] ce n’est pas d’être dans la
moyenne. Notre ambition c’est d’être en avance, d’être exemplaire. » et «La priorité ne sera plus à l’incinération
mais au recyclage des déchets. Il faudra prouver pour tout nouveau projet d’incinérateur qu’il s’agit bien de l’ultime
recours » et Monsieur Jean-Louis BORLOO, Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement et de l’Aménagement
durables le 2 février dernier: « il faut désormais regarder toutes les alternatives sereinement… » ?
Les derniers résultats révélés par l’InVS, les caractéristiques de la cuvette clermontoise qui voit régulièrement les
pollutions existantes potentialiser leurs effets au cours des inversions de température l’hiver et des situations
caniculaires l’été, associées aux défaillances connues des incinérateurs ( Gilly-sur-Isère, Mulhouse,
Fourchambault, Gien et Metz ) et la réduction de la masse des produits résiduels ménagers, soulignent encore
l’inutilité et la dangerosité du projet incinérateur du VALTOM-VERNEA.
Un incinérateur d’ordures ménagères, perte de chance pour la santé et l’environnement, source de profits pour les
Industriels, est un procédé du siècle passé.
Les solutions alternatives intelligentes du 21ème siècle:
respectent la santé et l’environnement,
coûtent moins cher pour le contribuable,
créent plus d’emplois que les procédés thermiques,
permettent l’évolution vers l’éco-citoyen de demain.
Le Puy de Dôme peut être exemplaire et en avance.
Contact Presse :
Docteur Jean-Michel CALUT
Porte parole de 531 médecins de l’agglomération clermontoise
opposés à l’implantation d’un incinérateur d’ordures ménagères
au centre de l’agglomération de Clermont-Ferrand,
les docteurs LAFFONT, CHIAPPONI et LAVIGNON.
Vice-président de la Coordination Nationale Médicale Santé Environnement
12, rue René Laurent 63370 Lempdes
Tel portable 06 08 99 05 65
famillecalut@wanadoo.fr

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    25 nov. 2010 – L’
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Gestion monétaire ou enfers fiscaux ?

les solutions existent et la gestion monétaire n’a rien de complexe ! Le principe de base est
d’une simplicité déconcertante: garder un parfait équilibre entre monnaie émise et quantité de biens et services
produits
.

 

Trop
de monnaie par rapport aux biens et services produits implique une
dépréciation de la
monnaie : il faut plus de pièces et billets pour acheter un bien ou
service au temps t qu’au temps t-1. C’est ce qu’on appelle l’inflation.

 

Trop
peu de monnaie par rapport aux biens et services produits implique une
appréciation de la
monnaie : il faut moins de pièces et billets pour acheter un bien ou
service au temps t qu’au temps t-1. C’est ce qu’on appelle la
déflation.

 

Ni l’inflation, ni la déflation ne sont bonnes pour l’économie.

 

En période de forte production de biens et services (bonne croissance du PIB) une légère inflation,
parfois même de 5 à 10%, ne pose aucun problème car elle permet à l’argent de circuler et de faire tourner l’économie.

 

Toute
gestion monétaire se résume à ça. En Europe, c’est le rôle de la BCE,
aux Etats-Unis, la Fed.
Tous les manuels d’économie précisent que les banques centrales ont
pour mission d’ajuster l’approvisionnement monétaire au développement
économique. Comment se fait-il que les banques centrales
du monde entier n’y parviennent pas ?

 

Tout
simplement parce qu’elles ne sont pas seules à créer la monnaie. Depuis
une cinquantaine
d’années, TOUTES les banques du monde peuvent créer de la monnaie en
deux coup de cuillère à pot. Elles le font en accordant des crédits.
Bien sûr, les banques sont soumises à ce que l’on appelle
des règles prudentielles qui les obligent à ne pas créer plus de dix
fois la quantité de monnaie (crédit) que ce qu’elles possèdent comme
fond propres (dépôt de leur clients) et de monnaie
centrale (BCE).

 

Nous
voici donc au cœur du problème. Nous nous sommes dotés d’une super
institution bancaire (banque
centrale) supposée autonome, intègre et indépendante qui doit
réguler la création monétaire alors qu’elle n’est pas maître des
robinets qui ouvrent et ferment l’arrivée des
sousous ???

 

Les
banques, dans leur grande mansuétude, ont alloué plus de crédits, donc
de monnaie, que l’économie
n’était capable de créer de biens et services. Les banques ont donc
créé et créent encore de l’inflation ! En Allemagne par exemple, entre
1992 
et 2008, la masse monétaire a augmenté 8 fois plus que l’économie.

