Rick,

If you have a moment… I have been on the fence about taking your course for years actually. I am wondering if you would comment on the practicality of me using your system with only 3 hours (approx.) of computer time per trading day; I am a laborer by choice and trade, and any more time than that makes me want to go seppuku. I do love the markets, however, so I would love to have the tools to make my time more profitable.

Yes, take it easy guys. I know what looks like dishonest reasoning stirs our sense of right & wrong but different opinions & perspectives should be reasoned, questioned, even welcomed.

BTW. My pet ‘house-pig’, the sometimes homeless guy that I’d given a free room to, unexpectedly moved out yesterday, three days earlier than the date that I’d given when I’ll be handing the place over to the letting agent. I knew he was sorting all his shit out but he didn’t tell me anything until the afternoon when he suddenly just came up, handed me the keys & said “I’m off”. No eye contact, no hand shake, no ‘thanks for giving me a free house to live in for 4 months out of your meagre reserves’ & neither was there any money towards the bills up to date, even though he’s been working doing odd jobs for people quite a bit recently. I think the unpaid Euro a day toward the bills that I’d originally asked for was some of the reason for the obvious distance but there was also some signs of contempt. However, since his reaction the other month to me asking him not to have the TV on 24/7 and to start turning lights off because the electric bill had soared to three times what it should be & because I was quickly running out of money having to support this habit, was one of annoyance rather than concern or apology, & since a similar reaction was observed when the neighbours complained about the TV being way too loud & on deep into the early hours every night; I’d already got a good measure of the kind of person I had tried to help out of my compassion & an expectation of how things would pan out. It wasn’t just the mess left in the kitchen, or the crap left in the toilet, or the loud belching or thunderous farting that told me that this man had no respect for anything, as you can tell a lot about someone by simply observing their manner, their body language & the way they speak.

So inevitably he’s off to bleed someone else, who’ll soon tire of someone who’s of the mindset of taking rather than that of contributing even a little, as maturity should instil in us. But I don’t mean to sound too judgemental. Inter-related as all things are, the irony is that the parasitic mentality is the better adapted to survive in a monetary system built on ‘scarcity’, as debt based money certainly is, for the purpose of making the one thing that the schemers of it produce out of thin air of high value/demand, together with making that which this class do not produce, ie. real things & work, of low value; thus creating this increasing imbalance of parasite over producers now evident & eventually moving toward the point of failure as many note. The producers are quickly taken to the cleaners, much as I often find myself being taken for a ride, through rules, regulations, fines, fees & taxes, plus a never-ending stream of people who’s focus is a desperate need to find some money from somewhere, hence why so many ‘scammers’ & takers abound in government & private institutions as well as the general population, since interest is bleeding the supply of money dry & ‘work’ is continually penalized.
Whatever is taxed becomes diminished , whatever is subsidized becomes more abundant. This decline in the nature, or mindset, of society is described in a quote by someone famous many years ago, & which I can’t remember exactly or presently find, unfortunately. Ultimately we would be in a far better place both personally & collectively if we subsidized work & production rather than the opposite.

The only apparent relief peddled by the schemers of this system, is to borrow some more against something; anything & everything you have or will have in the future, even. Thereby delaying the moment of realization of the debt trap, or scam, but making the consequence more widespread, meaning that fewer people caught in ‘the trap’ will survive with their assets in tact. The real solution, never to be spoken about in government or mainstream circles under pain of death, is to return to a debt free money supply issued by a government concerned predominantly with upholding just law based on the principles of personal responsibility, that is at the heart of the basic structure of a healthy human psychological state. If there’s a God, then in understanding his image within us is no doubt reflected in scriptural support of private ownership of vineyard & home as a product of ones own effort, a declaration of such personal responsibility & acceptance of the consequences of our own actions upon ourselves; & also in the requirement of a debt jubilee limiting perpetual debts together with condemnation of hoarding money that creates scarcity; & in trade of goods & services by free will fair agreement & not overcharging through monopolising. The latter, was clearly demonstrated when Jesus overturned the money changers tables in the temple, who had monopolised the money market for temple payments & were inevitably overcharging. Like so many of our great leaders have learned to their cost, this last symbolic act against the money changers was right before his crucifixion, with the ignorant masses cheering on in support of their own oppressors for a few scraps, unaware of the world of abundance waiting beyond the curtained bars of their prison.
There surely is nothing new under the Sun!

In 1970 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that the earth could produce enough food for more than forty times its present population, yet our world system, an image of the predominant way of thinking that rules us, prefers to lead us to fight over scarcity.

“… The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.” -Thomas Jefferson

The schemers of our present system clearly covet all things, but rather than take responsibility for this desire through real work, choose to steal the work of others through the sleight of hand that is their debt based monetary system.

A few years after unwittingly signing the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, Woodrow Wilson stated: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of  credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most  completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a  Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” -Woodrow  Wilson

…yet still I hear some say there’s no conspiracy!? Mmm…..maybe a bit more medicine is required before we all accept responsibility for our transgressions & veering off the path that keeps us safe from ourselves? I really don’t know, but it’s certainly interesting watching events evolve, if a little painful & frustrating.