SUBI in the New York Times on November 17, 2013, on page MM18
SUBI = swiss universal basic income or swiss unconditional basic income
Switzerland, a new way for a real ecomic democracy, the swiss unconditional basic income
The swiss secrets:
One current study which polled people in 221 cities around the globe has
placed three Swiss cities in the list of the top ten places to live in
worldwide: Zurich, Geneva, and Bern. We find out why Switzerland is so
attractive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtG1O_JUOdM
Switzerland is set to vote on whether to introduce a basic income for
all adults after a grassroots group submitted more than the 126,000
signatures needed to call a referendum. Campaigners are calling for an
unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs (€2,000/$2,800) per month and
illustrated what they see as Switzerland’s cash piles by dumping
truckload 8 million five-rappen coins outside the parliament building in
Berne. This video by the group behind the campaign, Grundeinkommen,
shows activists with the 8 million coins. Credit: Youtube/Grundeinkommen
“We Swiss are all Kings, and the first duty of a King is to control the money creation, actually robbed by the bankers.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKkERp-ias
126’408 signatures, vote YES to UBI (unconditional basic income) alias SUD (Swiss unconditional dividend) or
SUBI = swiss universal basic income or swiss unconditional basic income
The initiative for a basic income has been declared valid by the Federal Chancellery
On November 8th, the Federal Chancellery announced that the federal
popular initiative for an unconditional basic income has formally ended.
After verification of signatures, 126’408 valid signatures were filed on October 4. The Federal Chancellery is clear: a referendum will be held.
And now, what will happen? The Federal Council will look at the basic
income and prepare a report on the subject. He’s a year for it. Then
open the debate in Parliament. As for the popular vote, it is provided
by two or three years.
The question is: every person in this country should it receive an unconditional financial base sufficient for him to live?
Source: http://bien.ch/fr/story/actualites/chancellerie-federale-linitiative-formellement-abouti
Switzerland is forward progress and adapt to new conditions, robots, machinery, computers and automation.
The new money distributed will not come from taxes or wages, but will distribute the abundance made possible by automation and the
creation of money which is now actually “given” by the bankers billion
or more centuries …
These quantitative easing should be given
to the people, not for war and premiums to rare happy fews … The
new Swiss company for true economic democracy finally distribute the
income of technical progress, natural resources, automation more
efficient, thanks to robots, computers and machines.
A new company, the animals are free, it’s our turn, free human beings, we free ourselves from the chains of bondage.
dividends for all Swiss people, people of all States of the Swiss
Confederation, here is a real economic democracy, thanks to robots,
computers and machines.
http://desiebenthal.blogspot.ch/2013/10/the-rubin-report-switzerland-basic.html
We Swiss are all kings, and the first duty of a king is to control the money supply.
They are billions and quadrillions for stupid wars, we prefer to invest this money in peace.
Dividend or royalty?
It’s the true and real democratic Economy
Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive
By
ANNIE LOWREY
Published: November 12, 2013 Comment
building in Bern, one for every Swiss citizen. It was a publicity stunt
for advocates of an audacious social policy that just might become
reality in the tiny, rich country. Along with the coins, activists
delivered 125,000 signatures — enough to trigger a Swiss public
referendum, this time on providing a monthly income to every citizen, no
strings attached. Every month, every Swiss person would receive a check
from the government, no matter how rich or poor, how hardworking or
lazy, how old or young. Poverty would disappear. Economists, needless to
say, are sharply divided on what would reappear in its place — and
whether such a basic-income scheme might have some appeal for other,
less socialist countries too.
Enno Schmidt, a leader in the basic-income movement. He knows it sounds a
bit crazy. He thought the same when someone first described the policy
to him, too. “I tell people not to think about it for others, but think
about it for themselves,” Schmidt told me. “What would you do if you had
that income? What if you were taking care of a child or an elderly
person?” Schmidt said that the basic income would provide some dignity
and security to the poor, especially Europe’s underemployed and
unemployed. It would also, he said, help unleash creativity and
entrepreneurialism: Switzerland’s workers would feel empowered to work
the way they wanted to, rather than the way they had to just to get by.