 

Mais
cette inflation ne se traduit pas par une dépréciation de la monnaie
car elle est injectée dans
l’économie spéculative et dans les paradis fiscaux. Une économie
casino qui ne représente en rien l’économie réelle. Selon Bernard
Lietaer, 98% des échanges monétaires journaliers dans le monde
servent l’économie casino ! 95% de la monnaie en circulation est
scripturale (électronique) et facilement créée par les banques. Seuls 5%
représentent l’argent liquide qui relève de la
compétence de la banque centrale (pièces, billets et monnaie
centrale scripturale).

 

Tout cet argent accordé à la légère circule donc ailleurs que là où il devrait être. Raison pour
laquelle, certains économistes et politiques actuels
(Roubibi, Krugman,
Pinsole, Marine Le Pen) préconisent d’arrêter de monétiser pour le
système et de monétiser directement pour les Etats, les citoyens,
l’économie réelle. En voilà une bonne idée ? C’est vrai
au fond, pourquoi devrions-nous faire tourner la planche à billet
pour un puits sans fond plutôt que pour nous?

 

Le hic, c’est que dans ce cas (monétisation directe de la dette des Etats),
il n’y aura plus stockage dans
l’économie casino mais injection directe dans l’économie réelle et
on risque fort de déprécier la monnaie! Sauf gestion très fine et
délicate, on risque vite d’entrer dans une spirale
zimbabwéenne, zaïroise, argentine ou la symbolique hyperinflation de la république de
Weimar
.

 

Dans
la gestion actuelle de notre monnaie, créée, en fin de compte, par
monsieur tout le monde, nous
sommes donc face à un sérieux dilemme : soit on monétise pour les
riches et l’économie casino mais ça ne résout pas la crise, soit on
monétise pour les pauvres et l’économie réelle mais ça
dévalue la monnaie ! Une autre alternative, plus simple et qui fait
toujours recette, c’est de taxer encore plus les pauvres pour tenter de
rééquilibrer les déficits mais ça ne résout pas la
crise non plus…

 

Et donc, plutôt que de revoir notre copie, on persiste et signe dans la taxation et la monétisation.
Plus fort encore, on trouve l’idée tellement géniale, qu’on va la graver en lettre d’or sur les tables de nos constitutions !
« Nous, peuples de l’Europe, admettons qu’il est juste et bon de
taxer les pauvres et d’enrichir les riches ». Un mal nécessaire. Un aléa moral.

 

Stop,
stop, stop ! Ne pourrait-on pas nous arrêter 30 secondes et réfléchir ?
Quel est le
problème ? N’est-ce pas la création monétaire par le crédit sans
couverture directe en banque ? N’est-ce pas le simple fait de prendre
nos rêves pour des
réalités ? 

 

Pourquoi ne pas interdire cette pratique et dire aux banques que désormais elles ne pourront accorder
de crédit qu’en fonction de leurs fonds propres et/ou de la monnaie centrale qu’elles possèdent en caisse ? Pourquoi ne pas effacer les ardoises des dettes illégitimes et revenir progressivement à la normale ?

 

Notre système bancaire, économique et monétaire est outrageusement bancal parce que nous prenons nos
désirs pour des réalités. Autrefois, il fallait économiser ou posséder l’argent dans les banques pour pouvoir investir.

 

La solution est donc triviale :

1)     Le “Monétatif”, un nouveau pouvoir qui viendrait s’ajouter à l’exécutif, au législatif et au judiciaire (également évoqué par James RBERTSON et le sociétalisme), qui règlerait l’émission
monétaire par:
2)     Le “Vollgeld”, un nouveau conceptde création monétaire qui assurerait un contrôle optimum de l’économie puisque piloté en fonction de la
croissance économique.

 

Le
Monétatif, sous contrôle citoyen, détiendrait le monopole de la
création monétaire par le biais du
Vollegeld et ne serait plus uniquement, comme aujourd’hui,
responsable de l’argent liquide (billets et pièces de monnaie), mais
également de l’agent scriptural qui est aujourd’hui en grande
partie créé et mis en circulation par les banques d’affaires.

 

Le
défi se situe bien sûr dans l’élaboration pratique et juridique d’un
pouvoir Monétatif sous
contrôle démocratique ! Le MES c’est exactement le contraire tout en
gardant les dés pipés, de l’octroi du crédit par les banques, qui
permettent de fausser le jeu à tous les coups :
pile, je gagne, face, je gagne. Tout cela sous prétexte qu’on à pas
d’autre choix ???

 

Eh bien, fort heureusement, en Suisse, il existe ENFIN une initiative digne de ce nom qui prône un
changement des dés et des règles du jeu !
L’association «Modernisation monétaire» (MOMO) créée
récemment se compose en partie de membres de l’«Initiative pour un ordre économique naturel Suisse» (INWO).

