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Basic unconditional income for people, not for the private banks!

Basic unconditional income for people, not for the private banks!

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This petition has been created by Andrea G. and may not represent the views of the Avaaz community.
Andrea G.
started this petition to
Barroso, José Manuel - Chairman of European Comission, Olli Ilmari Rehn - European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank
The basic human right - the right to live. Are we really free to live without conditions? The financial elite over last decades totally took over the process of creating money. Today 97% of money supply of US dollar, Euro and Jen are generated not by sovereign states but by private financial institutions - mainly banks owned by several families and individuals. And as a private institutions, their interests are also private and oriented only on private profit. This fact had been disclosed for public by many documents like famous “Zeitgeist” movie and is subject of debate of economists as a main cause of today’s worldwide financial crisis like in this video of prof. Jem Bendell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeQfNpW9sQ .
To survive on this planet as a mankind we need much more than the profitability imperative. Today's only 3% of money created by national or central banks are in hands of governments to solve basic human needs - food, clean water, shelter, security, education, health services and social services like pensions. All those basic human needs without condition to be profitable - just for survival of human. But this was the original idea of money - to serve human needs – not the corporations and private elite families holding 97% of money in their hands.
The original Keynesian economic idea that people must fight each other for money on work market become obsolete. In today's world there will be no more jobs for getting those money back between people to use them for their life. In globalized world, there is every year more automation in production and less need for human work. And new radical idea appears in the world - give people the basic income without condition to earn money. The details of this idea are explained in a movie called “ Grundeinkommen - ein Kulturimpuls” http://youtu.be/ExRs75isitw and the Unconditional Basic Income is even a subject of upcoming referendum in Switzerland www.grundeinkommen.ch .
There is so much money in the world, that financial institutions could pay hundreds of times for all resources like food, water, shelter and other basic needs of every human being. In today’s world of abundance such artificial conditioning of basic survival by obligatory employment for “private will” means actually nothing more than slavery. All what we need to live in dignity is out there in quantities as never before – plenty of resources and unemployed workers willing to start to produce food, to clean the water and build houses, hospitals and schools. All we need is to give back the power over creation of money to sovereign body subordinated to their citizens. There is plenty of sociological and economic studies supporting this idea to prevent private banks from creating their own money – the most comprehensive is even the scientific paper from World bank’s scientist called The Chicago Plan Revisited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Plan_Revisited .
The world’s largest initiative to return money creation process under power of citizens comes from UK and is called Positive money www.positivemoney.org . If the exceptional right to create money will be returned to sovereign citizen’s institutions - like national banks and money supply committees – today’s 97% of „private“ money will suddenly change its character to “public” and could be used for securing basic income for every human, without need to be employed and thus serve private financial elites. The real useful jobs will sustain even without enslavement – as additional source of income and personal fulfillment and being part of society.

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