One year ago, a campaign group affiliated with Occupy Wall Street called Strike Debt announced a campaign called the Rolling Jubilee, which sought to buy up distressed debt for pennies-on-the-dollar — for the purpose of abolishing it.
Historically, a debt jubilee was a feature of ancient Jewish law, under which all debts were written off every seven years. So why is Strike Debt trying to do something similar?
Strike Debt describes the program as a “bailout of the people, by the people.” The group targeted people struggling to service necessary debt, such as those without medical insurance who ended up needing expensive medical care.
So far, the Rolling Jubilee campaign has bought up and written off almost $14 million in debt.
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The Jubilee occurred every 50th year, at which time ALL LAND reverted back to the original families that the land had been equally distributed to in the beginning. It promoted equality among the Israelites. There were to be no monopolist land owners in Israel. God owned the land. What you are referring to is debt term limits that were established by God to prevent long term debt enslavement. Every 7th year ALL DEBT was cancelled, not just “bad debt”. Yes, the Fed could definitely learn from God’s example. They could encourage bankruptcy to be mandatorily executed across the board for all US citizens every 7 years, with no exceptions. This would be a simultaneous reset for all citizens, not just a few.
Strike debt is actually monetary grace once removed. However, it does point at the solution which is actual monetary grace. A debt jubilee in combination with dividend and discount policies are what will quickly and wisely end the otherwise slow, painful and potentially utterly destructive slow process of digging ourselves out of the biggest credit bubble in human history. It’s time to “up our game” and evolve the system toward not only a new new human sensitivity, but a new workability as well.
While Strike Debt seems well intentioned, I’m skeptical of the effects. “Forgiven” debtors, I assume, would still have damaged credit records as a consequence of allowing their debts to be turned over to collections. This would leave them free of debt temporarily, but unable to obtain cheap credit. Prices are based on credit nowadays, so the freed debtor would now have to obtain credit from high interest sources to buy any necessity like a reliable car. They will soon be right back in debt trouble due to the reality of life in a credit-priced environment. The best solution would be to learn from the Divine Jewish example and limit all national debt to maximum seven year terms, canceling all citizen’s debts at the same well known and pre-established time. This would keep prices low. Citizens would then have a plausible opportunity to rise above debt slavery.
Doug Walton – “This would leave them free of debt temporarily, but unable to obtain cheap credit.”
How about they just forego expenditures until they have the money in hand? How about living within your means? Why should they get “cheap” credit? I’m at a loss.
For Heaven’s sake, just don’t buy!!!!!
Backwardsevolution: Prices are set by the majority’s buying habits. If the majority uses credit to purchase cars using 72 month term financing, then 72 month term financing will set the price of cars. Used cars will be slightly lower. In this environment, someone may wish to forgo credit and just pay cash—they will have to have the equivalent of 72 month term financing. This reality makes it almost impossible for all except the very wealthy to live on a cash basis, when the majority use credit instead. The answer is to limit debt for all through mandatory short-term debt limits. 7 years was the limit God set for Israel.
This is similar to what I wrote Levin about a few years ago. Its based on the Jewish Jubilee year that happened every 50. All debts were forgiven and everyone started back at 0. During 09 I suggested a way to do something similar to wipe out debt. Give every American over 18 a million dollars with the stipulation that you had to total up all your debts like: credit cards, back taxes, loans etc and u got to keep the remainder to invest, consume stuff, take a vacation, retire making room in the work force younger workers and so on I stead of giving billions to Wall St. and watch it vanish.
The moral of the story is that DEBT IS EVIL, something that has been known for thousands of years.
The solution is to abolish debt, the greatest ‘something for nothing’ scam of all-time.
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Posted: March 17, 2004 File image of a Delta 2 rockets sitting atop pads 17A and 17B at Cape Canaveral. Photo: U.S. Air ForceSpace Launch Complex 17 (SLC-17, pronounced “slick”) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., was built by the U.S. Air Force for the Thor intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) research and development program. Construction of pads 17A and 17B began in April 1956 and cost $3.5 million per pad. The original site included the two pads and a blockhouse.The Air Force partially occupied SLC-17B in September 1956 and the pad supported its first Thor launch in January 1957. Pad 17A was engaged in April 1957 and completed its first Thor launch in August 1957.The Air Force modified SLC-17 for the first time in the early 1960’s to support Thor-related launch vehicles. Between January 1960 and December 1965, 35 Delta missions were launched from SLC-17 facilities.In the spring of 1965, the Air Force transferred SLC-17 and other Thor-related facilities to NASA seeing no further military use for Thor facilities at the Cape. However, following the Challenger accident in January 1986, military and commercial launch services shifted back to expendable launch vehicles. In response, Boeing built a new generation of launch vehicle, Delta 2, to meet the growing military and commercial space launch requirements.The Air Force eventually transferred all of its new NAVSTAR 2 Global Positioning System (GPS) payloads from the Space Shuttle to Delta 2. Civilian customers also began signing up for launches on Delta 2. Launch Complex 17 was chosen as the launch site for the Delta 2, and transfer of responsibility for SLC-17 from NASA back to the Air Force was completed in October 1988.SLC-17 underwent major modifications to support the larger Delta 2. 