He even went so far as to compare it to a civil rights movement, like
women’s suffrage or ending slavery.
Like many German words, it has no English equivalent, but it means
something like “coherent and harmonious,” with a dash of “beauty” thrown
in. It is an idea whose time has come, he was saying. And basic-income
schemes are having something of a moment, even if they are hardly new.
(Thomas Paine was an advocate.) But their renewed popularity says
something troubling about the state of rich-world economies.
off about the benefits of a basic income, just as you might hear someone
talking up Robin Hood taxes in New York or single-payer health care in
Washington. And it’s not only in vogue in wealthy Switzerland.
Beleaguered and debt-wracked Cyprus is weighing the implementation of
basic incomes, too. They even are whispered about in the United States,
where certain wonks on the libertarian right and liberal left have come
to a strange convergence around the idea — some prefer an unconditional
“basic” income that would go out to everyone, no strings attached;
others a means-tested “minimum” income to supplement the earnings of the
poor up to a given level.
that Congress decided to provide a basic income through the tax code or
by expanding the Social Security program. Such a system might work
better and be fairer than the current patchwork of programs, including
welfare, food stamps and housing vouchers. A single father with two jobs
and two children would no longer have to worry about the hassle of
visiting a bunch of offices to receive benefits. And giving him a single
lump sum might help him use his federal dollars better. Housing
vouchers have to be spent on housing, food stamps on food. Those dollars
would be more valuable — both to the recipient and the economy at large
— if they were fungible.
reduce the size of our federal bureaucracy. It could take the place of
welfare, food stamps, housing vouchers and hundreds of other programs,
all at once: Hello, basic income; goodbye, H.U.D. Charles Murray of the
conservative American Enterprise Institute has proposed a minimum income
for just that reason — feed the poor, and starve the beast. “Give the
money to the people,” Murray wrote in his book “In Our Hands: A Plan to
Replace the Welfare State.” He suggested guaranteeing $10,000 a year to
anyone meeting the following conditions: be American, be over 21, stay
out of jail and — as he once quipped — “have a pulse.”
as an anti-poverty and pro-mobility tool. There happens to be some hard
evidence to bolster the policy’s case. In the mid-1970s, the tiny
Canadian town of Dauphin ( the “garden capital of Manitoba” ) acted as
guinea pig for a grand experiment in social policy called “Mincome.” For
a short period of time, all the residents of the town received a
guaranteed minimum income. About 1,000 poor families got monthly checks
to supplement their earnings.
done some of the best research on the results. Some of her findings were
obvious: Poverty disappeared. But others were more surprising:
High-school completion rates went up; hospitalization rates went down.
“If you have a social program like this, community values themselves
start to change,” Forget said.
is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some
experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic
income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on.
Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a
nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that
argument, too.“For a lot of economists, the issue was that you would
disincentivize work,” said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has
studied Mincome. “The evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as
some of the literature had suggested.”
have resurfaced of late. Wages are stagnant, unemployment is high and
tens of millions of families are struggling in Europe and here at home.
Despite record corporate earnings and skyrocketing fortunes for the
college-educated and already well-off, the job market is simply not
rewarding many fully employed workers with a decent way of life.
Millions of households have had no real increase in earnings since the
late 1980s. Consider the current debate over fast-food workers’ wages.
10-year McDonald’s veteran, Nancy Salgado, when she contacted the
company’s “McResource” help line. The operator told Salgado that she
could qualify for food stamps and home heating assistance, while also
suggesting some area food banks — impressively, she knew to recommend
these services without even asking about Salgado’s wage ($8.25 an hour),
though she was aware Salgado worked full time. The company earned $5.5
billion in net profits last year, and appears to take for granted that
many of its employees will be on the dole.
already exists in a way — McDonald’s knows it. If our economy is no
longer able to improve the lives of the working poor and low-income
families, why not tweak our policies to do what we’re already doing, but
better — more harmoniously? It’s hardly uplifting news, but minimum
incomes just might be stimmig for the United States too.
