STYLE LeftMargin 3,RightMargin 6,TopMargin 1,BottomMargin 1 FOREIGN.AID RESCUE PACKAGES or WRONGFUL SUPPORT FOR SYSTEMS THAT OUGHT TO BE ALLOWED TO FAIL BECAUSE THEY CANNOT SUPPORT THEMSELVES? Notes only, by John Zube, 14.7.98, not copyrighted. I do get annoyed when I read still another article or hear or see another news about the own or any foreign "economy" being "in line for an $ xyz billion rescue package." These publicists deceive themselves and then others in their ignorance and prejudices. Bankrupt or inefficient debtors should not be subsidized, especially not if they are governments. No one should be compulsorily taxed to support the own corrupt and inefficient government, far less should anyone be taxed to support an even more wrongful and inefficient foreign government and its monopolistic and coercive currency, that is either deflated, inflated or stagflated and its wrongful, wastefull and misleading spending schemes. Handouts do not introduce free economies, i.e., unexploited ones, non-monopolistic ones, non-parasitical ones. As for "paying Danegeld" to governments that cannot even pay their soldiers or miners, like the Russian one, we should remember, the Soviet System largely collapsed because it could no longer afford its huge armament expenditures out of the low production of a state socialistic economy. If we are to pay out anything then it should be payouts directly for the handing over of mass extermination devices for public dismantling and destruction. A government that can no longer efficiently exact tributes from its subjects to support its bureaucratic mismanagement, aggressive armed forces and wage slaves in nationalized and consequently unproductive enterprises, should not be subsidized but left to go bankrupt. Its victims should not be subsidized either but granted full political and economic freedom, starting with the right of minorities and local majorities to secede from any territorial system in order to do their things for themselves. This "granting" of freedom does require no more than its recognition and sufficient publication. Self-help in every sphere does no more require subsidies than does wiping our noses, and our behinds, filling our mouths with food and drink, clothing and sheltering ourselves by our own production and exchange efforts. Government programmes have not worked anywhere and for any time better than self-help measures could and by their very nature they cannot do so. Nevertheless, it would be very important to allow the remaining communists to do their own things to themselves - at their own expense and risk, like monks and nuns do theirs, in their voluntary communistic communities. Just see to it that they become, are and remain disarmed until they have learned their economic lessons and opted out of economic slavery systems themselves, individuallly and in groups. Do not suppress their faith. Let is fail by its inherent failures, when practised under ideal conditions only among themselves, all volunteers and still true believers. Least of all should we support the monetary despotism of any regime that has been brought to extreme crises through that very monetary despotism. Under stable and abundant currencies, competitively supplied, without subjection to tax slavery and bureaucracy, any country's people could very rapidly proceed from rags to riches - through their own productive efforts, easily and rapidly exchangeable under full monetary and financial freedom. Most of the things, services and values that we consume have been produced during the last few weeks to months. Release all creative energies and that volume will tend to grow almost explosively, into abundance, like the supply of e.g. ball point pens, combs and digital watches, which is not restricted and thus leads to abundance at low prices. At the same time, no restrictions at all should be placed upon international trade and investments, so that even the poorest people would have easy and rapid access to them in an economical way, rather than under the wrongs and evils of any imposed bureaucracy, planning and licensing system. There must be full freedom for all people to provide for themselves alternative, sound and abundant private and coop currencies (value standards and exchange media or clearing avenues and means). Such means, tools, measures and channels must become freely produced, offered and accepted or refused or discounted, by free people, just like spades, hammers and screwdrivers are. Then alternative and sound currencies could very rapidly drive out the mismanaged and forced government paper currency, whose acceptance should be refused, whenever possible, to shorten the agonies it causes. Private and coop alternative and optional currencies alone could rapidly turn over all the products and services of a country - especially when directly based upon them by the owners of the goods and and providers of the services, issuing them like standardized tickets to their own performances. Furthermore, foreign, internal and voluntary investments must become quite liberated to do their best - profitable or rewarding for the creditors and productive debtors alike. Any underdeveloped country no longer prosecuting or penalizing or chaining its and foreign investors and its potential internal ones, could expect a huge and voluntary foreign and internal capital influx and growth and rapid growth of internal savings and investments - without any internal or foreign government programme "promoting" it at the expense of any tax slaves. No sound and competitive currency needs to be subsidized, no more so