21st Century Georgics: An Introduction

July 29, 2008 by Hyrum Lefler · 4 Comments 

A key factor in maintaining freedom is sustainable economic forms. Are you maintaining freedom through the financial principles and practices you are using? Have American families adopted the economic forms necessary for the preservation of a free people?

The average American household pays over 34.5% of every dollar earned to interest payments. Forget about the taxes — that is serious bondage! Our system has become top heavy, threatening our economic solvency as a nation and necessitating large government bailouts to offset their blunders. When a government is forced to tax its people heavily to keep economic centers of capital from collapsing, how can we expect it to reduce in size? To force such a thing is tantamount to economic collapse.

We have allowed our wealth to centralize and grow in the hands of OTHERS. We have given them our money and the control of it for the “magic of compound interest” and then turned around and borrowed from them with a price.

Families are the foundation of American stability and economic growth, and it is time for families to regain real control of the resources of the economy. What do I suggest? We obviously cannot steal all of the money and put it in our families’ accounts! No, I am suggesting that we have all of the resources we need, and they flow through our hands day after day, and we relinquish control of them day after day. This is because we do not understand money; or, more importantly, we do not understand economy.

The Roman Poet Virgil wrote The Georgics in 29 BC. The concept of “Georgics” that came out of this poem was widely debated and discussed in the founding era of our country. The word basically means “to work the land.”

In early spring-tide, when the icy drip
Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath
Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then ’tis time;
Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox,
And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine.
That land the craving farmer’s prayer fulfils,
Which twice the sunshine, twice the frost has felt;
Ay, that’s the land whose boundless harvest-crops
Burst, see! the barns.

It was felt by many of our Founders that this connection to the land, to hard work, and the dependence on God that is pre-supposed when seeds are planted, had a profound effect of building an independent and free people — especially when coupled with the other Foundations of Freedom.

Up until 100 years ago, 97% of Americans worked the land with plows — they were farmers. Short of a massive catastrophe, that isn’t going to happen in our time. What can be done in our day to bring the Family Farm — or at least its principles — back to life?

We must first understand Georgics. In the coming weeks I will be posting several articles outlining the basic tenets of Georgic Economics, with links to sites where you can learn how to establish a rebirth of freedom in your family through Georgic principles and forms.

American families must become independent centers of the U.S. economy if our liberties are to be preserved. I am calling for a regeneration of organic, financial systems centered in and controlled by America’s families.

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The Power of Purging

January 24, 2008 by Stephen Palmer · Leave a Comment 

The formula for creating wealth is simple: Inventory all of your resources and, if you’re not utilizing them, then begin to use them to productively, or give them to someone who will use them. I define the productive use of resources as using them to fill human needs and desires. In other words, figure out what people want and give it to them.

The Universe does not give us what we think we want; it gives us what we are. We are living magnets that attract in our physical world what we are mentally and spiritually. A person who hoards and accumulates resources will not be given more, for that person shows the Universe that their capacity for utilizing resources has been maximized. On the other hand, a person who gives freely will receive freely. Accumulators are stagnant ponds with no outlet; utilizers are vibrant, fertile, and free- flowing rivers. Resources flow to the one, while flowing through the other.

We as Americans have been so abundantly blessed from our birth that we almost don’t even need to try to accumulate resources. The poorest among us are still much more wealthy than most of the world. Think about it for a minute: We have nicer homes for our cars than most people have for their families. We arrive at a state where many of us who are not living according to an abundant paradigm are still enjoying the fruits of abundance.

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