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The complex, built in 1958, was part of a group of seven launch installations at VAFB designed for the Thor.The first Delta launch from VAFB occurred Oct. 2, 1966, when Boeing launched the Environmental Science Services Administration’s ESSA 3 satellite for NASA.Others in the ESSA series followed, and during the same time period, Delta launched four NASA Explorer satellites designed for radio astronomy in deep space.Delta launched the Cosmic Observatory Background Observer (COBE) satellite from VAFB for NASA on Nov. 18, 1989, marking the last west coast Delta launch for more than half a decade.SLC-2 was refurbished in 1992 by raising the tower 12 feet to accommodate the larger Delta 2 model. Among the more recent upgrades to the complex is an automated Advanced Launch Control System (ALCS). 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Credit: ULA videoThe Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, launched from Cape Canaveral at 7:28 p.m. EDT en route to operational orbits 22,300 miles above Earth.The GSSAP project was designed in secrecy and only announced to the public by AFSPC commander Gen. William Shelton in February.”It’s time to stipulate that we’ve got a critical dependence on space. I would challenge…each of you to bring me an example of a miliary operation that doesn’t somehow involve space. That’s from humanitarian relief operations all the way up through major combat,” said Shelton.It’s that overarching dependence on space that has spurred the U.S. military to ramp up its surveillance on man-made objects and threats in orbit.Some 170 countries now have at least one satellite of their own and 11 nations have the capability to launch a spacecraft into orbit, Shelton said, adding that with space launch also comes missile technology and the potential for anti-satellite shootdowns.The Chinese carried out a dramatic kinetic-energy anti-satellite demonstration in 2007, blasting one of its own orbiting spacecraft with a missile, drawing international condemnation. “And then there are the overt threats, anything from jamming, which is actually mission affecting, obviously, all the way up through high powered laser activity that’s coming along, to kinetic ASAT (anti-satellite) activity. Threats to our spacecraft that not too many years ago we didn’t have to concern ourselves with,” Shelton said.Built by Orbital Sciences Corp., the twin GSSAP satellites are small in size and stature with an important mission before them. Fitted with an electro-optical sensors, the craft will drift just above and below the geosynchronous satellite belt 22,300 miles above the Earth.”(They) will drift in probably just below and just above the GEO belt depending on which direction you want to drift and provide that neighborhood watch capability,” Shelton said. Credit: ULAGeosynchronous orbit allows communications, missile launch detection spacecraft and eavesdropping reconnaissance spy satellites to match the Earth’s rotation and appear fixed above one part of the globe.It is a place where some of the most “precious” Air Force satellites reside.”Think about Advanced EHF satellites on orbit,” Shelton said of the nuclear survivable communications spacecraft constellation. “When the chips are down that’s the system the President is going to use to communicate his orders; the President and National Command Authority to communicate orders to deployed forces. One cheap shot against the AEHF constellation would be devastating.”There’s also the Space Based Infrared System, or SBIRS, that monitors the world on the lookout for enemy missile launches to sound the alarm to friendly countries.”One cheap shot creates a hole in our environment,” Shelton said.”SBIRS is great. We can tell you anytime a missile has launched on the planet, we can tell you where it launched from, we can tell you the type of missile it is, we can tell you the impact point. It’s what the President uses to determine his response options; and in the situation of the United States under attack, deciding what to do and when to do it.”We can’t afford to be down Advanced EHF; down SBIRS.”That’s where GSSAP will help close the surveillance gap on what’s happening 22,300 miles up.”Our decision to declassify this program was simple. We need to monitor what happens 22,000 miles above the Earth, and we want to make sure that everyone knows we can do so,” said Douglas Loverro, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, at the Department of Defense..”We believe that such efforts add immeasurably to both the safety of spaceflight and the stability that derives from the ability to attribute actions — to the benefit of all space-faring nations and all who rely on space-based services.””If we’re going to be a global power, we want global coverage, we want global access and we want it at a time and a place of our choosing,” Shelton said of space situational awareness.Two more GSSAP satellites are due to launch in 2016 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket.”GSSAP will present a significant improvement in space object surveillance, not only for better collision avoidance, but also for detecting threats,” Shelton said. “GSSAP will bolster our ability to discern when adversaries attempt to avoid detection and to discover capabilities they may have, which might be harmful to our critical assets at these higher altitudes.” Credit: USAFShelton said the Air Force tracks about 23,000 objects routinely on a daily basis. “There are some 500,000 objects in space, so a big traffic management problem and a big threat to fragile spacecraft,” he said.The GSSAP satellites will be operated by the 1st Space Operations Squadron at Shriever Air Force Base in Colorado. “GSSAP will not replace the capabilities that the 1st SOPS currently operates,” said Brig. 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Credit: USAFThe Automated Navigation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space, or ANGELS, will fly above the GPS constellation but use those positioning signals to demonstrate maneuverability around the spent Delta 4 upper stage.”The ANGELS spacecraft hosts a (space situational awareness) sensor payload to evaluate techniques for detection, tracking and characterizing of space objects, as well as, attribution of actions in space,” according to the AFRL fact sheet.Additional payloads on ANGELS will assist operations using a GPS for geosynchronous orbit and high performance accelerometers.”The GPS system uses advanced algorithms from NASA to receive GPS side lobe signals and generate near continuous navigation solutions. The high performance accelerometers precisely measure small spacecraft accelerations for enhanced guidance and navigation,” the fact sheet said.”The experimental onboard vehicle safety system explores methods for dramatically reducing the probability of collision with other space objects in an increasingly congested space environment.”Orbital Sciences also built ANGELS under a $29.5 million deal signed in November 2007. 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