than the meter, liter or kilogramme needs to be subsidized or that of measures representing them. So far, no government has ever left currency standards (value standards) and the supply of "yardstick" measures (value carriers) quite uninterfered with. All have manipulated, mismanaged, deteriorated and undersupplied them. The central banking monopoly and its inflation-, deflation-, stagflation and mass unemployment promoting "legal tender" or forced and exclusive currency power was first and clearly demanded in 1848 in the Communist Manifesto, in order to ruin economies and bring communism to power. That threat still exists and our governments are foolish enough to apply the same system themselves and subsidize it and its effects e.g. in Russia. They do not know what economic freedom and rights mean nor do their miseducational institutions teach them or the citizens about this wrong and evil. The record of government in this sphere is perhaps even worse than in any other. They do no longer deserve any trust but, rather, extreme distrust in this sphere. At most, and while any degree of involuntary taxation still continues, governments should be permitted to issue honest and optional tax foundation currencies and means of payment for remaining taxes reckoned in stable value units. And they alone should have to accept their deteriorated paper at its face value. But that would be merely a transitional measure on the road to quite voluntary taxation or subscription systems of genuinely voluntary communities, without any territorial borders or laws, just operating under full exterritorial autonomy and personal laws for their voluntary members. Let bankrupt governments go bankrupt. Do not subsidize them. But do permit and encourage the advance distribution of all their remaining real assets, so far withheld from and mismanaged, to their subjects, via the issue of corresponding securities to all the individual involved, who were so far exploited by their own governments for years to decades. The Russian government once held almost all Russian assets "in the name of the people" but never paid the people any dividends out of "their" assets or gave them transferable titles to them. Only the ruling clique benefitted, temporarily - but it was also riskings its lives and liberties in this wrongful, senseless and counter-productive system. Release all creative energies. Don't gild the chains. Smash them - or allow them to be ignored. Taxes and conscription laws and regulations and controls in Russia and other countries are already widely ignored. Recognize this secessionism and black market self-help as expressions of basic rights and systematize these and all other individual rights and liberties. How? Inform subjects of their freedom options and they will become willing partners, friends or allies and also prosperous ones, by their own production and exchange efforts and this in a surprisingly short time, creating, e.g. in Russia, what uninformed people will afterwards call the "Russian Economic Miracle". Rescuing their victimizers and illusionists, and keeping them in the saddle, will only assure and prolong agonies. Better still, freely allow all people who want to do so in the West, to demonstrate freedom's solutions among themselves and for all observers. Throwing more extorted money at problems will not solve them. Subsidizing political criminals and their anti-economic or neo-comic quacks will not free a country or develop it and its population to their potential. Governments are not the solution. They are the problem. The rightful, speady and prosperous transformation of Russia and of the economic situation of its people would be much more rapid if we were to set a shiny example of non-governmental self-help in every sphere, starting with the abolition of our monetary despotisms and of all territorial usurpations and constitutions favouring one or the other minority only or even a majority. As it is, the bureaucrats, politicians and legislators are still all too much "in charge", in Russia and everywhere else, misrunning, as usual, the economy. While wrongfully pretending that they have freed the economy, they and only managed to give capitalism and free enterprise, which they do not represent but rather suppress, furthermore bad names, among those believing their pretences. Thus they are indirectly encouraging steps backwards towards totalitarianism and aggressions. The Hitler regime and WW II would not have happened without the monetary despotism continuing in the Weimar Republic and leading to Germany's largest inflation and depression. All that governments know to do is to waste billions, to lie, spout popular prejudices and to gain and keep in power. Sometimes they even frankly admit that they do not know how to rapidly end mass unemployment and inflation. These are just some Notes I made upon reading the usual "journalese", here of Michael Gordon, in Moscow, reprinted from THE NEW YORK TIMES in THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, August 13th, 1998, headed: "Russia: Economy in line for $ 19.7 bn rescue package." - In the mass media and in the libertarian and anarchist press accessible to me I never noticed a critical voice against these wrong statist premises and proposals. If blueprints for liberty exist somewhere then their location is not well enough known and they are not widely enough publicized, especially in affordable alternative media. I know of no ready and efficient outlet for critical ideas on this subject and can myself only deposit them so far on microfiche. PIOT, John Zube, 14. 7. 1998.