A version of this article appears in print on November 17, 2013, on page MM18 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Take One Income, Please.
It’s the Economy
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South Korea: http://cafe.daum.net/basicincome
Swiss basic income or royalty, arguments
http://www.streamica.com/#v/m0Mne9wDGV4
problem is not in our case inflation because our robots are producing
nearly everything at very low prices. The problem is the distribution of
this massive new production by new money or vouchers.
Our decentralised states and communes have most of the power, not the
central gov., i.e. most of the wealth is private or communal and
cantonal, i.e. the most rich per capita of the real world are the
swiss.
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Modern Switzerland has
been constituted out of 25 sovereign (6 half cantons) cantons with the
first Federal Constitution of 1848.
say the Swiss are the richest people in the world, with net financial
assets of nearly $148,000 per capita. That is a third more than the
average for the next two wealthiest nations—Japan and the United States. And when it comes to distribution of income, Switzerland is one of the most equal societies.
Europe’s second-wealthiest country is
Switzerland. The Swiss economy has performed remarkably well despite its
proximity to recession-battered European nations. Switzerland’s GDP
grew 3% in 2010 and an estimated 0.9% in 2012. Those aren’t eye-popping
numbers, but compared to Europe’s far-reaching contraction, it’s a
relieving dose of stability. Swiss citizens have gained from the
country’s notoriety as a tax haven, and the country’s forward-looking
moves — such as its preliminary agreement to a free-trade deal with
China — should only benefit its economy in coming years. The IMF
expects Switzerland’s GDP per capita to rise officially to more than
$54,000 by 2018.
is a smart use of technology and the opposite of the approach of
Anglo-Saxon industrial dairies, who forced their cheeses into shapes
that could fit more readily into an existing logistical system.
Vacuum-packed blocks are easy to mature—they can be turned with a simple
forklift truck—but already you have compromised the character of the
cheese. In that case the machines dictate to the cheesemaker. In
contrast, whenever he installs a new machine, Alain Sugnaux makes the
same point to his customer: “The skill for the man is to control what
the robot is doing.” A robot never rushes and never becomes distracted.
It glides along the shelves of the cheese store with serene mechanical
grace, exactly repeating the same gentle handling for each cheese. With
cheese good robots enable good artisans.
125’000 signatures for the swiss unconditional basic income
new money is not coming from taxes or salaries but from the money
creation actually given to the bankers by billions or even
quadrillions…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKkERp-ias
Swiss quantitative easing ( S.Q.E.1) not only for bankers but for all swiss peoples.
Automation will benefit to all. Let’s share the massive productivity. 125’000 signatures for the swiss unconditional basic
income (SUBI), a dividend for all swiss peoples, inhabitants of all the
States of the Swiss Confederation. 8 millions coins, one for each of
us. For us the living.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Us,_The_Living:_A_Comedy_of_Customs
Swiss Open Society to a real economical democracy,
let’s distribute the incomes from more and more automation, thanks to
robots, computers and machines.
A new society, animals are free, it’s our turn, let’s free human beings from the chains of serfdom.
We, swiss, are all Kings, and the first duty of a King is to control
the money creation, actually robbed by the bankers…
http://desiebenthal.blogspot.ch/2013/02/infinite-interest-rate.html
http://vimeo.com/76259115
4th October is history, the feast of St Francis of Assisi, we have the
chance for a basic income event for Europe and the world.
The sun was there… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticle_of_the_Sun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi
The 4th of October is a major event for the international Basic
Income community. The + 125’000 signatures collected in Switzerland
since
April 2012 for the popular initiative for an unconditional basic income
has been handed over to the Swiss parliament. It means a lot : within 4
years every Swiss citizen will know the idea of unconditional basic
income and have to vote on whether they
want or not a basic income. It will be the first time in history that
the people of a country can make this choice. Switzerland is showing
every country the way towards the introduction of a basic income.
All citizens, journalists and everyone were warmheartedly welcome to
join this major event ! Thank you, all journalists from abroad who came
to participate and broadcast this importnat event.
