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If you’re like me, you know that there’s something wrong with our money. It doesn’t spend like it used to, it’s not made of the same stuff, nor does it even smell like it used to or look like it used to. They’re bigger bills, but get you lots less stuff. It’s difficult nowadays to pay for your family’s everyday needs. I think it helps to think about what money truly is, how it was created and what its role in our world should be. At this point in time, we have changed money to be a bunch of numbers that we have at the bank, or don’t have in the bank, for too many of us. Money is also a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper that we get weekly, bimonthly or monthly for doing our duties as employees in this vast economy. Without our jobs, we have no money.

More recently the banks have noticed that they could make more of this funny money by loaning us funds to be exchanged for food and gasoline and doctors etc. and have us pay ridiculous high interest rates on that loan and then they really streamlined the loan process by issuing us all plastic credit cards. Some of us were not credit worthy and so a certain segment of the population, about 40% are not qualified by the banks to get these “Unsecured” credit cards, so they don’t get the plastic money and are therefore forced to spend only dead presidents memorabilia.

This system of money and money creation could have gone on with gusto for decades more, except for one thing. The folks on Wall Street who own and control the biggest banks and government bank regulators decided that making billions of dollars from all of this economic activity was not enough. They wanted trillions and they didn’t care how they got it. So, they gave themselves bonuses of billions of dollars and paid it out to the people who were able to steal the most money from the consumers. Even that was not enough money for them, so they invented ways of stealing money from the banks by creating fraudulent trading documents known as “Credit Default Swaps”. Credit Default Swaps were basically a 150 page legal document that was created only to create commissions for these Wall Street Brokers who hoped that they never had to pay them off. The bottom fell out of this market, which by 2008 were now in the hundreds of trillions of dollars, when the housing market started to tumble in price, one of the big credit defaults they were “Insuring” against.

Things like this have happened many times in history because human nature still contains a nasty little trait known as GREED, and every so often greed overwhelms morality and common sense and we ALL end up in a financial mess for decades as we work our way out if building confidence in the system once again. We’re now in such a confidence building era. The government is supposed to prevent the big greed meltdowns in times like this, but they fail to do so many times also because of greed and government regulators can become lazy, indolent and suddenly incompetent by accepting bribes from those they are sworn to protect us from.

One of the things that the average person has to think about due to all of these shenanigans is how to feed their family, pay their bills, stay in their homes. There is one way to help do that that has also been in practice for thousands of years in place of money and that’s called the Barter System. Basically in a barter system, one does not need money, the substitute for goods and services. In the Barter System, you simply go directly into an exchange of goods and services, use something that you have, or that you can make, or that you can do that will be acceptable to another consumer in return for something they have, or can make for you, or that they can do for you in return in a fair and equitable trade of goods and services.

I have decided that I want to get the Barter System started up in this country again so that more and more of us can survive, keep our families together and stay in our homes and so to that end, I have decided to call this new form of bartering for goods and services as “The Hip Hop Economy”. I have named it thus because of the tremendous success of the Hip Hop culture. In the Hip Hop Culture almost anyone with a few lines of doggerel can make millions by ‘Singing’ his doggerel to the tune of music that has already been published and playing some of it backwards on a turntable. That’s highly creative and it worked.

So, why can’t this same philosophy that almost anyone has a sale-able skill to the regular economy and start an exchange where everyone trades what they do for food, rent, clothing, medical care etc.? In the Hip Hop Economy, we believe in this credo, that everyone can survive as long as they are willing to do something, perform some useful service, or have a product, which is useful to someone somewhere in society in return for food and lodging and other services they and their family may need. By the way, I have also come to the conclusion that FOOD makes a very good currency to barter with because everyone has to eat if they want to keep breathing. You may not need gasoline to get to work every day, or have to go to the pharmacy every day, or go to the book store every day, but everyone’s got to eat every day, that’s for sure and that is never going to change.

More about this new type of economy is found at this web site – The Hip Hop Economy. It’s a way to create your own job and make a nice living, with high-paying residual income so that after a few months of hard work, you can basically retire wealthy and never have to worry about the economy or feeding your family ever again, because you’ll be completely out of debt and have tons of money coming in every month, come rain or shine. That’s what most sports guys get if they’re any good, right? Why not the rest of us. Heck, I just read about a kicker for an NFL team who just signed a contract for 65 Million Dollars. They’re paying kickers millions of dollars and they work a total of 5 minutes at the most per week. How’s that for a great business model and you know, I think it’s a great model, and one that could work for the rest of us if we so choose.

And, there’s one more twist on this theme that I’d like to issue forth here. If you join the Hip Hop Economy, you may also want to join a team. I like the team concept because most folks are not yet ready to go solo in a barter system and therefore, the young, the old, the handicapped, or those of us who don’t know what we do best yet, may want to join a team where the team’s output can be offered to society in return for goods and services that are then earned and distributed to all those in the team in proposition to how much the team values their participation. To that end, I have begun my own team and I invite anyone out there reading this to start their own teams so that competition can go on unabated. Competition is the real engine of any economic system and it must be supported and improved upon every way we can think of. By using the sports analogy, competition is enhanced.

Join the Super Bowl Team Join my team today, you’ll be glad you did. Good Luck. Remember, I’ve invented a new economy for you – The Hip Hop Economy. It has to do with teamwork and great sportsmanship. In other words, it’s all about having fun in life. But, it’s also deadly serious about supporting your family, getting them enough food to eat every day, getting you out of debt and keeping a roof over your head. No homeless people in the Hip Hop Economy, only hard working people who also know how to live it up.

Get into your team uniform and I’ll see you on the field. Don’t worry about your contract. You don’t need an agent. You’ve got the best one in me. More money than you can dream about is about to fall on your head.

http://www.hiphopeconomy.com