 

+++

 

L’INWO
débat depuis un certain temps d’une initiative populaire sur une
réforme du système
monétaire. La création de l’association «Modernisation monétaire» a
élargi considérablement le cercle des personnes favorables à cette
réforme, notamment à des politiques appartenant à l’UDC et
au PLR.
L’association possède un conseil scientifique dont font partie
Philippe Mastronardi, professeur à l’Université de Saint-Gall, Joseph
Huber, professeur à l’Université de Halle, Hans-Christoph
Binswanger, professeur émérite de l’Université de Saint-Gall, Peter
Hablützel, Peter Ulrich, professeur émérite, et Heinrich Bortis,
professeur. Dans son livre intitulé «Das Geldwesen in
öffentliche Hand», Joseph Huber a défini le cadre théorique du
débat. Que veulent les initiateurs? Ils ont organisé en mai 2011 à
Winterthur un congrès sur le thème «Schweizer Vollgeldreform» et
présenté un projet provisoire de texte d’initiative. Nous allons
maintenant présenter les grandes lignes du projet.

Lire la suite : Pour une modernisation de la monnaie: le «monétatif» Une initiative demande une réforme monétaire, par Werner
Wüthrich

 



Des
mouvements analogues existent également en Allemagne (d’où vient
d’ailleurs le terme de
«monétatif»), en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis notamment. Les
réunions ont montré que les membres de l’association viennent d’horizons
politiques très divers. Certains se situent plutôt à
gauche ou du côté de l’écologie et d’autres adhèrent plutôt aux
idées de l’UDC ou du PLR, mais ils estiment tous qu’il faut agir. On ne
peut pas se contenter d’être les spectateurs d’une mauvaise
pièce de théâtre, de s’énerver à propos de la situation
insupportable et d’attendre qu’elle empire. Que faire? En tant que
citoyens suisses, nous avons l’instrument de l’initiative et pouvons
aller de l’avant, mais les citoyens des autres pays peuvent aussi
faire quelque chose.

Lire la suite : Le «monétatif», une révolution monétaire Une initiative populaire demande l’instauration du Vollgeld, par Werner Wüthrich,
docteur ès sciences politiques, Zurich

 
 
Binswanger:
«Il s’agit fondamentalement de trouver une solution intermédiaire entre
l’ancien
système de l’étalon-or, dans lequel la création de monnaie était
limitée par la convertibilité en or de la monnaie de papier et donc par
le volume d’or disponible, et le système monétaire actuel
qui permet une création illimitée de papier-monnaie et de monnaie
scripturale. Revenir à la convertibilité en or – comme certains le
proposent – limiterait excessivement la création de monnaie.
Inversement, l’actuel système monétaire dans lequel les banques
d’affaires ne doivent disposer que d’une petite fraction de la monnaie
scripturale en monnaie de la banque centrale ne permet pas
de subordonner la création de monnaie à des objectifs d’économie
générale.» Alors que faire? Binswanger envisage deux possibilités:

1.    De l’argent couvert à 100% par la banque
centrale

«Je propose de revenir à une ancienne idée de l’économiste américain
Irvin Fisher qui voulait que chaque crédit accordé par une banque soit
couvert à 100% par de l’argent de la banque centrale.
Cela empêcherait les banques d’affaires de créer de l’argent de
manière illimitée dans le seul but de réaliser des profits. Le
capitalisme serait moins instable et moins vulnérable.» On pourrait
adopter cette solution sans modifier la Constitution, dans le cadre
des lois existantes. En Suisse, les réserves minimales sont fixées dans
la Loi sur la Banque nationale.

2.    Introduction du «Vollgeld»
La proposition va plus loin. Une banque d’affaires qui veut accorder
des crédits doit tout d’abord se procurer cet argent auprès de la
Banque nationale sous forme d’argent liquide et non de
monnaie scripturale. Ainsi, les banques d’affaires n’auraient plus
la possibilité de créer elles-mêmes de l’argent en accordant des
crédits. Les initiateurs du Congrès appellent cette nouvelle
forme d’argent «­Vollgeld». Une telle réforme nécessiterait une
modification de la Constitution. L’actuel article 99 stipule que seule
la Confédération a «le droit de battre monnaie et
d’émettre des billets de banque». Il faudrait donc ajouter l’argent
scriptural et préciser qu’il relève exclusivement de la compétence de la
Banque centrale.

Lire la suite : «Les crises
financières et écologiques ne peuvent pas être maîtrisées sans réforme financière et monétaire»
par Werner Wüthrich (excellent article !)
 

 

 

Et enfin : Les citoyens ont leur mot à dire à propos des questions monétaires fondamentales par Werner Wüthrich

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