This Friday, 4th October, Bundesplatz 3, in Bern.
Signatures have been handed over to the Federal Chancellery at 11 a.m.
Then we had a prepared lunch together and finally we will have a party at 8pm
in the «Turnhalle», next to Bern station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKkERp-ias
Swiss quantitative easing ( S.Q.E.1) not only for bankers but for all swiss people.
The Swiss initiative in details :
The popular initiative for an unconditional basic income (UBI), which
in the view of its supporters should be thought of as a civil right
rather than social wefare, was launched in 2012. It aims to have a new
clause incorporated into the Swiss constitution that the Confederation
“shall ensure the introduction of an unconditional basic income. The
basic income shall enable the whole population to live in human dignity
and participate in public life. The law shall particularly regulate the
way in which the basic income is to be financed and the level at which
it is set.”
The success of the Swiss initiative could have model character for the whole of Europe and even the world.
http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/5265891-l-initiative-pour-un-revenu-de-base-de-2500-francs-deposee-a-berne.html
Meaning of the coat of arms: Chapel of Gstaad, St Niklaus.
Let the dragon that is in each of us within 7 locks.
Swiss safe solutions:
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Thousands of honest and hard working citizens are saddled with debts and living at or beneath the poverty line. At the same time the government is shaving funding from citizen priorities such as health care, education, unemployment benefits, job creation initiatives, new start-up enterprise assistance incubators, environmental protection, infrastructure maintenance and local public transportation. As well, at a time when Switzerland more frequently finds herself isolated on the inter-continental (European Union) and international stage, the government continues to slash public support to our diplomatic and embassy bureaus and our Post office modernization. Pension funds continue to be under funded and in some cases are being stripped of their assets. In this environment I it any wonder that our cherished bonds of cohesion and solidarity are fraying?
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The above “solutions” are part of a long series of sneaky, underhanded forms of money grabbing through more efficient and effective parking meters, automated speed and other traffic code revenue generation automation in conjunction with a host of new user pays licences and registration requirements across all pastimes and activities. As well the regressive sales tax, jokingly called “Value added” has been increased while the categories exempted have been reduced, penalizing all citizens but particularly the poorest as well as the once vibrant small and medium size enterprises (MSE) faced with reduced customer purchase revenues and increased regulatory costs. This reality has reduced both current employed numbers and positive expectations for the future, particularly among the young and recent graduates.
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Meanwhile the economic reality of production of goods and services, thanks to the many discoveries and inventions such as computers and robots is a constantly more efficient economic system producing a greater abundance of these goods and services but also dramatically reducing the human input required. This off course results in a not infrequent over production of goods, while at the same time reducing the number of jobs and human hours of work required. A growing proportion of the population is thus deprived of their “pay-cheque”, their only means to acquire the goods created within and by their own communities. This unfortunately tempts and forces some into activities for money that are shameful and or illegal.
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A new crisis at Union de Banques Suisses or any too big to fail banks could necessitate billions in Federal Council emergency funds underwriting the gambling losses of such bank. This means that generations of current and future taxpayers will be paying for the bank’s mistakes, and also get to pay interest on this privilege! So let’s stop right here and add up what we’ve looked at so far: production results and capacity are abundant having wisely built on our long traditions of inventiveness and innovation, particularly in the processes and equipment used in production; this progress while good in itself, had dramatically reduced the demand for human input , therefore employee or wage workers. This means for many either a reduced pay cheque due to reduced hours or no job now nor in the future. No pay cheque means no means to acquire the good which are being more abundantly produced. Meanwhile, despite having less and less “pay cheque” money, we are being subjected to higher and higher punitive surveillance and regulatory requirements and fees. And now, let’ get this right, the small minority that has excessive amount of pay cheque money, dividends from un-taxed trust funds, huge returns from capital invested who knows where and in what, the ones who guessed wrong or gambled unconsciously requiring these massive tax subsidized bailouts further reducing all our disposable or purchasing totals, these same people profit again by pushing down the price they pay for products and services since there are fewer and fewer buyers? Does this all add up for you? No, well it doesn’t seem to be adding up any better for the hundreds of thousands, millions of our fellow humans taking to the streets in Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, anywhere in Europe. If we widen our scope we quickly see it isn’t adding up anywhere else in the world either.
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Two Archetypes of this dysfunctional system are the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank of America and its privately chartered collection agency the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) These systems were both designed by international bankers and vested individuals who through verbal duplicity and ambiguity to tricked the unsuspecting American citizens by their Congressional representatives to permit the “FED” exactly a hundred years ago in December 1913. These two archetype are representative of the “Too big to Fail” syndrome so familiar today—their toxic assets create by the perverse mechanism of private money creation from nothing are hailed as saviours of the sovereignty. For more than three centuries a small elite group has been creating billions and billions of dollar, francs, yen, based debts for all of us, plus interest off course, using our properties, homes, businesses and public treasures and common infrastructures. They get the cash, we get the debt! Our debt, besides being morally depraved, is also mathematically impossible to re-pay. Every culture recognizes, as do all the moral codes, that contracts which by their terms of required performance are impossible to perform are void from the outset!!All sovereign jurisdictions and many corporations, families and individuals are beyond the point of no return due to this abdication of responsibility in the past at the sovereign or nation state level. The few nations that have recently tried to resist , such as Libya, have been bombed back into the stone ages of anarchy, destitution and hopelessness. This lopsided global system of systemic boom (new debts “borrow money to make money”) to bust ( dramatic contraction of the money supply) is not an “invisible hand” any longer. The liars’ talk of “fiscal responsibility” was conceived in inequity and implemented knowingly or unknowingly with the majority of head of state, elected representatives and international governing bodies such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) . Will we continue with our children and their children to be slaves of this self appointed banking “elite” who have created the life blood of our economic exchange system (money) putting nothing in and yet essentially controlling everything?
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THERE ARE SOLUTIONS CURRENTLY BEING PROMOTED HERE IN SWITZERLAND
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François de Siebenthal: Kennedy’s robolution against banksters’ss …
30 sept. 2011 – Kennedy’s robolution against
banksters’ss debts at interests. The 5 dollar with the red seal
(without interest) and not the green seal ( please, … -
François de Siebenthal: Wall-Street, occupation, Global Robolution
23 sept. 2011 – Wall-Street,
occupation, Global Robolution. Protesters gather in Wall-Street, the
New York’s financial hub for demonstration against what …
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switzerland: subsidiarity, power-sharing, and … – Andreas Ladner
principles
of constitutional recognition are subsidiarity and municipal autonomy.
Both emphasize the importance of subnational governments in Switzerland. -
Switzerland: Subsidiarity, Power‐Sharing, and Direct Democracy …
This
article discusses the Swiss political system which is marked by
symmetric federalism. In Switzerland, subnational democracy is accorded
with the same …
More Echoes from all over the world:
http://www.indiatimes.com/news/europe/when-8000000-five-cent-coins-were-dumped-pics-105006.html
Even Israel is on the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmjs3SGQP3U
http://gb.cri.cn/42071/2013/10/05/5892s4273991.htm
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Sophie Hunger on her Fan Page!
“Just got home from Istanbul and amazed to learn of a courageous
political campaign having taken place yesterday in our capitol Berne.
What are your thoughts on this? Just an intellectual experiment (crap)
or a valid possibility to reorganize economical structures
(advancement)?”
political campaign having taken place yesterday in our capitol Berne.
What are your thoughts on this? Just an intellectual experiment (crap)
or a valid possibility to reorganize economical structures
(advancement)?”
Bern, 4. Oktober 2013 – ein historischer Tag!
Eine freudige und erwartungsfrohe Stimmung prägte den Tag auf dem
Bundesplatz in Bern. Über 1000 Menschen erlebten live die Einreichung
der Volksinitiative zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen. Die Performance “Kopf oder Zahl” der Generation Grundeinkommen lösste ein Flut von Medienbeiträgen aus. Selbst ein Russisches und ein Chinesisches Fernsehteam war vor Ort.
Hier eine erste Auswahl:
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